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A few gone AWOL 24th April 2010 9:16 AM
the mad ranter is here - moving house this weekend & my sons birthday but still logged in!!!! dedication

logging off to go & collect van & son for a few hours - hope this is ok? lol

Hope all goes well for you too Clive, we can compare grey hairs later
Rant time 24th April 2010 7:40 AM
Briliant news!

Dunno if this is too far over for you, but my mate used these guys for short term storage while he moved house, and thought they were great.

Stratford Self Store - Self Storage

thanks for that steve, is a bit too far for us as we need to have access to it daily, but while looking at that link i did find one that was nearer and a reasonable price too. said items are now safely locked away
one less hassle to worry about.
todays the day..... the move begins , the vans outside screaming at us to fill it, the boys are stirring with solemn faces knowing what a mammoth task lies ahead and me...... well im stuck here working online (on and off) till 8pm sunday night as no internet in new house yet.
Not had a rant in a while so ..... 23rd April 2010 9:25 PM
omg clive you have my sympathy, i knew someone would be worse than us, we're going into our 5th house in 6 yrs this weekend. i can relate to the grief stress and lack of sleep too
once all this is sorted we are holding a celebration bbq and p*** up.
all welcome
A few gone AWOL 22nd April 2010 10:49 PM
i here too sir.... been busy tring to find somewhere to live but i have got a note from me great aunty ethels, great granny twice removed
Rant time 22nd April 2010 10:40 PM
Hi all just to let you know, we have found a new house and we are moving in tomorrow.
seems like we have found a good landlord too, since we agreed to take the house 48 hours ago the whole house has been decorated ready for us.
hes even going to build a garage for us to store our equipment in starting next tuesday.
having a mare trying to get everything packed up in such a short time and continue working.
trying desperately to find storage for business equipment for a week till said garage is up.
thanks for all ur support.... onwards and upwards
Rant time 20th April 2010 12:24 AM
Only trouble there is that bringing legal actions against people takes time, money, energy... all things which are in short supply when you're also trying to move house, raise kids, run a small business, and not have your head explode from stress.

Thanks Mary,
That just about sums me up at the minute, couldnt have put it better myself.
Night all, im off to scream very loudly.
Rant time 19th April 2010 10:05 AM
i dont think getting my deposit back will be an issue , as far as im aware the letting agent deposited in under the deposit protection scheme.
the pain is having to raise a deposit and rent in advance for another property while waiting god knows how long for the other one to be returned, 4 weeks notice that you're going to need nearly 2 grand just isnt good enough, unless you a high flyer and have thousands behind you in the bank, but in that case would you be renting anyway?

oh well catch you later all, another day of business on hold while we go house hunting. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Rant time 18th April 2010 2:21 PM
we have been trying since before xmas to get him to fix the boiler.... spent the majority of the winter with no heating, to the extent that our daughter had to move out with her disabled baby because of it.
we think its because we have been complaining about the heating, the letting agents will not tell us anything other than 'he's decided he wants his house back' and the landlord himself is out of the country indefinately.
Rant time 18th April 2010 12:08 AM
yeah kip, even though we had an agreement it would long term, letting agents only draw up 12 month contracts. we just expected it would be renewed as agreed before we took house on.
the house was a wreck and we agreed we would sort it on condition it would be long term.
we have done the whole house up, marc only finished the last room a week ago
so bloody frustrating that people can do this and get away with it.
i only found out on a chance call to letting agent about something else, i happened to ask about the renewal, to be told oh hes not renewing it!
to say we are angry is an understatement.
to add insult to injury, marc posted a wanted ad on gumtree for house, had email from a guy says i have just what u need, another email he sent photos etc, looked ideal.
marc emailed him and asked to view it, he replied with 'to view my property i want to know u can afford it, please deposit
Rant time 17th April 2010 7:45 PM
hi all

sorry ive not been about, we are busy house hunting after being informed the landlord of our long term let ( 'yeah guys you can stay as many years as u want') now wants his house back!
our contract runs out on may 27th and he is not renewing it.
another one to test our sanity

trena