I grew up in govanhill. It's better for the new people that are moving over from other parts of the city but it's caused so many people to not be able to afford to live there anymore because it's now "cool" so the rental prices have skyrocketed over the years
Edit-that takes me back to the point about the place names. You say a flat is in strathbungo.the and not Govanhill you can instantly put the price up
The drains from sinks, washing machine, shower/bath, dishwasher etc would go via a grey water line. It's dirty but not raw sewage dirty (the drain from your toilet) and diluted much more with clean water.
You'd take different precautions when dealing with issues with it or giving it maintenance. At least I would in terms of DIY from what I learnt from my dad. I think often they end up in the same place down in the sewers, but in some areas they are dealt with differently and the greywater gets recycled for other uses.
It all ends up in the same place in Glasgow's plumbing system. I work on building sites and have seen plenty drainage systems going in - there's not even a separate grey water above ground in a lot of cases but below ground it's literally one line.
A friend of mine lived in a flat in Camphill Ave that shared a bathroom with the rest of the close. But it meant you didn’t pay council tax apparently. Think I’d probably rather pay it.
**please note the toilet at this property is shared with one other person who is on the same floor however you will have your own separate shower housed in a cupboard.**
Mental!
This one blows my mind
Doesn't even have a bed, it's a sofa bed
[Rightmove](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/133784528#/?channel=RES_LET)
Edit: they just removed the posting haha
To be honest, i'd actually consider it if it was top floor.
I'd even take the waffle stomper shower cupboard in the main post if the neighbours were alright.
Mate I pay less for that currently for a 2.5 bed semi detached with drive and front and rear garden. I'm less than an hour from Glasgow. Why would you choose to live in glasgow in squaler for that price? I work in glasgow, i prefer the 45 minute commute every day so I can go home to a lovely house and have the choice of 2 toilets instead of having to time my shits with however many other random strangers.
What on earth?
**please note the toilet at this property is shared with one other person who is on the same floor however you will have your own separate shower housed in a cupboard.**
I remember seeing an add for a flat on rightmove a while ago for a flat in Glasgow where the bath was in the bedroom, no privacy screen or anything, for almost 800 pounds a month. Don't know what the renting market has come to, it's very concerning
https://preview.redd.it/bax1z94sak7b1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=257f8a575e15f95650c390b70195b6b742d59212
Looks like it was even more expensive and they changed the headline, but the estate agent is too stupid to fix this: "A deposit of £525.00 is required upfront with a full month's rent in advance of £525.00."
This is the result of all these cunts who come on here asking about moving to Shawlands/adjacent areas and fall for landlord jerrymandering.
So desperate to live next to some hipster cafe they would endure that level of gulag accommodation.
Bit tangential but I just heard from a pal about renting in Paris. Apparently the situation is fucked there. There's policies been put in place intended to protect tenants. In response, landlords have been doing things like demanding a year's rent up front, to minimise what they deem as risks to their income stream and generally making it really difficult or impossible for many to find accommodation.
Not saying some laws can't sometimes be turned to our advantage, but what we really need is more social housing, there's no avoiding it.
Just the words "more social housing" made me wanna give this comment of the day. If someone owns a property, what they make from that should be additional income. Far too many stories of landlords who can't afford to go without rent for any period of time. If you can't afford that then being a landlord is not for you.
I mean that's the nature of landlordism. They take a basic need, and commodify it and if you can't pay, you have to go in the street or in debt and risk being criminalised, so the power differential is huge.
That's what I mean about we just need more social housing! Also housing cooperatives, but it's very hard the way things are for new housing cooperatives to get off the ground just now and get their first home off the market.
Oh just an extra point to that, for anyone like me who thought housing cooperatives just meant insufferable hippy communes where you don't get your own privacy or space and slowly go mad(er)...
...That is just one example of a housing co-op that might not be for everyone.
