Renting a 2 bedroom flat/apartment in Liverpool City Centre

[Carradona]

Where is the best place to start looking?

 

Gold star to anyone who says "Liverpool city centre".

[Fugitive]

Have a look on gumtree. One of mates found a flat to rent on there and he said there was a lot of choice.

[WaltonRed]

Gumtree's full of blag artists, stick to citylets, city residential and cuddly bears letting agency Cain

[Ted]

What's it for, fag?

[Carradona]

Myself and a mate. Looking at the possibility of staying next year. Don't get too excited!

 

Cheers, Mick.

[Ted]

You'd better get a job this time. Scally.

[Carradona]

That's the plan! Not a serious, full-time one though. Not yet!

[Ted]

The flat facing me is empty now, but I'd never tell you that because I don't want you living anywhere near me.

[Carradona]

I reckon I'll have had just about enough of you by the end of Vegas...

[WaltonRed]

No worries Cain.

 

My mate nearly got scammed on there. He was convinced he'd found somewhere dead cheap in the city centre and all he had to do was send the money to the landlord. We talked him out of it just in time the mong.

 

My bird lives on Duke St, next door to the Monroe and she pays £440 a month.

 

Her old one was about £600 when she shared with her mate and lived on Henry St.

 

There about the going rate, anything considerably cheaper will be blag.

 

City Lets Property Specialists, Lettings, Sales, Commercial, Short Term Lets, Financial Services, Home Improvement Packs (HIPS), Tenant Information, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK, North West

 

Flats to rent, lettings and property management from Cuddly Bears Liverpool

 

Liverpool Estate Agency, Lettings, Asset Management, Consultancy, Manchester - City Residential

[Carradona]

No worries Cain.

 

My mate nearly got scammed on there. He was convinced he'd found somewhere dead cheap in the city centre and all he had to do was send the money to the landlord. We talked him out of it just in time the mong.

 

My bird lives on Duke St, next door to the Monroe and she pays £440 a month.

Her old one was about £600 when she shared with her mate and lived on Henry St.

 

There about the going rate, anything considerably cheaper will be blag.

 

City Lets Property Specialists, Lettings, Sales, Commercial, Short Term Lets, Financial Services, Home Improvement Packs (HIPS), Tenant Information, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK, North West

 

Flats to rent, lettings and property management from Cuddly Bears Liverpool

 

Liverpool Estate Agency, Lettings, Asset Management, Consultancy, Manchester - City Residential

 

£440 per month on her own or is that sharing with someone else?

[WaltonRed]

On her own la, little studio flat, its decent but its steep and she knows it but she wanted to live there.

 

You're looking at £300-£350 all in if you are sharing with someone cos it'll be about £600-£700.

 

Have a browse on them sites.

 

If you dont mind living top end of town up by the Cathedral it'll be less but proper bang on in town is steep

[Carradona]

I'm assuming that the prices on those website you've posted there are not inclusive of bills?

[WaltonRed]

No they aren't.

 

People might post tomorrow when they get up with better advice but towns town and it'll always be a fair bit. Its just finding somewhere not that bad so when you add bills you're only forking out about £350 all in and your mate the same.

 

Some to 3 beds if you could get someone else in, might be cheaper again.

[Carradona]

Yea, that's sound. Cheers for the help.

 

We're in no rush, so I've got plenty of time to have a good look around!

[Pony Princess]

I used to live in a 2 bedroom apartment in Old Hall Street. £575 a month.

 

Things to bear in mind from my experience:

 

- Since they overbuild flats in town, you can sometimes negotiate rent

- A lot of flats in town are electric making central heating quite expensive depending on fuel charges at the time

- Consider that you may shell out a lot more for food / groceries etc - if you ain't careful you will end up going to the sainsburies local / spar for everything rather than the big asda, aldi, lidl, morrisons etc

[Skidfingers McGonical]

I live on Dale St and our rent is £433 a month. Pretty cheap considering my mate has moved into Rodney St and he and his bird are paying £650 and my other mate lives on Wood St an he pays around £470.

