Entrance to house with no permission

ProDave

So you are saying you trust neither your landlord or the tradesman doing the repair and one or both of them must be thieves and will nick any of your gadgets or cash they find lying around.

As a landlord and a tradesman (electrician) I find that deeply offensive.

ripplyuk

OP, I think you have every right to be annoyed about this but if you like the house, the easiest thing to do is just change the locks.

It amazes me that people are happy to allow random strangers to have access to their home, unsupervised. Of course it will all be fine in most cases but I personally know someone who regrets it. A lot of cash was missing, her sons xbox games and strangely, her passport. The police were uninterested. The agent denied all knowledge. The home insurance refused the claim as they said she had ‘allowed’ them in.

They’d also helped themselves to her food, and had clearly ‘sampled’ virtually everything in the fridge.

ReadingTim

ProDave wrote: »

So you are saying you trust neither your landlord or the tradesman doing the repair and one or both of them must be thieves and will nick any of your gadgets or cash they find lying around.

As a landlord and a tradesman (electrician) I find that deeply offensive.

I'm not a landlord or a tenant, but I've read sufficient posts on this board to know many landlords aren't even bothered about carrying out even emergency work, let alone non-emergency stuff like a purely cosmetic cooker splashback.

Whilst it's annoying that the work was done outwith the preferred times, I'd suggest that the pro-activity of the landlord/letting agent more than compensates for this.

In short, OP: get over yourself.

Red-Squirrel_2

ProDave wrote: »

So you are saying you trust neither your landlord or the tradesman doing the repair and one or both of them must be thieves and will nick any of your gadgets or cash they find lying around.

As a landlord and a tradesman (electrician) I find that deeply offensive.

Why should someone be deemed trustworthy just because they have a certain job? All sorts of people have turned out to be dishonest, from all kinds of professions.

I'd be more likely to trust an electrician, but they're still both strangers who let themselves into her home without permission.

Pixie5740

parkrunner wrote: »

OP said "or" not "on" a day on which one of them was off.

Who cares? The point is that is a very narrow time frame for the OP to offer especially if the days off turn out to be Saturdays and Sundays, not to mention completely unnecessary since the OP doesn't even need to be there.

Red-Squirrel_2

Pixie5740 wrote: »

Who cares? The point is that is a very narrow time frame for the OP to offer especially if the days off turn out to be Saturdays and Sundays, not to mention completely unnecessary since the OP doesn't even need to be there.

I don't think it matters why somebody doesn't want strangers unsupervised in their home. If they don't they don't and that's totally reasonable, and not something they should have to sacrifice because they rent rather than own.

ReadingTim

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

I don't think it matters why somebody doesn't want strangers unsupervised in their home. If they don't they don't and that's totally reasonable, and not something they should have to sacrifice because they rent rather than own.

Except of course, if they also want the splashback (or whatever fixed) as well. And if they can't have both, which would they rather have?!?

westernpromise

I'm also scratching my head a bit at the idea of a tenant owning anything worth nicking.

westernpromise

ReadingTim wrote: »

Except of course, if they also want the splashback (or whatever fixed) as well. And if they can't have both, which would they rather have?!?

Perhaps they could make friends among local tradesmen so that if one of them has to visit the property, it will be a friend, not a stranger.

If it were me I would ask around a bit about what pubs electricians drink in and get myself down there dressed as an electrician. I'd then lean on the bar and strike up conversations with as many of them as I could before being ejected from the pub. You never know, a lasting bond might form.

shortcrust

The OP might be saying it was about money and gadgets because they're too embarrassed to admit it's really about the !!!!!! and bondage gear. Regardless, they don't need to justify it anymore than a homeowner. It's ok to not want uninvited people in your home.

When I rented this happened to me a couple of times with the excuse of 'well we were in the other flat so we thought we'd just pop in, hope that's ok!' I wasn't happy but the landlord was excellent in all other respects and I loved the flat so I just brushed it off.