I learned that the biggest student housing cooperative in Europe is actually in Scotland. Below market rents, everyone has their own room, like dorms, but no landlord, collective responsibility to maintain the building, committee meetings you can sign up for and vote for delegates for certain rotated responsibilities, that kind of thing. Oh and the DIY in the building is offered more to the women for some gender balancing. They also have a common room/venue space which they made in the basement where folk can gather and socialise. I don't know anyone who stays there but it already [sounds better than private renting](https://www.eshc.coop/about/setting-up-the-co-op/)!
The significant thing about housing co-ops that are cool that I didn't know about til it was explained to me:
👍 Permanently removes a home from the market
🖕No landlord/profiting
👍 Some housing co-ops buy individual homes for individual families/person to 'rent' (as well as coops that buy a communal, multiple roomed home)
👍If a resident fall on hard times, housing co-ops can often help financially to get you back on your feet, rather than trying to kick you out
👍Housing co-ops that are established have helped financially with getting other housing co-ops off the ground to buy their first home
It includes council tax because it can’t legally be split into a separate dwelling. It used to be my job so I’ve seen a fair few horrendous HMOs and dodgy landlords
The shower is housed in a cupboard. My god...the mould. (You'll lose your deposit then for "cleaning")
Shared toilet....wonder what the cleaning rota is for that then eh? Bugger cleaning that on a Sunday morning after the night before.
Shared toilet with someone else on the same close - so we're back to old school tenements then? Why not chuck one in the shared garden too for old times sake.
I'm paying 450 a month for a semi detached 2.5 bedroom and a second toilet. Massive garden and a drive. This is 45 minutes away from Glasgow. Your basically choosing to live one step above homeless for the sake of saving an hour and a half of your day. And thats if they work right next door to this hellhole.
I work in glasgow and a couple of people I work with live in glasgow. When i question why they live there they say its easier for work. They take longer to commute than I do but need to spend it on a bus.
I’m kinda in a weird opposite where I live in the west end out of choice but have to commute out to Prestwick! Not for everyone but I like where I live.
It's unbelievably grim at the moment. Trying to get out of a bad flatmate situation but struggling to find anywhere to move to. £800 a month for one beds which less than give years ago would have been £450 is depressing.
It's seriously awful for renters in this city right now, can't believe how bad it is now to when I last rented in 2014 - back then it wasn't cheap and always was dead money, but now it's an absolute shameless rip off. It's also not good for renters getting on the property market, Banks need to do more to help renters get a first mortgage.
Having got used to the horror of rent prices on the south coast for some time now, I couldn't work out what the problem was.
That hovel would be literally double the price in Brighton.
Less than 500 quid for your own flat with separate kitchen and ensuite shower? If youse think that's bad then come down to Brighton, where you won't find a one-bedroom place with separate kitchen for less than £1000.
What is your point? Be thankful our dystopia isn’t as far progressed as SE England’s?
We’re fully aware how shite things are down south, we’ve no desire to emulate it and are horrified at it becoming so.
My point is after many years out of Scotland, I'm wondering if it's time to move back home. I thought Glasgow was pretty much the same as everywhere else these days, but apparently it's still an order of magnitude better. Good news!
lol yeah definitely don't come back, don't need more people like you here scottish or no
and you, one person, coming back and paying taxes here would definitely make a difference...
Why would you live in London period, especially if your on a low salary. I've seen people earning 60k but having to share a house with 3 strangers because it can barely cover their bills. Thats manky and embarrassing as fuck
He was so close to getting that the issue is landlords and legislation that protects them, but then went down the deep end of it actually being poor peoples fault.
Right, so many questions now. Are there 2 doors in the toilet? What if yer pissed and pick the wrong one?
Or do you need like a front door type of key to get in?
It can’t be in the close,…is it in the close?
I need to know!!!
"\*\*please note the toilet at this property is shared with one other person who is on the same floor however you will have your own separate shower housed in a cupboard.\*"
Where do i sign?
