Thats the amount they say we need to live on? who writes this stuff, people with no kids and no idea of life in general? lmao

i know its not alot, it is madnes aye. We are in a 3 bed house and there are 6 of us.(different tho as us and the 4 kids!!! ) lol and our ncome level we need to live on is meant to be £299 which is not alot when u consider the amount we have to pay out!!! sorry not much help. good luck with the meeting xx

Thanks for all your help.

Anyone else with advice? thinking of asking them about part buy as we're interested in that but all the ones I seem to see are single wage: 23,000 for example.. too much for us since only sonny is working. We'd contact housing associations, but can the council arrange that for us? since i've seen HA places on the council bidding site. Hope that makes sense, im holding bethanie and typing with 1 hand lol.

The housins associations don noramlly have there own lists, they usually allocate there tenancies to people on council lists(may differ area to area) and you can usually apply to part buy, which means u can buy a percentage anything from 25% to full amount and u pay rent on the percentage u dont buy. so for instance... Cost of property is £180.000 you buy a 50 % share at 90.000 which would be around 700 monthly on average and then on top u would pay around 200 rent. just as a guide.xx

Yea thanks I know how they work and think they sound a great idea. my boyfriends dad works for a housing association so he is always trying to tell us about part buy and encourages us. It's still a little too expensive for us though, so I think council will be the way for now, unless they tell us otherwise.

hello hunni do u have a bidding system i.e every thurs there is housing hat are up for rent in ur area and you can bid on them thats what happens in warrington , i was on the council list i bidded on one house and refused it as was where a druggy killed himself in the bath so i was like no thanks but i got offered another one and took it all i know is that u can refuse up to 3 before u go bk to the que if you do have a bidding system i would only bid on the housing your willing to live in i now it must be hard but i would defo go the council and explain the situation and explain thats it very stressful living in a cramped envoriment and you need space to get the baby stuff ready you need a house asap and theres no quetsion about it and you wnat to know what they are going to do about it

Iwantone, yes we have the same bidding system every Thursday. I get what you're saying and we are going to stress that we need our own place.

According to our circumstances though, we are in the highest band available in our position (overcrowded, they realise we need our own place.. all of that crap) so I know we won't be moved UP the list, do you know what I mean? but do you think it will benefit us? or will they just try to bullshit us.

i think they will try and pull the wool over ur eyes u need to plead ur case and take no shit off them and say whatever they suggest is not good enough ur bidding on house you need to get ur OH mum to write a letter explainin that the situation is unbearable the waste thats coming out of the house that there finance are stetch with everyone living there and even thou this may not be the case u need to plead to moev up the band good luck lt us know how u get on xx

Yea I think they're going to try and take the piss just to get rid of us. It's not a lie that we want our own place and it's causing problems, but we will definitely exaggerate a little bit. The man at the council said we don't need a letter just yet but we might be asked for one in future, im sure his parents will have no problem writing one anyways.

well thats good i hope u get a home soon hunni xxx