@kingpins - at one stage of 'our' (my husband was still alive then) lives we were paying off a very humble home, which my hubby proceeded to brick in and it - eventually - gave us a handsome sum of money to move on with - I can't call that money 'profit' because it was earnt by hard graft, freezing through one several but one particularly cold winter, when our living room ceiling roof only had a tarpaulin protecting it from the sky (due to a 'renovation error' - misstep by hubby, lucky he didn't fall through) - and we renovated a second home (yes we all did, kids even painted walls, doors, cleaned bricks), which we eventually - as proud future 'landlord's rented out to a 'Minister-recommended' lady, who, after 3 months refused to pay her rent and then was never home when we called. Eventually she accused us of renting her a home, where she was constantly cold and blamed us for a 3-months-long illness, due to that 'bad house' (and threatened to sue!) - the house was perfectly ordinary like all the others in the street. We had a hell of a job evicting this woman and never, never, never again did we want to become landlords; the human interactions in this case were demeaning to her as well as to us. You need a special kind of toughness to deal with rental properties or let agencies do the hard work.
It is probably different in an urban city setting, when you get working couples, business people etc renting - altogether it seemed to me that 'renting' as well as 'letting property' had simply no rules in this country. I have not had the opportunity to re-consider this because my husband died young, before he could earn 'real' money, I had expensive school fees to pay etc. Am happy to own my own home now and can do as I please.
Go well
Taurisk
