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  • So true. The parties at the beginning of lockdown were mental. but it’s quieter now as people run out of money .The corner at the Wetherspoons is still mad though. by Ruglen2020 (Tue 13th Oct 2020 12:09pm)
  • Yes very true and it’s this downward spiral has been very noticeable the last five years. No one ever came into our close before but I’ve found people kicking the door and been given dog abuse by people trying to get into they can urinate or drink. by Ruglen2020 (Tue 13th Oct 2020 1:00pm)
  • It’s just the bit iof the main street near the Wetherspoons. I think the other end of Main Street is okay although I would saying if you’re buying a tenement check the neighbours very carefully and if rubbish has been dumped at the back. If it has that means a succession of tenants and landlords who will happily dump the whole contents of a fridge (leading to rats) by Ruglen2020 (Tue 13th Oct 2020 2:28pm)
  • I would generally agree with that. In the first few years it was excellent. Great flats transport and shops and no bother. Just quiet. In my experience and that of my neighbours and in the shops around it has hugely gone downhill. The bit around Wetherspoons and the Main Street . I see fights regularly. I saw a man getting his head stamped on three nights ago by a large group who were trying to rob him. by Ruglen2020 (Tue 13th Oct 2020 2:43pm)
  • Very safe. IMO. It’s just a certain corner of the Main Street from Thursday to Sunday after 8 pm. by Ruglen2020 (Fri 16th Oct 2020 7:23pm)
  • I feel for you as someone who has experienced this when a certain ‘off sales’ ubiquitous around the city opened up near our flats. People cannot know unless they’ve experienced it. Piss in the close, shouting, groups booting in the door and the occupants being charged for repairs. Also buy to let tenants doing as they pleased and NO ONE taking action. (Junkie neighbour leaving the back door open so her pals could just scoot up to her flat and it then being a free for all for all addicts) It’s a lot quieter and safer now in my close because I did the following: 1 I spoke to my neighbours and I got them on board. 2 I complained to anti social behaviour and the police for EVERY incident (I kept a diary and took photographs) 3 I created standard letters for neighbours to complete and put a note through everyone’s door with the telephone and email contacts to take action. 4 I got in touch with any relevant department so that I was absolute pain in the neck - a ‘close battle axe’ if you will. 5 CCD my factors and local councillors. Six months later and all the fly tipped trash is gone. Neighbours don’t have mad parties. There is more visible police presence in the area. Its really hard work but your choices are move or try to put up with it and I couldn’t do either because I didn’t have the money. My ire is for the people who give no consideration to people who have to live with this. There is so much I could say but you can be sure some people with a strong opinion on this have never experienced it. It’s terrifying. by Ruglen2020 (Mon 14th Jun 2021 7:23pm)
  • I had this issue with my neighbours.and reached the end of my tether. Plus 50% of the flats in my block are buy to let. Every time there is any problem now I take photographs and report it as either flytipping or anti social behaviour. It has made a difference. I also contacted landlord registration so the landlords could be contacted. Neither the landlords or tenants liked that. by Ruglen2020 (Tue 20th Jul 2021 4:37pm)
  • I have a free hoover that you can pick up (I just bought a robot hoover so I no longe need it and it’s simply taking up space) it’s not old. I’ve only had it for two years. I also have a few other bits and pieces (pots of paints and several rolls of wallpaper) by Ruglen2020 (Tue 27th Jul 2021 4:08pm)
  • Really sorry to hear of people struggling like this. When I was a student it was easy to get bedsit rooms around Buckingham Terrace etc and I rented a flat in Patrick. Flats weren‘t as ‘done up’ then and there were lots of decent landlords. However that’s all the West End now. A single end (a tiny one room place with a shower room of it) in my building has just been let for £450 pcm (Rutherglen) I’ve also seen flats in Rutherglen go from £500 pcm to almost 800 (2 bedroom) I’ve also seen a place asking for 600 one bedroom in Rutherglen. Just fours years ago I was in London and renting my place out and I had to drop the rent to £390 to get interest (and that was a well decorated one bedroom furnished flat with a dishwasher and tumble drier) Again really sorry it’s this difficult for people and good luck to you. by Ruglen2020 (Wed 11th Aug 2021 7:20pm)
