Big Badger House (aka Noisy Lodger) HE'S GONE!

hillwalker2004

spirit wrote: »

Hillwalker, please do share!

Dont want to overshadow Badger's thread but here goes!

At my block of apartments we each have allocated parking spaces and every now and then I would arrive home to find that I had nowhere to park my car (double yellow outside), so after getting hacked off with this I decided to park directly behind the car which was using my space and stuck a notice on their window to give me a call. I got a phone call at 3.30am in the morning to a barrage of abuse, saying how dare I block him in. I must say at this time of the morning I was close to just saying get lost and call me back at a more sociable hour but hey... Came outside my front door and found out the person I had blocked in was from the apartment directly underneath me. Lots more abuse ensued until I had enough and said, well lets look at the facts here:
1) Your in my space
2) Technically you are trespassing
3) You are really not in a position to shout at me as otherwise you cant drive your car.

In return he accused me of being un-neighbourly and that he parked in my space because someone else was in his. I pointed out that fine someone is in his space but it was more un-neighbourly to just park wherever he fancied and not have the courtesy to put a note on his windscreen so I would know who it was. Then he told me I could have parked elsewhere until I told him then that would just compound the issue for someone else. In the end he just got abusive again so I just said you are not in a position to argue with me and I walked off.

Needless to say he hasnt done it again!

Other instances over the last few months:
-Big fight outside from one of the apartments where two police cars and a dog van had to turn up to break it up at 4am in the morning

-Water meter linked to the wrong property so had water board bloke trying to find out which one of 24 meters was actually mine.

-Company which built the apartments has gone bust so have no idea who to pay the ground rent to.

- Ex directors of above company own three of the apartments and havent paid £6k to the service charge fund so now we are gonna have to sue them to get the money.

On the plus side never had a problem getting the rent from my tennants. Funny about the names that badger calls her lodgers, I have for mine as well. Only two so far, first was Brazilianwoman and the current one is Buddismlodger

hillwalker2004

Badger_Lady wrote: »

Nope, not yet... I believe she's taken the letter to CAB for help...

Forgot to ask yesterday - when you say taken to CAB for help is this just because of general money problems or is she seeking advice whether you can boot her out if she does not pay? Have there been any further developments?

Badger_Lady

She was just trying to get her housing benefit sorted out - did I forget to explain about that? The council accused us of having a relationship and asked me to answer a long series of questions about how we met and why I allowed her to live with me.

Anyway, it worked! She's paid most of the outstanding amount and the council have advised that the rest is on its way

jayss

Yay fot the arrival of some rent :beer:

Sad you're losing nicesofar, but theres potential repairman stories

hillwalker sounds far more exciting than my flats, although I do suspect the electric meters may be mixed up, as the bill for the landlord for when the flat was empty was pretty big.

Did the cleaning improve?

Badger_Lady

I sent a polite email with a list of cleaning duties and, yes, it did improve (although not quite yet to the standard of the previous cleaner)

hillwalker2004

Badger_Lady wrote: »

She was just trying to get her housing benefit sorted out - did I forget to explain about that? The council accused us of having a relationship and asked me to answer a long series of questions about how we met and why I allowed her to live with me.

The council must know that you are irresistible

neas

seriously at 3.5% your mortgage shouldnt be too bad... if you stay on SVR and the rates start increasing i doubt you could take on more lodgers to cover it.

On a 132,500 mortgage 1% interest is like 1300 quid a year? so 120 quid a month. You were making 500 quid profit each month from lodgers, i guess the tax man is informed about that lol (i know my landlord gets around it by doign place up).

On a 132,500 mortgage 3.5% is i guess 5000 a year or about 400 quid each month... Again it equates to lodgers paying your mortgage and you obtaining profit each month (which i thought was taxable?)

Just thinking even if rates went up you'd still be able to afford a 1,200 quid a month mortgage with 2 lodgers (paying half).

spirit

sounds interesting at your development Hillwalker.

glad you have some cleaning done and rent paid BL.

i've only had 2 weird lodgers. I was a guy in his early thirties who was a soap dodger. didn't wash his bedding in the whole of his residency - eeeuuww!

seond one was another guy who kept downloading !!!!!! which slowed up my internet connection big time. He'd load it and then bligger off out so it would be there when he got back I guess. my son kicked him off the router without him knowing - when questioned we said it must be his PC :eek:

He also started smoking in the room :mad: which he knew was against my house rules. When he then said he couldn't pay his rent and gave some sily excuse (that i knew was a fib) - he got kicked out.

Badger_Lady

Yeah, we addressed the tax situation yonks ago It's all above-board . Because of the low rate of interest, the rent-a-room scheme plus payment on the extra works out best. And of course there have been some hefty gaps between lodgers to account for. Nothing else is deductable.

But I don't want to "be able to afford" a hefty mortgage, I want to be freeeeee! :rotfl:

Badger_Lady

Well, I went away for the weekend (phenomenal break!), and came back to find:

- NiceSoFarLodger has properly moved out, of course leaving some stuff behind, mainly the fridge-freezer (happy with that) and a brand new, huge computer desk (not sure I really want the hassle of this).

- Stella the chicken was dead. A coincidence that she was NiceSoFar's chicken..?