- To find a house in four days
when you weren't planning on moving and you have to pack
is extremely stressful.
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- I had one of the worst landlords on the earth, honestly.
Never did anything.
We had to fight to get our boiler fixed,
had to fight to get anything done.
And then one day he decided to be proactive.
He was getting stuff done,
and he said he was gonna do some renovations in our house
and we were really excited because it meant
things would get fixed.
And then I get in, and I'm really excited to cook dinner,
like I've planned what I'm gonna make,
then I open the door and there's no kitchen.
Like the kitchen is gone completely.
Completely gone, like all the flooring's been pulled off,
the fridge is askew and off,
so all our food's rotting and rotten.
All the cupboards have been pulled down,
then all the stuff that I owned that was in the cupboards
was in just bin bags outside the front door.
It was not fun, and he promised he'd buy us all
takeaways for the week because it's an inconvenience,
and he never did.
- I moved house really quickly during one summer one time.
Found these people online, you know, the usual thing.
You find them on these renting pages
and you just go through.
So I loved with two Spanish boys, fairly nice, whatever,
have no bad things to say about them.
I went on holiday to Austria.
While I was there, one of them messages me going,
"Oh, I'm moving out next week.
"Do you want to share a moving van?"
And I was like, "Why would I be sharing a moving van?"
And they were like, "You know,
"because we're moving out in the same day."
And I was like, "What?
"Where am I going?"
And they were like, "Yeah, you're moving out on this day."
And I was like, "Who said that?"
And they were like, "Oh, I thought you knew."
And I was like, "No.
"Nobody told me I have to leave the house.
"I haven't looked for anywhere, I haven't don't anything,
"I'm on holiday."
He goes, "But we've had people viewing your room
"so we've already given the room away."
And I was like, "Cool.
"So you guys have been waiting for me to leave the house
"to bring people in to view my room,
"and you've given it away?"
So basically, yeah, I had to run back,
find somewhere very last minute.
Luckily I found a great place, amazing people.
Anyway, as you can expect I don't speak to them again
because I think it was probably the shadiest thing possible.
But I don't know why they thought I was moving out.
I never said I was.
But they were convinced I told them I was leaving.
I don't know how they would come to that conclusion.
- So I had a live-in landlord.
I moved in with her because she seemed really cool.
She was only a little bit older than me,
and was really fun and interesting.
Her dad had given her the flat,
so I was her first tenant.
It was really tricky, because I'd be warned
that live-in landlords aren't the best,
but I thought it'd be fine because she was basically,
she was such a similar age to me
and we had really similar interests.
She seemed cool and artsy.
I was like, "We're gonna get along fine.
"This is all good."
Right before I moved in she sent me a text one day
and she showed me all these pictures
of the room I was supposed to move into.
She had stripped the wall of the wallpaper,
which I hadn't asked her to do,
and she was like, "Sorry, it's not going to be finished
"by the time you move in.
"Is this okay or do you want me to keep it
"as this bare wall?
"I think it looks really cool."
And I was like, "Oh, no, I do want the wall painted.
"I don't want just the unstripped half done wall.
"But yes, it's okay, you can finish it while I'm moving in.
"It should be okay."
And then she just didn't finish it,
so then I just had these half done walls.
Half the wallpaper was still there,
and half of it was like plaster.
It just looked atrocious really.
And she kept trying to be like,
"Oh, I think it's like Parisian chic."
And I was like, "No it's not, it's just unfinished."
Unfortunately, because she didn't know
what she was doing as well,
when she'd stripped the wallpaper away
she'd actually taken some bits of the wall off with it.
I would just be like ...
I would have my heating on in my room
and I would be like, "I'm still absolutely freezing."
Like absolutely freezing.
I was like, "I don't understand.
"I feel like I'm going insane."
And then I realized it's because underneath the window
there were all these gaps of cold air coming in
'cause she'd stripped away the wallpaper
but not done it properly,
so all this cold air was just coming in.
And I told her about it and she was like,
"Don't worry, I'll get around to it."
And I'm like, "I'm literally freezing my ass off here."
Anyway, long story short,
she never got around to fixing the curtain.
She never got around to stripping the rest of the walls.
She never got around to painting anything.
- So, I lived in this lovely flat
with one of my good friends.
Basically we had been living there
for a couple of weeks maybe,
not longer than two months tops,
and then the hot water stops.
Coming from uni and your parents house
there's only so much you know
about the boilers that you've lived in,
so I had no idea what was going on.
So I called our leasing agent and was like,
"Hey, our hot water stopped."
And they were like, "Oh, yeah, we'll get someone out."
As estate agents all want to do,
they just fob you off, or they talk to the landlord
but they don't talk about how urgent it is
so it's just a long wait.
Can you imagine pouring hot water from your kettle
and various pans that you've put on the hob
into your bath so you can be clean to go to work, right?
Eventually I had enough, I snapped,
and I went right into this estate agents
and I was just like, "I want to speak to redacted."
And then they were like, "Why?
"I don't think he's in.
"Maybe call him or send him an email."
I was like, "I'm not sending any emails.
"I haven't had a shower in three days.
"I stink.
"I need to talk to someone so that my boiler can be fixed.
"This is inhumane."
I'm just hysterical and I'm like,
"How would you feel if you couldn't
"shave your armpits properly?"
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