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Shelter England Housing advice Private renting How to find landlords who accept benefits. How to find landlords who accept benefits. It's difficult to prove but not impossible. I'm guessing someone as intelligent as you decided to skip passed the parts you didn't like to read.
You are a perfect example of why things need to change. With landlords having your attitude to people with an opinion, gives the good ones a bad name. And what you say to the other person that I'm moronic because why? I have a view that is effecting many peoples lives?
I'm back here to comment on another message well before you started on about modular buildings etc etc yawn yawn. So maybe if you stop replying your rubbish I wouldn't need to "bleat" on! I agree with john here and it is so sad to see others slating him for airing his concerns on a conversation that is exactly for this reason. I have been in the same position years back when I was ill and although my affordability was fine the lettings wasn't interested. I'm lucky to successfully rent to a mix of backgrounds and rarely have an issue, the issues generally are from employed in my case, but it's individual case by case and should never put people in a group assuming they'll be the same.
John Its moronic because you're repeating the same garbage from July Which proves you either aint reading, or aint learning! We're somewhere around 5 million households in private rental sector, and you're going to revolutionise how landlords operate, due to TWO discrimination cases.
It may well be all your fixated on, because it's dominating your life, and that's fair enough. But its very selfish, and won't help solve the real issues behind the failure of the Country's obligation to house it's people. Write to your MP and get social housing projects moving. Even the dumb Government now see most landlords are getting out of the game. That's why they've backed modular builds, and not stopped construction work during lockdown.
Desperate times for housing. Got broad shoulders from carrying the Government's clusterfcuk of a housing mess for the past decade.
Like the one the Doctor wrote about his life in a hospital, all the things that lead up to him quitting - without the blood and gore. There are enough landlords out there who would buy it for some masochistic reasons and could give it to all wannabe landlords as a warning.
Maybe I can write the story of one tenant who was working in a pizza shop while in receipt of housing benefits. It was all cosy until he scarpered back to warmer climates, sharpish, after the anti terror police raided the now trashed flat. John So sorry to see that your fingers are so disabled you are unable to get a job using a computer and are unable to even click them. What type of vocoder type input device do you use to post here? As a landlord I rent to anyone with a provable track record of rental payments and good behaviour.
Misbehave and you get notice to vacate. AND I list you on the database of bad tenants. Well, although I can't say I disagree with a lot of what has been said here, unfortunately there is another side to the story, and that is there are many people on benefits, us included, that are decent, proud and honest folk, unfortunately we get stuck in the same pot as the scumbags piss in.
Our situation is that we are currently in a secure tenancy and my wife receives PIP and I receive carers allowance and my wife's condition is chronic so she will not get any better and will be on benefits for the rest of her life. Our daughter moved to England to be with her partner in his job and our grandson obviously went with them.
Since late last year we have been seeking a private let nearer to them and have hit a brick wall every time. Even despite explaining we receive benefits, and my wife is chronically ill, even despite offering assurances that our rent can be met no problem with the savings we have, even though our income can be the same as someone working, even having explained that we will be taking out additional insurance cover to meet the ongoing costs should anything happen to either one of us, nothing, not even as much as a response!.
I was tempted to name the ones who haven't responded to us, but it's pointless, because they won't come right out and say it's because we're on benefits, yet my son in law enquired about the same property we did right after us, we got no response, my son in law got an instant one!.
I get it, landlords are sceptical of taking on DSS no such thing anymore client, and understandably so in some circumstances, but I can't help feeling that from our point of view, they are missing out on a lot of honest, trustworthy people, whilst those who are working are no more trustworthy or reliable than people like us.
Shocking situation, understand both sides of the argument, but hey, lifes a bitch I guess. Marko, If you can prove your track record is as good as you say then I must agree with you that there are landlords who are allowing a good tenant to pass them by. My advice would be to bypass the agents and go straight to the landlord. Marko If you have a secure tenancy, treasure it, stick with it, and live in peace if your good lady won't get any better. That's part of the argument here with certain respondents.
Private landlords can't ever match the ongoing security and other aspects that a housing association or authority can. Say for instance you did get a great property with a great landlord. The time still comes when that landlord has to finish with lettings, even in death, there has to be an end to their rental days! That doesnt give you the security you need, especially in the circumstances. Whereas Social housing continues ad infinitum, and it's worth considering if your wife needs things like house adaptations in the future.
You're in the best place with a secure tenancy, I wish you the best. Stealth Bomber - That was precisely the thing that would have been on our mind, because we have a secure tenancy from our local authority at the minute, we're also taking a great risk which I think is something landlords seem to overlook too, it's not just them taking a gamble, we're talking about a 'home' whereas to them it's a 'house'.
I've seen a few listings where "DSS" is welcome but to be honest they're not properties which we would want to move into, not being snobbish or anything but they're clearly just out for a rental in an area where it's obviously not appealing, which is presumably why they are widening the catchment to include anyone and everyone.
