The Right to Buy Scheme... Sigh

Cakeguts

I would suggest that mum sells the house for what she can get for it and then moves into something much much smaller in the private rental market. Then if she has another pay problem she can claim benefits. She will need to find something that is small enough for her to pay on her own. If she is renting from you she won't get help with her rent from benefits so it is better for her not to be living in a house you own. It is also better for you. Your mum isn't cut out to be a home owner.

xylophone

I've already told my mom I probably won't sell the house but rather move in myself when I have a family as I've lived in that house all my life until recent.

Do you mean that you'll move back and live with your mother when you and your new partner have a family?

If so, why don't you and the partner move in with her now?

csgohan4

another thread on why money and family shouldn't mix, with a RTB fail

themanbearpig

Heres hoping RTB is scrapped when the torries get another term tomorrow.

Why should you get a discount on property when people like me have worked our asses off throughout our lives to get a basic house. Whereas people like you achieve nothing and get given handouts for laziness.

Red-Squirrel_2

RTB is a Tory policy, why would you think they'd scrap it? They love it!

sevenhills

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

RTB is a Tory policy, why would you think they'd scrap it? They love it!

They need to build some more council houses, in order for people to live in, and then buy; but that does not sit well with Tories.
Its Labour that build council houses. Tories use these thousands of pounds to bribe voters to vote for them, where as Labour used tax credits.
They all bribe voters, but we are blind to it.

Cakeguts

sevenhills wrote: »

They need to build some more council houses, in order for people to live in, and then buy; but that does not sit well with Tories.
Its Labour that build council houses. Tories use these thousands of pounds to bribe voters to vote for them, where as Labour used tax credits.
They all bribe voters, but we are blind to it.

None of them build houses. Builders build houses not politicians. None of them can keep their pledges to build more house unless they do something about training more people in trade skills and since neither of them have pledged to turn any of the 85 dud universities into something for the many who can't get into university there won't be any extra houses in the future.

sevenhills

Cakeguts wrote: »

None of them build houses. Builders build houses not politicians.

What a daft statement.

Margaret Thatchers government built over 40,000 council houses every year; whilst New Labour built an average of 562 council houses per year.
This is not a party political point, because recent Tory government haven't done any better, although I believe Labour run councils build more than Tory run councils.

https://fullfact.org/economy/who-built-more-council-houses-margaret-thatcher-or-new-labour/

sparky130a

sevenhills wrote: »

although I believe Labour run councils build more than Tory run councils.

https://fullfact.org/economy/who-built-more-council-houses-margaret-thatcher-or-new-labour/

Of course they do.

Money is never a problem for a Labour member. It grows on trees according to them. And apparently we have an orchid.....

Cakeguts

sevenhills wrote: »

What a daft statement.

Margaret Thatchers government built over 40,000 council houses every year; whilst New Labour built an average of 562 council houses per year.
This is not a party political point, because recent Tory government haven't done any better, although I believe Labour run councils build more than Tory run councils.

https://fullfact.org/economy/who-built-more-council-houses-margaret-thatcher-or-new-labour/

Please produce the evidence of the number of bricklayers serving in Margaret Thatcher's government. I don't think there were any I think they were all working as politicians. I don't think there are any bricklayers in parliament at the moment either. How many policians who have stood for the election are working as bricklayers, or plumbers, or electricians? They really don't build houses. The most they can do is pay someone else to build them. However at the moment there isn't anyone to pay because someone had a "bright idea" to turn all the technical colleges into universities. So now we have graduates in Film Studies etc and no trade training.