Quote Originally Posted by TheDeeDon View Post
When I stayed in our 'Hen Hoose' I can remember a couple of times we had guys in cheap suits telling us to buy our houses and make our fortunes. That was the actual terminology used. I can remember laughing and telling the them to do one and get a grip.

I liked the house, but certainly didn't want to own one. I have also always been against the dreadful right to buy act, so was never going to interest me.

It was fairly common knowledge at the time that the roofs were dodgy, hence the council put proper roofs on some, before finding a cheaper alternative, which is what our house got at the time and were looking much improved.

I'm still of the opinion that the council acted too hastily on the matter and never really explored fixing the roofs at a cost people could afford, including the council.
I also still go over to Torry regular and the area is like a ghost town. In the part of Girdleness Road where I stayed, there is one owner left and it is grim as f*ck. The Council promises of boarding up properties and ensuring the rubbish dumped would be cleared weekly hasn't materialsed and folk are getting into the houses and vandalising them or ripping out any copper pipes or wiring they can get their hands on.

Some of the owners featured in the P&J at least have other owners living around them, but others are not so fortunate.

The owners will get their money in the end, but remember that these houses have always been nearly impossible to sell and have sadly never been worth much.

Capitalism at it's worst.

Strangely enough, many of the Council Tenants have scored through it, by getting houses they wouldn't have got near if it wasn't for Raac.

A distant relation of ours has got a brand spanking new 4 bedroom house in Garthdee through it.

There are also a few worried folk in the BoD area who are worried about the influx of 'Torry folk' in that new housing estate built off the Ellon Road. Heard it mentioned a few times at my work.
The owners will get their money in the end,
With respect DD that suggests you maybe don’t know the ins and outs.
I don’t think enough do. These people are not ‘getting their money’.
It’s like the PO scandal, so egregious people can’t believe it.

As for rights to buy and capitalism, hate the game and not the players at the lowest rung.