Unemployed on UC & PIP, can pay rent but rejected for viewing houses on the pre application stage. Please help

I believe it was actually advertised on Serco website but got taken down after folks started commenting. Not sure if it’s back on there.
Unfortunately lots more problems to come for tenants as affordable rental property becomes increasingly hard to find and secure a tenancy on . Well done the likes of Generation rent and Shelter , great work.

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One(two?) word/s. It’s ding(h)y.

I’m selling because of RRB . I’ve also decided to bring forward my retirement from my full time self employed contracting business, a skilled trade job I’ve done for over 40 years . So in my case less available rental property, and less contributed to the system as I won’t be paying as much income tax on either business. Well done government, great work.

Try to sell to owner occupiers. That is what I have just done with 2 places. Looking for another good commercial unit

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I’ve just decided to sell and have done with it all Colin , I have one property for sale at present, I do also have others that have good tenants so it’s business as usual on those but as and when they come empty…

do not blame you The government are stitching everyone up. In ten years time the shortage of rentals will be just as bad if not worse. The private rentals sector houses a great many people

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Governments have made landlords risk adverse and the renters at the lower end pay

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Never mind the problem’s, what about the gove giving everyone 5 years guaranteed rent? … Equal rights and all that!!! Single, white, british citizen from birth and no hope …

Our local authority told the resident elderly pensioners ( who’d lived in their homes for years ) in social housing bungalows that they need to be knocked down because of disrepair. Tenants were housed with family or nursing homes.

They haven’t knocked them down but refurbished them for immigrants at a higher rent .
They covered the windows with steel so they can’t be broken into whilst they wait for higher paying tenants

And the government thinks the private rental sector is bad ……

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What finally happened to these three people?

It just gets better

Yes but in that article there is no explanation of what the council found to be inadequate about the housing. There could be a good reason, the rules on exempt are strict because of the vulnerability of the tenants. Of course they have to be evicted if no rent is being paid, then the council has to deal with them.

I’m not going to give the local authority the benefit of the doubt having seen what they have done to pensioners and other landlords in our city …