So I've been on bidding site for a while and keep been overlooked on anything nice I bid on, or all nicer properties all go to band 4 when im a one ( only specified band get house so if it says band 4 I would not get it). Anyway that isnt the issue even though I do think it's wrong because band 4 already are housed, but whatever.
So i bid on a house with a picture so I knew exactly where it is and it's a road I would want to be on, not entirely perfect but house looked ok and has proper front and back garden for the kids. On a main road so as k said not perfect but I could have stood it, so bidded and have a viewing this month.
Now to the problem.... The house I bid on and the house that was pictured is totally false. It isn't on the road stated, instead in the middle of an old estate behind the main road, which is full of alleys drunk kids and drug dealers use to their advantage. The front gardens are all open ( houses are all in a square onto eachother) with gardens not separated by borders and the back garden is nothing more than a concrete path with the space taken up by outbuildings.
So how the hell could my kids play out I don't know ( an enclosed grass back garden is my must), and the house itself is nothing like pictured and right in a place I've been careful not to bid on because I knew I wouldn't be happy in places like it.
So they pretty much lied about everything and surely that isn't right and I do not want to accept it because I wil be stuck there in something I hate. Aibu?
AIBU?
To not accept house
Jasper00 · 05/12/2019 22:08
Am I being unreasonable?
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@Jasper00
Can you not just take your bid off? like remove it?
Go into your account and just click 'remove bid!'
Should be able to do that. 
I have heard of this happen before. My friend bid on a property in a nice area, but it showed a pic of one that had a field and some woods behind. It was around 200 feet (70 metres,) from the main road/high street. Perfect for the kids and the dog.
She had a tootle around the area, and loved it. She bid on the house, and was No 1 and was offered it. She accepted it (provisionally/ verbally, so didn't sign the tenancy agreement at this point.)
Come a week later she was offered the chance to view it, and it was one up the road, 15 houses away. Pretty much the same property, but in a different place, and only 30-40 feet from the main road/high street. (12-13 yards.) The side garden was big (as it was the first one on the cul de sac of 32 homes,) but still, it was not the house she was lead to believe it was IYSWIM.
If you have already had an offer and accepted, maybe appeal to the housing officer's better nature and say you thought it was a different house and you were somewhat mislead, and you would like to withdraw your offer. And ask them to not hold it against you.
Not sure what will happen as all councils and housing associations are different, But it's worth a shot.
Great idea to screenshot the house by the way, to prove they were promoting a different one. Probably the only way that some of the councils can get houses let, in 'hard-to-let' areas, by conning people!
I am really puzzled at Band 4 people being offered homes over and above Band 1 by the way. What's THAT about? They should not even be a priority at all compared to people in the top band surely?
My friend accepted the house nearer to the main road by the way, as the more she looked at it and thought about it, the more she wanted it (coz of the huge garden,) and the high street wasn't too busy. (The pic of the other house was used by the way, because they didn't have time to come out to take a pic of the house my friend bid on, and the houses were both the same... it wasn't a hard-to-let area, so they were probably telling the truth.)
5 years on she is still there, and very happy.
Not sure you will be though. 
All the best. 
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