Will they refuse the exchange?

K,A+P_2

Hi, hoping someone can help.

I'm a housing association tenant, hoping to do a mutual exchange. We've finally found someone who wants to exchange and we're ready to fill out and sign the forms.

Now that I can relax however, I'm getting nervous about the housing associations making their decisions. The reason why is, I've had the misfortune to live next to a girl who doesn't have much respect for others around her, and who used to play her awful drum and bass/gangster music disgustingly loud and have huge domestics with her boyfriend and smash furniture around - that was, until I complained about her to the housing association.

The noise has since stopped, but, in "revenge", she made a counter complaint about me. I received a letter from the housing association asking me to "keep my music down at night times" and that was that. I let them know that I hadn't been making any noise at all - I was in fact so intimidated by the girl next door (very gobby and violent from what I hear, and not at all friendly) that I'm terrified to make any noise at all in my own home. They said that it sounded like a case of "tit for tat" and left it at that.

Anyway, what I'm wanting to know is, will this complaint she's made about me - valid or not, put a "black mark" against my name? Will the housing association have to declare this to the other housing association? I've been reading the housing association's handbook about mutual exchanges and it says that "the completed
form will be checked against references received from the incoming
applicants current landlord." What will these references consist of?

I know I'm probably being paranoid and silly, but I'm soooooo happy to have found someone who wants to swap and I'm so unbelievably excited to move that I'm now being silly and worrying about reasons why they might possibly refuse the exchange!

Thanks for your help.

carefullycautious

unless you owe rent or will be underoccupying there should be no reason why the exchange should not take place.

The housing association will be glad that one of you has moved as this sometimes resolves the problems and they dont have to deal with it.

At present you dont have to disclose anything to incoming tenant and the HA certainly wont.

Unless of course someone knows different