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  • healy
    healy Posts: 5,292 Forumite
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    weymuffred wrote: »
    The answer is only an opinion of yours and not worth anything to me.

    That is fine I dont expect anything better from you but my opinion is probably the same as a large number of people who read this and as I said I was just answering your question, previously you have been upset when I have not answered.
  • weymuffred
    weymuffred Posts: 1,260 Forumite
    Zara33 wrote: »
    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Priceless are you tryiong to tell me that your trying to cut your HB bill because of what people think on the internet oh please! I thought you had to leave... It looks like we are going to have to find a new house to rent.

    Zara you need to learn how to read love.
    Your posts are not helpful in the slightest so why bother?
    Have you got a job yet? :think:

    NO? Then :shhh:
  • Hapless_2
    Hapless_2 Posts: 2,619 Forumite
    weymuffred wrote: »
    We aren't going to have a roof over our head love, hence me posting.
    So why not make do with 3 bedroomed like most people have to! You do realise that when your twins hit 18 the council do not have to house them with you are they will be classed as adults in their own right.
    The "Bloodlust" Clique - Morally equal to all. Member 10
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  • weymuffred
    weymuffred Posts: 1,260 Forumite
    Hapless wrote: »
    weymuffred, until we got a council house we were a family of 6 in a caravan. For 2 years. (the reasons we were in a caravan have been discussed on other threads, just to say for the safety and lives of my family)
    The caravan was costing £400 a month and there was no HB for that as it was on a holiday park, we had to pay that out of my daughter and mine's DLA.
    You have a roof over your head, at least the walls don't move whent he wind blows.
    Maybe the family that needed the 4 bed place were completely homeless? Maybe they had to move in a hurry because someone had sexually abused their eldest child and were getting death threats.
    I was top of the list for a bungalow, but there were people more disabled than I that needed pne, so we got given this house instead. 3 bedroomed not four, stairs not bungalow, middle of nowhere, not near town. But it is a home. Go to the council, tell them yes you will accept a 3 bedroomed place, house or flat anywhere. You are far more likely to get rehoused then. If you refuse a council place or move to a private rent 4 bed place then you will be knocked down the list again.
    If your landlord say you HAVE to move, get it in writing and take a copy to the council offices.
    Otherwise, lower your ideas.

    The housing people know what we will accept, and that includes a 3 bed house, we do have to move and have 2 months to find somewhere.
    There are reasons why a 3 bed would not be ideal but like you said its better than nowhere.
    Have you got a job yet? :think:

    NO? Then :shhh:
  • weymuffred
    weymuffred Posts: 1,260 Forumite
    Oh btw here is the property list for my area, got to admit we are spoilt for choice.

    http://www.weymouth.gov.uk/docstore/Housing/homechoice/vacancies/vacancies.pdf
    Have you got a job yet? :think:

    NO? Then :shhh:
  • ampersand
    ampersand Posts: 9,673 Forumite
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    mumoftwins wrote: »
    Contact the Housing Benefit dept about how much they would pay towards your rent and just be grateful you have a decent roof over your head - unlike me.
    ##########
    To all who read here -
    Kindly go to the Thread begun in September by mumoftwins.
    Over the several hours it will take you to read its 73 pages(as of this moment)- may you experience incredulity, reflection, and humility among your varying emotions and responses -
    AND ADMIRATION FOR SOMEONE WHO IS HOLDING ON, HEAD UP, AGAINST ALL ODDS AND REPEATED SETBACKS.
    :A This is your life, mot:A
    (and that Big Red Book'll contain keys to YOUR kingdom - if your supporters have their way)
    ######################################################
    CAP[UK]for FREE EXPERT DEBT &BUDGET HELP:
    01274 760721, freephone0800 328 0006
    'People don't want much. They want: "Someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work and something to hope for."
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  • Hapless_2
    Hapless_2 Posts: 2,619 Forumite
    The housing people know what we will accept
    Yup you will accept what they offer.
    I take it you have told them anywhere and not limited yourself to certain areas?
    I also take it you have sent your notice to quit to the council.
    They don't have to rehouse you until the court sends the baliffs in to evict you, if you leave before then you will make yourself "intentionally homeless" and forfiet your rights to a council place.
    The "Bloodlust" Clique - Morally equal to all. Member 10
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    Wk 4
  • weymuffred
    weymuffred Posts: 1,260 Forumite
    healy wrote: »
    That is fine I dont expect anything better from you but my opinion is probably the same as a large number of people who read this and as I said I was just answering your question, previously you have been upset when I have not answered.

    Have I been upset when you dont reply? :rotfl:Nah.
    You think that I dont pay for anything and never have? :rolleyes:
    Have you got a job yet? :think:

    NO? Then :shhh:
  • healy
    healy Posts: 5,292 Forumite
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    weymuffred wrote: »
    Have I been upset when you dont reply? :rotfl:Nah.
    You think that I dont pay for anything and never have? :rolleyes:

    Thats odd because you were abusive the other week when I did not reply.
    You know what I think so I wont repeat it.
  • weymuffred
    weymuffred Posts: 1,260 Forumite
    healy wrote: »
    Thats odd because you were abusive the other week when I did not reply.
    You know what I think so I wont repeat it.

    Please keep the post on topic.
    Oh no not again, the old weymuffred was abusive.. yawn yawn.
    Have you got a job yet? :think:

    NO? Then :shhh:
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