The private rented sector has increased more rapidly than any other tenure, with 3m households renting privately and predictions that one in five people will be living in the sector by 2020.
For visitors renting an apartment, this can be a great address for buying ready-cooked meals 10-200% cheaper for take away).
There are dozens of schools offering every possible permutation of tuition and course, from a three-hour try-out upwards (from beginner to winner, as they say), as well as shops selling and renting equipment.
Apple gets it in the neck ("When you buy an album on iTunes you're renting music rather than buying it; you're getting the equivalent of an IOU"), as does YouTube, for letting major artists fiddle their viewing figures.
F**k the Caucasus," Lokomotiv fans began to chant at a qualifying match on 23 August 2012 between the Dutch club AZ Alkmaar and Anzhi Makhachkala, a team from Russia's mostly Muslim Caucasus region that were renting the Lokomotiv stadium in Moscow.
She points out that they are all renting privately, paying nearly £1,000 a month to live in grim conditions.
But being an uncompromising modern artist living in a small provincial town is a risky business, and the locals were outraged when Schiele was seen drawing a naked Wally in the garden of the house he was renting.
(It helped that the money the GAA made from renting out Croke Park was channelled back to its own local clubs).
3. Receipt Rip Off: A con artist will ask for funds to be wired to a money transfer service, such as Western Union, as a sign of good faith that a tenant is committed to renting a property.
Suking Chek, a Chinese student starting university in London, ended up more than £400 out of pocket when her landlord failed to carry out promised repairs to the flat she was renting, making it uninhabitable.
So while you don't necessarily have to come from a very well-off background, this loan won't work if your parents are renting, if their own mortgage is very large or if they can't help out on fees.
