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Lets Get Nutty a new house

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codswallop · 18/01/2004 14:43

the campaign starts here

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nutcracker · 21/01/2004 22:00

Very weird MEZ

WDIK - I have 3 kids and live in a 2 bed 1st floor H/A flat. Have tried everything to get moved but having no luck.

noddy5 · 22/01/2004 11:08

I am trying to find a property for my small family we are currently in a flat but have seen a nice ex council house which is in our budget and near good schools but we are being advised against it.Any opinions greatly appreciated xxx

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codswallop · 22/01/2004 11:47

why?

Nutty have you looked me up in your excercise books yet?

I was a mIss when you knew me. Surname began with L

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nutcracker · 22/01/2004 15:47

Coddy - I don't remember a history teacher who's name began with an L. What years did you teach there ???? My brother was there for 2/3 years after me, so i'll ask him. Not sure he did g.c.s.e History though.

Noddy5 - Why are you being advised against it ?? Where is it ??
Go on up my street and have a look at the acorn report for that area.

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codswallop · 22/01/2004 16:10

then I was forgettable obv!

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tiredemma · 22/01/2004 16:10

hello ladies.... coddy, i went to my dads house and it seems he has "disposed " of my books, i found my old reports but only up to year 9 so i still dont know if you were my teacher but im sure that you were- if i said that tony fox (who was a total pain in the arse) was in my class would you remember him, then id know if you taught me.

hi nutty! yep my eldest is called harry, hes 3ys 5mths now and is a little horror (knows too much)
i had another boy in july hes called alfie ....no not after shane richie in eastenders as every body asks, i liked the name for years now it seems as if im a mega eastenders fan!

i think esmes mate was called elysse gallagher?? im sure it was.

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codswallop · 22/01/2004 16:31

No remember Lee cunningham tho

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tiredemma · 22/01/2004 16:37

he was in the year below me, fancied himself as a bit of a ladies man.
had a look at my reports yesterday (cringe) mr dobson taught me history in year 9, remember him? "santa clause"

nutcracker · 26/01/2004 17:11

Just a quick update on my housing situation. I rang Castle Vale again today as they didn't ring me back. They are supposed to be looking in to why i haven't been offered anything or nominated to any schemes when i have high points. Anyway as usual the person i needed to speak to was not at their desk but the dippy girl i spoke to has taken my phone number AGAIN and has said she'll pass the message on. I will give them til lunchtime tommorow to ring me back and then i will ring and complain.

Also discovered that 2 people who were overcrowded in the block opposite me (2 kids not 3) have been rehoused in Stoke, don't think it was through my current H/A though. Apparently it is really easy to get housed there. I always wonder why though, i mean is it a s**t hole (no offense to anyone living there), there must be a reason as to why they have empty houses.
So if anyone has any info on Stoke could they please let me know

nutcracker · 26/01/2004 17:32

Have also just discovered that someone is being evicted from a 4 bed house on this estate. I don't think they would let me have a 4 bed but i will fight like hell for it. Apparently there is a woman with 2 boys and agirl in a 2 bed house who wants it. There is 6 yrs between the two boys so she said they should have seperate rooms but I thought there had to be 8 years between them.
I rang up about it before but the eviction had been put on hold (it could be again). They said then that i would be considered for it but probably wouldn't get it.

lydialemon · 26/01/2004 22:01

nutcracker, sorry if I missed it, but what happened to the lady who might swap with you before buying somewhere?

nutcracker · 26/01/2004 22:09

Stupid women still had 4 kids at home. God knows how she thought the H/A would allow it. Anyway since then we have discovered that the chances of exchanging with anyone are very remote because our neighbour above us is on an anti social behaviour order and we would have to inform them about it and then obviously they wouldn't be intersted. Am trying to get them to give me extra points because of this but no luck so far.

Epigirl · 26/01/2004 22:23

Could perhaps help with Stoke the s*it hole if you need any advice on areas.