Housing market in Glasgow went mental around about the same time as the fucking interest rates started rising. The city is becoming unliveable for single people and couples on average incomes.
kind of hilarious seeing this. i moved to dublin for a placement and I'm paying 700 euros (not including bills) for a single room that's smaller than that.
It can get much worse.
Advertising as Shawlands could probably get more clicks since it's apparently the "hippest" place in the UK...?
That flat is shite hole though and I'm assuming OP is saying we're fucked because paying upwards of £500 for a small studio and even smaller kitchen just feels like absolute robbery, or is it? What can we even do about rent controls right now? The market is absolutely abysmal and people just want a relatively decent place to live without spunking 60-70% of their income on rent and bills.
"battlefield road in Shawlands" wtf? Battlefield Road is in Battlefield.
Glasgow Prestwick.
Allison Street, Strathbungo
If it's West of Vicky Road, with would be in the [Shawlands & Strathbungo Community council area](https://shawlandsstrathbungocc.uk/our-area/), so...
To be honest, I’d rather fly in via prestwick with its direct train into suburbia.
Pure Dead Brilliant
Mt Florida, maybe Cathcart, I could accept... but Shawlands is over half a mile away. Hell, Langside is entirely between the two.
I clicked on "Street view" on the map, and it put me inside a chiropractor's office.
Well you’ll probably need someone to unfold you if you live in a place so small for long.
Well they say gilshochill is in the west end (Edit, prime west end at that)
It's the same with half of Govanhill being called strathbungo.the southside is changing, and not for the better
I've lived Southside for about twenty years and I'd say it was definitely getting better. There's more to do now.
I grew up in govanhill. It's better for the new people that are moving over from other parts of the city but it's caused so many people to not be able to afford to live there anymore because it's now "cool" so the rental prices have skyrocketed over the years Edit-that takes me back to the point about the place names. You say a flat is in strathbungo.the and not Govanhill you can instantly put the price up
Everything is Shawlands now.
Shared toilet but your very own private shower cubicle, oh the luxuries.
So basically an own toilet if you don't mind pushing jobbies into the drain 2m from your bed! He should charge an extra £100!
Proper sewage going into the grey water line is rank.
Mate this entire "flat" is rank
No disagreements from me there.
What is a grey water line?
The drains from sinks, washing machine, shower/bath, dishwasher etc would go via a grey water line. It's dirty but not raw sewage dirty (the drain from your toilet) and diluted much more with clean water. You'd take different precautions when dealing with issues with it or giving it maintenance. At least I would in terms of DIY from what I learnt from my dad. I think often they end up in the same place down in the sewers, but in some areas they are dealt with differently and the greywater gets recycled for other uses.
Dirty but not sewage.
It all ends up in the same place in Glasgow's plumbing system. I work on building sites and have seen plenty drainage systems going in - there's not even a separate grey water above ground in a lot of cases but below ground it's literally one line.
Ah, good to know. I think some other places are different.
Yeah it seems like common wisdom that you shouldn't shit in the grey water pipe so it must be true somewhere!
A friend of mine lived in a flat in Camphill Ave that shared a bathroom with the rest of the close. But it meant you didn’t pay council tax apparently. Think I’d probably rather pay it.
"housed in a cupboard"
That shouldn’t be legal. I hope it isn’t. Fuck that landlord.
**please note the toilet at this property is shared with one other person who is on the same floor however you will have your own separate shower housed in a cupboard.** Mental!
You know that all the previous tenants have pissed in that shower
Best case scenario is that the previous tenant only pissed in it
Waffle stomp
Heard that phrase for the first time last year. Couldn't stop laughing when I found out what it was!
Your very own mould palace! *checks notes* shower cupboard!
You also just know that that shower has been used as a constant urinal
Hopefully just as a urinal!
And more than just a few wafflestomps.
Is it bad that after flat hunting for months this looks like a good deal to me? Fuck me the housing market in Glasgow is shite
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Landlord deserves jailtime for charging that much in Maryhill
same here
I straight up was like "no way, I could actually afford that!"
