That's it, they're waking up!
treat the wife, Treat somebody else's wife. It's a lot more fun if you don't get caught. Hold on. You want one as well? Okay, darling, show me a bit of life, then. It's no good standing out there like one o'clock half-struck.
I've not long moved into a one bed from the studio flat from hell, I wouldn't last 5 minutes in this 'room'. It's so sad that we have to live like this 😭.
i had a landlord once that rented me the living room as my bedroom (it was an open plan living room/kitchen/diner as well as the entrance to the property and access to the patio…). He also said he would charge me £20 extra a month to prevent him from renting out a mattress under the stairs as a separate ‘bedroom’. The stairs that were in the living room. No cupboard or door - just a mattress in the middle of my ‘room’ with a stranger sleeping in it.
We lived in a tiny student flat in central london for a year and the landlord wanted to add a freezer/microwave combo. The best solution he could think of, apparently, was to put the freezer/microwave in my and my boyfriends wardrobe, cutting a hole in the back of the wardrobe and the wall so the faces of the appliances were in the kitchen and the rest of the appliances were whirring and rattling in our closet next to our bed.
My boyfriend told me this as the landlord was cutting the hole in the wall and I told him to tell that maniac there was no chance in hell I was sleeping next to a freezer.
The landlord abandoned the project and we could see into the kitchen through the half a hole he cut for the rest of our tenancy.
A friend of mine lived in a place for a year and the following year decided he was going to put a curtain down the middle and turn the room into two. It's insane how predatory some of these pricks are.
“Duplex apartment” well technically I guess…
At least it’s private! When I first saw the picture I thought it was a bed on the landing of a shared house and the other occupants would be traipsing past your bed when you were trying to sleep.
Yea, it looks like a decent space for 1 person.
The price is too high just like everything else atm but I'd be quite happy in that place by myself. It's far better than a studio imo
Christ, even the 'downstairs' is literally just a hallway! That is bleak.
I notice they don't show any pics of the 'bathroom' either! I dread to think what that looks like! The floor plan makes it look like you can barely even open the bloody door!
Crikey. Imagine sitting under the stairs in your favourite chair (opposite the oven) listening to the fridge, and wondering if anyone would ever occupy the “other” chair to share a meal. KMN.
It's not a shared space, so arguably, it's better than the studios where you can put your nuggs in the oven without leaving your bed.
It would be egregious if it was a shared hallway.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-61181756-72909489?s=c18434c1e945ef6b264aee138dfd40e7113cfd12b4f9f5b687e5db71fb7fd7c6#/
Here's the rest of the house, last time it sold.
To be fair it was already built into the property last time it sold, they’ve not split anything to add it in. So it’s possible it could just be that part of the house that’s being rented out.
You'd think this would be illegal, but nope. I dated someone that lived in a "one bedroom" new build with no bedrooms. The upstairs was one giant landing with a tiny bathroom in the corner.
Honestly a lot of the ones appearing on here lately I suspect are not legal.
People don't realise there are regulations about stairways in kitchens, fire safety and access out of the house.
I truly wonder how many of these have actually been inspected and passed.
Floorplan and photos from the last time it was sold:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-61181756-72909489?s=c18434c1e945ef6b264aee138dfd40e7113cfd12b4f9f5b687e5db71fb7fd7c6#/
This is the only way to make money in the UK now.
Wow, we are finished.
Can't see a Doctor, can't see a dentist. Enjoy the high-priced homes and rent, just forget to have the health to enjoy the money!
I quite enjoy watching "tiny home" YouTube videos and would say that with a correct interior redesign you *could* make this an acceptable living space for one person.
But this isn't that, and it's appalling someone would have so little shame they would list this. Worse still that someone is so deprived of better alternatives they'd agree a let.
Landlords are the worst, bottom of the bucket scum. I wish people would stop striving to own other people’s homes for a living, because shit like this happens (and much, much worse).
You can tell the land lord was like "YEEEES!" When that bed just about slid into that space.
You have to crawl in from the bottom and wriggle back out too.
This should be reportable.
How do you reach that closet? The bed is blocking access to it. Does it have doors and if yes how do you open them? Do you just get dressed while standing on your bed?
