I'm just in the process of looking for a new flatmate. So dealing with my own and the collective anxiety of energy crisis and housing crisis combined! Fun!!! (Not.)
After sifting through the 250 responses in two days to our room ad, yesterday was the first day of having 4 people look round - all perfectly lovely people but completely brow-beaten by trying to find a room and clearly already anticipating a rejection, and one offering more money than advertised for the room. I had obviously heard of bidding wars when buying houses or lately, sadly, when renting a whole flat, but not for a room!!!
And the room is fantastic, really big for London, and while the rent price for it is "reasonable" for London, it is still at the top of a lot of people's budget, but then we are having to say, well, bills could be xxx, and more still soon.
After sifting through the 250 responses in two days to our room ad, yesterday was the first day of having 4 people look round - all perfectly lovely people but completely brow-beaten by trying to find a room and clearly already anticipating a rejection, and one offering more money than advertised for the room. I had obviously heard of bidding wars when buying houses or lately, sadly, when renting a whole flat, but not for a room!!!
And the room is fantastic, really big for London, and while the rent price for it is "reasonable" for London, it is still at the top of a lot of people's budget, but then we are having to say, well, bills could be xxx, and more still soon.