Lea Turner, a 37-year-old single parent, is chatting with her six-year-old son, Dexter, while lovingly decorating her home, bought in March this year. They talk about his new private school, where he is thriving, having qualified for the rugby and football teams, doing well academically and making lots of new friends. It wasn’t always like this. This is the first place Lea has truly called home with her son. Having only ever lived in rentals until now, she had never felt secure. Enduring a slug infestation, a broken boiler that a bad landlord would not replace, and someone wanting their house back, Lea and her son had lived in five different houses before Dexter was five years old. Each time they were forced to move, incurring huge additional costs that hadn’t been budgeted for. Now closer to friends and family in Greater Manchester, having moved from Northampton where she lived for eight years, Lea tells Metro.co.uk: ‘Knowing we now have a beautiful home that’s much larger than the small rentals we used to be in, and it’s all ours – it feels like we can finally set down roots and exhale.’ So, how did she ditch renting and buy a…
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