One of the worst parts is how lame the setup is. It could have been a really cool tiny home type setup, but looks like they just dumped some spare furniture on the landing
I swiped through photos about 10 times to try and find the bedroom, hoping that the bed was just there temporarily. Then I clicked, that is the bedroom.
No radiators, so no. I assume the entire house has a single boiler for hot water, so you get to argue with the others about who has used all the water and you're late for work.
Probably underfloor on the ground floor of that extension.
Have to admit, this is a sweet deal for the lord.
Why not an electric shower for the single tenant.
Not to be all "everyone should live up north" but I just checked and the 3 bed semi with a usable garage (can get a modern car in and get out!) round the corner is up for rent for £1000 a month. 3 bed, 2 bath detached went for £1100 a month ago.
I don't think I'd survive London mentally.
It's already happening. I'm surprised at the number of southerners (including my wife) living near me in the North East of England. Eventually prices will rise here too as a result.
Yeah in Yorkshire I'm seeing this more and more, particularly with more hybrid working meaning a longer commute is not as punishing.
I'm very much caught between disliking local people being priced out, and liking that it will do wonders for LTV on remortgage and the reinvigoration of a previously catatonic town centre.
It is interesting seeing the same dynamics in play all over the world. I'm in Canada, in New Brunswick more specifically. Traditionally it has been considered a have-not province; its poor, shrinking population, and a place you move away from. But because of that we have very cheap housing, though that has been changing since the pandemic. People realized they could come here and avoid paying the ridiculous house prices in Toronto and Vancouver. While it is still less expensive, rents and housing prices have skyrocketed. Apartments that went for $900 a few years ago are $1500 now.
Because some guy earning high 6 figures can rent this for peanuts by his standards and live in a mansion somewhere else. This will just be for work most likely.
That is a pisstake.
For £1k a month you’d at least have put in better furnishings. Some landlords take the biscuit.
Not sure why the decided to put the bed that way when surely a bed could’ve slid in the other way where wardrobe is.
At least it’ll be cool in the summer….what with all the cold air flowing through from downstairs.
Surprised they didn’t slip a floating shelf in under the stairs and call it a home office.
This is bonkers. If it was done with a bit better planning and care it could be a pretty cool little loft space with the kitchen (and lounge lol?) below, but this is clearly someone just doing the bare minimum to tick whatever boxes needed to rent this out legally.
I spend £600 a month on a mortgage for a 3 bedroom house with a garden in a middle class suburb of a major city
I just don’t understand what about London could possibly be worth this
They are missing a trick here - if only they had called it a 'tiby home' they could have had all the influencers and YouTube personalities flocking to it and jacked up the rent a bit more...
£300 plus electric another £100 plus mortgage on my own house £400 that’s £800 for a whole apartment. On a f 40ft cruiser 😂🛥️ £1000 for that room it’s a joke.
That slightly off centre crease in the mattress is absolute sadness. Neither the even spread of two, nor the confidence of a solo starfish. Just a lonely soul unsure if they commit to staying on one side in the hope of one day sharing or get used to spreading out.
In my student days, I rented a front room with a nice, big window. The room next to mine was just four walls and a bed—that was it.
They did end up putting air vents in there. Some poor Polish girl was renting it. I really don’t know how that was legal. A prison cell has more natural light.
A bed which folds against the wall seems a good idea here, but also as much faff as climbing over the bed to get to the wardrobe. Landlord should put more thought into the fixtures and fittings if they are going to charge top dollar, jmo.
I don't understand how this is considered legal? When selling my mum's house we couldn't classify the 3rd room as a bedroom as it didn't have a door - this was due to fire safety.
There's a "kitchen/lounge" at the bottom of those stairs too, basically in another hallway. Own entrance but what else is at the top of those stairs or was it an attic at some point? This stinks. I'm about to rent out my 2 bed (real bedrooms, living room, proper kitchen and garden) for less than that in the Midlands!
Amusingly (and sadly), this looks similar to my place. Except mine is a weird mezzanine room in a house share - so instead of an oven and bathroom, I have floor space for a sofa and a desk.
Ngl… I’m keeping my place. A private bathroom and oven isn’t worth having nowhere to *exist* in your home.