  • The SNP are not allowed to spend public money on independence. There are strict rules about this. I think they have become ‘managers’ of the money which they have and their financial approach looks very similar to Conservatives while they pretend to be radical with things which cost nothing. by Ruglen2020 (Sun 22nd Aug 2021 10:34am)
  • It’s the Council policies which cause this. Rutherglen is in South Lanarkshire and ten years ago our street was spotless. Now as soon as a mattress gets put out by a buy to let landlord other people add to the pile (bags of rubbish, lamps or other paper) in built up areas the council know very well that people in flats don’t have the space or money to keep items until they get picked up when the feel like it but they created this blanket policy of redusing uplifts To one per year. they have to do equalities impact assesssments when they make these policies but it appears to go out the window when they don’t care about certain neighbourhoods they just become blind. What about people who don’t have access to space, a car, or money? What about areas with a high proportion of private landlords? (They’ll dump anything and they should pay more) if you live in a stand alone house you are just not imacted as much by all of this. After a certain point people in the neighbourhood stop trying to stop it because they just can’t. They’ve tried everything. Now our street is full of trash on a Regular basis and it is absolutely the Councils fault. I saw a property developer dump five bin bags and two wardrobes last week in front of a Greg’s. Then another came creeping out to add a lamp. by Ruglen2020 (Sun 22nd Aug 2021 10:44am)
  • This is on a quiet street ten minutes walk from the train station and appears reasonably well kept. It’s in a safe little bit very near busses and shops. The Rutherglen train station has trains into town every ten minutes and it is about 12 minutes to Glasgow Central.https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/112401302#/media?channel=RES\_LET&id=media0&ref=photoCollage by Ruglen2020 (Wed 8th Sep 2021 8:22pm)
  • An ex council previously renting near me for £450/ never more than £500 for about the last ten years has just rented for £750. Another nearby (with parking) very similar rent has been painted grey and given cheap carpets - now renting for over £800. by Ruglen2020 (Wed 6th Oct 2021 6:22pm)
  • This is very near a train station. https://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/lanarkshire/rutherglen/15427135 by Ruglen2020 (Mon 11th Oct 2021 5:41pm)
  • Thank you! by Ruglen2020 (Wed 13th Oct 2021 10:23pm)
  • I have noticed a proliferation of absent landlords in the area because so much money can be made this way. It’s let’s move to the next city or area and sook it dry.I came across the landlords once and they were extremely plummy and somewhat evasive. I now know why. Having also seen how Air B n B is being used in the Highkands I would never use this company. by Ruglen2020 (Wed 13th Oct 2021 10:22pm)
  • Thank you. Totally agree. I also contacted Air B n B. You wouldn’t believe how much money they are making compared to a normal let. So they’re not taking the bins from out the backs nd the ‘tenants’ are just using any bin. Sounds so petty but over the years this flat has been such a problem to all the other occupants. by Ruglen2020 (Wed 13th Oct 2021 10:19pm)
  • No. Air B n B are banned in communal closes in Glasgow for a reason. I am not required to put up with anti social behaviour just so someone from outside of the city can make serious bucks. Tenements have a range of people living in them from the single, disabled or elderly. unregulated Air b n b affects all the other occupants and is not appropriate. by Ruglen2020 (Wed 13th Oct 2021 10:45pm)
  • Buying houses without seeing them. As holiday homes then straight on to Air B N B. The situation is so bad that some councils have had to buy properties as ‘househsare’ house for teachers they bring on one year contracts. It’s everywhere. by Ruglen2020 (Wed 13th Oct 2021 10:59pm)
  • There have been numerous problems. The landlords dump furniture Willy hilly. This is then used as a nest for rats and in the past we have had a serious rat problem. When we tried to have these items removed our block was charged £1500 from the common maintenance account. The council charged the other occupants and did not take action against the perpetrators.Then these absentee landlords will not agree to the most basic repairs such as a secure door replacement. In addition using other people’s bins sounds trivial. Until you realised there is a charge for bulk uplifts and most of the flats are small. So when our bins are full with other people’s trash the other occupants have to keep stinking bin bags and large cardboard items in their own small flats where they have little room. by Ruglen2020 (Thu 14th Oct 2021 12:20pm)
