Housing Association tenants. A question...

[PibblyWibbly]

How long have you lived in your property and how many tenancy inspections have you had and when?

I've been here ten or eleven years. No "inspections" although I have had a few "we want to maintain our housing stock" type calls. Rarely do they act on things that need to be fixed. Why do you ask?

Because I lived in a HA property for 20 years. No complaints against me. No rent arrears ever. And not once did I ever have an inspection.

I did a house exchange to a different HA 3 years ago and every year since a woman has come round and gone through every room of the house and sat and interviewed me.

The woman I swapped houses with lived here 17 years and never had a single inspection or interview. (Shes been in my old house 3 years now, no inspection there)

I know 3 other people socially in different HA properties and I text them and neither have ever had an inspection in over a decade.

I'm not a problem tenant, never been in arrears. Never had a complaint.

I'm just not sure why I am having tondo this every year when no one else seems to!

I also have OCD and my mental health is extremely bad at the moment so its actually another massive stress to me as I hate having to deal with things like this and have people in my home (i have had regular work done my their own repair men, have never refused to let anyone in or anything and obviously if my house was a state or dangerous they would report it? But there isnt any problem)

Its also says the purpose of the visit is to get up to date details about household data, support needs, communication needs, next of kin and equality, diversity and inclusion monitoring 🫤 Whatever that means!!
But all my information is upto date and they know my gousenis well looked after from being in and out doung repairs recently.

Before anyone steps in and says they have the right, blah blah blah. I Know they have the right but I don't know anyone who has to do this including my next door NEIGHBOUR who is with the same HA and has never had anyone round

Im council so probably not relevant but recently I’ve been having a lot of these “housing inspection” letters. Never did before…

My sister has a HA I think every 5 years they do a general inspection of the house
but that’s it

Lives here 2 years. No inspection as much but did have a one year check

Ive been here 20 years and had the house inspected once because they replace kitchens and bathrooms every so many years.

It was decided I needed a new kitchen but not a new bathroom.

The bathroom will probably get replaced on the next round.

Tbh I assume that when I have repairs done the contractor would report to them if the house was a wreck.

You should do a subject access thingie to find out what information they hold on you that may be informing their decision to carry out annual checks.

Why are you comparing your experience to others. There could be all sorts of reasons why they've inspected.
It doesn't sound overly often.

When I used to private rent, I had 6 monthly inspections with one landlord and 3 monthly inspections with one estate agent. It was a bit of a pain but I understood because the house didn't belong to me and they had to ensure everything was ok with it.