Losing my ‘haunted’, mouldy flat was awful. I swore I’d get it back – and I did | Claire Jackson

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At 27 , I had found my Barbie dream house at 27 .

The flat wasn't perfect there was no central heating, the windows were single glazed and a peculiarly stubborn black mould splattered the walls and I loved it.

But the credit crunch was eating the magazines I wrote for like a grotesque Pac-Man .

Claire Jackson has a mortgage on a flat she once rented, and dreamed of returning to.

It's not generally appropriate to mention the intervening manic-depression, spiralling debt and sheer loneliness.

It’s a hell of a lot easier to work on those things in a safe, affordable space in a place that you love.