Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Posh thread for PN.

I saw that thread when it started.... was tempted at the time to post "Posh is knowing people who shop in M&S for food" as the OP said "Posh is .... getting all dressed up for a dinner party in someone's house, just to eat Marks & Spencer stuff"

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Letting agents do not want to know whether the place is tidy, or decluttered, or anything else. They want to know whether there is anything that needs repairing, and whether the tenant has damaged anything. The inspections are irritating and intrusive, but it's not actually necessary to get the place looking perfect for them. I'm afraid 3 times a year is about standard.

They could just ask on the phone: All OK? Broken stuff, or what?

These inspections are another thing that've crept into life. They didn't used to happen.

Since moving in (less than 5 months), I've had: Inspection; gas safety check; separate gas service; LL knocking on door for something; LL telling me they'd had a back up of the shared drains and could I please minimise loo roll (not a reflection on what I've been doing, he was pre-empting potential issues for the future); letter saying new member of staff is now my agent; second inspection.

I just want to be left alone!!

Change, interruptions and invasion are unsettling for me.

PasturesNew

Starving and it's raining today .... hate driving in the rain.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

They could just ask on the phone: All OK? Broken stuff, or what?

These inspections are another thing that've crept into life. They didn't used to happen.

Since moving in (less than 5 months), I've had: Inspection; gas safety check; separate gas service; LL knocking on door for something; LL telling me they'd had a back up of the shared drains and could I please minimise loo roll (not a reflection on what I've been doing, he was pre-empting potential issues for the future); letter saying new member of staff is now my agent; second inspection.

I just want to be left alone!!

They can't do it by phone sadly. This is not a reflection on them or you particularly, more what bad tenants get up to. I once came home from work in a very nice area to find my neighbours car was the normal colour on one side and a very different colour on the other. The tenant had set up a garage business from their home and was spray painting cars on the street. As the wind blew, so the paint travelled onto other cars. It also discoloured all the lovely block paving. In another house I've known people take the heating system out to sell for scrap. Where my brother lives, one of the rented houses was used as a cannabis farm. All of these people would have answered the phone "yes, everything is fine here".

Seriously, you have nothing to worry about from having a blow up mattress or a bike.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

..e.

This is why I want to buy a house - I can close the door and that's it. I can choose who comes into my home and why and when. As a renter things are "done to you" incessantly and it's not good for mental well being. Plus, the fear that you're going to be judged/discussed back at the office... and tittle tattle spoken with the LL.

SingleSue

Generali wrote: »

Lucky babies look like Churchill, unlucky ones like Joe Bugner.

James looked like an alien....he had had a failed ventouse and then forcep delivery and his head was elongated like an aliens plus all bruised and cut.

Oh and he was ginger, something which shocked him when he looked at his first born photo as his hair was almost black at the time.....he now has an almost ginger beard (people ask him if he has dyed his beard as it most def does not go with the hair on his head!)

Middle son came out looking beautiful, perfect round head, big wide open blue eyes, perfect skin and not scrunched up or wrinkled at all.

Youngest looked tiny and a cross between an Bugner and Winston Churchill...he was so frail looking, even though he was my third baby, I was scared to touch him in case he broke.

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

They can't do it by phone sadly. This is not a reflection on them or you particularly, more what bad tenants get up to. I once came home from work in a very nice area to find my neighbours car was the normal colour on one side and a very different colour on the other. The tenant had set up a garage business from their home and was spray painting cars on the street. As the wind blew, so the paint travelled onto other cars. It also discoloured all the lovely block paving. In another house I've known people take the heating system out to sell for scrap. Where my brother lives, one of the rented houses was used as a cannabis farm. All of these people would have answered the phone "yes, everything is fine here".

Seriously, you have nothing to worry about from having a blow up mattress or a bike.

It may not be anything to worry about but for those who have any kind of ASD or similar problems, they find it exceedingly unsettling. The fun I have when I have the gas safety check done is very eek because youngest can sense someone has been in the house (different smell, his sense of smell is very acute) and it leads to weeks of him being very unsettled and not sleeping and that is when he hasn't even seen strangers in the house!

It's not just strangers though, it is also people who don't 'belong' in that setting, my parents can't even come into the house as they don't belong there, their setting is at their home and he barely copes when ex mother in law is here and she had been coming to the house once a week since he was a baby.

Goodness knows how he will cope when he is older and possibly living in rented accomodation, he would go into major meltdown at the thought of a stranger coming into the house, let alone it actually happening.

It's something I have tried to work on but years and years down the line and I am still no further forward in getting him to accept people outside of our little unit into the home.

lemonjelly

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

We didn't get to the caves, Battle Abbey was the total visit. It was great fun, though, and Dad and Isaac had earnest discussions looking over the battlefield about which lot did what.

I loved the digital contraption they give you to guide you round the battlefield. When I went I'd just (handily) finished reading a book on events around the battle, so had a whale of a time.

We also went into a place called yesterdays world, which other friends thought was better than the abbey. I disagreed. Perhaps not so much the kind of place a little un would like though.

If you return to Hastings, I'd recommend the caves. Doesn't matter if you're 6 or 60, there is something to enjoy, fascinate & intrigue you there. There's history as well as adventure. Highly recommended!:)

lostinrates

So, the heating complaints arories will not disclose the response from the company to our complaint. Seems a bit unbalanced that they see what we present and we don't see what they present. They cannot explain why it is this way.

lemonjelly

A bit?
To say the least, & goes against the principles of natural justice.
There has to be a reason for refusing disclosure surely?