KovacsC wrote:
I feel for you, but you really can't be kicked out at any time, you get 8 weeks notice.
Contact the council and see what can be done.
Are you renting direct?
Yes. We did register to bid on council properties but I didn't quite understand it so we didn't bid. Plus I found logging in every single day only to look at properties that were already gone incredibly stressful. Moving in here actually put Mrs JC in hospital for three weeks. Of course I explained all of this to our landlady but why should she care right? me being a fucking dick and being too trusting as usual.
So in the end we found this flat and I needed to end up doing a ton of work just to make it livable. It was a complete dump, two of the kitchen walls had no plaster on them so were bare brick because of a leak outside that she was too tight to fix so I put up plywood walls and had them wallpapered just to make it presentable. Oh, and fixed a huge hole in the ceiling too and redecorated the entire kitchen. I wouldn't have done any of that had I known she would do something like this so the next flat we move into is going to be fucking mint or they can shove it. If I'm paying good rent I don't want a shit hole.
When I spoke to housing this morning though I did get some good news. Apparently there are flats designated for disabled couples. They tried before, but Mrs JC and I had only just met and so they would only offer me a single bed flat and I wasn't allowed to have any one living there with me. We were already living together though (as we'd known each other four years) so yeah, would have made things very difficult seeing as Mrs JC lived in Dorset and I lived in West Sussex, 2.5 hours drive.
So I decided to move to Dorset for a bit and when the house was sold and so on we moved back here, but fuck me what a nightmare. It took us three months to find a private let due to every one discriminating and when we did it was more than our housing benefit and a shit hole.
So hopefully housing can come through. I really hate dealing with people and with the very bitter taste I have in my mouth I would probably not get a flat privately any way.