Rtb repairs

Clarke2021

Very angry, applied for Rtb in July 2020 still ongoing today. Nottingham city homes refused to do any repairs in this time, including a leak through my kitchen and now damp coming through ceiling below loft, blown double glazing, water coming through vent in boiler, yet I am a paying tenant still how can they get away with this as they have caused the delays. 

Mildreds_Earrings

Hello there, at the start of the RTB process, your social housing landlord would have informed you in writing that now you have applied for the RTB, they would only undertake emergency repairs to your property. This is part of the RTB process for social housing landlords in England. You will need to contact your landlord to find out if your repairs constitute an emergency repair. 

There is a strict timescale that social housing landlords have to adhere to for RTB applications. Go to gov.uk for further information. All the best. 

davilown

This will probably sound harsh, but you're about to get a house a lot cheaper than the majority of home buyers will at an indirect cost to the tax-payer.  Stop moaning about repairs, instead, welcome to home ownership (where you have to repair it yourself....)

Clarke2021

Wow stop moaning and be grateful. This process is supposed to take weeks they have been charging me rent for months which is going no where and refusing repairs.  Yes I knew this when applying what I didn’t know is thier delays causing me problems dangling on a string since July 2020! This is not reasonable. I am still waiting now into after 7 months from applying for a mortgage and being told due to Nottingham city homes I now need to ask for a second extension. Which will not happen and I will need to go through process again. The council should not have take. More applications when they already had a back log causing people to pay rent. I also lost out on all tenant rewards due to this yet I am a paying tenant.  who has never been in arrears.  Due the discount I am able to improve myself now I do not see myself as someone who should be grateful and put up with incompetence

Clarke2021

Before stating I should be lucky remnant rewards exist I agree but all remnants are entitled to them shouldn’t be penalised due to their delays in purchasing. 

theartfullodger

Clarke2021 said:

Before stating I should be lucky remnant rewards exist I agree but all remnants are entitled to them shouldn’t be penalised due to their delays in purchasing. 

Remnant rewards?  Blimey, you get those as well? What are they, please?


I completely agree with Mildred & Davilown.



Best regards to all.

wilfred30

Have they told you what is causing the hold up in processing your RTB application?

Chandler85

You have discounted rent, which you haven't lost as your still have the property that you live in.  if you were paying rent and unable to live there that would be different.

A blown window is far from an emergency repair, they won't fix that.

The leaks, could well be classed as a emergency repair, without someone seeing them, then it is very difficult to tell but you should follow up on these.

As for the complaints about the timescales, as said before there is a process that you have to go through, hoops to jump through as per the government guidance, and Housing Associations or Council Housing will be very strict with it.  if you don't do exactly what they ask for in the order they ask for it, all that will happen is the application is ignored and won't progress.  It could be as simple as you didn't tick a box, you forgot to upload a document you already sent once.  It will just sit there doing nothing.

Good luck with your purchase, you'll just need to be patient with it all.

SavingPennies_2

So you want the repairs done for free so you don't have to pay once the house if yours?  Also, the rent is not going nowhere, its paying for you to have a home to live in, just like every other person who pays rent. A blown window is not an emergency, and since the others have been ongoing for months it's unlikely they are too. Before they get any worse why not just pay to have them fixed, you will still have the benefit since soon as it will be your own home to live in, or sell...at a profit.

Clarke2021

There’s a lot of judgement and abuse regarding people taking up on the offer to buy. I am not buying a home to earn money merely as a lucky opportunity to get on the housing ladder. Yes it is unlucky that not everyone has that opportunity but don’t feel I should be judged for taking up an offer that exists. My complaint about the council is the whole process has took nearly two years. Over seven months  and having to lose one mortgage offer and apply again after six months and an extension and now interest rates have increased.  I knew the process which is supposed to take weeks not years so obviously there have been repairs building up. Very judgemental to assume I want things fixing to save me money when I buy.  The repair complaint is the fact my rent is not going towards a mortgage so I am still technically a tenant yet paying for repairs losing me tenant rights for two years due to no fault of my own.  Also lost tenant rewards two years running due to delays. judge  all you will they are available to all tenants regardless to 
wether people are bitter about receiving a tennant reward (have to agree I don’t understand it)

Norman_Castle

davilown said:

This will probably sound harsh, but you're about to get a house a lot cheaper than the majority of home buyers will at an indirect cost to the tax-payer.  Stop moaning about repairs, instead, welcome to home ownership (where you have to repair it yourself....)

Its not home ownership, they're still paying rent. Council housing repairs are funded through the rental income. Its reasonable repairs are halted once the rtb process has started but it should not take two years. 

https://www.gov.uk/right-to-buy-buying-your-council-home/delays