Anyone rented to a housing association?

[kurt535]

have been considering this with a spare property i have - any experiences how the deal went for you?

Ty

[Spare tyre]

Our local housing association got hold of next door, absolute cluster fks in everything they did

Watching the blokes turn up in vans, sit there for hours, bodge something then bigger off

Tenants were an absolute nightmare, they had their windows smashed up before they'd finished moving in, stuff on the lawn for over a year. Drug dealing, dogs barking non stop, dog breeding, smashed up cars, wrist slitting, child swapping, benefit fraud every form of scum you name it, they did it


Eventually I managed to save up to move away, cost me a fortune


Please don't do it to your neighbours

[Eddieslofart]

We do the responsive maintainence for a number of the larger HA,s.

Can’t remember the last time a tenant treated a property with any sort of respect.

Edited by Eddieslofart on Saturday 21st October 20:39

[sunbeam alpine]

Don't do it!

[kurt535]

ouch.....

i hear everyone.

crossed off the list

[soad]

sunbeam alpine said:

Don't do it!

This!

[BlueHave]

soad said:

sunbeam alpine said:

Don't do it!

This!

You usually find that a lot of people get passed onto housing associations because they've been evicted for not paying rent or turning their previous property into a dump.

[blueg33]

Yes, in the last 5 years about 750 flats but its probably not comparable.

I think the main issue will be who the actual occupiers are, the lease in terms of repairing and insuring and alienation. Plus the track record of the HA in management. .

[blueg33]

Yes, in the last 5 years about 750 flats but its probably not comparable.

I think the main issue will be who the actual occupiers are, the lease in terms of repairing and insuring and alienation. Plus the track record of the HA in management. .

[anonymous-user]

I was so tempted to rent out a property this way just to get back at a nasty next door neighbour but there were a couple of really nice people in the street so I refrained.

Ended up taking the hit and put the house through an auction to get rid of it.

[fastbikes76]

Yup, as above really.

I am a contractor to a local HA, most properties would require a total strip and refit, if not demolition when current tenants vacate. I have some I refuse to enter , some I have to go home and shower before I can think of going to another job after. Obviously there is the other side of the coin when a few are pristine and probably borderline clinically clean. On the whole though...you are off your nut for even contemplating it !

[Mercury00]

Why are they always those kinds of people? I always thought it was rent being cheap, but actually when I looked it up it costs more to rent a council house than I pay for my mortgage. You can guarantee there'll be a trampoline and faded cosy coupe tipped over on the lawn

[SantaBarbara]

Mercury00 said:

Why are they always those kinds of people? I always thought it was rent being cheap, but actually when I looked it up it costs more to rent a council house than I pay for my mortgage. You can guarantee there'll be a trampoline and faded cosy coupe tipped over on the lawn

What is wrong with that?

[kurt535]

Its really disappointing so many - or so few - lack the cognitive and social skills to realise how others have provided for them!

Interestingly, I know of a 'family' who allowed their house to used as a class 'A' drug store now finally facing eviction by the HA yet the housing charity Shelter, are likely to be the biggest challenge to getting them out!

Edited by kurt535 on Monday 23 October 18:30

[marcg]

Is this true or something I have been told - a buy to let mortgage will not allow you to rent to an organisation rather than a tenant? In other words, letting to a housing association would be in breach of the terms?

[monkfish1]

marcg said:

Is this true or something I have been told - a buy to let mortgage will not allow you to rent to an organisation rather than a tenant? In other words, letting to a housing association would be in breach of the terms?

Yes. And for all the reasons above, if you were the lender, so would you!