Rent rises should be expected by people
WHEN buying a rental property you have to pay double stamp duty or whatever name they’ve changed it to (Fears for renters as private rents rocket in Glasgow study finds, Glasgow Times online).
Mortgage payments are no longer tax deductible and legislation is changing regularly.
The safety precautions needed before renting out a property are expensive as are the annual checks, all of them absolutely essential.
Does anybody expect anything other than rent rises or do they expect the landlord to absorb the necessary expenditure?
Al M
Posted online
I JUST wish the fury and anger unleashed by the proposal to introduce a football super league could also be directed to resolving issues such as homelessness and the horrific NHS waiting lists which confine citizens to living with unbearable pain and disability.
MA
Glasgow
THESE so-called big clubs are losing money hand over fist, they have been paying players exorbitant wages, wages they can’t afford from the revenue their clubs produce (Uefa president name-checks Celtic and Rangers as he slaughters European Super League, Glasgow Times online).
The super league is the way the owners feel will solve their problems.
It’s got nothing to do with football, it’s a bunch of oligarch vultures who have got together to try and impose their will.
Uefa and Fifa haven’t exactly been honest brokers either, over the years, we need change but not this.
Donald Webster
Posted online
LANARKSHIRE covers a very large area and really should have more than two centres (‘A total shambles’: Health chiefs apologise after people made to wait hours for Covid jag, Tuesday).
Not everyone has a car. The McCoist Complex in East Kilbride has very little parking, which does not help either.