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Post by kate on Sept 6, 2023 19:23:04 GMT
It was rather unsatisfactory. One man band was all I could get to come along. He came, he looked, he said it was only a cracked corner and all seemed clear (although he didn't check any down pipes). He didn't even have any replacement slates with him, nor asked if I had. I just accepted my loss - though He didn't charge me. Next year if the same thing occurs with the sparrows, I'll be trying to get someone to come and look. You have no idea what it's like here for house owners trying to get work done. At times I wish it was rented from the Housing Association! But how was the roofer photo session? I am looking forward to seeing the pictures on the 9th.  Nary a one, sir! I hide when someone goes up a ladder! |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Sept 6, 2023 22:04:39 GMT
I rent from a housing association believe me you don't want to be |
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Post by JohnY on Sept 7, 2023 20:22:00 GMT
I rent from a housing association believe me you don't want to be I don't rent. I own. Believe me you don't want to be. I need repairs and maintenance. Lucky for me I can afford them. The problem is just being sufficiently organised to do it. Where to start? Its easier just to slum it. |
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Post by zou on Sept 7, 2023 20:22:49 GMT
Ok boomer.
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Post by willien on Sept 7, 2023 20:25:28 GMT
I don't rent. I own. Believe me you don't want to be. I need repairs and maintenance. Lucky for me I can afford them. The problem is just being sufficiently organised to do it. Where to start? Its easier just to slum it. Entitled Snowflake. |
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Post by JohnY on Sept 7, 2023 20:34:58 GMT
I don't rent. I own. Believe me you don't want to be. I need repairs and maintenance. Lucky for me I can afford them. The problem is just being sufficiently organised to do it. Where to start? Its easier just to slum it. Entitled Snowflake. Nope. I am not entitled, nor a snowflake. Its up to me to get organised. It would also spread a bit of cash to hard working private enterprise like small family companies. I have a real problem. I don't want to be ripped off. I need work done and can afford it. Finding reliable tradespeople is difficult but I guess that they exist and that many need reliable customers. |
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Post by willien on Sept 7, 2023 20:53:44 GMT
Nope. I am not entitled, nor a snowflake. Its up to me to get organised. It would also spread a bit of cash to hard working private enterprise like small family companies. I have a real problem. I don't want to be ripped off. I need work done and can afford it. Finding reliable tradespeople is difficult but I guess that they exist and that many need reliable customers. Diddums. It is your victimhude in being a poor, poor downtrodden mortgage free owner occupier insisting how lucky the non equity owning renters are that provoked my reaction. Think about it you snowflake. I am a fellow mortgage free owner occupier. I am just not self obsessed/insensitive enough to try to tell renters they are the lucky ones. Snowflake.
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Post by JohnY on Sept 7, 2023 21:10:36 GMT
If renters can afford the rent then the landlord has the responsibility to maintain the property.
I am not complaining that I have to take the initiative but just pointing out that being an owner occupier does imply a duty of self reliance. Renters have everything on a plate, providing they have a secure tenancy. Willien, you and I and millions of people like us are financing people who have not secured their own futures.
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Post by spinno on Sept 7, 2023 21:15:28 GMT
If renters can afford the rent then the landlord has the responsibility to maintain the property. I am not complaining that I have to take the initiative but just pointing out that being an owner occupier does imply a duty of self reliance. Renters have everything on a plate, providing they have a secure tenancy. Willien, you and I and millions of people like us are financing people who have not secured their own futures. Thanks be to the Blessed Margaret for giving away the social housing stock so that all youngsters have to hock themselves and probably all their relatives to be able to have a roof over their heads. |
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Post by martinl on Sept 7, 2023 21:27:40 GMT
If renters can afford the rent then the landlord has the responsibility to maintain the property. I am not complaining that I have to take the initiative but just pointing out that being an owner occupier does imply a duty of self reliance. Renters have everything on a plate, providing they have a secure tenancy. Willien, you and I and millions of people like us are financing people who have not secured their own futures. The best thing about being back in the EU will be being back in the EU. But a pretty close second best thing will be the realisation that people who say things like this have died out. |
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Post by JohnY on Sept 7, 2023 21:32:38 GMT
Councils should have not only have been allowed to replace discounted housing stock, but made to do so. Doing so was affordable at the time. Agricultural land could have been bought at fair agricultural prices with compulsory purchase and used for social housing. This is something Thatcher got wrong.
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Post by willien on Sept 7, 2023 21:36:59 GMT
If renters can afford the rent then the landlord has the responsibility to maintain the property. I am not complaining that I have to take the initiative but just pointing out that being an owner occupier does imply a duty of self reliance. Renters have everything on a plate, providing they have a secure tenancy. Willien, you and I and millions of people like us are financing people who have not secured their own futures. You were beyond complaining. You were whinging your entitled arse off. Not to mention spouting right wing crap. Live with (and in) your decaying (inherited) property which you have neglected for decades. Or. Fix it up. Or sell up and move out. Retiral flat would seem to be a favourite. Just. Stop. Whinging. FFS
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Post by JohnY on Sept 7, 2023 21:44:37 GMT
If renters can afford the rent then the landlord has the responsibility to maintain the property. I am not complaining that I have to take the initiative but just pointing out that being an owner occupier does imply a duty of self reliance. Renters have everything on a plate, providing they have a secure tenancy. Willien, you and I and millions of people like us are financing people who have not secured their own futures. The best thing about being back in the EU will be being back in the EU. But a pretty close second best thing will be the realisation that people who say things like this have died out. I will likely have died out within ten years and certainly within twenty five. I am 80. Britain will not re-enter the EU. The EU is falling apart. Do you want to be part of an EU where the ADF controls Germany and NF controls France and goodness what controls Austria (FPO?). |
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Post by willien on Sept 7, 2023 21:45:58 GMT
The best thing about being back in the EU will be being back in the EU. But a pretty close second best thing will be the realisation that people who say things like this have died out. I will likely have died out within ten years and certainly within twenty five. I am 80. Britain will not re-enter the EU. The EU is falling apart. Do you want to be part of an EU where the ADF controls Germany and NF controls France and goodness what controls Austria (FPO?). All pish aside. I want to re-join the EU. |
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Post by JohnY on Sept 7, 2023 22:15:56 GMT
I will likely have died out within ten years and certainly within twenty five. I am 80. Britain will not re-enter the EU. The EU is falling apart. Do you want to be part of an EU where the ADF controls Germany and NF controls France and goodness what controls Austria (FPO?). All pish aside. I want to re-join the EU. That is clear. The present opinion seems to be about 50/50. If England and Wales rejoin the conditions will not be as favourable as in the past. As for Scotland and Northern Island, it will be up to them. Scotland and NI will have left England and Wales long before any serious consideration of rejoining the EU.
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