meanwhile, renters are extending tenancies and avoiding buying a home, until mortgage rates fall. our correspondent ben godfrey has been finding out more. jenny taupin didn't expect to be a sofa surfer in her early 705, but the search for a suitable property to rent seems impossible. i really don't know what the answer is, and that is a worry, that's why i can't sleep. if i do find a property i like and i want to go for it, in the night, i'm planning, thinking, "oh, i can put that there, put that. and then of course you might not get it, which is what's happened up till now! laughs i haven't got it. jenny had to leave her bungalow in staffordshire when the landlord decided to sell up. so for now, a friend has offered her a room 30 miles away in whitchurch until she finds that elusive 2—bed home with a garden. i'm finding that there's millions of people after the same property. i've been looking really since about november time when the landlord told me he was going to put the house on the market. monetary—wise, people have got to earn — i should really earn about 21,000 year in order to look at any of these properties i'm looking at, but of course i don't because ijust