The grumpy thread

[andy18s]

12 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

As someone who has lived with both: a dog has a master, a cat has staff.

 

[goosey]

After almost an hour on the phone to VW fleet to arrange my car service and then this 

[cort1977]

25 minutes ago, andy18s said:

 

Cats are furry bastards.

In my experience they pick you.  Our current one appeared on our doorstep one day and wouldn't go away.  Wife and kids decided we should keep it despite me pointing out that cats are shit and we were about to move  to another fucking country.

Paid for cat to be imported at massive cost and a few weeks after that the little twat broke its hip, because it was a fat bastard.  Another massive bill.  Then a few week after that it did the other side, bonus time for the vet.

I genuinely could have bought a nice Boxster for the money that fucking cat has cost.  And how does it repay this kindness?  By bringing in vermin most days (not always dead), truffling its ringpiece noisily when I'm eating and waking me up at all hours if you forget to shut the door.

Incredibly, despite all this I quite like it.  

[Floatylight]

Booked some last minute leave this week, just at home but booked the works van in for a service today at main dealers via the lease Co. 

Went and got van out of storage this morning, took to main dealer who haven't got a courtesy car which was booked a week ago, apparently the rang yesterday to tell me they don't have one available, but as on leave work phone switched off.

TL:DR  - Main dealers are useless twonks. 

[sierraman]

24 minutes ago, goosey said:

After almost an hour on the phone to VW fleet to arrange my car service and then this 

If being on the phone to VWFS gets you off and you aren’t harming anyone then crack on. 😆

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Landlords alternative view.

 

We bought a flat for my mother to rent. Got her to pick it as it'll be the place she dies in. Make sure you pick one you're happy with and needs no work doing.

She picked a decent one on a private estate and it was clean and ready to move in. 

So far she's had us replace all the doors and windows, full kitchen, new bathroom with shower quadrant instead of  bath, new boiler. And now she's asking for the patio door to be bricked up and a window fitted. She can fuck off.

Other than the boiler none of the work needed doing. It just wasn't to her style even though she fucking picked the fucking flat. We only charge what the mortgage is too so she's getting an immaculate 2 bedroom flat on a private eatate for not much more than £300 a month.

 

Tldr.  ALL tennants are cunts in my experience.

I would never rent a property to a relative or friend, you’ll always end up doing things to keep them happy that cost you money that you wouldn’t do for a stranger. And do you get thanks? No they moan about you charging them rent because they feel entitled to stay for free.

Cant pay the rent? Doesn’t matter , you’re their friend , you don’t mind do you? After all you have a spare house , you’ve got plenty of spare cash obviously. Rent increase? Never, they’ll be paying the same in 20 years time.

[sierraman]

What you should do is set a housing foundation up, rent the properties out at something like £200 a month and just weather the loss between that and the mortgage. Complete altruism.

On a serious note on a Buy to Let part of the criteria is an adequate rent coverage as a percentage of the actual mortgage payment. That said many are interest only so the payment is probably £2-300 a month. 

[SH1TE]

3 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

I would never rent a property to a relative or friend, you’ll always end up doing things to keep them happy that cost you money that you wouldn’t do for a stranger. And do you get thanks? No they moan about you charging them rent because they feel entitled to stay for free.

Cant pay the rent? Doesn’t matter , you’re their friend , you don’t mind do you? After all you have a spare house , you’ve got plenty of spare cash obviously. Rent increase? Never, they’ll be paying the same in 20 years time.

Wouldn't entertain it,  couple no children and well paid jobs- rest are just slow motion train wrecks. 

[sierraman]

5 minutes ago, SH1TE said:

Wouldn't entertain it,  couple no children and well paid jobs- rest are just slow motion train wrecks. 

Years ago you used to see the ads ‘No DSS’ even long after the DSS had ceased to be.

[SH1TE]

1 minute ago, sierraman said:

Years ago you used to see the ads ‘No DSS’ even long after the DSS had ceased to be.

The problem is not that all people are a disaster,  more that buy to let are a business and banks don't take "tenant got sanctions due to mental health missed appointments at job centre"  there are council and housing associations set up to manage that risk of revenue loss. 

Worse still if it goes wrong families are harder to evict,  many times it's not their fault -  but small landlords can't subsidise months of no payment. 

Turned a commercial building into residential,  but got shot as didn't want tenants 

[MikeR]

2 hours ago, New POD said:

Unless you are right at the bottom, with near zero income, and no deposit, there is choice.  Not much. We had 32 expressions of interest on a nice 3 ded semi. 5 people wanted it.  The choice was ours not theirs 

There used to.be more choice, but governments have chosen to aggressively tax smaller landlords, in such a way that many have taken the decision to sell up.  There's enough private buyers out thier that it decreases the choice for renters. 

Renting is big business, whole housing towers, are going up all over Manchester and Liverpool, owned by corporate organisations, but you won't get a garden and you'll pay an extra £££££ for a balcony and ££££*s for a parking space.  But that's the way the government want it.  Keep the proletariat in rabbit hutches.  

As an aside, there's a young engineer I work with, lives with his parents. Looking to move out. Spends ££££ on food and fags. My suggestion that he make a packed lunch and stop smoking and find a mate to share a flat and share the bills, was dismissed, as that would involve compromise.  Meanwhile he complains that my generation have screwed it up for his generation.  Right. Because I didn't stop putting margarine on my bread when the mortgage rate went over 14% ? Because I washed in  water from a kettle, because the only way to heat it was an electric Emerson that cost £££s to run. Because my kids had clothes handed down from thier older cousins. 