Property prices notoriously low (always in the bottom 10 in the country surveys.

nutcracker · 26/01/2004 22:30

Oh right. Hope i didn't offend anyone. I didn't mean it was a s**t hole, just that i am always suspicious when an area seems to have alot of empty properties.

Epigirl · 27/01/2004 10:06

No offence taken!!

nutcracker · 27/01/2004 19:06

Another update here.
Phoned H/A about house eviction and they denied all knowledge, I knew it was true as the estate manager had told me but i didn't want to get him in to trouble so said no more.
Phoned Castle Vale and have decided to record all future coversations as they had no knowledge of my previous conversations at all. They said they would ring me back after they had checked a few things and they didn't, so i rang them again and no one was available to talk to me.
The estate manager came to see me about my noisy neighbour. Environmental health have been notified and will be sending me yet more diary sheets which i have to fill in for 2 weeks. Once i send them back they will decide wether they need to fit monitering equiptment. If they do and she's caught at it IYKWIM then the H/A are going to get a posession of property order (evict her in other words).
So some good and some bad news.
Oh and i asked the estate manager again about the eviction in the houses and he said it is going ahead but they are waiting to get court time. He thinks it's a 3 bed but i'm almost positive from where he said it is that it's a 4 bed. He said he wouldn't advise us to have it anyway because the family we would be living next door to are just as bad as the one above us now.
I'm stuck for ideas now.
Sorry this is so long

mrcheese · 27/01/2004 19:13

well at least you are dong something Nutty

does that make you feel more in control?

nutcracker · 27/01/2004 19:22

Errm, not sure really. I do feel in control when i phone them up and ask them stuff but then when they give me bad news or no news it gets me down. Now i have the estate manger who's lived on here for 15 years telling me that he wouldn't live in the houses for anything. I just feel like i'm running out of ideas and getting no where fast.

nutcracker · 27/01/2004 19:55

O.K now there is a new problem.
We have just discovered a message on the answer machine from last night from a bloke who we rang regarding an exchange. His sister lives in 3 bed in birchington on sea (kent), and wants to move back to the midlands as she is getting on. Last time we rang them she had the possibility of a house in Kingstanding so we left it at that but asked them to let us know if it fell through, which it has. They now want to know if we are intersted (which we are) but me and dp can't agree on how much to tell them about our noisy neighbour. I want to be upfront and tell then that we are having probs with her but they are being sorted out and she will eventually be evicted once enough evidence has been gathered.
Dp wants to say nothing at the mo but wait unitl they have seen the flat and we have seen the house. But what if both parties like each others property and then we tell them and they pull out. Plus i think they would be preety p**d off that we hadn't told them sooner. I know i would.

nutcracker · 27/01/2004 20:29

Help. What would you do ???

lilibet · 27/01/2004 20:53

erm........

I think I would look first nutty, how long is it going to take to sort out the problems?, they may be over by the time everything is thru. Adn you may not like each others houses, no point putting them off first.
Others will probably disagree.
Good luck.

spacemonkey · 27/01/2004 20:58

lilibet has a good point - i did a council exchange and even though it went through relatively quickly it was still 6-8 weeks from first viewing each other's houses, so it may well be sorted by the time it all goes through. I think I would do the viewing before saying anything and then if it looks like it could go ahead, say something to them then (if you don't think it'll be resolved before moving time). If you say something before they view your place, it might stop them from giving your place a fair chance.

I can see it's difficult to know what to do though!

nutcracker · 27/01/2004 20:58

Oh I just don't know. I'd hate them to think that we were hiding things from them and plus what if we go up/down ?? and have a look and fall in love with it and then we tell them and they tell us to p**s off ?? I'd be devestated then.

nutcracker · 27/01/2004 20:59

Dp will be so pleased that you lot agree with him

spacemonkey · 27/01/2004 21:01

i know what you mean about the potential disappointment if you love their place and then the neighbour thing puts them off - but i think bracing yourself for disappointment is part and parcel of doing the whole house exchange thing - an awful lot of people do get let down one way or another unfortunately I just think it would be silly to put them off before they've had a chance to fall in love with your place!