Should I take DSS?

Caveat_Mortgagor

Your only real choice is to make the place an attractive proposition. A bedsit in a block with dss residents arguing all day does not appeal to people paying with their hard earned. And this may surprise you, but the reliable decent DSS tenants wont find it attractive either.

From the way you make it sound, the only poeple likely to settle for such a place are exactly the kind of people you want to avoid.

So make it more appealing. Sort out the rogue tenants in the block and make it somewhere a paying tenant can settle and call home.

clutton_2

Re LHA entitlement anyone under 35 will now only attract the "shared room rate" from next month... ie enough money to rent a bedsit in a HMO - so take note of the age of prospective tenants ages... this new regulation has received very little publicity indeed and it will be an utter disaster for young people ......

geoffky

clutton wrote: »

Re LHA entitlement anyone under 35 will now only attract the "shared room rate" from next month... ie enough money to rent a bedsit in a HMO - so take note of the age of prospective tenants ages... this new regulation has received very little publicity indeed and it will be an utter disaster for young people ......

your 10,000 thanks:cool:

clutton_2

i post this now because if you are coming up to 26 and have an understanding landlord, it may serve you well to inquire as to how you can register a change of circumstances, thus making a new claim, before January. You may have to close your claim for a week, nothing illegal in that. You could ask your LL to issue you with a new 12 months AST and you will at least be protected for another year ... in that time, maybe the government will change its policy. There has also been a significant sum set aside for Discretionary Payments to "ease the transition" from one regulation to another.

This changing of ages will endanger a huge number of single young people currently living in one bed roomed flats. If they are working and lose their job, they will lose their one bed rate, and will have to find a bed sit instead.... its an appalling policy.

At the same time, the planners have made it more difficult for developers to change large reesidential houses into HMOs thus even further reducing the supply of bedsit rooms/studios.

Geoffky - i am not sure what your emoticon says about this information..... care to expand ?

missile

If you can't find a tenant and have bad neighbours, perhaps you should consider selling?