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To buy a house next to housing association properties?

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Brightskiesahead · 13/01/2021 20:55

I need some advice/opinions please.

Soon to be divorced and left with some equity to buy a small house for me and 2 primary age DC.

One has come up on a new build development which is great on paper. Detached, 3 bed, garage, 2 parking spaces and west facing garden. It's in budget. I can't stretch to the next house type up. But the house types I'm looking at are next to housing association properties. The immediate neighbour is a disabled property then its 5 terraced houses of HA.

Would you buy it?

I can't investigate the area as it's not complete yet. The general neighbour hood is lovely (I live close by currently).

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CostaDelCovid · 17/01/2021 22:21

@GeorgiaGirl52

One way to judge a neighborhood is to look at the school ratings for the schools that serve your catchment area. Are they rated "excellent" or "good"? If they are "Needs improvement" that tells you something about the children in the school and indirectly about their parents.
Are you for f'ing REAL?!?!?!

Wow. "If a school is deemed to need improvement then it's down to HA kids....." ShockHmm

No love, if a school needs improvement, that is down to school itself not the class level of children!!!!!!

Heard it all now

frostedingaling · 17/01/2021 22:27

I live in a council house on a street full of council houses. It’s honestly the nicest place I’ve ever lived, everyone’s friendly and I haven’t had any issues. The road opposite us is mainly people who own their houses, nobody has an issue with them, as a PP said we do. I’m a single mum of 3, I work, I don’t call my kids cunts or wear a dressing gown all day. I’ve lived in council/housing association properties since a child, I’ve genuinely not had any issues

LizFlowers · 17/01/2021 22:31

Mondeofan:

I don't get what the point is about men doing work on their cars at the weekend?
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Nor me. Where I live a lot of people are in their drives washing their cars or doing things under the bonnet at weekends in good weather. I thought that was normal.

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