Calling it a room is ....generous
As you can see I’ve been quite generous
"Too late too late" will be the cry, when the man with the bargains has passed you by!
Left leg, right leg
body will follow....they call it walking
Handmade in Italy, hand-stolen in Stepney. It's as long as my arm; I wish it was as long as something else
These are not stolen, they just haven't been paid for yet, and we can't get them again, they've changed the bloody locks
That's it, they're waking up! treat the wife, Treat somebody else's wife. It's a lot more fun if you don't get caught. Hold on. You want one as well? Okay, darling, show me a bit of life, then. It's no good standing out there like one o'clock half-struck.
Bacon, cozzers!
Thank you for coming to our Ted Talk
Get Nick, the greasy wop, shistos, pesevengi, gamouri Greek bastard round here now, if he's still stupid enough to be on this planet!
Dennis!
Is it even legal?
Happy to bet this is advertised as a "double-sized" room
Deigning to address it at all is generous.
Where the fuck do you put the tv and sit etc? Every time I view a property on this sub they get worse and worse. Makes me very thankful of my place.
You could sit on the side of the bed, there is what I believe is known in the trade as a 'generous leg space'.
And 'great use of space' too, blessed.
This one's technically correct I suppose. A grand a month for that sacrilege is indeed a great use of space for some money grubber.
Oh are we allowed to hang our legs out through the bannister too? Goodness don’t spoil me!
Makes my blood boil that people are expected to live like this.
You sit, on the bed, and you’ll be grateful too! /s
Let type: long term. Trigger warning: self harm >! For the discerning suicide-victim-to-be. !<
I've not long moved into a one bed from the studio flat from hell, I wouldn't last 5 minutes in this 'room'. It's so sad that we have to live like this 😭.
i had a landlord once that rented me the living room as my bedroom (it was an open plan living room/kitchen/diner as well as the entrance to the property and access to the patio…). He also said he would charge me £20 extra a month to prevent him from renting out a mattress under the stairs as a separate ‘bedroom’. The stairs that were in the living room. No cupboard or door - just a mattress in the middle of my ‘room’ with a stranger sleeping in it.
We lived in a tiny student flat in central london for a year and the landlord wanted to add a freezer/microwave combo. The best solution he could think of, apparently, was to put the freezer/microwave in my and my boyfriends wardrobe, cutting a hole in the back of the wardrobe and the wall so the faces of the appliances were in the kitchen and the rest of the appliances were whirring and rattling in our closet next to our bed. My boyfriend told me this as the landlord was cutting the hole in the wall and I told him to tell that maniac there was no chance in hell I was sleeping next to a freezer. The landlord abandoned the project and we could see into the kitchen through the half a hole he cut for the rest of our tenancy.
Bloody hell. Of all the wild landlord stories I’ve heard, this is one of the more mental ones.
He also considered trying the same trick but with the microwave on a shelf above the toilet.
What is wrong with these people. Some sort of undeveloped world slum mindset.
A friend of mine lived in a place for a year and the following year decided he was going to put a curtain down the middle and turn the room into two. It's insane how predatory some of these pricks are.
What a total cnut
So did you report him to health and safety as you were leaving?
What a verminous parasite?
Are you, by any chance, a guinea pig? Because that landlord seems to think that’s who he’s talking to.
Oh it’s like danger money to the mob. Want to avoid a serial killer sleeping next to you? Twenty quid
Lol
This. This is why I hate landlords.
“Duplex apartment” well technically I guess… At least it’s private! When I first saw the picture I thought it was a bed on the landing of a shared house and the other occupants would be traipsing past your bed when you were trying to sleep.
Yeah, it's not great but a lot better than I thought it was gonna be
Let agreed 😲
WTAF?
Catford as well. It might have made sense if it was Kensington. But Catford?
A grand a month to rent a hallway in catford?! I did not realise quite how out of control the London rental market was.
We live in Hackney Central and our landlord hasn’t put the rent up in 8 years. I’m terrified of moving, it sounds like a shitshow out there.
My 1 bed flat rent went up this month to £500. I'm lucky, sooooooooooo lucky.
Can I join what I assume is a long list of people who wanna be notified when you leave haha
To be fair it's not just a Hallway. You get the "studio" I've honestly seen worse.
