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

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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 ??

TheChandler, all new builds have to include a percentage of homes for the Social Housing sector, this was a government initiative, but it came from the EU.

Council Housing and now HA was self financing and was largely boosted by EU subsidies, especially around replacing boilers, heating, windows as it came under "energy efficiency".

The situation that tenants are in, in new builds doesn't reflect the state of the houses on the post war Council estates.

They for new kitchens, but it's a patch up job, rather than what you have done in your owned home.

maybe the OP's friend is a pesky forriner as well . Double whammy

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I was without heating and water for nearly 18 months when the boiler died in the house that I owned because my waste of an ex spent all the money I saved on drugs.
I'm now in a HA property and waited a few hours (I work full time and feel very lucky to have been given this house)
There are pros and cons to both.
You knew what you were signing up for when you applied for the mortgage etc

ooh yes maybe the "friend" is an 'imagrant' - even better!

Vivienne what would you call the "real world"? One where if you can't afford to buy and own your own house you are at the mercy of private landlords charging over inflated sums in some cases for rent? That world.

We're a working household and council tenants and we get our repairs done for 'free'

And ffs pack in with linking social housing to benefits... It makes people look like right knobs.

I'm a bit baffled by the desire to give up a mortgaged property and move into a council house too. OP you could sell yor house and rent, that way you wouldn't be responsible for things that break etc. Life is all about choices, you can choose to pay a mortgage, or rent, or wait on a list for a council house. Each choice has its advantages and disadvantages and you have to weigh up each one. Personally I think the advantages of security of having your own property, potential to climb the property ladder, to pay the mortgage off and not have to worry about finding rent when you retire, something to leave to your kids, outweigh the disadvantages of having to pay for your own boiler to be replaced. But each to their own. You could look into renting in your area if you felt that was a better option for you.

Its nuts on here today

Here in Liverpool in "hard to let areas", pre the bedroom tax, you didn't even need to have children to get a two+ bedroom house.

My neighbours consist of "professionals", not just people in work.

There's life outside of London/down South and we don't have a housing crisis, luckily we don't have Council House envy either (or a lot of the envy/bitterness about lots of things I see on here).

I private rent and if anything breaks it's generally replaced/fixed within 4 days too. White goods, heating, leak in the roof etc. Thats the perks of renting.

Boilers belong to the homeowner, so the mortgagee, the council or the private landlord. It is the responsibility of the boiler OWNER to maintain the boiler, NOT the tenant, for legal reasons. Stop whining.

I bet the OP's friend is :

a benefit scrounger
smoker
drinker
junkie
has three pitbull terriers
has multiple jailhouse tattoos
has 4 kids by 6 different fathers
has several ASBOs against her.

Not that I'm into stereotypes or anyfink....

If she paid privately to rent the landlord would still be responsible for fixing the boiler (& anything else). It's not exclusive to council tenants. That is why you need household insurance when you decide to buy. You chose to buy.

I'm disabled, I work and I live in a council house. Some of the views posted here couldn't be further from the truth.

Oh now you're just being silly Derek

The majority of people I know who live in council houses (myself included) work, some more than one (low paid) job at any given time. My house had no central heating when I moved in, It took 5 years before I actually had a boiler. The housing association who rent my house to me are responsible for the servicing and maintain a nice of the boiler, as they are my landlord.

I get you are pissed off at the moaning when you had to wait four weeks.

renting/owning have different benefits.

private rented can be tricky with repairs... some do some don't keep them to an acceptable standard.

council could be tricky as they are moreone size fits all...

all rented means you own nothing at the end of living there.

owned is tricky as you have to find the money yourself, but in the end you usually end up with something (presuming you keep making those payments. mortgage payments were a lot less than rent for the same place.

you can do moreor less what you like with owned.

yes you may end up with crappy conditions.. but they are your own crappy conditionsand eventually you get it sorted and own an asset and you are not at the whim of a private landlord who may decide they need to sell up.

donnie don't forgot the big widescreen fuck-orf TV wiv Sky an' everyfink

I live in a council flat and work, was working when I was given flat, yes its great to get landlord to fix things when they break, mind you I dont and never will own a house, I also have to live with mould growing on the walls as the council seem incaple of fixing that. YABU if you don't want to have to pay for repairs sell your house and rent.

And the goat

And the goat