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RE: your bank account - bigpaul - 6 December 2014
(5 December 2014, 21:15)Midnitemo Wrote: .if you rent then people will periodically come round to check you're not trashing the place/sub letting/breaking the term's of your lease/check you're smoke alarms.....
you have got to be joking! in the five years we have lived here we have had ONE visit from HA.
RE: your bank account - NorthernRaider - 6 December 2014
Up here the HA visits many new tenants every six months for the first few years, and they also sometimes apply a probationary period for tenants they suspect may behave antisocially. If you break their rules you are out and disqualified from being rehoused.
RE: your bank account - Sunna - 6 December 2014
my local housing ass , first gives you a 1yr then a 5yr then a longer one they don't do life time ones anymore .
RE: your bank account - bigpaul - 6 December 2014
most people in HA property know to keep their noses clean, heads down and don't make trouble, in the 5 years we have been here there has only been one problem family and that was "domestics" and they moved on long ago. I have been a council then an HA tenant for 23 years(in 3 different properties) although I do notice that some new HA lets are now for a fixed period only.
RE: your bank account - Midnitemo - 6 December 2014
A member of my group is a housing officer for the local housing assosciation who bought the majority of the Wirral's social housing from the council...she tell's me there is a system off checks in place which means you should be visited at least once a year by an agent for the assosciation...general check/maintainence checks/gas safety check/ smoke and carbon monoxide check in addition there are further checks in place if you are considered vulnerable/at risk or have been subject to a complaint.
RE: your bank account - bigpaul - 6 December 2014
apart from checking the (wired in) smoke alarms once a year, that is done by an electrician sub contractor not a housing officer, we are having an electrical check-circuit board and sockets, in the new year, but that's the first time in 5 years. we had the outside painted a couple of years but that was on a rolling maintenance contract and that was a "yoof" with the stickiest most gummed up brush doing a "lick and a promise" one coat. we really need a new front door(panels are leaking) and we need new windows(double glazing has failed on several) but they wont do anything.
RE: your bank account - NorthernRaider - 6 December 2014
Rightly so Mo, cos if the boiler went tits up or the detectors failed or something they would be wide open for prosecution
Which reminds me our Smoke and CO 2 detectors must be about ten years old now, I need to change them, Of course being an evil capitalist home owner I will have to pay for them myself.
RE: your bank account - Midnitemo - 6 December 2014
was just pointing out opsec can be a little compromised with all these potential visitors....mine need looking at too...damn it more expense.
RE: your bank account - NorthernRaider - 6 December 2014
Damn good point mo, if the inspections are thorough and they check out every rooms ( sockets, smoke alarmsm, thermostats, light fittings, radiators) tenants preps really need to be out of sight.
RE: your bank account - Sunna - 14 February 2015
its one of the reasons I keep my preps out of sight , renting means you have to let folk in weather you like it or not