Can anyone help me ... i need advice on housing ......

[Scoobydooooo]

Yes i am in the crapiest of situation & have spent the whole morning crying whats new hey!

Well we are in private rented & have been for the past 2 years in this house, we have a assured shorthold tenancy which ends on the 1st september 2006 the lanlord had served us with a "section 21" notice for eviction on the 18th september we are on the council housing list & i have been speaking to them on & off now since about april, i only have 25 points & we need 95 they have said.

I get on really well with the landlord & he has been very nice & understanding but he does want to move back into his property & is hoping to on the 18th BUT i have phoned the council again today & they have told me come the 18th i do not have to leave & he will have to take me to court la la la la i do NOT want to go to court, i am extremley down & really struggling with this how situation i dont know where to turn but i honestly have sat here today & thought i can not go through this anymore...

My HV still visits me at home because i have PND & i see my docotr about twice a month i can not take this stress its wearing me down & i feel like running away, it has put trmedous amount of stress on mine & dp's relationship.

I have tried everything i have even written to the MP he was very nice & he did try but the council just fobbed him off.

So what the hell can i do now? i just can't go on like this.....

Hi emma sorry your feeling a bit crap too, it's seems days come & you feel ok one day & a bit down the next i am always like this but i suppose it is what to expect in this situation.

I thought the priority date is the date to which you went on the housing register, not sure it has anything to do with the bidding process because everytime you move to another band that is the date which will be on your form?

yes i know one min im not thinkin about it and okay then nxt mimuite im right at the bottom,,,
i think that if your priority date date u joined the register is quite long ,in your band ud be one of the first to get housed, hope that trhey do mine date i joined the reg 2003 and they dont mess around.. yes everytime u jump higher band they put ur date the date u joined that band,,, think thats a bit crap them doing it that way.but never know what do i know,,,,
today i just stressed to them again that ive already been through the whole housing ststem and im on knifes edge right now,,just hoping,,,, still cant wait till tues though just to see what theyve got... i no it will be really hard to get a place in knaphill were i live now..
i have too thought of moving away because i lived in birmingham manchester and london before and liked it but i only just came back to surrey 4years ago and wouldnt really know about doing it
ive heard of something at the council(forgive me cant remember what its called, but they can help you buy a house help u out with up to 35thousand deposit,,, ive seen a poster in council..im not in the position to do this but mayb it would help u.....but i guess that is a long process which would take time u dont have,, they suld pull there finger out and do something//

my little sister bit upset with them too they gave her place to stay shes a young mum u see. and while she was in hospital having her baby her new pram steriliser, was stolen so she went home and had nothing for the baby..it was the people that lived there too, crappy temp accomadation thats what ya get,,,, im ranting again i no..think its just one of those daYZ...........

My sister is just in the middle of doing the cash thing with the coucil they actually can give you upto 60,000 towards a morgage, she has her final interview tomorrow & has been house hunting for the past week, i have been going with her

It is a scheme you can only do if you are in a council house & if you can afford to get a morgage for about 160,000 then they will add upto 60,000 for you. They are doing this to free up council houses from people who could with a bit of help afford to buy like my sister & her husband.

I think you have to actually be in a council house for 2 years at least & also they choose who they think it will help from a list, my sister has been offered it before last yr but never got to the final interview, this yr it's looking like it's set in stone so all good.

You never know you may end up in her house she lives in a 2 bedroom

Have you registered with your pin yet? i can't see anywhere to do it on the site do we have to wait till tuesday?

yes i think it will be tuwesday but its worth keep checking, i think it will be up the woking header...your woking..
hope theres not any delays and it does atcually work on tues.. council said on monday the sytstem starts working then tues we can bid.
i wondering how many houses r gonna be on offer,5,10,20.100, coz if its like 5 theres not much chance coz band a and b are gonna snap them all up..oh well wel c i guess keeping my fingers crossed for you,,

Help help help

hurry up monday

Hiya scobbydoo its emma (ive changees my name
still dont know my prioroty date, adviser said bid though as they dont look at the bids for a week and it will be sorted by then,makes me mad
ive found some more hometrak stuf on their website that wasnt there before but still no where to enter pin for registration. cant see where its gonne be maybe it will be erly in the morning it happens, hope u feeling ok, cant wait to see what this hometraks like

hiya scoobydooooo
the enter woking registration link is now working,, cant sleep me im worried about what gonna happen. there are 6 3bed propertys to bid on. few nice ones
there are 6 2 beds (what i need) as well im a bit disapointed only 25 property in all and thousand to bid yet,
even on the website still says im in f, very angry hope it gets fixed before bidding cycle ends gonne have to keep calling them to make sure its done.

you have to click on the enter my woking banner
then enter your name address and make a nickname and a password for, yourself then at the end u enter housing reg number and the pin they gave you ,,,after that you cna view the propertys and bid on the ones you like, let me know how you got on best of luck, emma

Hiya Emma,

OMG have now registered, have not bid on anything because they also have not changed my banding from E to D so will be phoning again today to srt that out before i bid on anything otherwise i will have no chance....

