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Canucklehead
Canucklehead Posts: 6,254 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
Good morning: Have just managed to catch up with my papers....read the following in Wednesday's Independent property section... http://money.independent.co.uk/property/homes/article3221422.ece
Anyone had a similar experience?

Canucklehead
Ask to see CIPHE (Chartered Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineering)

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  • Curv
    Curv Posts: 2,572 Forumite
    Oh LOL! Thanks Canucklehead.
    ↑ Things I wouldn't say to your face

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  • Strapped
    Strapped Posts: 8,158 Forumite
    LMAO. So true. Errr, not that it's ever happened to me, honest.


    I have had the "real" excuse of showing property where, in one flat, the tennant and his mates were sitting smoking a bong, and in one 2-bed house where the tennant, his wife and their 5 children were cooking food over a fire in the middle of the living room floor :eek:

    Also showing a rented flat with harnesses hung up in the bedroom and condoms, baby wipes and sex toys neatly arranged on the bedside table...
    They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -- Plato
  • kunekune
    kunekune Posts: 1,909 Forumite
    I was taken to see a house by an agent (in NZ, where they work hard for their massive fee). He had trouble finding the key, which wasn't where he expected it to be, but then we got in. It was gorgeous and I was about to say Yes Yes Yes ... and then a naked Dutchman walked in, bearing a weapon of some sort. Oops, wrong house. The right house wasn't nearly as nice.
    Mortgage started on 22.5.09 : £129,600
    Overpayments to date: £3000
    June grocery challenge: 400/600
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,658 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Name Dropper
    More amusing EA tales here:

    http://www.agentsdiary.blogspot.com/
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