Why Polish Tenants Like UK Landlords

Why Polish Tenants Like UK Landlords

12:58 PM, 7th September 2016, About 8 years ago 13

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Why Polish Tenants Like UK Landlords

Why Polish Tenants Like UK Landlords

I’m doing a major refurbishment at the moment on a house tenanted by a new Polish tenant. His family will be joining him from Poland soon, when the works are done.

Today I asked him why he/Polish people found Britain so attractive. Why would he pay a supposedly ‘extortionate’ rent in the UK on a low paid job? (I’ve asked this of other such tenants before).

He told me that unless you live in Warsaw or Kraków, which are expensive places for Poles but better paid, that eeking out a living elsewhere is very difficult. A typical manual job where he is from, in East Poland, would earn about £400/month, but typical rents would be nearly all of that (£350 or more) plus bills, food, clothing etc making life very difficult. He told me that rents here – at 35-50% of even average wages – are much more manageable and give a better quality of life. He loves my 3-bed at £850 a month – and indeed its new s24 rent of £1,000 a month from April – as he says there is no possible way he and his family could live so well in Poland.

He thinks it’s great value and much cheaper than back home!

Maybe this is something we should all add to our knowledge bank, especially when everyone’s screaming about ‘extortionate’ rents.

Even HPC admit that rents are good value compared to asset prices so we should make more of this.

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Alison King

23:28 PM, 10th September 2016, About 8 years ago

This pretty much reflects what my Polish tenants have said. Renting property is much more expensive in Poland, largely due to local taxes.
Last year when I was on a working holiday in Poland I asked why there are so many Polish people coming to the UK. I was told that during the communist times Polish people were not allowed to travel so they are making up for it now That seems reasonable to me. I hope my Polish tenants stay, but being young and upwardly mobile I doubt they will.

Neilt

11:16 AM, 11th September 2016, About 8 years ago

I too have had only good experiences with Polish tenants.
I remember an agent metioning that they advertise in one particular paper that is specifically aimed at polish people. Anyone know which paper this might be, it could be helpful to our community?

Whiteskifreak Surrey

11:56 AM, 27th September 2016, About 8 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "neilt " at "11/09/2016 - 11:16":

These local Polish papers are predominantly in London and indeed there are masses of advertisements there. For other towns / locations they will be looking on Gumtree first.
There are also local FB pages for local communities (eg Polacy w Gulidford), this is a good place to advertise too. Generally Polish tenants (especially families) are excellent, no problems there. But be aware of groups of young men without employment.

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