RTB from a friend

Murphybear

HampshireH wrote: »

Well aren't you a delight.

I was giving you factual information about social housing.

Any person buying a house would need to afford to be able to do so.

I don't actually have an issue with RTB being used by those who have beem granted the benefit via their tenancy.

I do take issue with being called names for answering a question on a forum

Unfortunately there are, and always will be, a number of posters on MSE who can be downright nasty and positively venomous sometimes. You could always take the view that there’s nothing wrong with toads and see it as a compliment :rotfl:

There’s certainly nothing with the advice you gave.

My SIL used to call her daughter a little toad when she was 3/4. I called her that once and SIL hit the roof

Murphybear

SPalin wrote: »

MSE is really full of self-righteous toads :eek:

I'm actually in financial hardship and eligible for 'the register' but have been advised essentially that that single mums and economic migrants/asylum seekers will always pip me.

It's a standard small one bedroom flat, so no family would fit.

I know that an asylum seeking family moved into one of the larger flats, paid zero rent and have bought their 3 bedroom outright for cash wired from the Middle East - so my sympathy is very limited.

Don't consider it greedy to think about having an affordable home for once and I'm sure that is where my friend is coming from.

Toads are perfectly respectable members of the animal kingdom, why use one to insult people? That says a lot more about you than it does the people you are trying to insult.:)

M_Python

I'd rather be called a toad than a vulture

HampshireH

M_Python wrote: »

I'd rather be called a toad than a vulture

Well yes :rotfl:

System

KatrinaWaves wrote: »

1. If you are in financial difficulty how can you afford to buy her home? How can you afford potential repairs to a council owned flat block which can be high (another thread here describes £26k between now and 2026)

2. It was initially a decent sized flat, and swiftly became a ‘small one bedroom’ so if it’s shrinking that rapidly I certainly wouldn’t want to be buying it. It’ll be a shoebox before you even move in.

1. It was a suggestion (from a close friend) I haven't investigated mortgage costs to be fair but would have to be a high LTV mortgage but taking over the tenancy is more realistic.

2. As a small one bedroom, it's a decent size for me (I have a studio) but isn't enough a family or even a couple.

I love how others call me racist, sexist and other things.

If migrants (former asylum seekers) can access to affordable housing and subsequently buy it for cash then the system others here uphold is clearly broken.

Others are also subletting their sacrosanct property out as they required cash payments and 'no mail to the address'.

Smodlet

OP, you have received the correct answer multiple times: Only the relevant council has any right to assign the tenancy (let alone the RTB) of your "friend's" domicile to anyone else and they will assign it to whoever is at the top of their waiting list which, patently, is not you.

DCFC79

SPalin wrote: »

2. As a small one bedroom, it's a decent size for me (I have a studio) but isn't enough a family or even a couple.

So look for a property that's less rent than where you are now as you wont get your friends property.

M_Python

SPalin wrote: »

1. It was a suggestion (from a close friend) I haven't investigated mortgage costs to be fair but would have to be a high LTV mortgage but taking over the tenancy is more realistic.

2. As a small one bedroom, it's a decent size for me (I have a studio) but isn't enough a family or even a couple.

I love how others call me racist, sexist and other things.

If migrants (former asylum seekers) can access to affordable housing and subsequently buy it for cash then the system others here uphold is clearly broken.

Others are also subletting their sacrosanct property out as they required cash payments and 'no mail to the address'.

You couldn't be more wrong!

Paully28

Dear MSE,

I would also like to screw the taxpayer out of social housing stock, please help me?

Yours.
discustard of Kent.

gettingtheresometime

Marvel1 wrote: »

Anyone know know party have plans to scrap RTB with election coming up?

I think Wales & Scotland have scrapped it already but I'd vote for any party that proposed this - I mean how can you propose to build more social housing only for them to be sold off cheaply