Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Yorkie1

Nikkster wrote: »

OK - spurred on by thinking about Spirit and her determination. The document is now open. At least that's a start

I can empathise with your frustration ... my document's been open all day and I can't decide whether the conclusion / recommendations are OK or way off beam and thus need a completely new re-write ... :mad:

hjd

Spirit wrote: »

I insist on winning the slow day prize hospitals at weekends are just people storage

Do we need to organise a raiding party to spring you from the hospital, whisk you off somewhere else for a bit of TLC/pampering, then return you before they do the next head count?

lostinrates

Or a bit of in bed pampering or chatting? Easily arranged......

Nikkster

Masomnia wrote: »

This is why I could never do a PhD or work in academia (that's what you do right?)

One out of the two of those - a couple of years ago it would have been two out of two.

Masomnia wrote: »

If I'm getting paid to do something and given a deadline I'm fine. If I was doing a PhD I'd do nothing for at least 3 years

Well, I have a deadline. Though I have had them previously, and I haven't been held to them... (which is nice but in many ways not helpful). This is a real deadline though.

No option of doing nothing for 3 years in a lab-based science PhD. They'd notice if you weren't doing any experiments. And you couldn't do them all right at the end (you kind of work out what you're writing your thesis on as you go along).

LydiaJ

Nikkster wrote: »

Can't be as slow as over here.

Things are not going well (unless you count substantial overeating as going well).

Meh.

Document not behaving itself? If you get completely stuck, try choosing a different bit to work on until you feel a bit more over the hump and then go back to the harder bit. Or if there's a particular bit that you just keep not being able to get started on, ask yourself why and insist on an actual answer from yourself. I usually find that the answer involves something I don't know or can't do, so then I realise what help or information I need to go looking for, instead of just beating myself up about being so pathetic and not doing it.

Spirit wrote: »

I insist on winning the slow day prize hospitals at weekends are just people storage

Oh Spirit. Sending hugs.

silvercar wrote: »

Went to see the potential BTL again today. The tenant was caught unawares. Poor guy. Son tenant was nursing a hangover- I'm sure that sleeping in a bunk bed can't help. Dad tenant was telling us they are only there until their purchase goes through. Agent was on the phone to Mum tenant who said they wanted to stay in the flat.

Putting that all together, I guess they want to stay until their purchase goes through and not have an interim move.

So the agent took you round there despite the tenants not being aware that they were going to do so?
Poor tenants.
Quiet enjoyment not.
How awkward for you to find yourself in the middle of that.

LydiaJ

Nikkster wrote: »

OK - spurred on by thinking about Spirit and her determination. The document is now open. At least that's a start

Yay! Go Nikkster.
(says Lydia who has been sleeping instead of doing her marking and must go and do it now )

silvercar

LydiaJ wrote: »

So the agent took you round there despite the tenants not being aware that they were going to do so?
Poor tenants.
Quiet enjoyment not.
How awkward for you to find yourself in the middle of that.

Well Mum tenant was out, Dad tenant wasn't bothered by anything other than watching TV. Son tenant had been in bunk bed nursing hangover, so he was the only one disturbed.

I do have sympathy for tenants in this situation, but selling to someone who wants to be a landlord means they get to stay in the property, whereas refusing all viewings means they will get eviction notice soon. So I guess it is their choice whether to allow viewings.

We wanted to look at another place, but that was tenanted and the tenant has refused all viewings, so the seller and agent are stuck until the tenant leaves.

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

Well Mum tenant was out, Dad tenant wasn't bothered by anything other than watching TV. Son tenant had been in bunk bed nursing hangover, so he was the only one disturbed.

I do have sympathy for tenants in this situation, but selling to someone who wants to be a landlord means they get to stay in the property, whereas refusing all viewings means they will get eviction notice soon. So I guess it is their choice whether to allow viewings.

We wanted to look at another place, but that was tenanted and the tenant has refused all viewings, so the seller and agent are stuck until the tenant leaves.

Oh, OK, that sounds a lot better. I misunderstood what you meant by "caught unawares" in your previous post. Thanks for clearing that up.

Yes, I agree the best outcome for the tenants if they want to stay is for the LL to sell to another LL. A friend of mine recently sold her tenanted "accidental LL" house to another LL, and I agreed with her when she said how pleased she was that the tenant wouldn't have to be asked to leave.

I never had a LL want to sell from underneath me, but I would have hated it. I had a LL want us out so they could move back in. I also had an agent wanting to do viewings during my notice period after I'd said I was going, and I didn't want that - felt very disruptive and intrusive when I had other priorities than getting the house in a fit state for people to be shown round. Fortunately there were visibly obvious maintenance issues that meant the LL agreed they didn't want viewings to happen until the maintenance had been done, for fear of putting off potential new tenants, and they couldn't reasonably expect us to let them send people in to take up floors and take down ceilings during our notice period, so we were left in peace.

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

Well Mum tenant was out, Dad tenant wasn't bothered by anything other than watching TV. Son tenant had been in bunk bed nursing hangover, so he was the only one disturbed.

I do have sympathy for tenants in this situation, but selling to someone who wants to be a landlord means they get to stay in the property, whereas refusing all viewings means they will get eviction notice soon. So I guess it is their choice whether to allow viewings.

We wanted to look at another place, but that was tenanted and the tenant has refused all viewings, so the seller and agent are stuck until the tenant leaves.

Our second to last rented flat was on the market to sell for almost 2 years. Right at the start we told the agent we would accept viewings on Saturday afternoons, as long as they were organised in a block, and anytime before 6pm on a week day as long as they have is 24 hours notice. They were pretty good about this although once they did turn up about 5pm on a Saturday without agreeing the viewing in advance, and then tried to let themselves in without knocking. I was "not pleased".

In the last place when we were moving out we refused a really inconvenient viewing but the prospective tenant turned up anyway and tried to get us to let him in. He was sent on his way.

PasturesNew

I had a potential tenant (a couple) just knock on my door at the last place as they'd phoned for a viewing and had been given an appointment the next day, but "couldn't wait", so wanted to find out where it actually was - then decided to knock and ask if they could just come in and have a quick look round.

Not .... good. Sent them packing....