Can I buy a house to rent to my lil sis on housing benefit?

Kimberley

It seems that until the Government or the new Government next year turn the system around to stop all this then it will never change.

hippy-chicy

Kimberley wrote: »

It seems that until the Government or the new Government next year turn the system around to stop all this then it will never change.

We live in hope !

scarletjim

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

I think that this is one of the most disgusting posts we've had on here.

Someone who's comfortably off, aiding and abetting their f eckless family to bleed money out of the public purse so that they themselves can get even more money.

You ought to be ashamed!

I'll say it for the 10th time:

If the council don;t pay the £900pcm to me, they will be paying it to some other landlord. Either way, the taxpayer (including me) pays for this. Why can't you understand that?

Anthillmob

may i come out of retirement to 1. applaud the many posts after mine. and 2. to ask a question......if your sister didnt pay you any rent/was refused rent [and bear in mind LHA is paid direct to the claimant and not the landlord unless there are extreme circumstances [lets not go there now]]

would you turf your sister, her husband and neices/nephews out on the streets because they failed to pay you?

answer honestly.

welshmoneylover

hippy-chicy wrote: »

We live in hope !

Me too, hopefully the Tories will sort this shambolic HB system.

1sue23

scarletjim wrote: »

At no point have I said that I think the taxpayer should help them to do this - irrelevant to the thread but I happen to think its completely wrong that I as a taxpayer should fund this - so for you to say that I believe the taxpayer should help them is baffling for me - read the thread properly!

As for me helping them, well she's my sister, she's gonna do this one way or another anyway, so it may as well be me being her landlord as anyone else. Why are people here talking like if I didn't buy and rent to her then no one else would?

I love my daughter very much but I also believe that people should help themselves and if I thought for one second that by renting a house to her I was enabling her not to help herself I would have left her in the homeless shelter heartless as that seems .

Anthillmob

scarletjim wrote: »

I'll say it for the 10th time:

If the council don;t pay the £900pcm to me, they will be paying it to some other landlord. Either way, the taxpayer (including me) pays for this. Why can't you understand that?

you gets it straight back.

im trying to understand you. answer my prev question though may i add as i forgot, would you take her to court to evict her?

Fran

terryw wrote: »

The local authority will pay housing benefit if there is a genuine commercial tenancy in force.

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