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red devil

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  1. Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As he can lock his door, the only available ground > floor exit for the others is the back door. Didn't > see any fire detectors. I'm wondering now just how > many things are wrong about this rental? Any gas appliance needs to be certified by a registered Gas Safe engineer that they're safe to use. The tenants should be given a copy of the certificate, and it needs to be renewed every 12 months. If someone were to die from a faulty gas appliance i.e carbon monoxide poisoning, the landlord would face charges of manslaughter if they didn't have an up to date certificate.
  2. Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My son is sharing a house with 3 other students. > It's actually a 2 bedroomed house but the front > room has been converted* into a bedroom, > presumably to squeeze more tenants in and thus be > able to increase the rent. So to get in to the > house other than through the front door (which is > in my son's bedroom) they must go through the back > door. To access this they must walk through the > neighbours back yard as it is the only way in. > I've emailed the landlady regarding the situation > of them having to trespass to get in to the house > (I never saw the place until I dropped my son > there). I still await a reply, though it's been > some days now. Now this sort of landlord is taking > the pi**. > > * they put some bedroom furniture in it Quite, and a reason why all landlords should be licensed/regulated against this sort of practice. Have you checked to see that everyone would get out safely in the event of a fire? Are smoke detectors fitted?
  3. maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Spain (like Barcelona) play some beautiful > football - almost redefining the game... but at > 3-1 ahead against Scotland they still, when > suffering a minor foul, go down and roll as though > savaged by a rabid dog (like Barcelona). This > means I am constantly struggling between > admiration and repugnance. > > Admirugnance? Repugmiration?..It's frustrating, as they just don't need to resort to those tactics, I guess it's cultural. Obviously their technique and movement with the ball is second to none, but it's their pressing game when they haven't got the ball that impresses me the most, Scotland could hardly get out of their own half with the ball, yet hardly pressed Spain in their own half, allowing them to pass it out from defence to midfield effortlessly.
  4. maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > property and of course there are huge differences > - much easier to get cheap rental in Barking & > Dagenham for example but harder to get reasonable > mortgage in Kensington & Chelsea but that's a > given (and a pointless point). > > Until very recently the main reason for buy-to-let > was to have someone else pay your mortgage and if > rents never matched mortgages no one would ever > buy-to-rent. The fact is they still do. > > Let's put it to the test - > > what's the average mortgage payment for people in > ED (based on a 2 bed flat)? ?1000? ?1200? ?1500? > and then compare with the average rent asked for > same by local estate agents. Hang on maxxi, you need to factor in how many persons might be contributing to the rent/mortgage figures. Generalising (;-)) most mortgages are paid by one or two persons, whereas the rents per property can often be shared by more. Taking your earlier figures as an example, say a couple share paying the mortgage, that equates to ?620/person. And if two couples or a group of 4 friends are sharing a rented property, that equates to ?494.75/person. If you compare a single person paying the mortgage against a couple sharing the rent, it also works out cheaper for the renters. I'm obviously taking examples that skew my point of view, but that's the joy of statistics ;-)
  5. Is the rent figure based on per property or per renter?
  6. zeban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just as an aside. It's very easy to find tenants, > a month is plenty of time if you have a decent > place in a decent area. In the current market maybe, but it's not always been that way, and more than likely won't be at sometime in the future > ...the amount landlords get for their > properties is more than their paying for their > mortgage so they'll have enough to cover > themselves if their property is vacant for a > couple of weeks. You're getting good at these generalisations...
  7. Herroeeeey makes the best of a bad situation... http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00481/smart_goldfish_682_481411a.jpg ''Squatter's rights!'' proclaimed the goldfish
  8. maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Help-Ma-Boab Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Why is she right to stay if her > contract/tenency > > has come to an end? Am I missing something > here? > > I was involved in a similar situation some years > ago and it went like this... > > Many tenants are living under expired tenancy > agreements. The tenancy agreement is assumed to be > still in force unless and until the landlord > serves notice as the OP has done through section > 21. Many landlords have tenants sign 6 or 12 month > tenancy agreements and then do not issue a new one > when it runs out (even though they are willing to > have the tenant stay on seemingly indefinitely). > > This means that - should there be any disputes - > the clauses agreed to in the original agreement > are assumed by law to be still in effect but that > the advantage for the landlord is that he/she can > get rid of the tenant at short notice (shorter > than if it were at the start of a renewal of a 6 > month contract for example) by serving notice. Cuts both ways maxxi...as you say, under a standard 6/12 month AST agreement when the lease expires it kicks into a rolling month by month agreement, whereby the tenant has to be given 2 months notice by the landlord if he wants the property vacated, whereas the tenant only has to give the landlord 1 months notice that they are leaving, not much time for a landlord to find a new tenant. It's worth stating that all contracts are negotiable, and terms and conditions can be amended if agreed by both parties up front, very seldom this happens though.
  9. There you go, good advice once the full facts are known...
  10. Very good Netty, but that Guardian link is hard work, hardly salacious tittle tattle, try this instead...(tu)
  11. The OP doesn't make it clear whether the original 6 month tenancy agreement is up or not, so once again, another EDF thread full of ifs, buts and maybes...
  12. Shades... http://www.smartbuyglasses.co.uk/public/images/designer_sunglasses/Vuarnet/VU190%20MFB.jpg
  13. You could always try drinking from the bottle... http://www.blogcdn.com/www.luxist.com/media/2007/08/l_67625.jpg
  14. Didn't he 'date' Natalie Imbruglia?...Guilty!
  15. and this... *Takes denim jacket with Status Quo sewn on patches out of bin...*
  16. Not a lover of heavy metal, but I may be found nodding my head to this... Great intro too *nods head...*
  17. or sds london architectural ironmongery...
  18. titch juicy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > as they say in Deutschland- Unglaublich! > > Perhaps you'd like a personal train that just you > and your nearest and dearest could get on? Keep up...
  19. JessieW Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Henry Holland spotted in The Bishop on Saturday! > Also, saw Kate Thornton on Lordship Lane on the > same day! Are you sure it wasn't Mockers after he fell asleep on the couch?.. http://m.gmgrd.co.uk/res/379.$plit/C_71_article_1060691_image_list_image_list_item_0_image.jpg?31%2F07%2F2008%2013%3A22%3A31%3A425
  20. They tend to be called pendant light fittings and/or hanging shades. To my knowledge, no specific name for one with a closed base, it's just a design feature. You could try general high street/department stores e.g Habitat, Conran, Ikea, House of Fraser, Selfridges etc, or a specialist lighting shop e.g Christopher Wray. Or try a google search for oversized pendant lights...
  21. You obviously went on a 'special' Friday night *Bob*...
  22. There were six suits made for the movie DC, take your pick. And some of us can Cary off the no vent look ;-)
  23. Medieval accoutrements eh?, all that's missing is a... http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTuD78dHMJlPRqi4TYfGiU3yjyGCr3K_aLyZSYUgWgWumJX3YATCg
  24. Phase 3 = Gallic shrug
  25. The new East Dulwich to London Bridge Express Train fails to leave East Dulwich... http://www.playmobildirect.co.uk/images/product/6760.jpg ''At least we don't have to worry about nutters'', said one dizzy commuter...
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