Renting to a boyfriend?

jezmyers

Bad_BB wrote: »

by jezmyers

What's wrong with going out and collecting beer cans to keep one off the streets and put food in one's mouth?
Why should other people have to pay for lazy a**ed b***ars?

I followed it up by saying that they should also have their benefits reduced/stopped if they fail to land employment. stop taking things out of context

jezmyers

franklee wrote: »

So you could be a millionaire and your GF and baby get council accommodation? Who was responsible for that :eek:

damn that government and them not thinking everything through! As long as you and your partner aren't living together you're classed as a single entity. I think the threshold limit is £30,000 before you have too much to go on the council register.

franklee wrote: »

What about the GF buying her own house if prices fall as should she have no equity in yours she would want her own otherwise she'll miss out on the next boom? Which won't be possible if she's at yours doing childcare ...

pffft! with the crash that's being predicted by certain people she'll be able to buy all the houses she wants simply by emptying the penny jar

franklee

jezmyers wrote: »

damn that government and them not thinking everything through! As long as you and your partner aren't living together you're classed as a single entity. I think the threshold limit is £30,000 before you have too much to go on the council register.

Blimey, it's a wonder any families live together, but going on the register doesn't mean getting housed does it? Presumably you have to wait?

jezmyers wrote: »

pffft! with the crash that's being predicted by certain people she'll be able to buy all the houses she wants simply by emptying the penny jar

Shhhhhhhhhh! Delete the c word quickly or you'll get sent to the naughty corner (sticky). Then again maybe that'd be the time to offer her a share of your equity, when it's negative but you'd have to work out whose penny jar it is first

jezmyers

franklee wrote: »

Blimey, it's a wonder any families live together, but going on the register doesn't mean getting housed does it? presumably you have to wait?

oh totally you have to wait but how long you wait depends on what category you get placed in or, alternatively, the number of points you have. If it's a category system then you get put in whatever category (emergency, CPO, in need, general) and then it's done a waiting list within that. Therefore if you get kicked out of your house or are fleeing violence and the council has a duty of care towards you then you're placed in the emergency group. However you'll find that there are LOADS of people who are classed as "in need" that can be a medical need or overcrowding but they'll not really get much of a look in and waiting times are longer. Finally you have general needs which is simply people who have no reason to move other than they want to leave the area or don't have a local connection. For that you're probably talking years. All of this comes down to the area you want to move to, the number of properties they have in that area etc...of course and there are also other various reasons you'd be placed in each group.

The points system is slightly different but it's where you get allocated a series of points based on how long you've been waiting and what your needs are (homeless 75 points, over crowding 15, overcrowding by 2 20 points) or whatever. when a property becomes available, people bid on it (ie say i want tha),the person with the highest points gets it. If only you could trade points there'd be an amazing black market there.

that's a very very brief and simplistic view to social housing. I could probably type pages on it.

Phirefly

If you open yourself up to having kids with someone you don't completely trust, then you face the the reality of losing material posessions.

Phirefly

You can only take other peoples circumstances into consideration when you are made aware of them.