  • Registers of Scotland provides a map you can click on. by Ruglen2020 (Sat 23rd Oct 2021 10:25am)
  • Do not under any circumstances use Let’s Direct. I was living away and intitially had a good local company however they were taken over by Let’s Direct and what a nightmare they were. Half the time the flat was empty and I also had to pay rent in London. They kept tenants deposits without telling me. A tenant dumped a Laura Ashley couch. any attempts to query anything as a landlord were met with aggression. My flat was simply a way for them to rinse cash from both Me and the tenants. When I got my flat back I couldn’t get in as the top snib lock had been changed. I had to pay to get this changed. They denied it. by Ruglen2020 (Mon 6th Dec 2021 6:44pm)
  • Honestly I look at that and think this is all terrifying …in 2008 I paid 70k for a one bedroom tenement in Rutherglen. I didn’t have a permanent job before the pandemic and was planning to get a two bed in the same area. I got a secure job after the property market went insane and now I look around and think ok I’ll just stay where I am. by Ruglen2020 (Sat 11th Dec 2021 4:38pm)
  • There’s a shortage of Home Economics teachers at the moment. Anyone with experience of working and communicating in a busy kitchen could possibly be a really good teacher. Lots of chefs I’ve come across also tend to be great storytellers and the kind of people that’ could be just great in a classroom. by Ruglen2020 (Fri 7th Jan 2022 5:17pm)
  • I have lived on a top floor flat for 12 years and never had an issue. I think as my factors are a housing association they’re pretty decent and there are regular checks. by Ruglen2020 (Mon 28th Feb 2022 7:17pm)
  • I am from the Outer Hebrides. Everybody has been leaving there since the 90s. Now 50% of the properties are cash buys. Utterly horrific. Where do you go? I am literally looking out of my window at Dalmarnock. There is nowhere to go. by Ruglen2020 (Wed 9th Mar 2022 9:28pm)
  • I hadn’t been on a bike for years and I went on it wearing my usual clothes to practise On a cycle track.A group of guys going past me shouted out “You realise you’re wearing office attire.” by Ruglen2020 (Wed 15th Jun 2022 7:33pm)
  • [https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/123834422#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage&channel=RES\_LET](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/123834422#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage&channel=RES_LET) by Ruglen2020 (Sat 18th Jun 2022 9:51am)
  • Had this for years now. Since South Lanarkshire stopped coming out the back to remove bins it s been a free for all. Add to that the landlords that tip the whole contents of a flat when tenants move out. Emailed and called to no avail. So much for their ‘equity’ assessment on new policies. Good tenants and owners are punished by the bad behaviour of poor landlords and tenants. We have to pay to have the back area cleared on a regular basis. The collections out the back should have continued or the offenders should be evicted. WeVE had rats and mounds of furniture. This usd to be a beautiful block but must if the councillors live in houses so anti social tenants weren’t factored into their policy. It makes the whole place look like an absolute ghetto. I blame people during the rubbish but then if they’re people who have never been held to account and the council don’t care what can you do? I would move but who can afford a bouse? by Ruglen2020 (Sun 19th Jun 2022 6:49pm)
  • This will be the exception and not the rule. The rents have risen so quickly. This has not been the case for some years now. It is far more likely to be £800 for a former one bedroom tenement where the main room has been ‘converted’ into a ‘two bedroom’ by turning the sitting room into a two bedroom. Estate agents contact me all the time to buy my flat but I would not be able to buy anything else even if I could sell. by Ruglen2020 (Mon 4th Jul 2022 12:24am)
  • Housing. Education - real experts and interviews - not political soundbites. What is happening in our local councils? Why aren’t our bins being taken out? Where are the police? Why isn’t anti social behaviour being taken seriously? Who in Housing Associations and Councils is doing deals on ‘scatter flats?’ Which politicians are also landlords? by Ruglen2020 (Thu 7th Jul 2022 1:35pm)
  • For the class warriors on this sub who get upset about people “looking down on junkies” LOL. I find the people with the most to say on these topics have had limited contact with the everyday chaos people have to put up with because some groups of people are allowed to run wild. I could tell you many stories. by Ruglen2020 (Sat 9th Jul 2022 4:56pm)