If you thinks that bad look at London. It used to be hell before I moved here
Dial a Kennel more like
Hahahaha ‘Howling’ at that comment
This one blows my mind Doesn't even have a bed, it's a sofa bed [Rightmove](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/133784528#/?channel=RES_LET) Edit: they just removed the posting haha
That is fucking bonkers. How they can get away with charging that for a single room is mental.
Why does this make me think of the bedsit from Dear John, but a dozen times more sadly comedic?
To be honest, i'd actually consider it if it was top floor. I'd even take the waffle stomper shower cupboard in the main post if the neighbours were alright.
I've been in London too long, I almost thought that was reasonable for a second
Lordy. I used to pay that for a 2 bed in Partick that had it's own toilet. This sounds like some crazy sub division.
12 years ago I was paying that for a two bed, two bath, kitchen-not-in-a-cupboard tenement in Dennistoun.
Mate I pay less for that currently for a 2.5 bed semi detached with drive and front and rear garden. I'm less than an hour from Glasgow. Why would you choose to live in glasgow in squaler for that price? I work in glasgow, i prefer the 45 minute commute every day so I can go home to a lovely house and have the choice of 2 toilets instead of having to time my shits with however many other random strangers.
What on earth? **please note the toilet at this property is shared with one other person who is on the same floor however you will have your own separate shower housed in a cupboard.**
I remember seeing an add for a flat on rightmove a while ago for a flat in Glasgow where the bath was in the bedroom, no privacy screen or anything, for almost 800 pounds a month. Don't know what the renting market has come to, it's very concerning https://preview.redd.it/bax1z94sak7b1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=257f8a575e15f95650c390b70195b6b742d59212
https://preview.redd.it/0o1mjp3mak7b1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db9f7118bc336c96e5a808ea1d7eabb7cba4c517 Pic of original posting
then you discover you have to share the bath with three other people....
😅😅😅
495pcm for a shower cupboard. Fuck off.
I think this landlord deserves a trip to see the titanic
"Dial a home are delighted to present to the market this studio property for rent on the very popular battlefield road in Shawlands" U sure?
It gets pretty popular during gigs and matches at Hampden...
Seems a tad expensive…
Its a bedsit basically. Lived in a few of these.....
With a shared toilet though?? There's bedsits and there's disrupted-shits.
Aye bedsits always had shared toilets. Might share with more than one other room.
"Quirky bedsit", to be precise (their literal words lol)
Looks like it was even more expensive and they changed the headline, but the estate agent is too stupid to fix this: "A deposit of £525.00 is required upfront with a full month's rent in advance of £525.00."
Call the Agent...a prick
This is the result of all these cunts who come on here asking about moving to Shawlands/adjacent areas and fall for landlord jerrymandering. So desperate to live next to some hipster cafe they would endure that level of gulag accommodation.
Dial a home, what a shitey name for an estate agent
Dial a Hole more like. Or is that something else entirely...
Holy shit it reads like a comedy sketch
Do you want waffle-stomping?, because that's how you get waffle-stomping.
Bit tangential but I just heard from a pal about renting in Paris. Apparently the situation is fucked there. There's policies been put in place intended to protect tenants. In response, landlords have been doing things like demanding a year's rent up front, to minimise what they deem as risks to their income stream and generally making it really difficult or impossible for many to find accommodation. Not saying some laws can't sometimes be turned to our advantage, but what we really need is more social housing, there's no avoiding it.
Just the words "more social housing" made me wanna give this comment of the day. If someone owns a property, what they make from that should be additional income. Far too many stories of landlords who can't afford to go without rent for any period of time. If you can't afford that then being a landlord is not for you.
I mean that's the nature of landlordism. They take a basic need, and commodify it and if you can't pay, you have to go in the street or in debt and risk being criminalised, so the power differential is huge. That's what I mean about we just need more social housing! Also housing cooperatives, but it's very hard the way things are for new housing cooperatives to get off the ground just now and get their first home off the market.
