can you privately buy a council house

Soot2006

So you made £28k in 6 months?

RLH33

madmackhunter wrote: »

Alas dear old squinty the one without the facts for the awnsers!!
i bought the property for £88,000.
i sold it 6 months later for £148,000 as it had land with it and i had to pay to get covanent removed.
After i paid back the sub-prime mortgage with g-mac,i was SUPPOSED to be left with a balance of £58,000.
But £30,000 went back to the housing association FAIR ENOUGH thats the rules.
But after hearing what i heard AND the fact of what the housing ombudsman told me issues have to be looked into.
so before you go slating people get your facts right!!:mad:

I would give up now on this thread madmackhunter because you are about to get some serious stick from the posters on here once your last post is read.

I think you are onto a loser, you made £28,000 cash and you are complaining?

Nevertheless I think you are getting slightly confused about the Ombudsman, the conversation you had with them when they said they were horrified most likely relates to the way you were treated - not the fact that you had to pay back £30k. The Ombudsman only deals with the mechanism of the system, not whether the result/answer was correct or lawful - that is for the courts to decide.

For example - you are complaining that you were unfairly treated as the HA/Council did not, in your view, give you a fair hearing in explaining your changed circumstances and did not take these into account when asking for the £30k back. The Ombudsman will look at whether you were unfairly treated i.e. whether the procedures for circumstances like this were correctly carried out and whether you were given a fair hearing. If the Council/HA is investigated and the procedures were correctly carried out then you lose. If they find that you were unfairly treated and were not given a fair hearing then you may be in line for some compensation - however I doubt very much whether this would be in the region of £30k, maybe more like £3k if that. The Ombudsman will not give a view on whether you should or should not have paid back the £30k.

It is only if the HA/Council erred in law in asking for the £30k, which I very much doubt, that you may possibly get your money back but you will have to take it to court to do this rather than the Ombudsman.

madmackhunter

many thanks for your reply RLH.
sensible words said-i look upon it as a test case for people more needy than me.
we all know the rights and wrongs but i have to get accross the couldnt care less attitude as well on behalf of h/a.
this is the onlky reason im doing it,NOTHING ELSE.
3k 1k however mutch IF nothing i just want them to look at peoples circumstances properly THATS IT:T:T

madmackhunter

UPDATE

have had phone call/letter from local housing association regarding my case.
They are reviewing it and IF peoples circumstances changed AFTER purchasing like mine and others they will sympathetically go through the mitigating circumstances proceedures.
Which in part is a change in policy straight away.