Wow....

I've just looked on home choice plus and theirs a house I'm not ony eligible for but is on the ground floor AND allows dogs! Ok so I am currently 124th on the list so it's very unlikely that I'll get asked to go and look at it but at least their are some properties out there possibly suitable for me.

So this week their were in the city I'm looking at moving to 18 properties.

Of these there were 13 I weren't elegibile for because I don't have kids or aren't old enough.

So 5 left and of those 5 their were 2 of those that were ground floor but for over 55's

So I were down to 3 and one of those was 2nd floor and I'm guessing there was no lift so that wouldn't be much good for me

2 left and one was on the 3rd floor so again no good to me

Then I got to a ground floor flat which allows pets and has a garden AND it says nothing about minimum age. The only problems being I have been told it's in an area where theirs alot of asbo familys and theirs not much public transport but theirs got to be more public transport than their is here. I may need to get a faster power chair though so I can just speed off as soon as I get out the front door until I'm well clear of the area!

Properties available for under 60 disabled with pets...

There are none! Not a single one, not in 9 months have I found a single one

I really should've learnt by now now to get excited when new properties go up on Home Choice Plus but I still got excited when I woke this morning and after putting my body back together (quite literally!) I saw what day it was and knew there would be new properties.

At the moment I live in a little village that boasts about 25 houses a post box that isn't big enough to post parcels and an old telephone box that probably doesn't have a working phone in it. I loved living here when I could cycle and walk miles but now...well it's a miracle I haven't died of boredom!

I met my boyfriend online in a disability chat room we were both just looking for friends and that's how it started out with us but a few months down the line we realised we felt more than friendship for each other so decided to meet up and things went from there. Almost 2 years later and I spend 3 or 4 weeks at home with my Mum and Stepdad and then travel an hour in a car and 3 hours on 2 trains to stay with my boyfriend for 1 or 2 weeks. All this travelling isn't good for me though, I think I've been ill more often with colds and flu since I met my boyfriend than I have in the rest of my life! It would be difficult for him to travel to visit me because he gets very anxious about travelling and has a mental illness so would be worried that he would get too stressed about meeting my family and end up being ill.

So I've been on the housing register since the end of May 2009 to get my own place nearer where he lives. How it works is I log in every week to Home Choice and I can 'bid' on 3 properties the bidding part is just registering your interest really. I could of course make things a little easier by myself by finding my 2 dogs new homes but my dogs are my only friends and have kept me from going (completely) insane whilst I were stuck in the house for days, weeks sometimes months on end. I can't repay them by getting rid of them just because it could make finding somewhere to live easier.

So this is what we have this week: 16 properties in the city I'm looking at. I'll weed out the ones I'm not eligible for first.
Theirs 9 I'm not eligible for and why am I not eligible? because I don't have children or because I'm not old enough.
So that leaves 7 of which their are 5 which aren't on the ground floor so aren't suitable for me because I can't manage the stairs anymore.
So we're down to 2 both of which don't allow dogs.

I'm going to have to try to find out how much housing benefit I would be entitled to and then see whether theirs any chance I can afford to rent privately because most places that are suitable for me that are ground floor are for people over 60, why?? I've had many people mostly elderly people telling me I'm too young to be disabled and no housing for the young disabled just encourages this idea. Of course because I'm under 25 I may only be able to get shared room rate on housing benefit and I seriously doubt I'd make a good flat mate. Many people my age wil go out drinking until 3 or 4am whch I don't really have a problem with, it's great they can go out drinking and dancing all night and then be up to doing it all again the next night but some are rather inconsiderate and I'd get woken up at 3am by them staggering in probably with a few more mates to carry on the party. I need my sleep! I know I sound like a grumpy old woman but if I'm kept awake too long I get too tired to have the energy to keep eveything in joint. Ok so I fail anyway at keeping everything in joint but what I mean is I dislocate a lot more if I'm tired. Plus I won't be able to pull my weight with the housework.
So I just have to hope that whichever monkey will decide whether I'm severely disabled and so should get more on housing benefit so I can (hopefully) just about afford a place by myself is in a good mood that day