(sighs)
- Why can I never stop talking
about how I'm an American that lives in England?
Jesus Christ.
I'm annoyed by myself.
(gentle music)
Hi guys, I'm Stevie.
I had a completely different video planned to film today,
and I just can't do it
without talking about what's going on, so here we go.
Firstly, I just wanna say that I'm so excited
about today's video sponsor.
It is sponsored by Cerebral.
So stay tuned till a little bit later
to find out more about them.
I'm moving out of the house that I live in,
in beautiful sunny Blackpool, England,
and I'm so upset about it.
(sighs)
But let's tell the story about why.
So the first house Josie and I lived in,
in Blackpool, was like a two story house?
Is that what Americans call it?
But what do you guys call it?
- [Both] Just a house.
- And if a house doesn't have two floors
in England, they call them a bungalow.
Which is hilarious, 'cause in America it's a house
if it's all on one level,
and then it's a two-story house, if it's-
Anyway. We went to this gorgeous bungalow,
it has beautiful view.
Like the garden is like so mature
and it overlooks like open fields,
just like British countryside.
English countryside?
Who says British countryside?
Can a countryside be British?
What's the difference between English and British?
The people that live in Great Britain, but not in England,
like to call themselves British?
I have a sneaking suspicion they do not.
- [Josie] No.
(Stevie laughs)
- So, yay, no stairs.
And moved in, and we were so excited.
The first thing we decided to do was decorate the guest room
and we put up like this cute sweet little wallpaper,
and made like two little single beds.
And I was like, "I'm so excited to make a video
about all the things you should have in your guests room,
and like how we decorated it together."
and all that stuff, right?
- I look tiny.
What the hell?
- 'Cause you're behind me.
- Oh yeah.
- Oh, we are finishing up the guest room.
The best part of the whole room is definitely the wallpaper.
It did come with some features that are really beautiful.
Like the beams, this gorgeous window with the view,
really high ceiling, nice molding.
It's not all what we're doing.
It's just, we had a really good space to work.
But also the size is really great.
It's really long.
So it's perfect.
Like a twin size or a single in the UK,
perfectly on the edges.
So we're doing two singles for our guests.
- You didn't point our your favorite thing
in the whole room.
- What's my favorite thing in the room?
They're so good.
Beautiful parquet floors.
We started to notice that the bathroom
was always really musty and moldy.
And then the guest room window when you opened it,
the wood would just fall off,
exposing the glass.
And you know, would say they're going to fix it,
and then they just wouldn't.
And then one day, just chilling in my bed,
and a man just walks into my house.
What the (bleep).
With no mask, by the way.
Josie was like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa."
"You put a mask on."
So that was annoying.
He came to look at the window and said,
"I don't know how to fix this."
And laughed.
How dare you just walk in my house-
- [Josie] Wait, he also,
the wood fell off it, and he just left the wood.
- Oh yeah, he just left the wood off with the glass exposed.
- [Josie] So there was a gap in our window,
which was about three inches.
A pigeon could have flown in.
(Stevie laughs)
- Anyways, so we're sitting here watching TV one night,
and we start hearing like very loud noises.
Now, Josie's step-mom has had a squirrel living
in her attic for the past month or so.
And we were like,
"Oh my God, this is definitely a squirrel."
Like they're out there making noises,
they're like throwing stuff around.
It literally sounded like they had built a bowling alley,
and then we're bowling up there.
Like what?
It was so loud.
Squirrels are just wild and have a lot of energy,
you know, they can just bounce around,
and some of them can fly.
So that's- I was like,
"Oh, it's definitely gotta be a squirrel."
Maybe a flying squirrel,
maybe a family of squirrels, right?
So we contact our landlord and we're like,
"I wonder if they're actually going to send
a competent person this time."
And so they come and they're like,
"You have rats."
(bouncing noise)
(laughs)
So now it's time for me to tell you
about this really cool app.
So if you're going through anything super stressful,
like having rats in your house,
I bet that your impending emotional breakdown
could be avoided, if you knew about/had access to,
the Cerebral app.
So Cerebral is a mental health platform
that provides access
to ongoing online prescription medication management,
counseling, and therapy for anxiety, depression, insomnia,
and other conditions, all for a flat monthly rate.
And the treatment for ADHD, bipolar, and PTSD,
are available in certain states.
Using Cerebral, you can talk
with your provider, care counselor, or therapist online.
If for instance, you are spiraling
about the possibility of a mouse or rat
getting in through your dryer vent of your laundry room,
then you can just message your counselor about it.
Cerebral is designed for long-term treatment,
because your therapist and your doctor actually communicate,
unlike your parents.
Cerebral is also pretty affordable
with or without insurance.
My brain is a minefield of lesbian s*x,
ADHD memory issues, and lesbian s*x.
Luckily, choosing a plan with Cerebral is super easy,
because I have other things to think about.
Like lesbian s*x.
And Cerebral offers a convenient app available
on the Apple Store and Google Play.
Simone Biles, a world champion gymnast,
just joined their team as their chief impact officer.