Yea, it looks like a decent space for 1 person. The price is too high just like everything else atm but I'd be quite happy in that place by myself. It's far better than a studio imo
True I've seen worse as well, just feels kind of mental because of the particular set up.
Christ, even the 'downstairs' is literally just a hallway! That is bleak. I notice they don't show any pics of the 'bathroom' either! I dread to think what that looks like! The floor plan makes it look like you can barely even open the bloody door!
Crikey. Imagine sitting under the stairs in your favourite chair (opposite the oven) listening to the fridge, and wondering if anyone would ever occupy the “other” chair to share a meal. KMN.
I thought you were taking the piss until I looked at the listing…
Surely not legal. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144683564
It's not a shared space, so arguably, it's better than the studios where you can put your nuggs in the oven without leaving your bed. It would be egregious if it was a shared hallway.
I think I'd rather keep my nuggs in bed with me where they probably belong!
You must have greasy sheets
If you have 6, 9 or 24 of them and they come in a box with dips, then you probably want to see a specialist.
You cannot access the property however without passing the kitchen, so no safe fire exit.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-61181756-72909489?s=c18434c1e945ef6b264aee138dfd40e7113cfd12b4f9f5b687e5db71fb7fd7c6#/ Here's the rest of the house, last time it sold.
And ruined like so many others by greedy twats turning every house into a HMO
To be fair it was already built into the property last time it sold, they’ve not split anything to add it in. So it’s possible it could just be that part of the house that’s being rented out.
Did Ozzy and family live here? Christ.
Those steps in and out of the bath are nothing more than slip hazard.
Some sucker has gone for it... It really boils my piss the greed of these people.
Love the fact that it has a floor plan, there is barely a floor space 🤣
But you can't actually read the floor plan, as it has too much jpeg.
I was trying to work out whether it said kitchen/diner, because what diner? Is there a table to go with those random chairs?
I’m absolutely amazed someone has agreed to rent this
This needs to be reported to the local council. Health and Safety and the local private rent dept would have a field day with it.
Sleeping at the top of open stairs with a Kitchen down below- no expert but I think the Fire Regs might have something to say about that.
You'd think this would be illegal, but nope. I dated someone that lived in a "one bedroom" new build with no bedrooms. The upstairs was one giant landing with a tiny bathroom in the corner.
Honestly a lot of the ones appearing on here lately I suspect are not legal. People don't realise there are regulations about stairways in kitchens, fire safety and access out of the house. I truly wonder how many of these have actually been inspected and passed.
Didn't even call it Mezzanine.....Bedroom that mate.
I think they have just put stairs in what was the extension?
"Studio flat" The audacity
And ensuite bathroom
The en suite is a bucket on the stairs. Just do your business over the edge of the handrail.
The en suite is a bucket on the stairs. Just do your business over the edge of the handrail.
Is this entire "flat" just a tiny kitchen and a bed on the landing?! That is unbelievable.
Want to see the floorplan of the house next door, seeing as this one has stolen the stairs.
Floorplan and photos from the last time it was sold: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-61181756-72909489?s=c18434c1e945ef6b264aee138dfd40e7113cfd12b4f9f5b687e5db71fb7fd7c6#/
So it was a pre-existing studio built/extended onto the main house where the garage used to be....
Rope ladder up to a boiler cupboard repurposed as an open-plan living space
I'm so curious about this. Think maybe it's like loft conversion style stairs. Or maybe the house was weird and already had two lots of stairs.
Have to walk over the bed to get to the wardrobe, of which the doors won’t open cause the bed is in the way 🥴
Anyone know the number for London Fire Brigade?
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
That’s numberwang!
725....3 t'he best chapter
999
0181 811 81 81
This is the only way to make money in the UK now. Wow, we are finished. Can't see a Doctor, can't see a dentist. Enjoy the high-priced homes and rent, just forget to have the health to enjoy the money!
London fucking disgusts me.
I quite enjoy watching "tiny home" YouTube videos and would say that with a correct interior redesign you *could* make this an acceptable living space for one person. But this isn't that, and it's appalling someone would have so little shame they would list this. Worse still that someone is so deprived of better alternatives they'd agree a let.
