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Is rent ever negotiable?

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  • 14-08-2007 5:44pm
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    pow wow
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    I'm looking at a house share where two of the rooms have been vacant forever (in Northern Ireland before everyone shouts 'it's a landlords market these days!') and the rent is a bit outside my range.

    Bearing in mind the trouble the landlord seems to have letting these other two rooms, can rent be negotiated at all?


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    connundrum
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    Everything in the market place is negociable. A seller will sell at the rate a buyer will buy at.. if that makes sense :confused:

    You'll do no harm by offering anyway, and I'm sure that the landlord would rather see the room occupied with a 70% income than unoccupied with 0 income.


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    The_Conductor
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    I'd second what Connundrum said- rent is definitively negotiable.
    At the end of the day- everything is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. If the rooms are vacant at the moment- it means they are over priced- for the people who might be interested in renting them. Make an offer- worst case scenario- he/she says no, nothing ventured, nothing gained.


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