And I live my life by a very simple motto.
If it's good enough for Simone Biles,
it's good enough for me.
If you would like to take the next step
of working on your mental health,
and this sounds great to you,
click the link in my description
to fill out the questionnaire,
and be linked with the provider.
Your first month starts at only $30.
I love little mice and rats, right?
Like anytime I go to the pet shop, I'm like,
"Oh, your little whiskers."
And then my son, Myles,
has had pet rats in the past.
And I'm like, "I love having them like crawl on me.
It's so cute."
Whatever.
And then Josie googled it,
and found out about how dangerous it is
to have rats in your attic.
Just like in general, that they carry so many diseases.
And I was like, "I definitely would not have survived
the bubonic plague."
You know what I mean?
Like, I'm so glad that I live now
because I would have just made a little rat house inside
and been like, "Come, on little babies."
Anyway.
So then I start freaking out.
The guy decides to lay down poison.
Didn't even tell us that he laid down poison,
because after he left, we started googling like rats,
and how to get rid of them,
and how to stop them coming inside your house
and your attic, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Josie sent him this text,
and this was his response.
Which, you know,
I've heard that when British people say this,
it's like sarcastic.
So it's kind of like him being a dickhead.
But maybe he didn't mean it that way.
Maybe he just meant, yes.
Maybe he was like, "Obviously, I put poison up there."
Right?
So I was like, "Great. If a mouse or a rat does get
into the house, and Gumbo eats it, then he can die."
Because it's poisoned, or not even that,
just like any- there's like neighborhood cats
that are outside.
Why didn't he just put a trap?
He also said that all the insulation in the ceiling is gone,
because the rats have been like, eating it?
I don't even know.
Just like tearing it up to make their nests or whatever.
And he like painted this huge picture
that the rat infestation is so bad.
And so then we start freaking out.
And we're like, "Okay, well,
at least it's not inside the house."
Right?
So if a mouse comes inside the house,
or a rat comes inside the house,
then we'll obviously have to move out, right?
So then he was like, "I'll be back in two weeks."
And we were like, "Cool."
One day Josie yells at me, "Stevie, can you come here?"
And I was like, "Oh God, that's like a serious tone."
Like, something's really wrong.
Right?
I thought like, "Oh, she tried to cook something
and burnt it."
You know what I mean?
Or like cut herself?
I don't know.
And so I walk in and she just standing
in front of the laundry room and points.
And I look.
It's a tiny little hole in the side of our dryer vent.
Like the vent that goes outside to vent the hot air out,
you know?
And there's lint all over the laundry room.
And I lost my goddamn mind.
I was not okay.
Like actually not, okay.
I started googling home remedies
to keep mice and rats away.
And then I found out that it was like-
What, how many things? (Josie laughs)
It was like cinnamon, toothpaste, peppermint tea.
Any kind of like mint. Right?
So I take my freakin' toothpaste that I imported
from America, and I'm like, just using it as a weapon.
You know what I mean?
I'm just standing there, like, "You better get away
from Gumba. I swear to God."
And I'm like squirting toothpaste all over all the holes
in the dryer,
all along the bottom of the doors
so that they won't like squeeze under.
Because apparently, a mouse can fit
through the size of a pencil hole.
They can just flatten their skeletons, which adorable.
Like, I think I've just have like
so much cognitive dissonance,
because on one hand, I don't want to get sick.
And then on the other hand, I just think they're so cute.
Anyway. So I'm armed with toothpaste,
I put cinnamon sticks all inside of the drum of the dryer.
And then we brew like 20 teabags of peppermint tea,
put it all over.
And then I googled and find out
that they don't like cat urine smell.
We get Gumba to pee.
We scoop his litter out, and we put it on a thing,
and we put it in the laundry room.
Like, oh my God,
what if mice get in this house, right?
So I thought, "Oh God,
they've actually been in the house before."
Like, what?
So I'm taking all of the food out of the pantries,
looking for little mice holes,
looking for like rat poop anywhere.
Absolutely not okay.
Emotional breakdown, all right?
After we found the dreaded dryer hole,
contacted them, and then the exterminator guy
came back that day. Right?
He said, "there's no rats up here."
"I don't know what you were talking about."
Like, what happened?
He came back and he basically gaslit you.
The first time he came, he made it out-
- So bad. - So bad.
He's like, "There's no insulation up here."
"There's rat droppings everywhere,
you've got an infestation."
- [Josie] Also, he didn't even go up into the attic,
'cause his ladder-
- Oh yeah.
He showed up with a really short ladder
and he couldn't get into the attic.
So how did he even know any of that?
You know what I mean?
- [Josie] From taking the peek.
That's how he knew it was bad,
'cause he only peeked and he knew how bad it was.
(Stevie scoffs)
- Even if he did pop his head in there,
like, there's no way he could have seen over here
where all the noises were actually happening.
Anyway, so the second time he came back,
he still did not bring along enough ladder.
And then, he took a peek at the outside of our house
where the dryer vent was, and he was like,
"I can't go and close up the hole."
