To beg you to help me make this decision? Renting & council & SKY HI ANXIETY

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I'm a lodger at the moment, it's very physically safe and clean and I was very happy but the landlord I think is playing some mind games with me. Says I'm not clean and tidy enough, that if I don't scrub shower tiles with bleach every week rats and mice will come in to eat my skin flakes and that I should have told her all my health issues before I moved in. I feel very insecure and like she could ask me to leave at any minute.

I have physical disabilities (I disclosed some of these before moving in, but not all) and anxiety which she does not know about. My anxiety is really hard to control when I feel I'm going to be asked to leave my home. I have no family I can stay with.

The council have offered me a flat with a private landlord they work with. It's very expensive though. About half as much again as what I pay now, then bills on top.

I work part time and get PIP so can comfortably pay my rent BUT my PIP is being re assessed at the moment and if they discontinue it I won't get any housing benefit to help. My wages do not even cover my rent, leaving out bills, food, travel to work, and anything else.

So what risk do I take? Do i take the risk of staying here with no contract knowing I could be asked to leave, but with less money to pay? Or take the council offer for help with a landlord who is fine with housing benefit tenants but risk a situation if I lose PIP entitlement?

The council are pushing for a decision by tomorrow morning. I feel so stressed and like I can't evaluate things properly. I'm terrified of making the wrong decison.

If you've read all that, thank you. WWYD?

And if you're turned down by PIP, just appeal to get it reinstated.

It's not as simple as that. It's not reinstated within a few weeks. Gherss a procedure which has to be followed. Which includes doing a Mandatory reconsideration first and awaiting the Decision Makers reply. Then lodging an appeal and hoping you're in an area where the appeals aren't taking too long. The Tribunals are backed up to the hilt appeals for both ESA and PIP appeals. You're talking roughly a year on both in many / most cases.

No I've had nothing like this in past. All glowing references from landlords. Very keen to not muck up my good reputation as a tenant who pays on time and keeps my home spotless.

Sounds like you have established that the flat is not a good idea.

Maybe time to look for another house share/lodger? Your land lady sounds a bit cray-cray!

She's just up and down. Nice one minute, sarky and critical the next. Wants me to stay but no idea beyond January

I'm not as anxious now the decision has been made, but I just need to work on the longer term plan. So disappointed because when I came here I had high hopes I could stay maybe a year at least. Tired of moving and uncertainty.

What a shame. At least one question is off the table, which leaves you free to look for other options. Then when your PIP situation is clearer, you can look again.