Yours Gammon faced angry twat of ASland. 

 

my next oldest is moving out again to rented  Phd accomadation at the Uni with shared areas  , wont take him as long to travel in ( thats his gain )

my gains are ......

can get to use the bathroom ,.

will save on gas

will save on electric .

the kitchen sink will be clear ,

the washing basket will be empty ,

the car is too small to put loads of shite in ,,

will have a spare bedroom to put shite in ..

not that I have noticed much ......

 

[SH1TE]

Chinese have "face"  

Now living at home subsidised by bank of mummy and daddy spending £300-540 a month on a car lease shows how fucked it is and parents enabling such behaviour. 

Just up the road 2019 Golf gti on finance in 20's and won't move out until 30 WTF

[Supernaut]

2 minutes ago, SH1TE said:

Chinese have "face"  

Now living at home subsidised by bank of mummy and daddy spending £300-540 a month on a car lease shows how fucked it is and parents enabling such behaviour. 

Just up the road 2019 Golf gti on finance in 20's and won't move out until 30 WTF

That's still less than renting anywhere remotely decent.

Perhaps they have so little hope of affording to move out due to salaries falling so far behind the cost of housing and other things that they may as well have some shred of enjoyment in their lives in the form of a nice car.

[Lacquer Peel]

7 minutes ago, SH1TE said:

Chinese have "face"  

Now living at home subsidised by bank of mummy and daddy spending £300-540 a month on a car lease shows how fucked it is and parents enabling such behaviour. 

Just up the road 2019 Golf gti on finance in 20's and won't move out until 30 WTF

Gammon gibberish

[SH1TE]

7 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

That's still less than renting anywhere remotely decent.

Perhaps they have so little hope of affording to move out due to salaries falling so far behind the cost of housing and other things that they may as well have some shred of enjoyment in their lives in the form of a nice car.

Massively wasteful while parasitic as adults - save a deposit. 

Mine will not be doing anything like this. 

[SH1TE]

4 minutes ago, Lacquer Peel said:

Gammon gibberish

Gammon is great,  your a complete bellend of no consequence. 

 

[Dobloseven]

9 minutes ago, SH1TE said:

Massively wasteful while parasitic as adults - save a deposit. 

Mine will not be doing anything like this. 

How old are your offspring? Serious question by the way. 

 

[Lacquer Peel]

17 minutes ago, SH1TE said:

 

 

15 minutes ago, SH1TE said:

Gammon is great,  your a complete bellend of no consequence. 

 

*you're 

[SH1TE]

6 minutes ago, Dobloseven said:

How old are your offspring? Serious question by the way. 

 

One is old enough to wait cafe tables at weekend and the other is just shy of early teen.  

When they earn a full time wage they will be expected to pay or move out- exactly as we the parents were told. 

At 25 living with mortgage independently skint. 

No way will it be like 

[SH1TE]

4 minutes ago, Lacquer Peel said:

 

*you're 

You need to get out more, find some company 

[Lacquer Peel]

2 minutes ago, SH1TE said:

You need to get out more, find some company

You keep replying. 

[SH1TE]

3 minutes ago, Lacquer Peel said:

You keep replying. 

It brightens your otherwise dull day👍 Social service-seeing as cutbacks in care in the community. 

If you need help:-

FRANK or Samaritans  are 24/7. 

[Datsuncog]

Actual footage of the honourable member logging on to AS this morning, to once again selflessly grace the rest of us lucky* forum members with his wit and wisdom .

[Split_Pin]

56 minutes ago, SH1TE said:

You need to get out more, find some company 

Once again I'm having to stand up for someone on here, what is happening to this place? He has plenty of company and is a good friend of many, many shiters. He's also been a member here for even longer than I have so at least 15 years.

Please have some respect man.

[New POD]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

my next oldest is moving out again to rented  Phd accomadation at the Uni with shared areas  , wont take him as long to travel in ( thats his gain )

my gains are ......

can get to use the bathroom ,.

will save on gas

will save on electric .

the kitchen sink will be clear ,

the washing basket will be empty ,

the car is too small to put loads of shite in ,,

will have a spare bedroom to put shite in ..

not that I have noticed much ......

 

He's the third oldest. Have you forgotten? 

[loserone]

16 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

what is happening to this place?

He's a trolling cunt, just block him 

[SH1TE]

59 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Once again I'm having to stand up for someone on here, what is happening to this place? He has plenty of company and is a good friend of many, many shiters. He's also been a member here for even longer than I have so at least 15 years.

Please have some respect man.

Respect for nothing / long service in job  / jobs for life 

All quaint ideas- Dog eat Dog world. 

[goosey]

12 minutes ago, SH1TE said:

Respect for nothing / long service in job  / jobs for life 

All quaint ideas- Dog eat Dog world. 

Lunch is for wimps ? 

[chadders]

He does sound like a wannabe Hedge Fund manager although I suspect the hedge is more of the rural sort in his case.

[SH1TE]

12 minutes ago, goosey said:

Lunch is for wimps ? 

Pint at " members club" and lunch is great😎