 

I would also so say your looking at £450-£500 all in each month if your sharing. We found our gaff, which isn't the greatest place but it will do for me and the missus' first place together, on the Internet.

 

Doesn't Woo work for a letting company or something?

[Carradona]

I used to live in a 2 bedroom apartment in Old Hall Street. £575 a month.

 

Things to bear in mind from my experience:

 

- Since they overbuild flats in town, you can sometimes negotiate rent

- A lot of flats in town are electric making central heating quite expensive depending on fuel charges at the time

- Consider that you may shell out a lot more for food / groceries etc - if you ain't careful you will end up going to the sainsburies local / spar for everything rather than the big asda, aldi, lidl, morrisons etc

Cheers for the advice/tips.

I live on Dale St and our rent is £433 a month. Pretty cheap considering my mate has moved into Rodney St and he and his bird are paying £650 and my other mate lives on Wood St an he pays around £470.

 

I would also so say your looking at £450-£500 all in each month if your sharing. We found our gaff, which isn't the greatest place but it will do for me and the missus' first place together, on the Internet.

 

Doesn't Woo work for a letting company or something?

 

£433 a month seems pretty cheap compared to everything else I have seen so far.

 

Yea, Alex works for a letting company. I'll be speaking to him about it when I next see him.

[She Knows It]

Cheers for the advice/tips.

 

 

£433 a month seems pretty cheap compared to everything else I have seen so far.

 

Yea, Alex works for a letting company. I'll be speaking to him about it when I next see him.

 

I wouldn't rent anything off Alex. You'll end up sleeping on the floor in a tiny room with 86 cockle pickers.

[Carradona]

I wouldn't rent anything off Alex. You'll end up sleeping on the floor in a tiny room with 86 cockle pickers.

 

At least that will save on a lot of rent money which can go towards fuelling my social life!

[TaksimRakiClub]

I own a couple of flats in the Duke Street / Henry Street area.

 

Not sure of your timetable obviously but one of the tenancies is due up in June or July of this year and you're more than welcome to take a look at it if you want. PM if you're interested.

 

A few additional things to bear in mind when you're looking:

 

As already mentioned rents can be negotiated but the market is generally very good for rentals at the moment - mainly because the sales side of things is shot to fuck. So whilst landlords may be willing to be flexible to some degree you may find that you haven't got that much room to manoevre and rents are (like everythinfg else) going up in price.

 

Committing to a decent term - say 2 years - will give you a bit more leverage in any negotiation as there is obviously nothing in it for the landlord on a short term let of 6 or 12 months.

 

You need to consider whether you want furnished or unfurnished and whether or not you need a car park space. The car park space in particular is pricey as fuck as the numbers available in town are limited.

 

When you speak to the letting agencies find out who the management company for the particular building you're interested in is. Whilst payment of the service charge is the landlord's and not the tenants responsibility the quality of the services provided by the management company (communal cleaning, maintenance, refuse collection etc) can vary significantly from company to company.

 

Finally - apologies if you're a student - but they are generally cunts as far as people's property are concerned. Though they may well be the cream of a generation they think nothing of setting off fire-alarms at 4 in the morning, writing on the walls, kicking security doors in and urinating in the lifts etc etc. They are to be avoided if possible so find out from the letting company whether the building allows them.

[Carradona]

Nope, as of June 1st, I will no longer be a student. So there won't be any worries of us acting like twats...

 

It will be a 12 month contract that we will be looking for, and there won't be any need for a parking space.

 

I will drop you a PM within the next week once I have spoken to my mate.

[TaksimRakiClub]

Nope, as of June 1st, I will no longer be a student. So there won't be any worries of us acting like twats...

 

It will be a 12 month contract that we will be looking for, and there won't be any need for a parking space.

 

I will drop you a PM within the next week once I have spoken to my mate.

 

No worries mate.

[WaltonRed]

Bagsie coming the housewarming!

[Ted]

Mick is defo coming. He's older than me, so my ego will be sound being surrounded by all those kids.