Help! Being evicted & will fail future checks due to partners mental health

KHHR

Hi,

My partner has severe borderline personality disorder and due to this occasionally goes on excessive spending sprees which I can't control. On two occasions this has resulted in being late to pay rent. I have now been given my two months notice, but now upon speaking to another agency whilst looking for another property I was told that this would cause me to fail my reference checks.

I'm unsure where to go from here - i hacve to leave this property but won't be allowed to get another. I have now taken full control of my partners money but the damage is already done and I am at my wits end as to what to do.

Can anyone help shed some light on this or has any advice or anything at all? Please help! Thank you in advance x

princeofpounds

Get a reference from elsewhere.

KHHR

princeofpounds wrote: »

Get a reference from elsewhere.

The agency said that I have to put down all previous addresses and that they will check with landlords & agencies to see if I've ever been late on my payments etc so it doesn't sound like I have an option to do that?

princeofpounds

Lots of people have difficult landlords who won't reply to references or worse. You think no-one has ever been a little bit creative about where they lived - I.e. with family for a bit -or who their LL was at a given time?

In your case you maybe are not do blameless. And I wouldn't condone lying. I am merely telling you that people have to get around these things all the time, given for many people it's between private rental or homelessness.

Alternatively:

Offer to pay 6 months rent upfront.
If genuinely diagnosed mentally ill, try council or housing association applications.
Lodge somewhere or find a private LL who doesn't reference check properly.

More seriously, you can see if the council housing office can help find you a private tenancy too; they have less picky landlords sometimes. You might have to convince them you need the assistance though.

KHHR

princeofpounds wrote: »

Lots of people have difficult landlords who won't reply to references or worse. You think no-one has ever been a little bit creative about where they lived - I.e. with family for a bit -or who their LL was at a given time?

In your case you maybe are not do blameless. And I wouldn't condone lying. I am merely telling you that people have to get around these things all the time, given for many people it's between private rental or homelessness.

Alternatively:

Offer to pay 6 months rent upfront.
If genuinely diagnosed mentally ill, try council or housing association applications.
Lodge somewhere or find a private LL who doesn't reference check properly.

More seriously, you can see if the council housing office can help find you a private tenancy too; they have less picky landlords sometimes. You might have to convince them you need the assistance though.

Okay thank you! Just one thing - do they not check electoral rolls? I really appreciate your response, thank you very much!