Going to go to have a look at the roads these places are on today & probably bid later at some point, we are moving this weekend anyway, we are putting our stuff in sotrage & staying at a friends on there sofa.

We were offered a 3 bed private rented flat for £700 a month, but we told them to stuff it for many reasons, i wont lose my place in the banding but they wont have house me in temp now.

I will let you know how i get on today, have been awake since 4am have also lost 1 stone in weight in 2 weeks

Speak to you later .... go get bidding

Hi scooby, how long can you stay at your friends house???
If it's more than a few weeks get them to write a letter to evict you giving you a definate date to leave by.
You'll definately be classed as homeless then!!!
Anythings worth a try to get you housed quicker.

hiya scoobydoo thats a good idea to check the road s ther on as u never know what u culd be gettin. some of the 2beds are in quite rough areas ive just got be bid on the best of a bad bunch, me too still down as in band f. but its wrong
cant wait to the day when i dont have to chase the council up all the time, spoke to the housing advice manager today coz my landlord wants me out immedietly will go into rent arrears next month cant afford to pay it and they all are aware, plus electriciy up 400 now owed omg.
can pay it of on some scheme though if im not here wont help me here coz debt will keep increasing and landlord will not let me get prepay meter in to pay it of like that either. trying to not worry about all of that told the adviser this is my last hope or im at rock bottom, dont even want to think about what might happen,

if you go down to the council now tell them thsat you are now homeless and ask your friend to write a letter say giving you 2 weeks to stay there,and stating that they have family coming to stay and you cannot stay there after that date, as your circumstances have changed they may bump u up a band. hopefully before the bidding process end and u would have a much betta chance, ive been told that d is a good band to be in and people who are in d have a chance,
the hometrak site is so so busy though that you cant get through to it so theyr must be alot of people also needing housing
wish u the best of luck hope they do help you must be awful not knowing were u will be next wk next month tc ive been in that situation so many times and i couldnt stand it, poor lil ones dont let it get u down hun

Hiya Emma & fussymummy,

Well i phoned the housing manager today told him my reason for not taking the temp accomadation said it would be to much of a risk to my sons life as he is an escapy & has no sense of safety, he said it is a valid reason but i have to put it in in writing to him (which i have now done) i am now actually moving into my mums already over crowded house ayt the weekend, she has 3 bedrooms but my mum, my sis & my brother live there so there will be those 3 plus me, dp & our 2 kids how ridiculous is that? we will be literally sleeping where ever!!!

I am totally not looking forward to it, there is 3 houses i am going to put bids in for when i can actually enter the site its to busy will try late tonight or early morning.

We are officially homeless from sunday, saturday we are doing the big move & putting all our furniture into storage until god knows....
Sunday i will be cleaing this house & sorting it out i am so exhausted i can hardly walk having to do all this along with running a house day to day & look after 2 kids is totally killing me..

I will hopefully have the net at my mums she said i could bring compute & get the internet so thats cool, i should be online sometime next week after saturday, i need to come & talk on here it really does help.

When i can get back on the site i will have a look at the 2 bed places for you if you like? you don' drive do you emma? i know a couple of the places anyway so once i can see them again i will let you know if that can help you.

Crap situation to be & i can not wait for us both to come out the other side, we can look back on this thread & see what we went through

I will pop back on tomorrow, let me know anything else you find out & same here.

Oh one thing i did find out from manager was your priority date is the date you went into the bacd you are in so say you have been on the list for 2 yrs & you would have been in band F & still are you have more priority than someone who has been on the list for 1 yr in band F, but say in august 2006 you moved to band D then your priority date will start from august which is not so good, so evertime you move up a band your priority date changes to the date you moved up, if you see what i mean?

I am in band D but i only moved into it about 3 weeks ago so if someone comes along who has been in band D for 2 months & they bid on the same house as me they will get the property, crap don't you think?

Anyway must sort the kids out & carry on packing, got the carpet cleaners into tomorrow morning...

Take care & wishing you all the luck in the world xx

i bidded for house in byfleet cant get back on though to check the rest, i still dont know my priority date either but guess it will be like your the date i moved into the band.
i know its crap i dont really undersatand how it will atually work when we have bands a b c as well to compete with.
that would be great if you could have a look at the 2beds as well or just let me know if u know what the area is like.
cant beleive there is only 25 propertys they must have more than that. the hometrak sight is so busy there must be so many people looking as well, yes definetly put everything in writing to them it could boost ur band give u more priorty. the council are so not doing there job right should of housed you brfore homecrap. i know they gave a few people council places before homecrap started.
try and fill another medical form now saying that you are homless, effect on children ect all you can put it in .
i will let you know what happens too. have to keep checking hometrak to see if my band is right on line,,,,,,,, think il be there for a while trying to get through
speak to you soon emma

He said my Band would be changed in the next couple of days, did you phone & tell them your band is wrong too? Next to your band is your priority date so when it is changed we will know.

Let's not call it "hometrak" lets call it "crap"

CRAP is still not working i still can not get on, let me know if you manage too its driving me nuts now, been set up for a day & already not been working all afternoon, good start hey!

