I am desperately trying to find a home to rent with my kids. Too long-winded to go into detail over why it's been so difficult to find somewhere.
Anyway. I'm a single working mother claiming Housing Ben/ Tax Credits, am very responsible, educated, good job, yadda yadda and am SO frustrated by the number of rental ads that say 'no dss'.
Am I right in assuming this is used as code to weed out tenants deemed to be socially undesirable? If so, would it be wrong for me to view those places anyway and then, once the agent has met me and seen that I'm just a sensible working professional, I'll give them the detail of where my income comes from? I have no intention of keeping up the pretence indefinitely; I just want to have a decent chance of finding a home!
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Should I pretend to estate agents that I'm not claiming housing benefit?
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ClairityVerity · 22/07/2014 22:15
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