It doesn't get any better when you go via an Estate Agent, renting in this country is complete balls unless you get a decent, honest Landlord that actually gives two monkeys.
@Alien, aye I know what a section 21 is, been served one before as a threat. It's just an official 'get out'. but you can still keep them busy in court until a court order is sent to get you out, the key thing is you have to keep paying the rent, otherwise they will seek it as lost funds etc. regardless of state of the house. Your part of the deal is paying rent, if you keep that up, they won't have a leg to stand on in court.
Yeah. I guess in our case we have nothing to lose by being black listed so it would be their loss and they would not recover the money because we simply don't have it.
And after a suicide attempt you really do feel like you have absolutely nothing to lose, so for the first time ever I gave her a proper roasting.
My wife and I may have our shortcomings but we are honest, decent people. I sometimes have issues with the context of law but end of the day we have never missed a payment ever. In fact I put about £800 into the place myself to cover up a bare wall in the kitchen. I had a decorator come in to paper, painted the entire room etc. All to do what she should have done before. Oh yeah, there was a hole in the kitchen ceiling I fixed too. Ever held a sander up above your head to sand a ceiling? not nice....
I did all that because of the talk she gave us to sell us the place. Not like sell it as in try to sell it TO us, but sell the prospect of paying the deposit, removal vans etc.
Then she changes her mind...
I would not go quietly though. Not a bit of it. You want me out? then I need a section 21, as without it I can not get another place. My wife and I have spent nearly a year trying to find a property to rent but thanks to programmes on Channel 4 and Channel 5 pretty much demonising any one on benefits we are now scum that they are allowed to say "Bugger off, your money isn't good enough".
So the only option for us is council but guess what? you are wasting your fluffing time until you have a section 21. Even recorded phone calls and repeated text messages saying she's selling the place are not good enough. We spent about a week jumping through hoops for housing only for them to tell us there's nothing they can do for us. Not until we are served a section 21 and are literally out on our arses.
We are the new Indians. We are the new (censored words obs because they are racist) we are the new "queers". Gay people fought for acceptance and rightly got it. Asians, muslims, pakistanis, etc etc. All of these things we used to demonise and now look down our noses upon have been given their fair dues thanks to PC. And I completely and totally agree with ALL OF IT. We should not be racist, we should not be homophobes either, each to their own ETC.
Yet the mentally ill are deemed "normal" and have to do all of the things that "normal" people do only with this enormous stigma that has been created by the TV and every one hating us.
And it's slow going too, man. You know? being accepted and not getting
that reaction when you tell some one "hey, I suffer from mental illness" and then seeing that look or noticing the change in the way some one treats you.
A couple of years ago I went onto a forum and ended up getting banned. Just the same stuff I do around here, some one annoys me I lash out. Nothing changes. Any way, I made it clear to that forum that I had mental issues and thus, if I ever say things in anger don't judge me on it. I got banned.
I then went back and made a point NEVER to mention my illness/condition etc and no ban. And I have been far naughtier than I was before.
You look on the streets and you see all of these homeless people. They are all mentally ill. We either end up in prison because we can't look after ourselves or we end up sleeping in shop doorways.
It's disgusting and it needs to stop. Giving away houses to assylum seekers yet leaving your own mentally ill on the streets?
Tell you what, if my Grandpa was alive to see what risking his life for queen and country had actually got him he would probably die again of the shock.
We've basically opened our doors, forced ourselves to accept it all and given everything away to every one but ourselves.
