Darling, you are a nobhead.
Credit crunch affects my tenant relationships!
So, one lot of tenants has moved out due to a relationship split - I am debating getting couples to do a compatability test before allowing them to live in one of my flats cause twentysomethings are always splitting up! We've a problem as the sound travel has always been appalling between that flat and the... Continue Reading →
Project Bishop – revamping a grotty communal area
It never ceases to amaze how little thought goes into the vast majority of new build apartment schemes' communal areas. Just take a look at the picture above! We're not talking about following a Candy & Candy specification, obviously, but just putting a little more thought into the regular schemes built in cities all over... Continue Reading →
Wednesday
My hands are killing me still today, itching, and loads of those blister things, it's crap not knowing what they are. Didn't sleep well at all, hands on fire. Even had to get one of the lads in B&Q to lift a tub of paint into the boot of my car, granted it was a... Continue Reading →
Endowment policies & crap advice!
Sent of an application to the Financial Ombudsman earlier this week re my vastly underperforming endowment policy, they are snowed under, he said, so it'll be about 9 months before anything is looked at. It's thousands under what was 'promised'. I think it was promised with no inverted commas - I distinctly remember the girl... Continue Reading →
Employing the Poles; guilt or good sense?
Ok, bollocks to the non-working hand, no-one seems to know what's wrong with it, so I'll just carry on regardless. Having had a conversation with a friend whose sister is really poorly last night, my itchy hand pales into insignificance. Been on site this morning and Project Lennon and Project Cathedral are coming on a treat,... Continue Reading →
The downside of self employment
This is definitely the downside of being self-employed, can't take (paid) time off to sit in front of the tv, eat chocolate and do buggar all. Feel like shit, hands are killing me, had lots of blood tests today to see what this hideous finger thing is all about, lots of lesions and stuff on... Continue Reading →