are there any landlords that will accept housing benefit????

[mommy2007]

hello, i'm new on here,
im a 24 year old recently lone parent of a 9 month old baby.
i have a deposit but all the houses i like to rent dont want to know because i am claiming housing benefit.
Are there any landords in birmingham that will accept me?
please help.
thank you

i know the feeling. Having the same problems down here in East Anglia, and im not a single parent!

all the major estate agents dont want to know me. im having to live back at my moms and its doing my head in!!!!
i'm in the middle of sorting out my income support as well i have no idea how money i am going to get. so scared.

This seems to be a huge problem here too, we have had so much trouble renting a property on hb. We did eventually find somewhere but it was a long slog, hope you find somewhere soon!

Is there anyway you can get a guarantor? When trying to find somewhere that takes HB for my brother we found this makes a massive difference.

i can get one of them will that help? even though the estate agents say no dss?

I just rang and explained that although he got HB he had a guarantor and that the HB was paid into his own personal account not the landlords so it would make no difference to the landlord at all. They don't like it when the HB is paid to the landlord as the benefits dept mess it up so often and the landlords don't get paid.

sounds promising thanks
fingers crossed