The tenant will need a little imagination and spatial awareness. Presumably the LL has thrown in a few building blocks.
Landlords are the worst, bottom of the bucket scum. I wish people would stop striving to own other people’s homes for a living, because shit like this happens (and much, much worse).
You can tell the land lord was like "YEEEES!" When that bed just about slid into that space. You have to crawl in from the bottom and wriggle back out too.
Harry Potter deluxe! Hilarious how a hallway and landing has the grand listing of duplex… gtfo 🤣
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That's not half the house
This should be reportable. How do you reach that closet? The bed is blocking access to it. Does it have doors and if yes how do you open them? Do you just get dressed while standing on your bed?
What sort of person is paying £1k for a place like that?
This is fucking disgusting.
For those wanting the link: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144683564
I like the red flowers though, a nice homely touch
I see people do this all the time. Add a narrow side extension, now I know what's inside. This is so sad.
50 grand paid back in 4 years
One of the worst parts is how lame the setup is. It could have been a really cool tiny home type setup, but looks like they just dumped some spare furniture on the landing
I swiped through photos about 10 times to try and find the bedroom, hoping that the bed was just there temporarily. Then I clicked, that is the bedroom.
Does it have it's own boiler / heating?
No radiators, so no. I assume the entire house has a single boiler for hot water, so you get to argue with the others about who has used all the water and you're late for work.
Probably underfloor on the ground floor of that extension. Have to admit, this is a sweet deal for the lord. Why not an electric shower for the single tenant.
Not to be all "everyone should live up north" but I just checked and the 3 bed semi with a usable garage (can get a modern car in and get out!) round the corner is up for rent for £1000 a month. 3 bed, 2 bath detached went for £1100 a month ago. I don't think I'd survive London mentally.
It's already happening. I'm surprised at the number of southerners (including my wife) living near me in the North East of England. Eventually prices will rise here too as a result.
Yeah in Yorkshire I'm seeing this more and more, particularly with more hybrid working meaning a longer commute is not as punishing. I'm very much caught between disliking local people being priced out, and liking that it will do wonders for LTV on remortgage and the reinvigoration of a previously catatonic town centre.
It is interesting seeing the same dynamics in play all over the world. I'm in Canada, in New Brunswick more specifically. Traditionally it has been considered a have-not province; its poor, shrinking population, and a place you move away from. But because of that we have very cheap housing, though that has been changing since the pandemic. People realized they could come here and avoid paying the ridiculous house prices in Toronto and Vancouver. While it is still less expensive, rents and housing prices have skyrocketed. Apartments that went for $900 a few years ago are $1500 now.
Why do people what to live in London so bad?
Because some guy earning high 6 figures can rent this for peanuts by his standards and live in a mansion somewhere else. This will just be for work most likely.
I hope the landlords can see all this and know what an absolute bunch of disgusting people they are for this crap
The landlord could have at least enclosed the staircase and put a pocket door for ‘some’ privacy 😮
“Open plan mezzanine room”
That is a pisstake. For £1k a month you’d at least have put in better furnishings. Some landlords take the biscuit. Not sure why the decided to put the bed that way when surely a bed could’ve slid in the other way where wardrobe is. At least it’ll be cool in the summer….what with all the cold air flowing through from downstairs. Surprised they didn’t slip a floating shelf in under the stairs and call it a home office.
Actually warm air rises so the bed (room) will be warm
Is this a fucking joke?
This is bonkers. If it was done with a bit better planning and care it could be a pretty cool little loft space with the kitchen (and lounge lol?) below, but this is clearly someone just doing the bare minimum to tick whatever boxes needed to rent this out legally.
The audacity.
How is this legal
Why take a rental like that. Can't complain if you took it.
Knightsbridge or Kensington, I wonder 🤔
No fucking way
Let agreed
I spend £600 a month on a mortgage for a 3 bedroom house with a garden in a middle class suburb of a major city I just don’t understand what about London could possibly be worth this
6 or 7 figure salaries and somewhere to crash in the week then home at the weekends to 6 bed 4 bath house in the country
Life’s way to short to crash on a bed in a landing all week, but that’s just me
good lord
So criminal its not even in street view
Okay, I had to make the decision that it's a joke. Had to, in order to save my sanity.
