Times are hard and buying a house is simply out of the question for a vast majority of the population. The banking crisis means that the banks are simply less inclined to offer you out a mortgage to buy your house over an extended period of time which means that you are going to have to buy a house outright; an impossibility unless you stumble upon a fortune from somewhere! In a normally expensive area such as Fulham, buying a house has always been out of the question except for the privileged few, yet even these are struggling to find the cash to buy a house in the area.

If you want to live in Fulham, therefore, the only option left to you is to rent accommodation. This isn’t in any way a negative thing; as long as you read all the paperwork that is given to you in order to ensure that you aren’t ripped off you can avoid getting burnt. Renting accommodation doesn’t just have to be a short term thing – you can rent for a lifetime if you want. As long as you ensure that you pay on time and you stay on the right side of your landlord then you’ll find that you won’t have any sort of hassle. Forget all the scare stories that people have about landlords being wholly unreasonable – this is a minority of landlords and is by no means representative of the rest. It is not in their interests to annoy you; the beauty of renting means that you can up sticks and leave if they don’t keep to their side of the agreement!