Posted: Tue Jul 01, 25 9:32 am Post subject: Moving House
Am watching the clearing of a three bedroom house over the road. Again. It's three bedroom and social. Second eviction since I've been here.
This time it's professional firm that clears "shit" not a team called in to salvage and sell. Yesterday the two blokes had enough to load a 7.5 ton Luton and expect to do the same again today.
To all accounts this latest lot are serial offenders with a record of being "moved on". You'd think they'd use the brain cells.
Previous evictee managed to move most of hers at just above cost to her. This lot didn't. Me - have experience just the once and know to have stuff which can go to tip (very little indeed) or be sold.
House clearance in this corner of the village is a regular happening. Social housing, lot of older people, oddballs who would be well suited to dpack's days in Troll Towers and the plain "done a runner" events. Sometimes there's open house as that's cheaper if it's family clearing.
There also seems to be a social "problem" that keeps some businesses in cash. People don't think of end of life or having to move on. I'd hate to have to deal with a couple of bungalows (well three) in this line.
One of the clearing blokes took a nice little hand held shark cleaner home yesterday he said. Seems his gaffer is not even looking to make a bit on the side.
Afraid some people don't seem to think. When son and DIL lived in a flat, one tenant in a rented flat moved out and just dumped so much in the bins. We put some for recycle and also aquired a set of kitchen tools; not good quality, but at least they work.
Afraid our house will need a lot of work from son if we die, but hopefully if it is one at a time, or we finally decide to move, we will do a lot for him. I have a lot of stuff that came from my parents, some from my parents, and we have a glass cabinet that has to pass down through the family by a great uncle of husbands wishes.
Honest we must be a set of scavengers - line of old peoples' bungalows and at least one of us went over to see if the left over debris had anything worth taking before the clearance firm was ordered back to finish the clear up.
Mind Facebook locally is a familiar swaps ground for those of us who are junk removing.
Someone wanting a four bed social house up from 3 came for an unofficial walk past. Bought her mother who is senior at a care home. Had a chat. The thing that really got through was that after two evictions on the trot, the house would probably have a bad credit rating.
I know about that as I followed a "done a runner who paid nowt" into the last flat. Frankly the bad credit rating on the building of 2 flats was the least of the problems with the flat mind which was structurally interesting. Let's say it was in need of care and attention. Luckily the landlord was responsible for most of the stuff. Eventually. But it was better than the street.
Luckily it turns out that the town in which the flat is still situated has a reasonably good grapevine. Only one trier slipped through the system as well as a stupid letter from a solicitor as recalcitrant tenant had a wife who wanted a divorce. The second was more fun to answer than the first.
Lass evicted from upstairs flat was selling her services to try and raise money to pay off the £4k she owed in rent (place wasn't soundproof). Apparently she eventually went home to mother because she was "being hassled". By clients or the county court bailiffs after the rent I never did seek to find out.
When we moved into our present house we got a lot of bills for the previous owner. He was a rather unsuccessful 'businessman', who seemed to get himself into all sorts of messes. Fortunately it was no more than letters, so we forwarded them to him.
The last (hopefully) of his bodges has just been fixed after 42 years as the outside stopcock for the mains water has now been located. The drive surface had been laid over the top, and they had to find the stopcock before the water meter could be put in.
Housing association put house over road on list of premises available for people to bid for even before the firm had finished taking the rubbish away.
The neighbours in the private houses have been told that the hedge will be reduced this week. Should be a sight to see.
Internal inspection of necessary repairs done yesterday but no action yet of course. After the house had been put on the 4 day bidding list rota that ended yesterday.
Something to be said for the responsibility of owning your own home.
No reason why housing associations etc. shouldn't do the necessary work; they just don't seem to very often. Husband was brought up in a council house, and the council did things like install central heating downstairs when that became the standard. Husband said the best place he lived was a prefab as that had everything and was quite warm and comfortable. They had more in that than we had in our new build 1950s house such as a built in fridge.
No there isn't any reason why the housing association shouldn't do the necessary work. Second day of an outside clearing team of six with a few thousand £s of landscaping heavy gear.
They've spent more than my rent for 2 years just dealing with half of the work that needs doing (yep do have a few years experience in the area of jungle warfare in home gardens). That I do resent. The latest tenants should have been moved on long ago for a number of breaches of tenancy including the non cultivation of the garden.
Another white van called in this morning to take away a further five mattresses from the back.
Much more difficult to deal with private houses in this state but housing associations have all the weaponry to prevent what is over the road from me. That's what really annoys me.
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