PLEASE please help-elderly neighbours want to stop sale.

sloughflint

Where will they be going to?

prudryden

Hope they will be alright. The son should hang his head in shame, if he didn't come to their assistance. Elderly neglect/abuse just p---s me off.

happymummy24-7

they are staying with....the son!In his dining room(????) they will be looking for a property but to be honnest i cant see it happening.The son seems to have money-i know,i know!-and he will let them stay until either the social services help them or they find somewhere.I wish i had a spare room,i would have adopted them and they loved our kids.
This whole experience has made me realise the vunerable state some of our older community are in,i plan to become involved in helping others around me,even if its just calling to say hello and let them hear the laughter of the kids in their back garden-my neighbours loved to hear them chatting+giggling from our garden.
the lady told me today that she had had 2 social workers involved with her and she had developed a stomach ulcer as a result of this even though i insisted the medical evidence alone would save them she wouldnt risk her husbands health(even though at the moment she's the sick one!) because he was feeling so low and couldnt take anymore and she felt the fight would kill him.I cant tell you how much i hope my husband and i love each other just as much when we reach that age.
Im just so sad tonight,I can only imagine how they must be feeling in their sons dining room.xxxlaura

silvercar

Don't hold this experience against you new neighbours. They bought the house in good faith and weren't to know the problems their purchase has caused.

sloughflint

Happymummy,
What an awful ending for these poor people. You are so right about our forgotten older community. They were very lucky they had such a lovely neighbour in you for the last eight years.

joeblack066

I don't know the legislation in NI but isn't there any Council Housing for Elderly people at all? They are now homeless and would surely qualify if there is?

Foofighter

happymummy24-7 wrote: »

they are staying with....the son!In his dining room(????) they will be looking for a property but to be honnest i cant see it happening.The son seems to have money-i know,i know!-and he will let them stay until either the social services help them or they find somewhere.

I hope they eventually found somewhere to live instead of the sons dining room

kunekune

"he will let them stay" ....

Oh boy, he sounds a really loving son. I take it that whenever they spoke to solicitors during the selling process they gave the impression that they were ok with the sale, the way elderly people might if they don't want to 'be any trouble'. I do think that their solicitor should have asked a few more questions though, given their age. If it had been clear they hadn't arranged any other accommodation, alarm bells ought to have been ringing. I am also curious about the role of the estate agent at the beginning: why did she/he think they shouldn't accept the offer? I know that the whole thing is sort of settled in terms of who owns what, but perhaps a letter ought to be written to the law society ... this is not the standard of care elderly and sick clients ought to be receiving.

ruggedtoast

At least they managed to sell for asking price in a falling market. No mean feat!

merlinthehappypig

ruggedtoast wrote: »

At least they managed to sell for asking price in a falling market. No mean feat!

They sold in January - this is an old thread that has resurfaced!