Any nice apartment buildings in Stafford?

citricsquid

citricsquid

Well-Known Forumite
I'm living in Stafford and the lease on my current flat (technically it's an apartment, but that sounds pretentious...) is ending next month. I have the option to renew but I'm not really interested in staying in this flat for much longer, I'd like change!

I'm looking for an apartment (as in, a flat in a building built just for flats, so not a converted house) but I'm not really sure if there is anywhere else in Stafford that meets my requirements. The building I'm currently in is next to the town park / Tesco (awesome location) and it's exactly the sort of place I want to live. Does anyone know of any similar buildings in Stafford? I've not been able to locate any which seems ridiculous, there surely must be a similar place to this! Stafford isn't that small...

The building I'm in now, the sort of place I want to live:

i4PaHz.png
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
There is a block opposite the college facing the river/park

Maybe just browse the ads in the Newsletter?
 
Jade-clothing

Jade-clothing

Well-Known Forumite
citricsquid said:
I'm living in Stafford and the lease on my current flat (technically it's an apartment, but that sounds pretentious...) is ending next month. I have the option to renew but I'm not really interested in staying in this flat for much longer, I'd like change!

I'm looking for an apartment (as in, a flat in a building built just for flats, so not a converted house) but I'm not really sure if there is anywhere else in Stafford that meets my requirements. The building I'm currently in is next to the town park / Tesco (awesome location) and it's exactly the sort of place I want to live. Does anyone know of any similar buildings in Stafford? I've not been able to locate any which seems ridiculous, there surely must be a similar place to this! Stafford isn't that small...

The building I'm in now, the sort of place I want to live:

http://screensnapr.com/-/uploads/i4PaHz.png
Click to expand...
My kids live in that apartment block, its great and a brilliant location. I think there are some round near the island next to asda where there are usually quite a few up to rent with Cartwrights - its not such a nice block as your present one but they are fairly new.
 
Admin

Admin

You there; behave!
Staff member
Welcome to Stafford Forum, citricsquid. Good luck finding a new place; let us know how you get on! :)
 
My Name is URL

My Name is URL

Well-Known Forumite
Location wise, I don't think you could beat where you are... why do you want to move if it seems to have all you want?

As above, the ones that sprang to mind for me are just opposite Royal Mail, opposite the college / new playground by the river, by the railway inn....
 
Vault_girl

Vault_girl

Well-Known Forumite
are you in riverSIDE mew or riverBANK mews? whichever you are in there is the other over on south street, fairly nice, there is another set of south street too (cant remember the name off the top of my head), the ones which Jade mentioned on north walls are nice too. other than that look for:
peter james court (can be a bit hit and miss)
the old school, the oval (VERY posh and expensive though)
Stafford Box, Shepherds bush street (ditto)
The mills is the place opposite you but there is no parking
Friars Terrace are also nice (right next to tesco). AND have parking!

cant think of any others off the top of my head... I'm sure someone will point out some others I've forgotten about..

also what type of lease are you on? once it "runs out" you shouldn't have to sign yourself into something else you should just be able to leave it on a rolling contract which renews month by month (so if you do see something you like you just give 1 month's notice).
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Vault_girl said:
also what type of lease are you on? once it "runs out" you shouldn't have to sign yourself into something else you should just be able to leave it on a rolling contract which renews month by month (so if you do see something you like you just give 1 month's notice).
Click to expand...
I have seen so many people bullied by letting agents into signing a new lease and paying over £100 for the privilege, despite the fact they do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING other than change the dates on the contract. Ask about a rolling contract and they get funny, I always just ignored them. Had one tell me if I didn't sign a new lease I'd have to leave, I said fine feel free to ask me to leave in writing. Never happened funnily enough, as then they'd have a void while they wait for new tenants.
 
Vault_girl

Vault_girl

Well-Known Forumite
tek-monkey said:
Vault_girl said:
also what type of lease are you on? once it "runs out" you shouldn't have to sign yourself into something else you should just be able to leave it on a rolling contract which renews month by month (so if you do see something you like you just give 1 month's notice).
Click to expand...
I have seen so many people bullied by letting agents into signing a new lease and paying over £100 for the privilege, despite the fact they do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING other than change the dates on the contract. Ask about a rolling contract and they get funny, I always just ignored them. Had one tell me if I didn't sign a new lease I'd have to leave, I said fine feel free to ask me to leave in writing. Never happened funnily enough, as then they'd have a void while they wait for new tenants.
Click to expand...
indeed, an assured shorthold tenancy agreement (which is what most people are on) has an assured period (90% of the time 6 months however it can be a lot longer) then once it is up it just becomes a periodic tenancy which rolls over month by month. There is absolutely NO reason to have to write up a new contract... All it does is tie the landlord and tenant into another 6 months at the property.

there are rumors of rules being brought in to stop this sort of thing because these are unnecessary charges and educated tenants and landlords are cottoning onto these sorts of things.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top