WeeManDan

Perhaps its just the experience with the letting agents we’ve had but are they all this bad?

When we first moved in there were a good few things not as we’d been promised; our garden still had a wendy house, the shed was full of kids stuff and the loft was inaccessible having been assured access. There were some other little things but the end result has meant we’ve never really been able to properly move in and stretch out, there just hasn’t been enough space.

Anyway, last week I noticed the ‘To Let’ sign had gone up in the back garden and thought fair enough (I was going to blog about how quick the time has gone etc but alas never got around to it!). Then on Friday I got a call from the letting agents asking if we had a dishwasher, come on, you’d think they might know that but apparently not.

This got me thinking, wonder how much it’s being advertised for. So I found it online then noticed the available from date, May! Straight away called them and left a message to call back ASAP. Lunchtime today they got and thankfully they admitted their mistake, it has to be said that I was all ready to have to fight our corner though.

What worries me now is that it’ll be a while before we get our deposit back, it shouldn’t be, the house will be fine when we leave it but I’ve just got this inkling!

So my question is are all letting agents pretty bad, or have we just got unlucky?

Of course the other thing this brings to mind is, I want to own a house, heck we both do. Once we’re settled down with our lives a house is surely going to be near the top of the list. It’s not really about owning a property (it could be a flat!) but the convenience that appeals to me. That’s not the right word, I’m not sure what it is but say I want to put a hole in a wall here, a splash of paint there, it’d make life a lot easier if the walls were ours.

Of course I’m sure we’d still argue about the colour of the paint!

Dan