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renting from housing association - their obligations??

wantoknow_2
wantoknow_2 Posts: 79 Forumite
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Hello
could you tell me if it's legal for a housing association to provide a house without a carpet. My friend who is single mum was offered a house but they said they do not fit carpets. I though the accommodation must be did for living when provided for renting. Thank you.
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  • Neil_948
    Neil_948 Posts: 96 Forumite
    wantoknow wrote: »
    Hello
    could you tell me if it's legal for a housing association to provide a house without a carpet. My friend who is single mum was offered a house but they said they do not fit carpets. I though the accommodation must be did for living when provided for renting. Thank you.



    Housing associations let along side the council and are not required to supply any carpets or other furniture unless the property is let as part-furnished (almost unheard of for social landlords)
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  • skitler
    skitler Posts: 3,065 Forumite
    I know what you mean, last year I bought a tent and when I got to the campsite there was nobody there to put it up, but the one I saw in the shop was up. but tents don't have carpets so its not really the same.:)
  • lukieboy96
    lukieboy96 Posts: 666 Forumite
    No carpets provided by my Housing Association!
  • ~Beanie~
    ~Beanie~ Posts: 3,043 Forumite
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    Its is fit for living, plenty of people have no carpet for various reasons. Can she get some rugs until she can get a carpet?
    :p
  • Morglin
    Morglin Posts: 15,922 Forumite
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    Another newbie with a strange and wonderful query...:whistle:

    Lin ;)
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  • seven-day-weekend
    seven-day-weekend Posts: 36,755 Forumite
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    ~Beanie~ wrote: »
    Its is fit for living, plenty of people have no carpet for various reasons. Can she get some rugs until she can get a carpet?

    We have no carpets in our house by choice. They are not essential nor does it make the place uninhabitable if they are absent.

    The Housing Association do not need to supply carpets. IKEA sell small rugs for £1.75.

    http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/90267066/
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  • skitler
    skitler Posts: 3,065 Forumite
    seven-day-weekend wrote: »

    The Housing Association do not need to supply carpets. IKEA sell small rugs for £1.75.


    they are tea towels:rotfl:
  • seven-day-weekend
    seven-day-weekend Posts: 36,755 Forumite
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    skitler wrote: »
    they are tea towels:rotfl:

    They are rugs, I have three :)
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  • bll78
    bll78 Posts: 213 Forumite
    The fact is she's probably comparing it to a private rent where normally a carpet/laminate would be provided. The difference is the landlords here have to 'sell' their houses to prospective tenants and she'd pay a heck of a lot more.
  • skitler
    skitler Posts: 3,065 Forumite
    seven-day-weekend wrote: »
    They are rugs, I have three :)


    that doesn't make them rugs.:rotfl:
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