  • Agreed. Some streets are really nice though but not Greenhill Road. The area has taken a massive dip in the last three years. The only reasons I don’t move are: I have a massive tenement for peanuts beside shops, banks, bus stop, train station and library so I just get on with it, being realistic that my flat would cost at least double in a trendy postcode. If moving to Rutherglen try and find out how many ‘let’s’ there are in the building. Once our building had lots of let’s it changed completely. the People in my close went through hell with nightmare tenants and kicked up such a stooshie that the landlords are now very careful who they put in the flats. It has made a difference. by Ruglen2020 (Mon 11th Jul 2022 6:52pm)
  • I went into a charity shop and got a beautiful pair of fully lined curtains for £8. They were tenement ones fitted to the standard bay windows in the area and I have often had other lucky finds like this. by Ruglen2020 (Thu 28th Jul 2022 1:56pm)
  • Are people throwing aerosols on the piles of rubbish again? Bins have been set on Fire here and the piles of rubbish on the Main Street. This is an ongoing problem and I haven’t seen police or any other authority do anything about it. by Ruglen2020 (Mon 1st Aug 2022 9:22am)
  • Having had several flats in my close turned into Air B n B the landlords used any ones bins and just dumped stuff. Sounds trivial until you get rats. Reported them. Also to the factors because if insurance issues. That should do it. by Ruglen2020 (Mon 1st Aug 2022 11:58am)
  • Plus you get 1 free uplift per year so I collect all my stuff in one as I don’t have. A car by Ruglen2020 (Wed 3rd Aug 2022 9:37pm)
  • I grew up in a council house. I scraped for years to get a deposit after University. I was on low wages initially. I went round flat after flat that needed 20k to bring them up to any habitable level. (Without the deposit or money for offers over) After two years of that I realised I just needed to buy something. So I did. In Rutherglen. Lots of people were very sniffy about that. (Good for you if have got bags of money in the bank) I only had 5k deposit. But at least I can pay for it and lock the door at night. If I had to do it now I wouldn’t have a snowballs chance in hell. Lots of signs round here ‘We will buy your flat for cash’ and the next thing you know the very modest flat has been painted with the cheapest paint and is up for rent. Ridiculous prices. I don’t know how anyone has a chance without a serious cash injection from family. It’s hard not to see it as a return to some sort of feudalism. by Ruglen2020 (Thu 4th Aug 2022 12:18am)
  • M and M direct catalogue online. by Ruglen2020 (Thu 21st Sep 2023 5:35pm)
  • A factored tenement which is run well can be well maintained with no worries about large bills. I pay £30 pcm and our close has been fully decorated twice in 10 years with a replacement door in that time. I’ve never had an extra bill on top of that. It’s very near transport, banks, shops. We cannot control who the neighbours are. Sometimes there can be noise and there are huge issues with the bins. At the moment there’s lots of anti social behaviour - but this goes up and down. I lived in a cottage flat years ago and it could be quiet as we had put down underlay and carpet but the area was very quiet with few shops and poor transport. However we had our own bin and not having the shared entryway / close reduces stress. I prefer the tenement overall For the floor space, location and storage at the moment but that could change. by Ruglen2020 (Sun 1st Oct 2023 9:05pm)
  • Housing Association. They don’t clean the closes but they sort out a lot of issues very well - including rubbish. Without them it would be a total free for all with the bins. by Ruglen2020 (Mon 2nd Oct 2023 6:56pm)
  • Thinking about the large groups that swagger about with a bottles of buckfast breaking close doors, smashing bottles, setting things on fire - stealing bins that residents have to pay for - (£160 the last time they did it) intimidating people and just generally creating a hostile atmosphere Id say the stigma is deserved. And that’s today not even back in the day. by Ruglen2020 (Wed 4th Oct 2023 3:53am)
  • Dr Gorman s is nice. Reasonably priced. otherwise get the number 7 to Govanhill or 90 to Shawlands. Train to exhibition centre in 12 minutes for finniestion. by Ruglen2020 (Sat 7th Oct 2023 6:01am)
  • In my neighbourhood the council would not pick it up. The factors cleared it and it was charged to the common account. by Ruglen2020 (Sat 2nd Dec 2023 6:25pm)