Homeswapper tenancy

Burkep9461

Hey
Just a bit of advice be careful on this I did a mutual exchange in 2012 and was given the secure tenancy and told at the time I inherited the 17 years right to buy discount. I applied for this in 2014 and was granted it no issues of which I have proof however I was made redundant so didn’t purchase . I have just reapplied in 2018 and it has been refused as they have been misinforming people that the tenancy and right to buy stays with the property on mutual exchange which the tenancy indeed does but the right to buy doesn’t it goes with the original tenant so even if they tell you you will get the right to buy get it in writing as you will likely find if you actually then want to use it it will be refused and the law does state that it can pass on to a successor unless the successor is from a mutual exchange so no the new tenant isn’t entitled to it which is fair enough as it was never mine to start with but they should not be giving the incorrect information out when signing the documents on mutual exchange nor should they ever have granted it in 2014 on these terms in error . A new law came into effect at some point in 2012 which I think from reading it means that a new tenancy is now issued on mutual exchange rather than the tenancy passed over too so might be worth looking into that too .
Don’t know if that is any help at all ?

Norman_Castle

As the op vanished 3 minutes after starting this thread which is their only post I doubt they really wanted advice.

Red-Squirrel_2

babyblade41 wrote: »

have I been doing things wrong all my life??? ..worked hard saved for deposit , went without and sacrificed my soul to now be where I am in late middle age, when in reality there was a short cut that I should have thought about years ago.

This RTB and discounts and the like seems like a god given right, must have passed me buy

Uh no, do you think you would be in the 'same place' if you'd ended up with a RTB council property?