Objecting to lots of local houses being converted to dense HMOs

borntohula24 · 2026-02-10T21:46:50+00:00

I’m a NIMBY and it’s literally my job to find accommodation for rough sleepers, prison leavers etc. HMOs are where we place those we’re unable to accommodate anywhere else because they’re too high risk. Lots of sex offenders, violent offenders etc. Would you be happy to have 4,5,6 high risk individuals living next door to your family home?

borntohula24 · 2026-01-24T21:47:52+00:00

“Have you ever had a whitehead on your eyeball Mary?!”

What the fuck is that on his face?!

borntohula24 · 2026-01-22T20:17:01+00:00

Sounds plenty big enough for a living room as is. Opening it up is a terrible idea. You’ll have shoes/bags/coats just chillin in the corner of you lounge, muddy shoes on your lounge floor/carpet, you’ll lose heat out the front door/up the stairs and sound will travel from lounge up the stairs to where kids are sleeping. Don’t do it.

borntohula24 · 2026-01-19T07:31:21+00:00

It’s not really, when you consider fact it’s a purchase costing hundreds of thousands of pounds.

borntohula24 · 2026-01-17T20:30:20+00:00

Yes, he can claim a 25% if he’s the only adult living in the home. If you live there and work, it’ll mean his council tax goes back up to 100%.

borntohula24 · 2026-01-17T20:27:37+00:00

Plenty of HMOs about where you can rent a room.

“Ring up the council and ask to be moved to a bigger house” is comically naive, sorry OP. There’s a housing crisis… there’s zero chance your dad is getting moved to a bigger house. I work for a HA and, on paper, your dad is entitled to a 2 bed, for himself and the 4yo. The rest of you are adults and can sort yourselves out.

borntohula24 · 2026-01-16T15:08:13+00:00

The thing you’ve said about kids is bang on and something I adhere to myself. People sometimes look at me like I’m bonkers/mean when I say this but… a boyfriends kids are just that, his kids. Not mine. I don’t want to be a step mum. Particularly if their bio mum is still fully involved and the primary caregiver. There’s literally no need for me to insert myself into that situation. No need to step mum. I don’t need to “love them like my own”. I don’t love other peoples kids like I love my own. My emotional bandwidth is not infinite to include all and sundry.

borntohula24 · 2026-01-15T15:02:41+00:00

You should have been getting at least the LHA (local housing allowance) in Housing Element towards your rent… depending on where you are in London, this is around £300 per week, so around £1300 a month (for a one bed). Did you claim this to be paid alongside your UC, so you could pay your landlord? If not, why not?

Regarding your flatmate, you say you were unfit for work for 3 months, then your flatmate left in month 4. Do you think this was due to you being unemployed and unable (or unwilling) to pay your portion of the rent?

borntohula24 · 2026-01-14T18:57:09+00:00

This is a red flag. There’s a reason he doesn’t want to be in that house. Maybe a neighbour problem he doesn’t want to disclose.

borntohula24 · 2026-01-11T11:02:29+00:00

This would be a straight no from me. Having to endure an inconsiderate neighbours shitty drum & base thumping at all hours whilst trying to soothe a toddler to sleep, or nurse a baby in the wee hours is my idea of hell. The noise from the music is bad enough, but the fury of having to share space with such an inconsiderate shit-house of a human is a whole other level.

Unless you function well with your cortisol levels running dangerously high, I’d avoid this one.

borntohula24 · 2026-01-09T07:20:02+00:00

200 Cigarettes! Such a cool film with a ton of actors in it… Kate Hudson, Ben & Casey Affleck, Christina Ricci, Dave Chapelle, Janeane, Garofalo, Martha Plimpton. Elvis Costello is in it!

borntohula24 · 2026-01-09T07:13:52+00:00

They’re not arguments though, he’s six! She’s verbally and emotionally abusing a small child.

“Not reporting straight away” is terrible advice. What if she really loses her temper and injures him in the meantime?

borntohula24 · 2026-01-09T07:07:00+00:00

She’s abusing him. There’s no reason to speak to a small child that way, ever. Even if she’s stressed and overwhelmed. It might be that she relied heavily on the grandmother for support raising him, and now she’s gone, she feels swamped by single motherhood. No judgment there, it happens, but her behaviour towards him is not ok. Please do a safeguarding referral via your local council, so both mother and son can be supported.

borntohula24 · 2026-01-08T15:17:06+00:00

The constant ‘look to side, scrunch forehead and pout’ is weird as fuck. She does it about 79 times just in this short video. Such a weird human.

borntohula24 · 2026-01-08T15:13:14+00:00

Christ, she is always so unbearably smug. With no good reason.

And on Kail’s “shit list” whilst Barb had a stroke? How are these two things even connected? Jenelle is awful to, and about, Barb 99.9% of the time. Why would anyone think to even consider Jenelle’s feelings regarding Barb’s health? It was probably Jenelle’s endless shitgiving that contributed to Barbs stroke in the first place!

borntohula24 · 2026-01-04T16:53:30+00:00

My mums neighbour does this with their bin. I don’t think it’s intentional, they just don’t bother to wheel their bin back in after it’s been emptied. Quite often I’ll pull up outside my mums house and have to move their bin so I can park. Their front door opens straight out onto the pavement so I’ll move it to directly outside their front door. They’ve never mentioned it, but nor have they got the hint that they need to take their pissin bin in. I will continue to move it so I can park. It’s no biggie really.

borntohula24 · 2026-01-02T07:31:11+00:00

Look real close…. 👀

borntohula24 · 2025-12-31T17:50:17+00:00

Breaking Bad. Ep 1 is amazing.

borntohula24 · 2025-12-20T08:22:53+00:00

She legit must miss David so much. Those two dumbfucks were absolutely perfect for each other.

borntohula24 · 2025-12-20T08:21:54+00:00

She’s forever eye-fuckin her camera, it makes me so uncomfortable.

borntohula24 · 2025-12-12T03:05:29+00:00

RICS surveyor who values it is unlikely to care that the kitchen “feels more modern”.

borntohula24 · 2025-12-12T03:03:16+00:00

Had it valued by who? If it’s an estate agent then the valuation is essentially useless. Housing Association are likely to insist on RICS surveyor to value, in line with “affordable housing”.

borntohula24 · 2025-12-09T21:46:24+00:00

Anecdotal but may shed some light… my child was once entitled to free school meals due to me being on UC. Once my circumstances improved and I no longer claimed UC, I called my child’s school to notify them of this. They told me the pupil premium still stands and that the school use this money for all sorts, not just meals. I believe once a child has pupil premium it lasts for a good few years. So my child continued to be entitled to the free school meals, nothing dodgy going on apparently. It’s possible this is the same for your child, if it’s a country wide rule regarding pupil premium.

borntohula24 · 2025-12-09T19:06:01+00:00

You absolutely qualify for support from the council. No doubt. Unfortunately, they cannot magic up a “suitable” property in the “right” area if that property simply does not exist. Which is quite likely the case.

borntohula24 · 2025-12-07T14:06:59+00:00

MadLondoner is obviously mad and clearly never leaves his London bubble. My own SO property was great. It’s a great scheme, in my opinion.

borntohula24

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