{"id":2600,"date":"2015-05-30T15:06:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/how-to-find-a-landlord-wholl-accept-dss\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:14:16","slug":"how-to-find-a-landlord-wholl-accept-dss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/how-to-find-a-landlord-wholl-accept-dss\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find A Landlord Who&#8217;ll Accept DSS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate Plus (https:\/\/seoultimateplus.com) - Code Inserter module -->\n<script async>(function(s,u,m,o,j,v){j=u.createElement(m);v=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0];j.async=1;j.src=o;j.dataset.sumoSiteId='b68b392479b5981b8acf46565e9fe32a0734fc21a1f7c1e60121eaa6ca1a1c64';v.parentNode.insertBefore(j,v)})(window,document,'script','\/\/load.sumo.com\/');<\/script>\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate Plus -->\n\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As Ed Miliband suggests,<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labour.org.uk\/the-cost-of-living-crisis-facing-britain---ed-miliband\" target=\"\"> there is a cost of living crisis here in the UK<\/a> that means that many people are finding it more and more difficult to live with any reasonable quality of life. If you&#8217;re on housing benefit or you have a local housing allowance, you could be finding life difficult not only because you&#8217;re on an extremely tight budget, but also because you&#8217;re finding it a real challenge to find somewhere to live. Very few <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Landlord\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/landlord\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/landlord;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.02mx_6;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Landlord\" >landlords<\/a> are accepting people on DSS, and this means that even if you could afford to <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"rental\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/renting\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/renting;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.01y857;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Renting\" >rent<\/a> your own place, the system simply isn&#8217;t letting you. So the question arises: how can you find a landlord who accepts people on income support?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A Close Network of Friends and Family<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A simple answer to this problem is that there isn&#8217;t an easy or straightforward way to find a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/let-for-free\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landlord<\/a> who&#8217;ll accept you if you&#8217;re on DSS, as there is a relative stigma attached to tenants of this kind even if you&#8217;re in the majority of tenants who don&#8217;t fall under the stereotype. So where can you begin your search? A good place to start would be with the people you already know. If you&#8217;re looking for a place to live, ask your friends and family if they know of landlords who accept DSS; even better, as them to ask their friends and family. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Asking Your Local Authority<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">If option one doesn&#8217;t quite work out, you could go to your local council authority and ask them if they know of any rental <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Property\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/property\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/property;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.05wrt;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Property\" >properties<\/a> available through <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Housing cooperative\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/housing-cooperative\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/housing_cooperative;http:\/\/yago-knowledge.org\/resource\/Housing_cooperative;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.02r4gs;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Housing_cooperative\" >cooperative<\/a> landlords. The way this works is that some landlords will register with the local council authority to help them find tenants. Not all landlords do this because they would prefer to source their own tenants, but many do. Through this method, your local <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"council houses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/council-house\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/council_house;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.01llhc;http:\/\/yago-knowledge.org\/resource\/Council_house;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Council_house\" >council<\/a> might be able to find you a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-to-rent\" title=\"rental property\">rental property<\/a>, but its essential to remember that thousands of others are waiting in line too, meaning that this is by no means a guaranteed method of finding a property.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Searching Online<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Although the majority of searchable property databases online are for non-DSS tenants only, some are specifically designed for DSS <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Leasehold estate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/leasehold-estate\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/leasehold_estate;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.03jg1x;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Leasehold_estate\" >tenants<\/a>, making your life a whole <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Land lot\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/land-lot\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/land_lot;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.0gs32y;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Land_lot\" >lot<\/a> easier. A good place to start could be <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dssmove.co.uk\/news\/425\/finding-private-landlords-who-accept-dss-tenants\/\" target=\"\">DSSMove<\/a>, which offers advice on how to find a property and has a large database full of properties specifically for those on DSS. This will cut down on the amount of hassle you have to go through to find your new property, and you can even search by specific criteria such as price and area to make life even easier.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">So there you have it: it might be hard as a person on DSS to locate a new <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Housing estate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/housing-estate\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/housing_estate;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.01rtvp;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Housing_estate\" >home<\/a>, but it isn&#8217;t impossible. You need to be patient and eventually, one of the above methods will lead you to your new landlord. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ed Miliband suggests, there is a cost of living crisis here in the UK that means that many people are finding it more and more difficult to live with any reasonable quality of life. 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