your bank account

[bigpaul]

(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.

[NorthernRaider]

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.

[Sunna]

my local housing ass , first gives you a 1yr then a 5yr then a longer one they don't do life time ones anymore .

[bigpaul]

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.

[Midnitemo]

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.

[bigpaul]

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.

[NorthernRaider]

Rightly so Mo, cos if the boiler went tits up or the detectors failed or something they would be wide open for prosecution

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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.

[Midnitemo]

was just pointing out opsec can be a little compromised with all these potential visitors....mine need looking at too...damn it more expense.

[NorthernRaider]

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.

[Sunna]

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