If, and I know the chance is small here, but if I was to open the garbage can outside and find a fully loaded AK47, I know what I'd do with it.
I'd stroll down to the local garage where there's bound to be a car saleman and shoot him full of holes.
Not because I particularly dislike that car salesman in particular, but because he'd be the first target to suffer for the generally anti-social of order of human beings; liars, cheats, charlatans and criminals the lot of them; which we call salesmen.
Ofcourse I could spend all night frightening you with the various encounters I've had with this vermin over the last 3 decades of my life, but suffice to mention, I'm going to stick to a single example. If I can...
I need a house. Living in a cardboard box (a slight exaggeration, naturally) isn't all it's cracked up to be. Yes, the Rotterdam authorities can suggest beggers beg a good 170 euros a day, but that's a damn sight more than I earn...
Anyways, I need a house, so I replied to a cheap 375 a month rent apartment. And got invited, this afternoon, to look at it.
It consisted of a large living room with sliding doors to a large bedroom. A large kitchen, toilet and shower. Quite nice.
Then the rep took me upstairs to view the other 3 bedrooms, second toilet and bath.
"This isn't a 375 euro a month apartment, is it?" I asked the salesman (who's appointment with me was keeping me from working, and as I'm doing agency work at the moment, the old Springsteen songs springs to mind: "He don't work and he don't get paid..."😉.
The salesman hestitated a second and then answered, rather sheepishly: "...no."
I lifted my eyebrows.
"...it's", he continued, "750 euros a month."
I slowly nodded: "So, this isn't the apartment I applied for then, is it?"
"...no..."
"And why did you invite me out to view it then?"
"Some people change their minds." He answered.
THE GOD'S HONEST TRUTH!!!
What the F is wrong with these people. That was 30 minutes of work I missed, which probably means 1 euro or something I've missed out on. Git.
And there's my car. Which I've bought, but don't own yet. Just don't get me started on that cracker-jack of a bloody garage...
Originally posted by shavixmirAre there there no markets/newspapers that deal with landlords directly? I have a few flats in London that I rent out and if they become vacant at a bad time of year i.e. before xmas I tend to use an agent as well as my usual method of doing myself via a newspaper ad. Quite a few times I have been showing people around and the agent showing others at the same time. It's bizaare because obvioulsy they charge about 10% so that is added to the rent, I always find it strange that so many people are willing to pay that extra 10% (and in London that 10% is isgnificant i.e. about £150 (about 250 Euros) a month. I have to be careful about how loudly I speak about the rent cos the ones the agents are showing around are going to pay 10% more (to the agent).
If, and I know the chance is small here, but if I was to open the garbage can outside and find a fully loaded AK47, I know what I'd do with it.
I'd stroll down to the local garage where there's bound to be a car saleman and shoot him full of holes.
Not because I particularly dislike that car salesman in particular, but because he'd be the first target et me started on that cracker-jack of a bloody garage...
Originally posted by shavixmir750 for four bedrooms and two bathrooms - that's a great deal, isn't it?
If, and I know the chance is small here, but if I was to open the garbage can outside and find a fully loaded AK47, I know what I'd do with it.
I'd stroll down to the local garage where there's bound to be a car saleman and shoot him full of holes.
Not because I particularly dislike that car salesman in particular, but because he'd be the first target ...[text shortened]... et me started on that cracker-jack of a bloody garage...
Originally posted by stevetoddYeah:
In London (battersea which is the area I know well) a house of that size would rent for about 3,000 Euros/month
1. This is Rotterdam, not London or Dublin.
2. There was dog poo on the doorstep.
3. Anything over 375 and I won't be able to afford my diet of soft drugs, malt whiskey and steak.
Originally posted by stevetoddYes. However...
ouch 1.8% yield! I don't know how landlords can live with 1.8%
This tale isn't about the housing market in Holland and how all those poor leeches (call them landlords if you must) suffer.
It's about sales people being the scum of the earth and the living proof that nuclear weapons do have a proper use.
Originally posted by shavixmirYes quite, but any landlord that invests for a 1.8% yield is more of a charity than a leech (in fact was it a charity? or the equivelant of what we call a housing assocation over here?). Call me a leech if you must but I have always had very good relations with my tenants. But when an estate agent gets involved it usually means trouble because they always tend to give answers to questions that they do not know, in other words lie
Yes. However...
This tale isn't about the housing market in Holland and how all those poor leeches (call them landlords if you must) suffer.
It's about sales people being the scum of the earth and the living proof that nuclear weapons do have a proper use.
Originally posted by stevetoddGood relations you may have, but you're part of the reason why, if I ever want to buy so much as a cupboard in this city, I'll be living on a diet of cold beans and asking for the drip tray down the pub for the next 50 years of my life. Thanks.
Yes quite, but any landlord that invests for a 1.8% yield is more of a charity than a leech (in fact was it a charity? or the equivelant of what we call a housing assocation over here?). Call me a leech if you must but I have always had very good relations with my tenants.
Originally posted by MarcusrI bought mine when virtually no one was buying i.e. in 1991-1993 the price was falling at about 15% year, sellers were seriously outnumbering buyers. Although I was lucky to arrive in London at right time, I worked hard for financial independance, I didn't have a holiday for 8 years and often worked 100 hours a week (between my very demanding job and 2 businesses that I set up).
Good relations you may have, but you're part of the reason why, if I ever want to buy so much as a cupboard in this city, I'll be living on a diet of cold beans and asking for the drip tray down the pub for the next 50 years of my life. Thanks.
I was just saying to my girlfriend the other day, if I was new in london, I would buy in somwhere like Maidstone (where prices are much lower) and either commute in (I think it's 75 mins to Victoria) or rent it out in Maidstone (getting a foot on the property ladder) and rent myself somewhere more convenient. Have you considered a solution such as this?
Originally posted by shavixmirI'll reload and hold your coat.
If, and I know the chance is small here, but if I was to open the garbage can outside and find a fully loaded AK47, I know what I'd do with it.
I'd stroll down to the local garage where there's bound to be a car saleman and shoot him full of holes.
Not because I particularly dislike that car salesman in particular, but because he'd be the first target ...[text shortened]... et me started on that cracker-jack of a bloody garage...