Yesterday I spent time trying to rent out our friends house. This led to two events which just confirms stereotypes.
Firstly I had arranged to meet two estate agent types who we were going to compare as running the property for us, as quite clearly we have trouble organising our own lives & house let alone another one.
The first one I met was a slimy git who I hated on so many levels it is unreal. He is the reason why people hate estate agents. Luckily the second one, Laura, was really quite nice and spoke more sense, so we have decided to go with her company instead.
Secondly I spoke to neighbour who saw we were having people round to the house. I should explain that so far we have let the property to a very large & fun Rastafarian actor, a couple of Muslim Asian Doctors from South Africa and a couple of Australian Doctors, one of whom was Chinese Australian.
So guess what the neighbour said, yes that's right, they were concerned if we were going to let it long term to any foreigners or Muslims.
It does remind me of a friend of mine, who is from a rather rich family. His brother had bought a house in a very exclusive & expensive area in the West Midlands. He had applied for planning permission, to make a few small alterations to the porch & garage area but had heard from the local parish council that it would not get permission. As he had loads of money he sent a letter around to a few key people in the street and the local parish councillors, pointing out that if he couldn't change the house to how he wanted that he would live elsewhere. He also pointed out that a current big news story was how councils in the South East & London were struggling to accommodate all of the asylum seekers within their own area, so he would probably, from a point of civic duty, offer his house over to them.
You can guess that my friend's brother still lives in the house and has a lovely gym complex built onto his garage.
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