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[Mr Livered]

I've sold it to another landlord so the tenant can continue on undisturbed, which I'm pleased about

That's because you is a NICE PERSUN.

 

I always find it quite shocking when people talk about selling their properties although it was just like a bunch of shares in Tesco or something; very often, the fact that although it's an investment to them it's home to someone else seems to get completely ignored.

 

Last summer we had a chat to our landlady and explained that we would like to stay long-term and asked her what her plans were for the house. I said that I was concerned that she might one day decide to sell it on, but she sat there in the garden having a fag and said "that's not going to happen, don't worry".

 

On the basis of that reassurance we put the kids in the local school, started spending money on decoration, and generally feeling at home.

 

Can you guess how this story ends yet? Lol... I'm actually feeling really miffed about it, as although she clearly has the right to do whatever she wants with the house, the least she could have done was to be straight and upfront with us about it. I have been a landlord in the past, and I remember what it was like. When you choose to invest in something that is a basic human requirement (shelter) along with others like food and warmth etc, I think people should take a little bit of responsibility.

 

Anyway, there's a cottage for sale just around the corner, so if we can arrange a mortgage in time we'll be ok. Shame, because I was hoping to wait until something more suitable came up. We still won't have a garage, or even a driveway.

[Jimcit]

Hope you get sorted, I used the estate agent that I rented through and asked them to market to landlords, which they did, the fact there is a tenant in there paying rent is good for the buy to let investors.

 

I was a reluctant landlord because I didn't have enough equity to sell the place a couple of years ago, still felt bad marketing it though, but if the interest rates starting going up, I'd have struggled to afford it.

 

I've ended up with a series of lock-ups around Warwickshire to try and contain the cars, but currently reducing to save money as we're trying to do too much at the minute.

[scruff]

That's because you is a NICE PERSUN.

 

I always find it quite shocking when people talk about selling their properties although it was just like a bunch of shares in Tesco or something; very often, the fact that although it's an investment to them it's home to someone else seems to get completely ignored.

 

Last summer we had a chat to our landlady and explained that we would like to stay long-term and asked her what her plans were for the house. I said that I was concerned that she might one day decide to sell it on, but she sat there in the garden having a fag and said "that's not going to happen, don't worry".

 

On the basis of that reassurance we put the kids in the local school, started spending money on decoration, and generally feeling at home.

 

Can you guess how this story ends yet? Lol... I'm actually feeling really miffed about it, as although she clearly has the right to do whatever she wants with the house, the least she could have done was to be straight and upfront with us about it. I have been a landlord in the past, and I remember what it was like. When you choose to invest in something that is a basic human requirement (shelter) along with others like food and warmth etc, I think people should take a little bit of responsibility.

 

Anyway, there's a cottage for sale just around the corner, so if we can arrange a mortgage in time we'll be ok. Shame, because I was hoping to wait until something more suitable came up. We still won't have a garage, or even a driveway.

 

Christ that sounds all too familiar.

 

We had a place a few miles from here which was perfect - small, thatched, bloody old, rayburn, big drive. Spoke to the (classic car owning) landlord at some length about purchasing the house, and explained that it'd be in 18 months or so as we were getting married and were waiting for the fallout from a will-reading to get some modest inheritance. All agreed with plenty of smiles, chatting about plans for the place etc etc.

 

Not long after I went away for a week with work and on my return was greeted by a letter informing us we had a month to move out. This was 6 weeks before our wedding, which he knew, and we were about skint from paying for it. The wanker landlord had delivered it by hand to my other half, knowing I was away. I went straight round there and had it out with him but it was pointless of course. Found a house nearby and after scrounging a deposit together from anywhere we could, moved - but not before another blazing row as the arsehole refused to give us our deposit back due to "damage to the property". Of course he would not speak to us directly but through the agent. When pressed this damage was - some tatty/oily gravel and a dirty carpet... in the fucking outbuilding which when we moved in was full of building rubble. Deposited a bag of gravel on the drive, spent 10 mins cleaning the threadbare carpet and we got our deposit back.

 

To add insult to injury the house was empty for the rest of the summer but I now believe his daughter lives in it.

 

Perils of renting, I guess, but four years later it still pisses me right off (can you tell?)

[Mr Livered]

We had a place a few miles from here which was perfect - small, thatched, bloody old, rayburn, big drive. Spoke to the (classic car owning) landlord at some length about purchasing the house, and explained that it'd be in 18 months or so as we were getting married and were waiting for the fallout from a will-reading to get some modest inheritance. All agreed with plenty of smiles, chatting about plans for the place etc etc

Yeah that is the same scenario, because we said that we'd like to buy the house, she said that she'd be happy to sell it to us, but I told her that it would take us a little while to come up with the money to do so. Her assurance was actually that she wouldn't give us the boot during that "saving up" time. We agreed that it would be "a year or two" - absolutely fine, smiles and chatting as in your case.

 

That was in about June, so eight months ago, during which time I now know she was marketing her own house on the quiet (ie the estate agent was under instructions to be discreet and not advertise the house). I'm not sure from whom she was trying to hide the fact that she was selling her house, but it was probably me.

