Moving house should be fun but quite often it is a traumatic experience. Few of us ever find a home for life and indeed moving home and to a better property each time is considered a sign of success. We all dream of our own home and it doesn't matter if it's a pokey little flat tucked in the corner of a large apartment block or a gated mansion, it's ours.

It's quite probable that our first home is a rental property or student digs. The excitement of new rooms, new room-mates, a new part of town, can all have the downside of the money that is required. If you're moving into a large house, deposits usually aren't that unfriendly to your student grant but if you want somewhere that will give you more independence and privacy, costs might prove to be prohibitive.

If you are looking to move out of home for the first time and are in full time employment, your own little place to call your own is an attainable dream as long as you can afford the deposit and the first month's rent. It's important to remember that the deposit will remain your landlord's until you move out and during your tenancy you shouldn't do anything to the property that would result in the forfeiting of it. It's not unreasonable to consider you might need assistance in finding the deposit. Finance might come in the form of your own savings, assistance from parents, a bank overdraft or even payday loans online .

There's a lot of doom and gloom about the property market and whilst it might not be ideal to be considering a mortgage or selling your home right now, for renters, the market remains pretty stable.

The financial issues of renting will never be as complicated as those of buying but there are always practical solutions to ensuring you have a roof over your head.