I will let you know about the 2 bed areas etc, there is also a house in byfleet i may bid on too, i am going to probably bid on the one in knaphill, the one in byfleet & the one on the barnsbury estate all 3 bed houses, don't like where the other 3 areas are they are a pitt!

knaphills nice there no 2beds there for me , all in sheerwater or horsell
wouldnt mind byfleet though , be a change, never know we culd both end up with a house in byfleet,
ive had a page on my screen since the morning and that CRAP still not working. il put a post here as soon as its working. it was working midnight yesterday. it says its busy but i havent been able to access it once
called council todays as band still saying in f (noticed on the website) spoke to manager said i was suposed to be in this band from 20th of this month and she said would call the woman at registration to change again, so im not sure wen it will be done ill just keep checking on website i guess, if it ever works.
2weeks weve got to wait but i noticed on website u can see what band the person who bidded was,,,,
if it ever ever works....

Sounds to me like the council are being really clever with all these bands they're putting you all in.

Seems like you've all got the wrong banding!!!

How many more people are in the same situation????

Wonder if any of this was deliberate, on their part????

Each time they change the band, your time starts again.

How unfair is that????

Your time should really be how long you've been signed up with them, and also your personal circumstances.

Next thing you know, all their computers will crash!!!!

If i were you i'd be on at them every day and just keep writing letters to them.

When i got a council place years ago, i'd been on the list for 8.5 years!!!!!

I only got a place because my parents evicted me.
(they only did it to help me)

My application was only speeded up because of this and because i had a child.

Had i remained single, with no children, i'd have been waiting at least 12 years.

I know how frustrating it can be.

I used to be on the phone to them all the time.

In the end all i had to say was Hello, and they'd say my name and address.

I called them all the time and it paid off eventually.

if your still on its working shshhhhhhhhhhhhhh dont tell anybody else lol

Been on will be back later...

Hi emma,

God i was awake again at silly'0 clock i keep waking at 4am i even left the pc on so i could pop on & have a look at the houses

I have written down a list about the 2 beds & where they are but it is in the car, i will get it in a bit.

I would however stay clear of Albert drive sheerwater becauses it's ruff to say the least.

There was a place in cobetts close horsell which sounds ok because horsell is a lovely little village, i lived there before & i really liked it, it also has schools & a nursery for your little one. When picking where you go just rememeber you will probably be there for a long time....

Also byfleet is a good choice you said you had already bid on one was it the house? it looks nice there not quite sure where it is though bubt if i get time & am over that way i will check it out for you.

Fussymummy I fully understand what your saying about getting kicked out of my mums but because i am turning down there temp accomadation & if they decide my reason is not good enough then they do not have to houe me in temp accomadation, but as far as the housing manager was talking i think my reason is going to be accepted so am not sure what will happen then.

At the moment i can not even get on the website again sigh

Has your banding changed yet emma? i am trying to see if they have sorted mine out but the website is crap & keeps crashing

hi scoobydoo the website only seem s to work at late hours for some reason. was working at midnight but not now just cant get through.
wanyed to see if theyv changed my band yet,???
yes i bidded on the house in byfleet think il bid on the flat in byfleet and the cobbetts close as there the best ones there.
on the site you can see how many bids a propertys got and wat band there in, but mine is still showing as a f bid.
i think it must be only the internet bids bcoz the house i want only had 6 bids when i checked yesterday, thought theyd be alot more, as we cant even get through to the website.
its good thougfh as u can check what band the other people who bidded r in.
but not much point in us bidding till they get our bands right, so we can see the system sees our bands right.

i just got through to homecrap clicked on the continue link a few times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

lots of bids now -lots of d band bids as well

oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

still my band says f

arghhhhhhhhhh

loads of time to wait yet

all gettin a bit much for me, im really pinning everything on this, must try not not think about it so much,

did one of them online form about band still not showing up right
maybe that will speed them up

what about you any luck? try not to let it get u down 2.
im trying to ...honest

I am on the site but it is running really really slow i can not manage to look into the pages which shows the bids etc.

I have not bid on anything yet i am waiting till they get my banding changed, it's actually driving me mad now....

I don't think the phone bids are counted on the internet, these are just the bids where people have done it online, i am sure there will be many more over the phone, i have not seen anyone bidding on a property higher than band D so thats quite good so far.

Crossed posts then

What do you mean lots of bids noooooooo don't tell me that, i am trying not to pin hopes on this in fact i have acceoted that we will get nothing for a few months so i am prepared.

hiya i checked on a couple i no its running so slow, runs fast late at night?
and i saw quite a few d bands, do u know ur date yet? i dont? i guess that is what it comes to finally then,whos got the furthest date

me 2 not seen anyother higher bands like a,b,c but i heard council housed quite a few people in council propertys in the last days of the old system.. maybe that why

Your date will be on the same page as your band, you should already have a date where it says you are in band F now, but the date will be changed when they finally decide to sort our banding out, it's actually driving me nuts now...