 

In other words, whilst I was trusting her to keep her word it was probably only six months or less before she decided to break her pledge and pull out the carpet from under our feet. Bitch.

[dollywobbler]

Mind you, perhaps just refusing to move out is an option. This was the nightmare my f-i-l had when he wanted too sell a house he had been renting. Took bloody months to get the selfish cow out of the place, using pretty much every legal avenue possible. When she finally did go, the house was left in an appalling state.

[Micrashed]

I passed my pharmacology exam.

I am frankly flabbergasted and had already booked the day off in March for the resit.

Two more exams to go and a 20,000 word portfolio. By the end of the month.

Found out today that I passed the 20K word assignment (bit of a shitty mark compared with the 88% I scored in Pharmacology) but we will gloss over that, a pass is a pass.

 

One more exam mark to come in now and I can (hopefully) register as a prescriber. 

 

To celebrate I bought some Guinness flavour peanuts and bid on another Fronterror on eBay...

[Sloth in a bowl]

Christ that sounds all too familiar.

 

We had a place a few miles from here which was perfect - small, thatched, bloody old, rayburn, big drive. Spoke to the (classic car owning) landlord at some length about purchasing the house, and explained that it'd be in 18 months or so as we were getting married and were waiting for the fallout from a will-reading to get some modest inheritance. All agreed with plenty of smiles, chatting about plans for the place etc etc.

 

Not long after I went away for a week with work and on my return was greeted by a letter informing us we had a month to move out. This was 6 weeks before our wedding, which he knew, and we were about skint from paying for it. The wanker landlord had delivered it by hand to my other half, knowing I was away. I went straight round there and had it out with him but it was pointless of course. Found a house nearby and after scrounging a deposit together from anywhere we could, moved - but not before another blazing row as the arsehole refused to give us our deposit back due to "damage to the property". Of course he would not speak to us directly but through the agent. When pressed this damage was - some tatty/oily gravel and a dirty carpet... in the fucking outbuilding which when we moved in was full of building rubble. Deposited a bag of gravel on the drive, spent 10 mins cleaning the threadbare carpet and we got our deposit back.

 

To add insult to injury the house was empty for the rest of the summer but I now believe his daughter lives in it.

 

Perils of renting, I guess, but four years later it still pisses me right off (can you tell?)

 

When I left one house and the landlord was an arse over the deposit payment, I phoned the local tax office and helpfully pointed out that he owned the property but all the rent cheques were in his daughters name.

I don't know if anything truly came of it, but the bloke on the phone at the tax office sounded grateful for the tip off, not pissed at having to do extra paperwork.

[MrDuke]

When I left one house and the landlord was an arse over the deposit payment, I phoned the local tax office and helpfully pointed out that he owned the property but all the rent cheques were in his daughters name.

I don't know if anything truly came of it, but the bloke on the phone at the tax office sounded grateful for the tip off, not pissed at having to do extra paperwork.

 

The deep joy that comes from getting revenge, completely legally.

[drum]

Might be different down south, but up here deposits are no longer held by the landlord or letting agent anymore. Think it's the council who have the money in their savings account.

[beko1987]

Nah its the rental deposit scheme. Ours was in it, is now sat in my mums wardrobe where its probably safer!

 

Ours were fine with our deposit. The flat was cleaner than when amy moved in but there were rats everywhere, which the landlord caused so tough shit really!

 

Its still empty now. Their having to rip the floors up to eradicate the nests. Lolz

[dollywobbler]

Today, aside from getting the Disco fixed, I've been playing about with a friend's GoPro. Sadly, the sound recording is absolutely hopeless, and scratches on the outer case mean the recorded video footage isn't exactly super either. I continue to ponder the best solution to improving my video footage and welcome suggestions. Turns out the camera I usually use records in glorious 640x480. Not exactly HD. It's also badly prone to shake due to its weight, and suffers major white balance issues in changing light conditions - like those you get in a car.

 

As per this 2CV video I recorded last week.

[trigger]

Ha! "Bother"

[dollywobbler]

I need to fit a new one. Had to reverse in the dark the other night. That resulted in a full blown 'fiddlesticks!'

[derskine]

Got my new flasher relay for the 18 today, fitted... still nothing.

Decided to take the centre console out and check the wiring behind, all looked okay.

Then I decided to entirely remove the fuseboard to find it was severely bowed over the connector areas, I noticed that the voltage on the relay connectors would change if I moved the connectors, and eventually got the indicators working by holding the board out straight.

The board is properly bowed and there's no way to correct that without damaging it - so I tweaked the connector pins making them stick out much more and...

 

[vulgalour]

It's not often I see a vehicle I don't recognise at all but I saw one today.  Had to confer with Dad and then Google to ID it as I only got to see it over my shoulder when I was stuck in traffic and had no opportunity to photograph it.  Taken me a while to find a truck that looks something like but this one shares the very distinctive grille and headlight arrangement with the one I saw.

