The challenges facing renters

Finding somewhere to rent can always be a challenge, and it's particularly interesting that many take to Twitter to air their woes (we've all done it at one time or another). With vacancy rates at lows across many of our capital cities, this Christmas season it's time to put the shoe on the other foot and consider the situation that tenants find themselves in.

We note that the following tweets come from across the globe - it looks like the same problems are faced in many cities at the moment.

I don't want to rent something beyond my price range and then hope to get a roommate, but finding a place big enough is a challenge.

— Fawks Beaumont (@fawksbeaumont) December 10, 2013

Finding a three bedroom house to rent is gonna be the death of me. I refuse to live in a shitty neighborhood. But everything is so expensive

— alison hoelmer (@ahoelmer11) December 7, 2013

Finding a house to rent over winter break is actually really stressful.

— breanna kearns (@breanna_angela) December 5, 2013

Finding an apartment is hard when your 18 no one wants to rent to you.

— Nicole Davison (@N031595) December 9, 2013

@Macfalconer The house we currently rent is sold so we have to move, but we've had bad luck finding a new place.

— Lucy... (@stillphosphor) December 7, 2013

And finally, a situation that many of us find ourselves in the second we hit a listings website...

This went from finding a place to rent to staring at multimillion dollar homes.

— Paul Swag (@itspaultho) December 7, 2013