It's a difficult situation for us, we want to be closer to our daughter and grandson but we're also taking a massive risk by private letting, if a landlord offered us a suitable property and agreed we could stay in it indefinitely with a contract to match, we'd likely jump at it, but I don't think that's going to happen so I guess if anything I've probably came to the conclusion that the difficulties we've faced in finding a property to let has made us realise just how impractical it could be for us in the future, I mean if we have this kind of difficulty now, then in 5 years or so if we took a private let and had to leave the property, finding another suitable one in a short space of time could be impossible.
Marko can you not do an exchange? I know most councils and associations in UK allow tenants to swap tenancies. Rea - we're talking different countries unfortunately, we're currently in Scotland and our daughter is in England, there probably is the likelihood of an exchange programme to cover that but I'm not sure how the local authorities would take to this, they would have to be in agreement presumably as if we were vacating a LA house in Scotland, presumably the LA would have their own idea's on who should be qualifying first, and similarly in England for that LA.
If it were the same LA then I know they do allow this but different LA's I'm sure have their own rules and regulations in relation to exchanges, etc, it may be worth checking out also but our daughter does stay in a village in England and although there are LA housing dotted around they will likely be few of these and most of those types of areas have a strong influence from parish councils, etc, and again, would have their own idea's of who should be taking LA housing such as those with a strong connection to area.
We wouldn't have any issues being out with the village itself but it's likely we would need to be considerably out with to stand any chance of a LA house, just how far and how practical I'm not sure, and again, applying for LA housing in a different country would probably bring it's own set of issues, hence why we were thinking more along the lines of private letting, hate to sound fussy or anything but because it would probably be a massive decision for us to make such a move, it really would have to tick all the boxes as we would also likely have to pay towards the cost of the rental, I know that sounds as though we want our cake and eat it but as I say our circumstances are fragile hence the reason it has to be the right move, once only with no going back :.
Marko I would say you've already got the biggest piece of the cake that you could hope for. The only real driver for wanting a private let, is your location. Stability, secure tenancy, adapting the property should your wife need some future support, would all be sacrificed for it. You may get an exchange if you're with a UK wide association, they can probably do a workaround. However it's a long shot that someone would want an exchange to Scotland.
Assuming your provider is UK wide, could you be listed for one of their homes in England? I appreciate things are in short supply and it might be a wait, but putting yourself into the hands of a private let, is not the answer. We are all in this together, all bearing the failure of the Country, to house it's vulnerable and welfare dependent citizens. They hate private landlords, and claimants dont get much better treatment either, and the Government system actually supports them in doing it.
There's no wonder private business steers clear of DWP, and it's not all down to claimants being branded as scum. Having had experience of both PIP and Housing Benefit claimants, I concede there does need to be some education across the lettings industry. However the fact remains that claimants should not need to be in private sector for their housing needs.
With the situation being what it has been over the course of the last year or so, this has probably heightened our drive to be closer to our daughter, but hopefully in the next few months big lol things may improve and we may be in a position to visit more frequently than we obviously have been able to do in the past year or so.
Really glad I found this blog and the frankness that has been displayed, it's made us think twice about or position, all be it there is still a massive issue in regards to private lets and benefits, or for that matter just private lets in general, and I still can't help feel that many landlords who seek a long term, reliable, honest and decent set of tenants continue to shoot themselves in the foot by refusing to even consider such circumstances, but on the flip I know myself how some people can be, but that goes for people in employment too, very difficult situation to figure out but end of day I think we'll call off the hunt for now and cross our fingers for a better year ahead than the one past!.
Thanks to all for their honest and open responses, really appreciated it :. Marko I suppose Covid times have altered people's thoughts when it comes to proximity and contact with family and friends. Seeing grandkids and doing a school run, that sort of thing is a joy.
However we don't all get that pleasure, but we do have endless means of communication to benefit from, which we didn't have in the past. While we all argue and disagree with each other, it deflects from the huge and consistent failing of social housing and welfare support from the Government.
There's people on benefits get their money stopped through no fault of their own. Then it's weeks for an appeal to get the payments reinstated. DWP know they're dicking around with people's lives and private landlords, while they have a laugh about it. Once people are behind with their money, it never comes right. Then there are the bad tenants, who are told to stay put until the bailiff knocks on the door! Now what earthly good is that to society? Landlord has huge expense in Court and bailiff fees.
Valuable Court time is choked with eviction notices, and the tenant lives on their nerves well some of them until the day the bailiff knocks on the door! Then they've got to head straight to emergency housing office with the eviction letter in hand! It's so far beyond insanity we need to invent a new word. On another note you're probably miles better off in Scotland when it comes to health care and waiting lists. Hope all works out for you in the future. Good luck.
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