 

 

I knew it wasn't a Ford or a Chevy and thought at the time it might have been a Studebaker due to the funny front end treatment but it turns out it's a late 50s International.  The one I spotted was in faded red with white trim and looked to be unmodified, it was also a two door cab rather than this four door version.  It's only the second time I've seen an International out and about, the first being this one from back in 2011 when I still lived in Sheffield.

 

 

[Jim Bell]

 

Today is a happy day.

[EssDeeWon]

Still waiting to get my BM back from the workshop where it is locked up while BMW send a new door lock from Deutschland...Am hoping I get the call to go collect it tomorrow. Its been a week tomorrow but feels like a year without any wheels.

[The Moog]

Squeaking from left front wheel on Xantia has notched up to happening frequently rather than occassionally. I think it is something to do with brakes as it had new discs and pads not long ago but they already feel warped. Also might have had an impact on acceleration as it feels glacially slow at the moment.

 

Clutch is also at the top of its travel. I think it can be manually adjusted. If it needs replacing then will give me a decision whether to lie to my missus and get a new car or just fix it.

 

Also still need to look at the passengers door lock, screen washer, do something about the water in oil light and give it a service. Looks like I have got my jobs for the weekend.

[trigger]

Boring modern car update, my 08 plate Focus TDCi has developed a problem recently where it's got air in the fuel system meaning it struggles to start (you may remember me moaning about this before), anyway first we changed the fuel filter and seal to no avail, next job was to drop the tank and spend £100 on a new tank sender unit, that made the bubbles smaller but it still didn't fix the fault.

 

Next was to spend £93 on a new fuel filter housing, I've changed that and the bubbles have completely gone but the car still takes 6-7 attempts to restart...

 

Tonight driving into work I get a "tyre pressure malfunction" warning light come up on the dash and whilst I was trying to park the car I got a "Engine malfunction" warning come up on the dash! It's starting to piss me off now, my only guess is that my ecu has gone wrong some how, I wonder if it tried to correct the running off the car whilst I had this fuel leak and now that it's fix the ecu needs reprogramming again?.

 

There's a diesel specialists nearby so I'm going to have to see them and see if they reprogram the computer there, a mate recokens the local Ford dealers use them anyway so I'll be cutting out the middle man.

[stuboy]

it was 4am..so my colleague said could i help her change her air filter on her 207 hdi

 

nah didnt really need changing..:emote_smile:

[scruff]

Today I am off to get paid for playing with steam engines. Oh yea!!

[HillmanImp]

Boring modern car update, my 08 plate Focus TDCi has developed a problem recently where it's got air in the fuel system meaning it struggles to start (you may remember me moaning about this before), anyway first we changed the fuel filter and seal to no avail, next job was to drop the tank and spend £100 on a new tank sender unit, that made the bubbles smaller but it still didn't fix the fault.

 

Next was to spend £93 on a new fuel filter housing, I've changed that and the bubbles have completely gone but the car still takes 6-7 attempts to restart...

 

Tonight driving into work I get a "tyre pressure malfunction" warning light come up on the dash and whilst I was trying to park the car I got a "Engine malfunction" warning come up on the dash! It's starting to piss me off now, my only guess is that my ecu has gone wrong some how, I wonder if it tried to correct the running off the car whilst I had this fuel leak and now that it's fix the ecu needs reprogramming again?.

 

There's a diesel specialists nearby so I'm going to have to see them and see if they reprogram the computer there, a mate recokens the local Ford dealers use them anyway so I'll be cutting out the middle man.

 

I have literally had NONE of those problems on my £350 Visa and I get all the girls in it.

 

Read it and weep.

[derskine]

I have literally had NONE of those problems on my £350 Visa and I get all the girls in it.

 

Read it and weep.

 

I've only got £250 on my mastercard but I still get all the chicks.

[dugong]

I've only got £250 on my mastercard but I still get all the chicks.

I can't buy that 305 van on eBay but I literally cop NOWT whenever the ladies are around. 

[DVee8]

Yesterdays Perchase £70

 

 

It was a real twat to tow without any wheels on lol

Naah wheels removed for refurb and to stop any little scrotes/pikies having it away.

It came fully carpeted

[phil_lihp]

Due to a tidal wave of bills not entirely relieved by some slightly disappointing ebay sales recently the Rover has been SORNed until further notice from the end of the month.  Locked in a damp leaky garage with a flat battery, it may not wake up now until Shitefest unless I get a request for its towing services before then.  Sad times!

[Inspector Morose]

Today I am off to get paid for playing with steam engines. Oh yea!!

Come on. You can't leave it like that! Road Wheels or rails?

[vulgalour]

That sounds like an excuse for me to post a Stanley and two Sentinels for no reason

 

 

 

[Inspector Morose]

Dribble.

[scruff]

Come on. You can't leave it like that! Road Wheels or rails?

 

Black 5, a LNER thingy (sorry I don't do rails), a narrow gauge Hunslet then a Garrett portable and a selection of stationary steam engines. Had worse days in "the office" !