Homelet referencing after BR

Hi Folks, I've not posted anything on here in years but I have been lurking and reading all the posts. We went BR in April 2010 and had brilliant advice from everyone on here.

Anyway, we are now in the position to rent our own home again after living with my Mum for the past 6 years. The house we have been offered is our dream home.

The reason for this post is to reassure people who are looking to rent and have to be credit checked with Homelet.....We honestly thought we would never stand a chance but last night we got the good news that we had passed and we are allowed to rent our dream home!!!!:j

It was a very tense time and we handed over the £180 really thinking negative that we would never pass the dreaded credit check after going BR and unfortunately still having CCJS on our file. We've stupidly not even done the credit file clean up since our BR. We went BR in April 2010 and were discharged 3 months after..... Obviously now it has been over 6 years so it no longer shows up on our credit files.

We filled the online Homelet forms in late Tuesday night, our employers rang our references through yesterday (Wednesday) and we got the good news last night at 8.45 pm that we had been accepted. We were so negative that we wouldn't get it due to our extremely poor credit. Our scores are very low but it still came back as satisfactory.

So anyone who is going through the same, stay positive!!!!! We got through it so anyone can as long as there is decent employment history which thankfully my husband and I have....both been in same jobs for over 20 years.

Good luck to anyone in the same situation.....:T