Greenman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 6:00 pm
Should be able to find rooms for under £600 in a house share.
Although not explicit, there is some anti-student selection, eg 'professional' only. He's already contacted one or two to explain that he's been working for over two years, so is a growned up.
Probably not worth mentioning his student status and just talking to them or meeting them first. If they like him they probably wouldn't care if he's a student.
Greenman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 6:34 pm
Probably not worth mentioning his student status and just talking to them or meeting them first. If they like him they probably wouldn't care if he's a student.
So their first impressions of you are that you lied by omission?
Do you recall, years ago, when the Tory 'housing' Minister's daughter was going to Oxford? He bought her a house ...
My cousin did exactly that, when her own went to uni. Son managed the property, the rent the rest of his buds subbed in more than paid for the mortgage.
But this was a while ago, decent Bristol townhouses are really silly money now.
Greenman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 6:34 pm
Probably not worth mentioning his student status and just talking to them or meeting them first. If they like him they probably wouldn't care if he's a student.
So their first impressions of you are that you lied by omission?
If you say that telling them he is a student first will not get him the place, what do you have to lose?
Greenman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 6:34 pm
Probably not worth mentioning his student status and just talking to them or meeting them first. If they like him they probably wouldn't care if he's a student.
So their first impressions of you are that you lied by omission?
If you say that telling them he is a student first will not get him the place, what do you have to lose?
For me, several hours driving down there. For him, half a day off work.