Have been given notice

flick24

I'm getting everything entitled to, LHA no where near covers the private rent costs, so I'm going to wait for some form of social housing its impossible otherwise.

Pixie5740

You might not end up in social housing though. It depends on what, if any, social housing is available in your area. The council have a duty to house you but it might not be in social housing. You could just end up in another private rental with the council supplying the deposit. deannatrois is right, information is key.

KRB2725

I assume the place you are in now is a private rental, is it a lot cheaper than others in your area or is it the agency fees that are making a private rental unaffordable for you now?

Cakeguts

flick24 wrote: »

Hi,

We've just been informed today that an offer has been made on the flat we are renting, the landlady is dropping off a letter giving us two months notice, we can not afford the private rent prices in the area we live so we are applying to join the local housing register but from what I've been told they only help if you have been given a section 21 (is this the same as the 2 months notice)
Not sure what to do, do we just have to stay till formally evicted or do we have to leave at the end of the two months we are effectively going to be homeless, will we get help from the local authority or are we just meant to sit and wait, we want to move too but simply cannot afford the rent prices.

I don't really understand this. Surely if you can be given notice to leave the flat that you live in at the moment you are renting it privately? So you are already renting in the local area? Why can't you afford the local rents if you are already paying one?

ognum

OP as a LL I gave notice to one of my tenants. She wanted rehousing through the council and I understand that but the process we HAD to go through was:

I submit s21, this must be completed correctly and given at the correct time or it is not legal

Your LL must have secured your deposit or they cannot evict you!

Two month notice expires and tenant remains in property.

I submit papers plays £380 to the court, they produce a court date about a month later could be longer.

We all go to court, as tenant you must attend.

Court gives me the LL possession but only if everything filed legally and correctly.

Possession can be any thing from 2 to 6 weeks after the court date depending on circumstances.

Tenant continues to remain in the property

Ll pays £120 to bailiff who sets a date and informs tenant of that date when he will be taking possession.

For most Councils it is only after the bailiffs eviction that you have become homeless, if you leave before that time you have made yourself homeless.

You must pay rent during this time otherwise they will say you have made yourself homeless.

As you can tell it is not a quick process. Do not just leave the property or you will not get any help.

You may want to explain this all to your LL, they may buy you out.

flick24

Can anyone explain this local connection, my local council said you won't get help unless you've been here for 2 years, we will have been here for almost 3 years, but why the 6 months out of 12 qualifies you don't understand, and I will be just short of the 3 years by 2 months

You live in the area
If you have lived in the area for six months out of the past 12, or three years out of the past five, you have a local connection.

To have a local connection, you must have lived in the area by choice. It is unlikely that you qualify if you have only lived in an area because you have been in a prison or a hospital there. But you do have a local connection if you were posted there by the armed forces.

Marktheshark

The cold hard reality of living in Great Britain in 2017.
I really do hope things work out.

flick24

Cakeguts wrote: »

I don't really understand this. Surely if you can be given notice to leave the flat that you live in at the moment you are renting it privately? So you are already renting in the local area? Why can't you afford the local rents if you are already paying one?

Where we are now has one bedroom, we now need two, can't afford cost of 2 bed properties in area.

Hasbeen

ognum wrote: »

OP as a LL I gave notice to one of my tenants. She wanted rehousing through the council and I understand that but the process we HAD to go through was:

I submit s21, this must be completed correctly and given at the correct time or it is not legal

Your LL must have secured your deposit or they cannot evict you!

Two month notice expires and tenant remains in property.

I submit papers plays £380 to the court, they produce a court date about a month later could be longer.

We all go to court, as tenant you must attend.

Court gives me the LL possession but only if everything filed legally and correctly.

Possession can be any thing from 2 to 6 weeks after the court date depending on circumstances.

Tenant continues to remain in the property

Ll pays £120 to bailiff who sets a date and informs tenant of that date when he will be taking possession.

For most Councils it is only after the bailiffs eviction that you have become homeless, if you leave before that time you have made yourself homeless.

You must pay rent during this time otherwise they will say you have made yourself homeless.

As you can tell it is not a quick process. Do not just leave the property or you will not get any help.

You may want to explain this all to your LL, they may buy you out.

Good advice from a landlord, this will get you emergency accommodation, but a CCJ on your credit file, nil chance of credit, your name on one of these bad tenants lists and no chance of renting again?? Oh dear:(

ognum

Hasbeen wrote: »

Good advice from a landlord, this will get you emergency accommodation, but a CCJ on your credit file, nil chance of credit, your name on one of these bad tenants lists and no chance of renting again?? Oh dear:(

This is not advice, it is simply a summary of the process if you want help from your council.

It is long winded, depressing and gives respect to neither tenant or LL but it is simply how it is.