Council Housing

Jaks

My Dh and I are corrently registered with home select (for council/Housing authority housing). We made a bid (showing interest) on a 4 bedroomed house last Friday and we are in que position 6. This afternoon while I was picking my dd up from school there was a visit from a home select officer (my dh and youngest dd were at home), he couldn't stay as my youngest dd was having a temper tantrum. He is going to phone tomorrow and visit again.

Can anyone who has any experience with council housing shed any light on what this visit was for? (My info booklet states that a home select officer comes round to check your application before making an offer of housing).

I have bidded on council housing 3 times this year and have never had any visits before.

I find it hard to believe that we are going to get a council house being number 6 on the bidding list. Dare I be hopefull? I have been waiting for 15 years.

Engelbert

Hi

Its difficult to say. 6 th isn't bad. It may be that the others were discounted for one reason or another (rent arrears, family not big enough etc). Or it may be that as you are close to the top they want to do the visit now. Or there could be some anomaly in your application they want to check out.

Best wait until the verification officer calls back I'm afraid. Sorry I know the waiting isn't nice...

Blacksheep1979

A temper tantrum!??! Have you ever thought about trying to control your children and make them understand that others should be respected? If you let them get away with this at a young age they'll have no respect for others/authority when they're older and it's only going to get worse.

suze_g

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

A temper tantrum!??! Have you ever thought about trying to control your children and make them understand that others should be respected? If you let them get away with this at a young age they'll have no respect for others/authority when they're older and it's only going to get worse.

Oh for god's sake, it's Dr Spock. Sometimes young children do this. Nothing new, doesn't signal the breakdown of society as we know it.

Honestly some of the replies I read on this forum really make wonder what's going on.

Blacksheep1979

If it's that bad that you can't just put them in another room and deal with the person that's come to help you get a nice new house (I guess paid for by the taxpayer) then yes, it is an issue.

missaitch

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

If it's that bad that you can't just put them in another room and deal with the person that's come to help you get a nice new house (I guess paid for by the taxpayer) then yes, it is an issue.

Somebody has come for advice on the process and you are judging parenting skills and assuming that the tax payer will be paying for the house. Neither of which have anything to do with OP.

Give advice or don't post anything - no need for all this negative posting!

Jaks

For you information Blacksheep1979, my youngest is 2 and doesn't understand how to respect others/authority just yet, she does't even completely completely understand hown own needs, as for shutting her in another room - I am afraid thats not possible as I have an open plan room. I wasn't even here when the genetleman called - I was on a school run. My husband was looking after her.

It would seem that even at 2 she can show more respect then you can at the age of 30 (if your username shows your DOB).

If you had nothing useful to add to this thread why did you even take the trouble of replying unless you are trolling around with nothing better to do.

backtomum

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

A temper tantrum!??! Have you ever thought about trying to control your children and make them understand that others should be respected? If you let them get away with this at a young age they'll have no respect for others/authority when they're older and it's only going to get worse.

Are you for real?

backtomum

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

If it's that bad that you can't just put them in another room and deal with the person that's come to help you get a nice new house (I guess paid for by the taxpayer) then yes, it is an issue.

My goodness this is great fun - you troll you:T

hebawom

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

A temper tantrum!??! Have you ever thought about trying to control your children and make them understand that others should be respected? If you let them get away with this at a young age they'll have no respect for others/authority when they're older and it's only going to get worse.

Blacksheep, please try and control your comments and try and understand that people should be respected. If you are this rude to people you have never met and show such a lack of respect there is no hope for people that you actually meet in real life.

emmalita

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

If it's that bad that you can't just put them in another room and deal with the person that's come to help you get a nice new house (I guess paid for by the taxpayer) then yes, it is an issue.

You seem to be suggesting that people living in council property are spongers,get over yourself and bog off to your PRIVATE house and do something useful with your time rather than knocking others down! Is this forum only for wealthy people? The OP has asked for advice not a lecture.