Struggling to sell shared ownership home

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You need to get proper legal advice. You could try contacting the Leasehold Advisory Service as your first port of call. They offer "free summary legal advice to help you decide what to do next".
https://clients.lease-advice.org/#/

joegoldberg

ResourcesShared said:

You need to get proper legal advice. You could try contacting the Leasehold Advisory Service as your first port of call. They offer "free summary legal advice to help you decide what to do next".

Thanks, I’ve submitted an enquiry.

penners324

Can't you get work to 'reallocate' you elsewhere?

Olinda99

be careful letting out to a lodger if you are not there yourself - you may find yourself with a tenant if the lodger thinks they have exclusive occupation

joegoldberg

penners324 said:

Can't you get work to 'reallocate' you elsewhere?

Not possible

LightFlare

thegreenone said:

An hour+ commute is not very much, unless you are on public transport.

An hour is an hour whether by foot,bike,car,bus,train or plane surely

I would assume the OP quoted an hour based on their available/preferred method of transport

Bookworm105

pinkshoes said:

joegoldberg said:

DE_612183 said:

so where are you living now?

The HA won’t let me rent out but are you saying they’ll likely allow me to rent a couple of rooms out? 

You can have a lodger if it has a spare room.

That means that you'd need to live there say at weekends but could rent the spare room to a lodger, or even someone like you who wanted to lodge Monday to Friday.

disagree 
OP has already tried to sell the property whilst living elsewhere (the fact elsewhere is itself rented is irrelevant)

I seriously doubt OP would have a balance of facts in favour of the SO property continuing as his main home were he to claim they were lodgers 
- does not commute to work from it
- no expectation of continuity of occupation (he ;s selling it!)
- partial occupation for weekends only

there is a list of other factors which would probably show it is no longer his main home. If he claims them as lodgers he'd add tax evasion to any tenancy law issues.

newsgroupmonkey_

joegoldberg said:

thegreenone said:

An hour+ commute is not very much, unless you are on public transport.

When you work a lot of hours & night shifts it’s very difficult 

That's proper weird. I have 18 people working for me who are shift workers (including night shifts).
Most of them travel more than an hour to work because we moved their location.

And yes, they do 12 hour shifts.

joegoldberg

newsgroupmonkey_ said:

joegoldberg said:

thegreenone said:

An hour+ commute is not very much, unless you are on public transport.

When you work a lot of hours & night shifts it’s very difficult 

That's proper weird. I have 18 people working for me who are shift workers (including night shifts).
Most of them travel more than an hour to work because we moved their location.

And yes, they do 12 hour shifts.

You’re assuming we all work the same intensity of shifts. Also, people are different..I don’t feel it’s safe for me to drive home 1.5 hrs after a long shift, is that a bad thing??

BarelySentientAI

joegoldberg said:

newsgroupmonkey_ said:

joegoldberg said:

thegreenone said:

An hour+ commute is not very much, unless you are on public transport.

When you work a lot of hours & night shifts it’s very difficult 

That's proper weird. I have 18 people working for me who are shift workers (including night shifts).
Most of them travel more than an hour to work because we moved their location.

And yes, they do 12 hour shifts.

You’re assuming we all work the same intensity of shifts. Also, people are different..I don’t feel it’s safe for me to drive home 1.5 hrs after a long shift, is that a bad thing??

No, it's your choice.  As is the decision that you can't drop the price any further, and the (correct at the time perhaps) decision to buy in shared ownership with all the restrictions that involves.

There are only three things you can really do to get out of paying for an empty property.  Sell it, find a tenant, or move in to it.

If you won't do the first or third, and you're not allowed to do the second, then there's not a lot we can advise.