Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

Aww, Fay.... sorry to hear that. Boo!:mad:

Hang on though.... I don't suppose anything's in writing, but the executors, saying that, have revealed that they didn't get the best price for the property, so they may have failed in their prime duty to any other beneficiaries. I suppose it depends if there are any others - if it's just them they can probably do as they like.

Anyway, their behaviour was morally dubious and not a great way to remember or represent the person who formerly lived in the house.

Grrrr!:mad:

As for the agent, they'll have a body you can complain to, paid for by.....err...estate agents!

Onwards and upwards with the ones you're viewing next, and better luck, hopefully. You have to beat that smelly house now!

choille

Hope the corpse is found soon - we have this with hairy cat although he often just leaves his catches in the bath where he treats it like his personal amphitheatre. Blood sprayed all up its sides of a morning. Sometimes one escapes his clutches but is mortally wounded and dies somewhere inconvenient.

Hope that the house hunting goes much better & somewhere ideal appears at a good price. I think prices are halting - well it depends on the area I suppose. You will get something that is without the smell Fay & without all the EA annoyance - putting it mildly.

The taper has done for the day & the place is looking like a room up there. He was a bit surprised at all the angles - the house isn't an oblong & is quite complex which we love but does make things harder to tackle so good that he is competent as many trades are just 'oblong' type of mindsets. He'll be back when it's wet outside - which is forecast all week. The gales are strong.

The nurse has been into neighbour this morning & she had someone in earlier. Maybe going to the MSP & getting rather strident & warning them that they are aware of the situation so if anything happens on THEIR WATCH, I will make it known that they should have been 'trying a bit harder.'
I've turned into a right old bag..................

Fay

Davesnave wrote: »

Aww, Fay.... sorry to hear that. Boo!:mad:

Anyway, their behaviour was morally dubious and not a great way to remember or represent the person who formerly lived in the house.

You have to beat that smelly house now!

Yes I agree, strange behaviour all round, executes and estate agents. I may well complain, this company is notorious in Warwick for being useless.

Today's houses were equally as challenging in different ways. One had extended on the side and back of a house but didn't bother to take the old external walls down or the windows out. So a window in the kitchen through to an odd internal hall/dining room/nothing room, and one on the stairs into a strange new room they call the dining room. And filthy. The other is in need of a kitchen, no plumbing for a washer! Has a Rayburn that does the heating and is in need of serious modernisation. I am thinking I may need to rent for a while...

choille

We have been watching a prog on about the New Forest. I think we watched it last week. It's lovely & very interesting. Good to see the conservation by the commoners & all the dragonflies which we have here too, fascinating.
Out walking I notice that we have some blackberries turning black. For us here that is very early - often they don't ripen, just stay as hard as green knots - to nick a description from Seamus Heaney's poem Blackberrying. So now that the rhubarb is coming to an end there is fruit on the horizon if not on the croft!

alfie_1

the blackberries around me have just withered and dried ...
BUT I note the ones roadside [busy roads] are loaded ? so car fumes etc seem not to have killed em off ?


I sat from 8.30am till 5 at a rural country fair today on my stall ... selling virtually nothing
sadly it was overcast, threatening rain and I think people didn't chance it.
people did dribble in over the day but I did feel sorry for the organisers. it was also changeover day it seemed for the 2 local camp sites..
hopefully tomorrow will make up the numbers.


the amount of bl**dy wasps everywhere is so annoying ! they are saying that a lot of hives have been attacked too for the honey. I had 2 in my hair today and nearly died shaking my head around like a loon ! :eek:
also when I have my windows/patio doors open I keep getting daft hornets flopping about ...


got a boot sale in the morning...if I get up early enough !
then an airport run at 2pm.
if its still dry I will mow the lawns tomorrow after ,as lots of long tufts springing up.


Monday I don't want to do anything much


good luck with the house hunting , the right one will appear

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

The nurse has been into neighbour this morning & she had someone in earlier. Maybe going to the MSP & getting rather strident & warning them that they are aware of the situation so if anything happens on THEIR WATCH, I will make it known that they should have been 'trying a bit harder.'
I've turned into a right old bag..................

It's very like the situation with the home education next door. We felt it appropriate to add that with the situation now fully documented, the Council would probably wish to protect itself from future compensation claims by the children, which we'd support, if necessary.


Bet they loved it as much as your MSP! Not wrong, though.

Davesnave

Fay wrote: »

I am thinking I may need to rent for a while...

That would make you a good, chain-free buyer and probably cost nothing overall, bearing in mind that winter is coming, prices falter and those unsold reduce.

And there will also be those like our vendors, who can't choose the season and have to sell. We'd been renting 6 months when we found this place.

choille

Alfie - sorry about the lack of sales. It's annoying when you've put in the effort, hopefully it will make up for it today.

The wind seems to have died as has my energy levels. OH is still snoring away - he has to lie on his back. Just a day for pottering I think.

lucielle

Morning all, hope all the poorlies are feeling better. I do love a bit of property !!!!!! but it must be challenging when you can't find what you're looking for.


Had a trip to Dundee yesterday to see a man about a dog, literally!! I'd taken Izzy to the vets on Friday for a blood test to check her prostaglandin (sp) levels to find the ideal time she'd be receptive to the boy. They phoned and said to get her to the boy pronto tonto. So the deed has been done and fingers crossed we should hear the patter of puppy paws in October.
L

Davesnave

Forgot to say yesterday that the mouldering rodent has still eluded us. :mad:


Spent half the morning half under the units with a fishing thing the electricians left behind and don't seem to want back. Also took photos upt the rear of the units into the service duct.....nothing!



Eventually, one very ancient mummified shrew was fished from behind the freezer. It had no smell left, so not guilty. I think whatever it was went up behind the dot & dabbed plasterboard.... We have given up.



Noticed yesterday that the road seemed very quiet. Then, when we went out for fish & chips we noticed the diversion signs gone. Council had opened the main road without telling anyone. Still closed on their web site!