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DizzyDasher

sonastin wrote: »

My OH has just let his house. He despises visible cables so he has pipes and conduit and ducting all over the place behind the walls. He wanted to go down the "no way no how never" route with things in the walls to make sure the tenants don't hit anything they shouldn't. So as a compromise, I've got him to fix a mirror in each bathroom and put picture hooks on the walls in all the rooms so that the tenants don't actually have to face bare walls every day. I'm hoping that by making their lives a little bit easier, they won't feel the need to ignore his overly strict diktats!

This sounds a good idea to me. As a tenant the only time I have ever put up my own picture hooks is when there is a huge blank wall with nothing on it - otherwise I work with what is there, even if that means the picture is not quite in the ideal place. I've never been charged for putting up a picture hook when I have done it - but definitely prefer to avoid that risk if the LL is going to make it easy for me to do so!

princeofpounds

Yes, that is a good idea - the LL gets to choose the hooks and the T gets to choose the pictures.

It's unrealistic to expect people to live in a sterile, unpersonalised environment, quite a considerate thing for you to think of.

Lexxi

I'm thinking I should have been a bit stricter, I just told my tenants not to knock any walls down