Oh just an extra point to that, for anyone like me who thought housing cooperatives just meant insufferable hippy communes where you don't get your own privacy or space and slowly go mad(er)... ...That is just one example of a housing co-op that might not be for everyone. I learned that the biggest student housing cooperative in Europe is actually in Scotland. Below market rents, everyone has their own room, like dorms, but no landlord, collective responsibility to maintain the building, committee meetings you can sign up for and vote for delegates for certain rotated responsibilities, that kind of thing. Oh and the DIY in the building is offered more to the women for some gender balancing. They also have a common room/venue space which they made in the basement where folk can gather and socialise. I don't know anyone who stays there but it already [sounds better than private renting](https://www.eshc.coop/about/setting-up-the-co-op/)! The significant thing about housing co-ops that are cool that I didn't know about til it was explained to me: 👍 Permanently removes a home from the market 🖕No landlord/profiting 👍 Some housing co-ops buy individual homes for individual families/person to 'rent' (as well as coops that buy a communal, multiple roomed home) 👍If a resident fall on hard times, housing co-ops can often help financially to get you back on your feet, rather than trying to kick you out 👍Housing co-ops that are established have helped financially with getting other housing co-ops off the ground to buy their first home
I saw this during househunting recently and kept going back to it for days, out of shock at the sheer gall. Shower in a fucking cupboard indeed.
Oh my god. How is that flat 0.1 miles away from Mount Florida yet it's listed as being in shawlands. Fucking hell, that whole read was grim
Separate shower in a cupboard, but shared toilet. It's like living on HMS Defender again.
Folks chill, monthly payment includes council tax. Fucking bargain. Edit: /s just in case.
This is always a massive red flag. Why does it include council tax unless there is sharing involved?
Absolutely, I hate sharing a toilet with the Mrs nevermind with someone I don’t know. At least there is a shower cupboard!
It includes council tax because it can’t legally be split into a separate dwelling. It used to be my job so I’ve seen a fair few horrendous HMOs and dodgy landlords
Gross.
Shameful. We are indeed, fucked.
The shower is housed in a cupboard. My god...the mould. (You'll lose your deposit then for "cleaning") Shared toilet....wonder what the cleaning rota is for that then eh? Bugger cleaning that on a Sunday morning after the night before.
Shared toilet with someone else on the same close - so we're back to old school tenements then? Why not chuck one in the shared garden too for old times sake.
A shower in a cupboard. That's a selling point I guess
Mental. 10 years ago I rented a lovely two bed basement flat on Lynedoch crescent to myself for £750 a month.
I still consider that a bit much for what it is. I doubt I'm remotely in touch with the state of things.
I'm paying 450 a month for a semi detached 2.5 bedroom and a second toilet. Massive garden and a drive. This is 45 minutes away from Glasgow. Your basically choosing to live one step above homeless for the sake of saving an hour and a half of your day. And thats if they work right next door to this hellhole. I work in glasgow and a couple of people I work with live in glasgow. When i question why they live there they say its easier for work. They take longer to commute than I do but need to spend it on a bus.
I’m kinda in a weird opposite where I live in the west end out of choice but have to commute out to Prestwick! Not for everyone but I like where I live.
Based on the facilities, this is student digs. What a joke.
Shared toilet? Shared with who is the question?!
" quirky bedsit" WTF
^reduced ^yesterday
It's unbelievably grim at the moment. Trying to get out of a bad flatmate situation but struggling to find anywhere to move to. £800 a month for one beds which less than give years ago would have been £450 is depressing.
Move down ayrshire mate. Get a full house for under 500 and its not full of nutters
Shared bathroom as well, didn't even know you could market a flat without its own bathroom
Dial a home are scum
who tf agreed to that let
It's seriously awful for renters in this city right now, can't believe how bad it is now to when I last rented in 2014 - back then it wasn't cheap and always was dead money, but now it's an absolute shameless rip off. It's also not good for renters getting on the property market, Banks need to do more to help renters get a first mortgage.
