How to rent to housing executive tenants in NI?

rover25

Will prob end up renting current house out in next yr or two. What is the standard routine for renting to housing executive tenants? Can I collect the rent from housing executive direct or does it have to come through the tenant first?
Do I need to register the house with the housing executive in my area or just put in ad housing executive tenants welcome?

spike7451

You can get any housing benefit paid direct to you,take a look at the linke below;

http://www.nihe.gov.uk/index/advice/renting_privately/advice_landlords.htm

http://www.nihe.gov.uk/

saverbuyer

I think you might be a bit confused about the housing executive bit. The housing executive usually provides its own housing.
If you are renting your house out privately (to someone on benefits) they will usually be receipt of housing benefit. The levels of HB available will be based on tenant factor such as income, age etc. but also LOCATION. There will be a maximum that can potentially be claimed based on the number of rooms and area. A tenant will have to make up the difference between what they get and what you hope to charge. (This may be difficult with benefits being the only income available).

For example the maximum a single male under 35 can claim in Belfast is £192 per month.

For someone with a 2 bed rate in Derry would be £340.

As spike says it can be paid directly to you however this is up to the tenant who has to agree to this. You can only force them to pay directly to you after arrears of 2 months ( I think 2).

Hope this helps.
http://www.nihe.gov.uk/index/benefits/lha/current_lha_rates.htm

CL

You don't need to get in touch with the Housing Exec. You just advertise the property as DHSS welcome (I know it's an old term, but everyone gets what it means).

If you want a long term tennant and don't want to have to replace them after a year, be careful of the number of people in the family and their age. The housing benefit is based on the number of bedrooms the family are seen to require. See below:

One bedroom is allocated for:

• every adult couple
• every other adult aged 16 or over
• any two children of the same sex
• any two children regardless of sex under age 10
• any other child.

So if you can see that the family have a 17 year old and 18 year old that may be moving out in the next year, they may be able to afford the rent only until the children move out.

RooBee

As saverbuyer has pointed out, you won't be renting to Housing Executive tenants...as they are tenants of the Housing Executive they won't need your property! You will be renting out your property privately and marketing it to people eligible to claim Housing Benefit.

Be aware that your tenants will only be eligible to claim the appropriate Local Housing Allowance for the area/size of property. You can check the LHA rates on the NIHE website (www.nihe.gov.uk)

Phoolgrrrl

When universal credit comes in HB won't be paid directly to Landlords anymore, it will all be paid to the person along with the other benefits eg jsa. At the moment you can get HB paid directly to the landlord, as said above.