"I can't repair that because-"
What did he say?
"The ivy was overgrown."
There's too much ivy, so he can't go and repair the hole
that is allowing rats and mice to enter my home.
Oh, I was so mad.
So then, I decided that he sucks and he's incompetent.
So I did research on who to report him to.
And then I sent a very strongly worded email
to our state agents saying that he was incompetent,
that he exaggerated the problem,
and then denied that he ever said it.
And he didn't even bring along enough ladder
to get into the attic, even though he'd been there twice.
I understand the first time bringing
a too short of a ladder,
but a second time?
And then saying that the ivy was keeping him
from repairing the dryer duct.
Anyway, we fixed it the next day ourselves.
And we didn't decide to tell the estate agents about it,
'cause that problem was already fixed. Right?
The problem is we have rats and mice.
They're entering the attic somehow.
I don't know, is this even an interesting story?
Oh, it took them 10 days of back and forth emails,
for them to say that they were working
on getting a repairman- or working
on getting someone to come and cut the ivy,
so that the exterminator could come back.
10 days of me freaking out, threatening to move,
threatening to contact environmental health department,
for them to say, "Oh, we're just working
on getting someone to come and cut the ivy."
And I was like, "That doesn't need to be cut."
"We already repaired the dryer vent."
"We need them to come and actually figure out
how the rats and mice are getting inside the attic."
And then, (ominous music)
it started smelling like rotting flesh inside the house.
So, you know, we're going to move out.
Which I'm very sad about,
because I'm absolutely obsessed with this house.
I love this house.
I thought we were going to stay here for long term,
but if there's this many problems
that we're having with either the landlord,
or the owner, or the type of people
that they hire for the job.
Like, I demanded that they hire someone else.
We're about to paint this whole room and the ceiling
because there's like marks on the ceiling,
and come to find out, it's something called ghosting.
That is when you have rodents in your attic,
they create these lines in between the insulation,
and it allows like build up of dirt and stuff.
And then you can see the shadows of it on your ceiling.
We were going to work with lick paints,
and I was so excited, and...
It does really suck too,
because I feel like we have very specific taste.
It's really difficult because every person
that remodels a house decides to put in gray wood floors,
or dark gray carpets,
and they replace all the kitchen cabinets that are wood,
with plastic gray ones.
And we just like like, charming old cottages.
Like, we don't want anything new, and everything is new.
It's a rental.
And no one will give me a mortgage because I'm an immigrant.
(laughs)
Thank you so much for listening to me rant about this.
I just don't know what else-
Like I can't make a different video right now.
Oh, it's a squirrel.
That was the most stereotypically ADHD thing
I've ever done on camera.
(Josie chuckles)
Oh, we've been trying to spend as much time outside
of the house that we can.
The vibes are off. You know what I mean?
Like, if you know that there's rats living in your attic,
or there's dead rat carcasses,
which they put poison up there without even telling us,
is just no longer a cool, safe, fun place to be.
You know?
I have (bleep) to do.
I don't need to be (bleep) emailing estate agents
begging them.
You want to move? You're happy about it?
You're not dreading having to move again?
Do you forgot-
Did you forget how stressful was to move?
- [Josie] It is so stressful to move,
but we can't be here long, long term anyway.
The landlords are moving back.
- Anyways, so the new place has an Aga,
which I didn't know what (bleep) that was.
And then I googled it and it sounds so much fun.
So maybe I'll make a video learning how to cook on an Aga.
Have you guys ever had rats and mice?
Have you ever had to deal with this?
Have you ever had to deal with landlord issues?
I would love, love, love, love,
to hear your terrible landlord stories in the comments,
so I can feel less alone.
Thank you so much to my patrons for supporting me,
and supporting videos like this one from being made.
Actually, this video is supported
by sh*tty landlords everywhere.
But I've got an exciting thing.
If you become one of my patreons,
I am sending everyone that would like one,
a Christmas card this year.
I stole this idea from Alayna Fender,
Alayna Fender? I think she goes by Alayna Joy now.
I stole this idea from Alayna.
Next video, we're actually gonna be doing a collab, so.
I want to spread some holiday cheer this year
with you guys.
So become one of my patreons by clicking the link
in my description.
If you become a patron before the end of November,
you'll be getting one.
And also send me your address.
I guess look forward to our moving adventures.
Oh yeah, I forgot.
I like totally skipped over the whole bathroom issue.
There's a skylight in the bathroom.
We put fans in the bathroom.
We have a moisture absorbing thing,
and every time I tell them it smells musty,
they're like, "You seem like you're doing
all the correct things that you should do
for a damp bathroom."
Okay?
There's obviously a leak then.
Hey, is anyone a mortgage lender and would like
to give me a mortgage?
Please let me know.
Thanks.
Does anyone wanna just buy me a house?
That'd be great.
Anyway, thank you so much for watching.
And also, thank you so much to Cerebral
for sponsoring this video.
Don't forget to click the link in the description
if you're as stressed out as me.
Okay, I love you. Bye.
(gentle piano music)