Advice please on son buying my council house

dizzybee

Just looking for some advice please my son and his girlfriend soon to be wife are desparte to buy a for ever home,they have asked if they would be able to buy the council house that we are living in, i have been here for 17 years and after looking at the council web site my son could buy it for £6000 after discount,but my main concern his where do i go, there answer to this is stay with them and after two years i could go back on the council waiting list.
If my son moved out i would after to move to a smaller property because this house would be to big and the bedroom tax.

DTDfanBoy

Tell you son to stop being a selfish little !!!!!.

glentoran99

dizzybee wrote: »

Just looking for some advice please my son and his girlfriend soon to be wife are desparte to buy a for ever home,they have asked if they would be able to buy the council house that we are living in, i have been here for 17 years and after looking at the council web site my son could buy it for £6000 after discount,but my main concern his where do i go, there answer to this is stay with them and after two years i could go back on the council waiting list.
If my son moved out i would after to move to a smaller property because this house would be to big and the bedroom tax.

Im not sure your son can buy it in his own name, Surely it needs to be you,

PaperDoll

If your son is not named as a joint tenant with you on the tenancy currently, he cannot buy it. Only tenants have the right to buy.

Vectis

Morally it doesn't sound too good does it, even if it were legal. Your son buys your Council house for £6000 (?) and then after two years you go back to the Council wanting another house?

Ozzuk

Does the website actually say your son could buy it, or that you have the right to buy it for 6k? There is a vast difference. I believe (though far from an expert) that if you bought you cannot sell it for a certain period of time without paying back the discount so you'd be stuck living there and renting out part to them (if you can even do that).

tom9980

dizzybee wrote: »

Just looking for some advice please my son and his girlfriend soon to be wife are desparte to buy a for ever home,they have asked if they would be able to buy the council house that we are living in, i have been here for 17 years and after looking at the council web site my son could buy it for £6000 after discount,but my main concern his where do i go, there answer to this is stay with them and after two years i could go back on the council waiting list.
If my son moved out i would after to move to a smaller property because this house would be to big and the bedroom tax.

How long would it take to get a new council house given you are already living in a secure property? The chances of getting another are not likely. Your son is either naive or wishes to screw you over for his own gain be very wary and don't be blackmailed into anything by guilt, he is a grown man with a family it's his problem to solve not yours.

Besides he can't buy the property without you both committing some type of fraud, if the council get wind of that you both could be in some trouble legally.

Dan-Dan

Your son needs a good slap

booksurr

- the purchaser must be an existing council tenant living in the property
- a relative can be named on the application along with the tenant provided the relative has lived in the same house for at least the last 12 months
- once purchased the ownership cannot be changed (ie by sale or by gift) for the next 5 years otherwise the discount will have to be repaid

let us hope it is your future daughter in law rather than your son who has the morals of a warehouse towards you because the "plan" stinks. Stand up for yourself and tell them to take a hike.

FBaby

And then imagine you fall out with your new DIL, who decides she hates you, plays martyr and tells your son to get rid of you. Where would you go in the next two years? And then, yep you might get another council home, but it might not come to the standing you've been used to, or it could be in an area you wouldn't normally set a foot in? How would you feel then?

How about teaching your son and girlfriend that if they want to become property owners, then work towards it themselves rather than relying on what you are -or more likely might be- able to give them?

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

If you can buy the house for £6K then the house is worth, at most, £20K on the open market. Anyone looking at that as their "for ever home" (a horrible hackneyed phrase, but that's by the by) is pretty low on ambition.