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BitterAndTwisted

So, so true. Some of the other flats around me have been bought on RTB and the owners don't even live here any longer so we now have the ex-homeless living 12 to a two-bedroomed flat and a group of noisy students who are offering themselves to strangers in the street for a tenner. Meanwhile my lovely downstairs neighbours are on the waiting-list for a larger home while their three teenage children share a bedroom and will probably be waiting forever.

Oldernotwiser

Morglin wrote: »

I think he's talking about not paying service charges, not rent.

Being in reciept of DLA doesn't necessarily entitle anyone to not paying rent - that goes purely on household income, working or not.

Lin

But he specifically says he pays rent and not service charges. He says he doesn't work so presumably gets rent paid by HB/LHA.

tek-monkey

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

So, so true. Some of the other flats around me have been bought on RTB and the owners don't even live here any longer

I thought part of the RTB was that you had to live there?

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

students who are offering themselves to strangers in the street for a tenner.

Are they hot?

Running_Horse

Are they female?

BitterAndTwisted

Well, those who exercised their Right To Buy did live in their flats for some time but they have since moved on and are renting out their homes to the LA/HA now. And yes, the students are female and young so I guess that might make them hot to some, but selling themselves to strangers and bringing them into their home equals not hot at all imo

tek-monkey

You sure? A tenner sounds very cheap for North London.

BitterAndTwisted

I defer to your better knowledge of what a tenner will or will not buy in this neck of the woods as I really wouldn't know, thank goodness. This ain't Islington by the way. One of them actually solicited some bloke in front of one of the other neighbours, who heard her offering "full services" for fifty quid but perhaps she was turned down because her tariff was a bit on the high side.

tek-monkey

lol, am just guessing on tariffs. I'm a northerner, costs 2 bacardi breezers and a bag of chips up here

bumpoowee

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

So, so true. Some of the other flats around me have been bought on RTB and the owners don't even live here any longer so we now have the ex-homeless living 12 to a two-bedroomed flat and a group of noisy students who are offering themselves to strangers in the street for a tenner. Meanwhile my lovely downstairs neighbours are on the waiting-list for a larger home while their three teenage children share a bedroom and will probably be waiting forever.

Lovely though your neighbours may be maybe they should have thought about space implications before having 3 kids, particularly if they expected the state to put them up.

tek-monkey

bumpoowee wrote: »

Lovely though your neighbours may be maybe they should have thought about space implications before having 3 kids, particularly if they expected the state to put them up.

Ooh, ya can't say that. Its their right!

Had a friend recently complain that she should get cheaper car tax because she NEEDS a 7 seater so its unfair to tax her for it. That means I get taxed for not having kids, thanks!