Council Tenancy Succession

Money_maker

So its just your daughter to add to your tenancy? How does your son feel about this?

Cakeguts

Regarding the son training to be a doctor. He could be working anywhere in the UK.



You daughter could also be working anywhere in the country. What she doesn't need is to own a property because she will lose all the benefits of being a 1st time buyer and she will have to sell the ex council property even if it is difficult to sell or she will have to pay an extra 3% stamp duty. The worst thing you could do is to leave any ex council property to your children. You don't want to burden them with this property and if they buy their own they won't want yours.



Plus if they rent they can get benefits to pay the rent if they buy there is nothing to pay a mortgage so anyone with a problem income is much better off in rented accommodation.

Burkep

I am of the belief that RTB is only available to people that have a tenancy pre dating 2002 before the council sold the stock exchange to the housing associations ? Following that any tenancies issued the tenant only has the right to acquire - I could be wrong however I am currently in a debate with my housing association due to apparently being misinformed that I inherited this RTB as I did a mutual exchange inheriting the tenancy of the lady that resided there prior to myself who had a tenancy pre dating 2002 covered by the tenants charter.

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Burkep wrote: »

I am of the belief that RTB is only available to people that have a tenancy pre dating 2002 before the council sold the stock exchange to the housing associations ? Following that any tenancies issued the tenant only has the right to acquire - I could be wrong however I am currently in a debate with my housing association due to apparently being misinformed that I inherited this RTB as I did a mutual exchange inheriting the tenancy of the lady that resided there prior to myself who had a tenancy pre dating 2002 covered by the tenants charter.

You have your own thread, how about not hijacking this one

Burkep

How is that hijacking I am merely giving you some advice my own tenancy is from 2009 you have stated yours is from 2011 RTB was not around in 2011 ? Forgive me for trying to help

AnnikaBengzon

Okrib wrote: »

I struggle with this. But then I don't think that council houses should be for life. They should be a safety net for people when needed, but they should not be allowed to keep them long term if / when circumstances change and other people need them. I certainly don't think they should be able to be passed to anyone except a husband / wife, and if they are passed on down a generation then there absolutely should not be any right to buy. It seems totally unfair to me.

In my opinion there should not be RTB for anyone due to the scarce resource but I disagree with forcibly uprooting people once their wages slightly increased (not a good motivation to do better). It is everyone's wish to have a secure home and it can be and often is a nightmare to rent privately. I also wish that renting in the private sector had more protection.

AnnikaBengzon

Money_maker wrote: »

So its just your daughter to add to your tenancy? How does your son feel about this?

He has already moved out to study in different city and as a junior doctor he will be moving hospitals within the same NHS trust every 6-12 months and is very unlikely to ever be able to live in a family home again.

AnnikaBengzon

Burkep wrote: »

How is that hijacking I am merely giving you some advice my own tenancy is from 2009 you have stated yours is from 2011 RTB was not around in 2011 ? Forgive me for trying to help

Please note, I am the TO and it was not me who said that you were "hijacking" (rude!). I mentioned in my original post that my tenancy started before 2011 with regards to succession not RTB. It is the rules on succession had changed for tenancies starting after 2012, nothing to do with RTB.

Burkep

AnnikaBengzon wrote: »

Please note, I am the TO and it was not me who said that you were "hijacking" (rude!). I mentioned in my original post that my tenancy started before 2011 with regards to succession not RTB. It is the rules on succession had changed for tenancies starting after 2012, nothing to do with RTB.

No problem I was only trying to see if I could help to be fair, I have looked at right to succession in the mounds of paperwork I have been reading over the last two weeks and I would say that providing that your tenancy allows it and you didn't inherit it yourself then you would easily be able to pass the tenancy down - the only regulations I can see in place with this and passing on RTB are that the tenant lives there for 12 months prior to this being requested however I think all housing associations are different I hope you find the answers that you need !!

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Not all council's have sold their stock, only some. Mine certainly hasn't.