Family Getting Evicted in 2 Weeks :(

HampshireH

Please take mine and Cakeguts advice. Its really important you do or you will be homeless with a few bags outside someone elses front door. That is the harsh reality.

Candyapple

OP what area do you live in? Is it somewhere expensive like London?

Can you take annual leave from your job to sort this out at the council?

[Deleted User]

Tim please stop being distracted by finding out if you can sue anyone etc. That's for later. You've been told over and over you can't prevent your family losing your home. That is a bad situation to be in and totally unfair but now you need to accept that and move somewhere else.

You need to concentrate on finding somewhere to live. If you can't find a private rental, you MUST go to the council. Take a morning off work and go to your housing office. Before you do that, make sure you have lived long enough in the borough to establish a local connection (see their housing policy online).

You seem to be relying on the wrong people (solicitors and a HA whose house you are living in without being the tenant through no fault of your own) for advice. Even here.

The council are known for gatekeeping (telling you for one reason or other that later turns out to be untrue that they can't help you.). If they say this, phone Shelter and check what they have said. It happened to me.

You can get through this, but I am afraid you have to face it head on and deal with it. Not get distracted. As advised, you may have to either increase your income or be prepared to move to another area with more affordable housing. Your kids will be upset by a move, yes, but they will be more upset by not having a home and not being part of the family.

I am sorry to say all this but you have no choice, its time to make some hard decisions. My children had special needs so I had to keep them in the same schools as I'd worked hard to develop a suitable environment for them. But usually kids will adapt.

iammumtoone

We do not know your financial situation but I would be looking to see costs of storage facilitates.

You need a house but you also need a back up plan.

If the worse happens and you don't find anywhere available then you need to be getting your furniture/belongings out of the house.

As you have children the council will have to re-house you but they wont do this until your are evicted AND it won't be nice, the housing could be anywhere or a B&B in emergency accommodation, you will not be able to take your stuff with you.

Your best option is to find somewhere fast, even if its not in your ideal location, stay there for a year to give you time to move again to somewhere more suited.

Good Luck

[Deleted User]

And I am afraid emergency accommodation provided by the council is normally VERY expensive (God knows why). You will usually find about the same price as a cheap house in the same area - for a room. There are exceptions but this is what I found. Be prepared to move away if you have to.

Cakeguts

The absolute most important fact that you must take notice of is that you will not be allowed to stay in that house. The court has granted possession of the house to the Housing Association. The Housing Association are going to take possession on the date that you have been told the bailiffs are coming. The point is that the Housing Association have already had the house returned to them by the court from your "landlady." They have given you notice of the day when they will take possession to give you time to find somewhere to move to. Your "landlady" is no longer a tenant of the Housing Association they have got the house back from her. They got the house back from her on the day that the court granted possession.

The Housing Association have said that they are not going to house you. This means that you are not going to be offered a tenancy of that house from the Housing Association.

You have got two weeks of working days to find somewhere to live. If you do not find something by the time the bailiffs come you will be homeless. The fact that you haven't got anywhere to go will not stop the eviction. You cannot stop the eviction because possession has already been granted to the Housing Association by the court.

It is totally urgent that you now put all your energy into finding somewhere else to live. There is no time left for the "right house in the right area" to come up. You have got to get something as soon as possible.

iammumtoone

deannatrois wrote: »

And I am afraid emergency accommodation provided by the council is normally VERY expensive (God knows why). You will usually find about the same price as a cheap house in the same area - for a room.

That makes sense councils don't want people hanging on in emergency accommodation waiting for a HA home, they want them to move on into private rents, making the emergency accommodation more expensive than private rent would encourage that to happen. Plus people have storage cost to add onto the cost.

As it should be, its a very last resort.

TimMadden

@deannatrois I have no interest in suing anybody. I just wanted to exhaust options to ensure I couldn't buy anymore time thats all. I have looked at houses in other areas further out that are more affordable and I'm of course willing- I now know I have no choice! But as mentioned, I just wanted some quick info. I have temporary emergency accommodation with family that should do whilst checks and the application process goes through for renting another property. Thanks for all the help everyone.

[Deleted User]

I wish you luck. Its an awful thing to happen.

FBaby

No advice to give, but I am totally shocked by what happened to you. Absolutely utterly disgusting behaviour and like others, I really hope this leads to serious repercussion. You went through an agency, of course you wouldn't investigate whether the whole ast was legitimate, no-one except that absolute experts would do so. Maybe the good value for such property could have rung a bell, but how could you have found out the truth at the stage of signing the ast?

It really doesn't help that you received poor advice delaying you from looking for another property. What horrible stress that has fallen on you and your family.

I hope that you manage to find somewhere, either of your own accord or with help of the council.