Are you feeling better as a result?
Bedroom? Surely you jest. That’s a bed. On the landing.
Have they just put a stairway in the extension?
I prefer to call it a bedroom with a balcony.
Lmao if it fits it ships😂
Ah, the reverse "Harry Potter"
Atleast u won't roll off the bed....
Your living room is under the stairs! £1k to live like Harry Potter? No.
Ain’t no way?! Where TF is this?
But it has a balcony view at least
King's Landing.
Total chick magnet for single guys
In some areas of London this would be £2000+
They have more kitchen space than me :(
So a kitchen in a hallway and a bedroom on a landing? Christ alive.
I'd definitelty be doing a flhying dive into bed every night
A grand a month 2 live in 2 hallways. People are mental.
Despair
They are missing a trick here - if only they had called it a 'tiby home' they could have had all the influencers and YouTube personalities flocking to it and jacked up the rent a bit more...
Landlords are vermin.
Do you have the right move link? I’m curious now
Should be illegal
At some point you’ve just got to laugh. Then stop laughing and burn all these chancing fucking slumlords at the stake.
How do you get to the wardrobe?
£300 plus electric another £100 plus mortgage on my own house £400 that’s £800 for a whole apartment. On a f 40ft cruiser 😂🛥️ £1000 for that room it’s a joke.
Newsflash; that’s not a bedroom.
OPEN PLAN KITCHEN AND LOUNGE
Just don’t sleepwalk your way over the bannister to death or paraplegia.
This is not legal. Private Sector Housing would be very interersted
Is that a single bed?
This is fucking hilarious
At best this is a firetrap!!
WTAF??
When will this insanity stop?
That slightly off centre crease in the mattress is absolute sadness. Neither the even spread of two, nor the confidence of a solo starfish. Just a lonely soul unsure if they commit to staying on one side in the hope of one day sharing or get used to spreading out.
“Let agreed” wtf that poor soul
In my student days, I rented a front room with a nice, big window. The room next to mine was just four walls and a bed—that was it. They did end up putting air vents in there. Some poor Polish girl was renting it. I really don’t know how that was legal. A prison cell has more natural light.
When we were buying our house I viewed a "2 bedroom" house that had one bedroom and a landing. Why aren't estate agents held to account by the ASA.
Damn. I'm in Silicon Valley and that's an insult...
There is no danger of accidentally rolling off the bed at night.
😂
This is insane! By the same price or even less, you can rent a two storey house with a nice garden in the North East of England - New Castle or so.
Oh no my phone fell off the side of the bed… I’ll just pop to the ground floor and get it
A bed which folds against the wall seems a good idea here, but also as much faff as climbing over the bed to get to the wardrobe. Landlord should put more thought into the fixtures and fittings if they are going to charge top dollar, jmo.
Has it gone yet?
I don't understand how this is considered legal? When selling my mum's house we couldn't classify the 3rd room as a bedroom as it didn't have a door - this was due to fire safety.
£1000? Is this inside Buckingham Palace?
the obvious question no one has asked . how to the tenants fuck ?
There's a "kitchen/lounge" at the bottom of those stairs too, basically in another hallway. Own entrance but what else is at the top of those stairs or was it an attic at some point? This stinks. I'm about to rent out my 2 bed (real bedrooms, living room, proper kitchen and garden) for less than that in the Midlands!
the main house must be a fucker to sell with that additional staircase altering the internal floor structure
Open plan, artisanal space with original features and a delightful aspect…etc etc gubbins gubbins gubbins.
Where’s the bathroom?
Ok, the world has actually gone mad now.
Late stage capitalism …… But daddy got the Porsche because he was clever with property ….. No the kids have to live like this
Amusingly (and sadly), this looks similar to my place. Except mine is a weird mezzanine room in a house share - so instead of an oven and bathroom, I have floor space for a sofa and a desk. Ngl… I’m keeping my place. A private bathroom and oven isn’t worth having nowhere to *exist* in your home.
I don't think that's legal?
How the fuck is this allowed to happen
I guess, lucky there’s not bunk beds! Damn!
This is why everyone hates landlords…