Haggling on the rental price

[danyeates]

Hi,

Is this the norm? We've rented a house from family for the past few years, but we've found a stunning mews house on the beach in a lovely area here in the New Forest. We haven't looked round it yet but we have had a snoop around the outside and had a walk up the beach etc. It's only about 4 miles from our current house and we often drive down there to have a walk along the beach. The house is in an old hospital converted into several mews terraced houses and the communal garden leads to the beach!

However, it's over our rental budget really. It's actually over twice our current rent!!! We can afford it, but we'd be more comfortable if it was a little less! So, do people haggle on the rent? If so, how much is a reasonable amount to offer initially? We plan to rent this place, and buy a small house or flat to rent out in the next few months.

Thanks,

Dan

[Pcot]

Haggle, absolutely. 25% below what they are asking. They can only say no, you've lost nothing!

[danyeates]

Just done some research on the net and found out about Property Bee.

It says:


Wed Mar 9 10:56:53 2011

Price changed: from '£1,350 pcm' to '£1,295 pcm'

Mon Dec 6 22:52:12 2010

Initial entry found.


Been up for rent for ages!!

[smithburt21]

Before decide about the rent. First you have to make survey around your area where your house located. I hope that it would help so and you easily decide what you do.

[danyeates]

The village is very sought after and quite unique in the area. We're in the New Forest so lots of small busy towns like Lymington and New Milton. Milford on Sea however, is down a long country road and seems to be in the middle of nowhere. It is literally a small village, bakers, butchers, chippy and a few other shops and lots of pubs. The rest of it is clifftop and a small yacht club with lots of blocks of flats. There are very few houses, especially along the clifftop. Property in Milford does fetch a large premium over those in neighbouring towns and villages as it's such a quiet and undisturbed village. The tourists don't really make it over that way.

The property we're looking at is a town house, but the building looks like flats. It has it's own entrance. The property is more expensive than other 2 bed properties along the clifftop, but all the others are on the other side of the road, this building is actually on the beach and has about 5 or 6 steps running down from the garden to the beach so it will fetch a premium.

To compare, this 2 bed mews house on the beach is up at £1,295 pcm, 2 bed flats on the other side of the road, but with sea views, are fetching around £900 pcm.

[Skyedriver]

You want to live there they want the property occupied, make an offer. I did some while ago. Lovely landlord, he reckoned we were his best tenants. Everyone happy.
don't rent for long though, its money lost whereas buying is money saved