Buying a house (and renting)
- Drumstick
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- Joined in 2008
- AKA: Vampbuster
One man should not have this much power in this game. Luckily I'm not an ordinary man.
- Drumstick
- Member ♥
- Joined in 2008
- AKA: Vampbuster
One man should not have this much power in this game. Luckily I'm not an ordinary man.
- Wrathy
- Member
- Joined in 2015
- Location: Southampton
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I got a quote for replacing the horrific bedroom carpet which I can't wait for - hopefully the week after next. Arguably need to repaint the hall but I think I've had enough excitement for now, once the spare bedroom sorts itself out!
Unbelievably though that's not the only property update I have! You'll see from the photographs there's still a very notable absence of any (successfully built) furniture - I've got the envious position of still renting the flat I've been living in for another month or so, because I left it very late to trigger my break clause. This gives a nice overlap to tinker with the new place without having to compromise too much, as I can just move slowly in and not be stressed. Officially handing back at the end of December. Or so I thought!
I had a call from my letting agency today, "we'd like to arrange a viewing, is 13:00 on Monday okay?" Umm, no? What? Who's viewing? "A prospective buyer." What the strawberry float??? The property is on the market???? You didn't think to tell me?? And you want to bring strangers in off the street to look at it during a pandemic??? During "lockdown"??????
I offered them Tuesday since I won't be in the flat; they took Wednesday (I'm having a bed delivered to the new place then anyway, so this is fine, in a relative sense). But it's gobsmacking that I have to then go on Rightmove and find, yep, there's the flat... and I was none the wiser. Obviously I took the opportunity to load up a bunch of stuff into the car and accelerate my move out plans, but I still think it's stunning. I was actually kind of speechless on the call.
I'm going to call on Monday and see if this means they'll consider early release, so I just strawberry float off at the end of November and don't pay December's rent at all. I think it'd be mutually beneficial, so obviously they won't do it.
Additionally to all of this, the bathroom (I think; it's this or the boiler) in the flat upstairs has been leaking for some time in the middle of the night causing significant mould, a huge bulge in the roof, and steady drips (though only at like 4am for a few hours at a time, from what I can tell). I reported it two weeks ago and strawberry float all has been done about it, beyond them telling me I should contact the occupiers upstairs (I haven't done this, on the basis that there is a pandemic, I don't know them, and contractually it is on the letting agents to deal with structures once I inform them), so good luck to them trying to sell this place to anyone with that in play. I'm definitely not taking any responsibility for it now. I would be more proactive if I didn't have the ability to just walk out and not be too put out, but as it stands I'm kind of rooting for the leak to straight up collapse the ceiling now.