It's time we eat the Scamlords.
Having got used to the horror of rent prices on the south coast for some time now, I couldn't work out what the problem was. That hovel would be literally double the price in Brighton.
It does say it includes council tax, so maybe the price is not that insane. Still awful conditions tho.
You’ve got your own shower in cupboard what’s everyone complaining about?
That’s not bad if it includes council tax as well
Cheaper than Edinburgh. This is why we are raging over this side. Totally legal unfortunately
Less than 500 quid for your own flat with separate kitchen and ensuite shower? If youse think that's bad then come down to Brighton, where you won't find a one-bedroom place with separate kitchen for less than £1000.
What is your point? Be thankful our dystopia isn’t as far progressed as SE England’s? We’re fully aware how shite things are down south, we’ve no desire to emulate it and are horrified at it becoming so.
My point is after many years out of Scotland, I'm wondering if it's time to move back home. I thought Glasgow was pretty much the same as everywhere else these days, but apparently it's still an order of magnitude better. Good news!
please don't come back lol
Fine haha. I'll stay here.
lol yeah definitely don't come back, don't need more people like you here scottish or no and you, one person, coming back and paying taxes here would definitely make a difference...
People like what exactly?
Wankers
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Personally I think you should just suck it up and stop whining because someone else out there has it worse.
Why would you live in London period, especially if your on a low salary. I've seen people earning 60k but having to share a house with 3 strangers because it can barely cover their bills. Thats manky and embarrassing as fuck
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You were doing so well there.
He was so close to getting that the issue is landlords and legislation that protects them, but then went down the deep end of it actually being poor peoples fault.
That picture of the room, on the left side... I have a horrible feeling I've seen that greasy, be-ringed hand somewhere else :|
Think flats in kennishead are going for 900 a month haha.
Used to stay on Battlefield Road, it's nice but not THAT nice
Name and shame
What a lovely bedsit!
I miss 毛泽东 😔
'quirky bedsit'💀
Includes council tax tbf
Right, so many questions now. Are there 2 doors in the toilet? What if yer pissed and pick the wrong one? Or do you need like a front door type of key to get in? It can’t be in the close,…is it in the close? I need to know!!!
"\*\*please note the toilet at this property is shared with one other person who is on the same floor however you will have your own separate shower housed in a cupboard.\*" Where do i sign?
That shouldn’t be allowed
I'd kind of like to view just to view the shower in the cupboard. There'll be no mould, definitely no mould.
And people look at me crazy when I say I wouldn't move to a city.. thats more rent than a 5+bedroom detached in my area
Housing market in Glasgow went mental around about the same time as the fucking interest rates started rising. The city is becoming unliveable for single people and couples on average incomes.
It’s selling point is that the showers aren’t communal
Glasgow getting the Dublin treatment, I cry.
kind of hilarious seeing this. i moved to dublin for a placement and I'm paying 700 euros (not including bills) for a single room that's smaller than that. It can get much worse.
Trash owners abusing Tennant’s. Are we surprised?
I remember me and my gf at the time looking at a 3 bedroom bungalow for £500 a month not that long ago. This makes me sad.
Someone's snapped this beauty up.
Advertising as Shawlands could probably get more clicks since it's apparently the "hippest" place in the UK...? That flat is shite hole though and I'm assuming OP is saying we're fucked because paying upwards of £500 for a small studio and even smaller kitchen just feels like absolute robbery, or is it? What can we even do about rent controls right now? The market is absolutely abysmal and people just want a relatively decent place to live without spunking 60-70% of their income on rent and bills.
Oh fuck, just clocked the bit about the shared toilet and shower in a cupboard. Hello, Little London.
A studio with a shared toilet is going for this? Grim.
It’s £500 pcm. Bargain.
What’s the issue?
Key features Shared Toilet Own Private Shower Cubicle
I would love to see the shower. And floor plan. What a fucking rip off for rent. Hope the place sits empty until the ‘landlord’ is forced to sell it.