{"id":720614,"date":"2026-07-31T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720614\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:04:13","slug":"i-pay-580-a-month-to-live-in-a-disused-care-home-property-guardians-show-us-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720614\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I pay \u00a3580 a month to live in a disused care home&#8217;: Property guardians show us around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katrina says she loves the communal aspect of guardianship, which is &#8220;somewhere between living in university halls, a block of flats and a fancy squat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She lives with &#8220;all sorts of people&#8221;, from lawyers to artists, sharing bathrooms, a kitchen and communal living areas, and regularly socialising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But there are disagreements over things like noise, she says. And while Lowe, the company that manages the property, operates a stringent vetting process for its guardians, two residents have been asked to leave because of antisocial behaviour &#8211; one for alleged sexual harassment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lowe tells the BBC it acts &#8220;quickly and decisively&#8221; on the rare occasion someone breaches its standards and that the &#8220;overwhelming majority&#8221; of guardians go on to be &#8220;brilliant, community-minded residents&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katrina says she loves the communal aspect of guardianship, which is &#8220;somewhere between living in university halls, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}