Rant and query regarding neighbours

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

My housing association doesn't deal with homelessness applications; they select from a list of nominations from several local authorities who they wish to offer a tenancy to. They offered the two new houses in this street to single mums; one on maternity leave from working at a bank and one not working, disabled mum.

There are Porsches parked outside some of the houses on this street; works vans and battered Fiestas outside others. The silver cat from across the road who comes over for a fuss during the afternoon when I am deadheading the geraniums belongs to a Professor, according to his ID tag.

Both HA houses are immaculate, inside and out, have had lots of effort put into 'kerbside appeal' and both have perfectly well behaved children. If any of the locals were upset about the houses being bought by a social landlord before the builders finished, they have shown no sign of it - and it is definitely better for the area than the derelict building that was on the site previously.

House Associations have very strict rules about what you can and cannot do in their properties - and they have more protection in law than the local council in gaining possession back from the tenants. So you have plenty of help in dealing with any issues that arise with their behaviour.


You may well have rubbish neighbours that dare to not roller stripes in the grass (although my grass out the back needs a good cut, but I can't wield the strimmer at the moment as my shoulder is playing up a lot) and dare to park cars outside where other people have parked cars over the rest of the close (or you would be parking somewhere else and not complaining about it), but the name and address of their landlord is irrelevant to you.


And just think, had they be bought by a buy-to-let, you would get the most insecure tenancies with problems with benefits, zero attachment to the place as they would likely be moved on again in six months time, may have been evicted from social housing for bad behaviour and there to be a constant stream of them every 26 weeks. But so long as it isn't a registered social landlord, you'd be OK by your reckoning.

Mupette

rubbish really rubbish excuses...

You don't want someone like me next to you or The Currathers.. or who ever based on the information i have given you, bad press people assume your on the dole you must be work shy, scum, nasty, dirty and most definitely on drink and drugs..

Guess what, I'm not who you think i am.

I was Married, then he beat the living daylights out of me for 10 years, so i divorced. hence being a single mum now, didn't get pregnant just to get the council flat you know.

I've worked most my life, then 2 years ago my world was turned upside down, had to stop work, couldn't remember things, agony to walk, unsympathetic manager who didn't know the rules...

And then last year i was diagnosed with MS. Incurable, This forced me to accept help from benefits.

The sooner people understand that not everyone is on benefits is lazy and can't be bothered, the less likely they will get grief for being snobs

michaelvintner

Mupette wrote: »

I'm shocked that you would say this on a public forum.

I'm on benefits, single mother too, oh and i live in social housing, and have my rent and council tax paid.

What do you think of that..

How dare you I hope you don't live in the same area as me. I might wake up in the middle of the night to find you stealing my shoes and trying to eat my sofa.:p

michaelvintner

Mupette wrote: »

definitely it's free i want it :D

Like I said just don't steal my shoes, eat my sofa or go to the toilet in my sink. You horrible oxygen thief.:rotfl:

fluffnutter

Mupette wrote: »

rubbish really rubbish excuses...

You don't want someone like me next to you or The Currathers.. or who ever based on the information i have given you, bad press people assume your on the dole you must be work shy, scum, nasty, dirty and most definitely on drink and drugs..

Guess what, I'm not who you think i am.

I was Married, then he beat the living daylights out of me for 10 years, so i divorced. hence being a single mum now, didn't get pregnant just to get the council flat you know.

I've worked most my life, then 2 years ago my world was turned upside down, had to stop work, couldn't remember things, agony to walk, unsympathetic manager who didn't know the rules...

And then last year i was diagnosed with MS. Incurable, This forced me to accept help from benefits.

The sooner people understand that not everyone is on benefits is lazy and can't be bothered, the less likely they will get grief for being snobs

You don't have to justify yourself, Mupette. If people want to spout whatever nonsense their little brains have gleaned from the Daily Wail that week, then let them.

scheming_gypsy

I'm typing this from a HA house, and i'm also typing it from a house that i have a mortgage on; whilst working from home.
Just because the HA have bought the house doesn't mean it's going to become a council house; there's a good chance it'll become a shared ownership house where x% is rented out and the other x% is mortgaged.

Valli

Lol at this thread...

where I live is on what was, originally a council estate built in 1963 to house workers being moved here from London to work for the Post Office Head Office. So it was designed to attract them and they were also offered the chance to BUY these homes. (in the 1960s! Shocking!) Surplus homes were offered to local families I believe (I do not know whther they had the right to buy).

Anyway some bought, some didn't.

I first lived here in the late 70s when my parents bought a house being sold by retired PO employee. we hadn't been here long then (in this town, we came from The North) and didn't know the history of the estate.
AFTER they bought they found out that both houses either side still belonged to the council! Eventually they moved to a bigger house on a new build estate. (My mum likes moving!)

Anyway time marches on and Mr Valli and I needed to move up (upsize) from our private house - in an area where the houses had either been bought by owner occupiers or as buy-to-lets - probably about 50/50 and we decided to come back here, albeit to a different part of the estate. Here my neighbours are owner-occupiers or council. You REALLY have to look at them (the houses) to tell the difference - roof vents usually means council - other than that you would not know. They are all well maintained. I posted a pic in the Arms once and someone commented what a nice area it looked.

My mum and dad, though, in their new build has neighbours who have moved out and now rent. Privately.
Lots and lots of phone calls have been made to LL/owners to complain about overgrown gardens...

Buying your own home is a massive expense. Some people, for various reasons, prefer to rent. Doesn't make them any better or any worse than anyone else. Part of the reason housing IS so expensive is because people were pushed into thinking they SHOULD buy.

Oh and I'm a single parent now

*waits for people to shudder*

darkpool

Mupette wrote: »

The sooner people understand that not everyone is on benefits is lazy and can't be bothered, the less likely they will get grief for being snobs

a lot of people on benefits are like that though. the sooner we all stop pretending that everyone on benefits is deserving the better.

Oliver14

darkpool wrote: »

a lot of people on benefits are like that though. the sooner we all stop pretending that everyone on benefits is deserving the better.

What do you call a lot? Your just using daily mail headlines to reinforce your own prejudice. Says a lot about you I'm afraid.

Mupette

darkpool wrote: »

a lot of people on benefits are like that though. the sooner we all stop pretending that everyone on benefits is deserving the better.

so are you saying i am lying... faking just because you 'think' i am lazy..

or can you not accept that people with real disabilities exist, or are you one of those that think we (disabled) should be put in workhouses to rot?