to be pissed off at my friend who is a council tenant

[judgejudithjudy]

Friends boiler broke down & was fixed for free within 4 days. When mine broke down, I had to apply for a loan to get it fixed & took 4 weeks.

All she's done is moan on Fb it's taken too long.

Felt like adding get a job & try paying for it yourself & then you'd have something to moan about!

Still paying off the sodding loan - how I wish I had a council house ??

I'm sure my council house cost a few hundred quid to build on a cheap to buy corner of a field, in the 1940s. I bet you every brick of this house was paid for by its early tenants, within the first decade of it being built. Ever since it has been pure profit for the council. I pay Band C council tax. Just like my millionaire neighbours, three doors down (who have a swimming pool and a spectacular house). I have a council house and we live on minimum wage.

The only work we have had done in 13 years here was a new kitchen done 100% from a European grant to bring slums upto the standard of normal homes. It cost my council (Selby - they deserve naming and shaming) nothing whatsoever. Not a penny. Occasionally something worth a small amount of money breaks and they eventually come out and fix it. We pay more rent in a week or a fortnight than most of their repairs cost. Last year thanks to their poor maintenance, we were left with a bill they wouldn't cover.

Now to add insult to injury they have rehoused another district's problem tenants in our communities as void properties come up they put a neighbouring area's nuisance tenants into them. The only people getting to the top of the housing waiting lists now are probably the Daily Mail's wet dream. But more established tenants are often working people, or carers with disabled kids who can't work and have done nothing to deserve anyone's bile or envy.

Just checked.

Still no goat.

This house owning malarkey isn't all it's cracked up to be.

"Saucyjack - we've probably got the same bathroom 'suite'."

Oh quite possibly! Does yours still have the dreaded black overhead cistern with an actual chain flush?

I shouldn't worry. Couple more years and the bloody hipsters will probably bring them back into fashion.

Saucy - no, so you win!
A horrible very old, (supposedly) white cistern.
You may be right about the retro thing, but be mindful that your HA will fine you for making changes!
You just can't win

I remember the OP's last thread.

She thinks people who don't work get given mobility cars for having a bit of back trouble too.

Also you dont often get to choose where you live if the council allocate you a house. With us it was homeless (we got turned down for private rent four times because we had kids and I couldn't get a guarantor) or accept this house or go to the bottom of the list.

Just thought I'd throw that point in as well

Was that the same poster sooty? I remember that thread.

Really? Must admit, the Goad-by-Numbers threads kinda merge for me.

Definitely the same poster.

If MN want to boost their profits, they should put a toll on it

www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/quiz-who-lives-in-social-housing/7007695.article

Did the OP ever return? Probably reading and writing her article if not.

I am a social housing tenant with a Housing Association, I am more grateful than I can say. My son might always need to call this place his home so I am grateful for the secure tenancy.

I have privately rented in the past and had a mortgage too. I was even a landlord at one point. So glad that is all behind me now.

Our local council are now taking people off the council list if they think they can afford to private rent, thank god we got ours when we did.

We would also love to be able to afford to buy, but living week to week it's impossible to save anything more than a couple of quid.

The OP never returned.

Post something goady and then retreat.

I was very lucky with my council house. I was due to be shown one in a very very dodgy area that I would pretty much have had to accept but then ds was sick at school so I had to cancel the viewing and the house was offered to someone else.

It took another 6 months to be offered anywhere else. It's very small. There's some damp and it's drafty but at least I'm not afraid to leave the house when it's dark.

Baby wearing papas?

mid century

A manbun round here would be like an alien had landed cant see it happening anytime soon they all live at the other side of town in the old tenament flats

Well me old china (HA!) the day bunting arrives is my cue to leave

Yay housing officer okayed my swop, after pointing out repeatedly that the kitchen/floor/garden were shitholes I mean unacceptable to most people and they wouldn't repair the kitchen for the new tenant. Shock horror HA won't replace 30 yr old decrepit kitchen! I'm off two toilets and an extra room!!!!!

Of corse I'm very gratefull (doffs cap) that they will allow me to swop and pay extra rent for extra space! Now do I pack my wheelie bins?