Should I ask to pay less

[karma22]

rent.

I'm moving from a double room/double bed to a single room/single bed.

The reason is because I was going to be moving out and my landlady has got another girl for my room and has seen it and paid the deposit and is moving in next month. Then I decided I wanted to stay and so I need to have the other room in the house which is a much smaller room with a single bed.

I don't want to seem like I'm pushing my luck asking for reduction in rent because I feel landlady has been quite good to let me pay by housing benefit anyway. Some people are telling me it would not be pushing my luck and I should ask for a reduction.

What would you do?

[Jan1957]

Couldn't help laughing dot. You sound like you were interviewing her and you work there instead of the other way round.

[Postdog]

I'd agree with the first answer - as you aren't paying, does it make a difference.

However, when you come to be able to pay, I'd suggest a reduction is in order, and I speak as someone who lets rooms out. I wouldn't dream of charging the same rent for less room.

[craft1948]

Ankou.....I love your reasoning......lol

[karma22]

Postdog - thanks for your help. Yes it doesn't matter so much at the moment if I get the housing benefit althout I will still have to make the benefit up to cover the rent using my jsa I expect. Helps to know that you as a landlord wouldn't charge the same amount for a smaller room though. I'm too scared to ask her though!

MissN - I thought I had enough money to being with, but then didn't really, it would have been pushing it, researching going abroad and working was like a minefield to me and then I thought about paying on a credit card but thats not a good idea either really even if I could get a guarantee of a job abroad before I go. In many ways it is the perfect time but in some ways its not. But yeah ozor canada would have been great!

Dot - good to know it might only take 10 days. Phew I really hope it is as quick as that! I know they backdate it but I'm running out of dosh. Maybe you or I could have had the job that the lady was doing - we might have done a better job! lol. The staff in my jobcentre aren't terribly friendly I don't think. They look down on you.

[TCL-MUMPING]

dot some Jobcentres ARE open on Saturdays now. Folk in there are not employed for their typing skills and judging by yir posts, neither would you.

[dot.haukes]

Oh aye i know that TCL but I'm not paid to sit at a desk pretending to be an office type using a PC all day am I?

[TCL-MUMPING]

They do their job, they are not pretending at anything. If you had to see as many folk as they do in a day, you'd maybe not be so dismissive of their abilities.

[ummmm]

Karma....check out the fact that you chose to be unemployed in a climate such as this. They could dock any benefit you're entitled to.

I'd move back home if I was you.

A couple of weeks ago you were posting that you were 'grateful' for your car. How are you going to be able to afford that on �64 a week???