Quote Originally Posted by goats View Post
It happens, when we downsized my mums house for a bungalow, the guy in the bungalow rang me the night before it was going to go through. He said we going to have to postpone a few days as he had to find a new safe place to put the 250k he had in cash hidden in the bungalow we were buying…..I couldn’t believe it. Said he didn’t trust the banks. Bit of a one off he was but I know a few who took a lump out of their pension, topped it up with savings and bought a house to rent out….
It's no surprise , when there is big money to be made that there are a lot of dodgy people involved who don't care about the people who rent off them .

And nor did the government who encouraged it all .