Signing over council home to someone who already owns a council home

Hope4Hope

Hello,

My mother lives in a council house and has done for 20 years. Due to an illness she is no longer able to fully maintain the tenancy and all that it entails and wishes to sign the tenancy over to my brother. The only issue is my brother already owns a council house fully.

Will the council allow her to transfer the tenancy or does him owning a council house already, exclude him from the tenancy transfer? I emailed the housing association but they've not replied yet.

Alice_Walker

Goodness.

Does brother live with mother, or does he live in the ex council house?

What is it about the tenancy that youe mother cannot maintain? All she has to do is pay the rent.

[Deleted User]

Transfer within our HA would only be to another resident at the property and not one that had just moved in to take advantage of the transfer. And yes owning a home already would mean they wouldn't be accepted.

Norman_Castle

she is no longer able to fully maintain the tenancy and all that it entails

Bedroom tax?

Hope4Hope

Alice_Walker wrote: »

Goodness.

Does brother live with mother, or does he live in the ex council house?

What is it about the tenancy that youe mother cannot maintain? All she has to do is pay the rent.

It's none of your business what illness she has, I told you it severely limits her ability to hold and maintain a tenancy and doing so could put her at risk of going into arrears.

_shel wrote: »

Transfer within our HA would only be to another resident at the property and not one that had just moved in to take advantage of the transfer. And yes owning a home already would mean they wouldn't be accepted.

Thank you.

KxMx

I'm really not sure which areas your mother is struggling OP would a gardener/ handyman at a reasonable rate be able to make things easier? Is she claiming all the Benefits/ housing benefit she is entitled to? Can she downsize/ get help with budgeting if needed?

Living in SH i know well it's not just a simple matter of paying the rent. Garden (s) have to be maintained by us, we've had to install outside lighting, repair gate which was a security risk, replace external fencing and bathroom flooring all essentials that were our responsibility. We did diy smoke alarms for 9 years until a minor re wire legally obliged the LL to fit mains alarms.

Nans HA LL is so petty they won't even replace broken internal door handles!

Alice_Walker

Hope4Hope wrote: »

It's none of your business what illness she has, I told you it severely limits her ability to hold and maintain a tenancy and doing so could put her at risk of going into arrears.




Thank you.

I didn't ask what illness she has, I asked why she cannot maintain the tenancy.

Where is it that brother lives? If she is the only one living there and it's not working for her then why not look at sheltered housing?

Caz3121

has the tenancy always been in her sole name?
If previously a joint tenancy with a partner/spouse then the one option for transfer has already been done
"Secure tenancies granted before 1 April 2012 can be transferred or passed on only once. For example, if you take over a tenancy when someone dies, you can’t pass on the tenancy to someone else when you die."

has she looked a swapping for a smaller property?

Lanzarote1938

Would your mother continue to live in the house?

If so then perhaps the son could simply deal with the things that she can't manage rather than risk her becoming homeless if there was a falling out and she was no longer the actual tenant.

Hope4Hope

Caz3121 wrote: »

has the tenancy always been in her sole name?
If previously a joint tenancy with a partner/spouse then the one option for transfer has already been done
"Secure tenancies granted before 1 April 2012 can be transferred or passed on only once. For example, if you take over a tenancy when someone dies, you can’t pass on the tenancy to someone else when you die."

has she looked a swapping for a smaller property?

It has nothing to do with size or cost, she wants to transfer the tenancy, that's all that's important.

So the question is, can my brother who already owns a council house fully, take the tenancy? I believe the question was answered anyway.

Thanks.

nannytone_2

Hope4Hope wrote: »

It has nothing to do with size or cost, she wants to transfer the tenancy, that's all that's important.

So the question is, can my brother who already owns a council house fully, take the tenancy? I believe the question was answered anyway.

Thanks.

youre very rude.

yes, the question was answered and it was 'no he can't
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I'm really glad as well. why should your brother own a house and have another rented property?

if your mum can't manage for whatever reason she either needs someone to move in to help her with HER tenancy or move to accommodation where she can manage/B]