Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could advise.
When bidding for social housing, does the bidding position number assigned to you have any kind of meaning to it or is it given simply just as an estimate of where exactly you are in the queue?
I just don’t understand, and I’m quite confused as I was told by someone that the numbers don’t mean anything at all. The person told me that when her and her DP had placed a bid on a three bedroom property with the housing, they were number 16 when the bidding cycle for that property had closed and so they weren’t even expecting to be contacted however, to their big surprise they were contacted by a Housing Officer whom had invited them along for a viewing of the property.
When the day came, they went along and attended the viewing and asked the Housing Officer, why they had been contacted as they were number 16 for the property? He told them that on the Housing Systems they had flagged up as being in position number 1 and that what we as the Tenants see on our end isn’t at all the same as what they see on the Housing systems.
Just don’t understand it at all, so incredibly confusing. Can anyone shed light?
Thank you.