House update
Time for an update on our house. I thought it would make for interesting reading, seeing that the place is in some kind of advanced state of degeneration. The Russians have been furiously fixing ceilings, floors and fighting the cracks and leaks. But for every leak they fix, another three pop up in it's place to the point where the leaks have made their way down to the Office Space below - prompting a visit from the owner of the building. Toby was on MSN messenger to me on Friday afternoon:
So I'm living in a house that is due to be condemned - which is a great conversation opener at a party, but makes for a kinda fucked living situation. The landlord will be bringing in builders of her own to completely overhaul the house, and has given us until November the 21st to move out. Finding a new place is going to be painful (doing anything in London is painful), but at least we get to escape this Hell Hole before it eventually implodes into itself like a collapsed star, dragging most of London in with it.
The only reason we've been hanging around here is because of the great rent situation (as in we stopped paying it two months ago). We should be living in a new place by the time the workers start ripping this place apart. God help them when they uncover the Indian Burial Ground the house has been built on.
Toby says:
The freeholder just inspected the place and went crazy. Thinks it is completely uninhabitable. The whole place is going to need to be ripped apart.
Toby says:
He advised moving out as soon as possible.
Toby says:He is thinking of getting wandsworth council around and condemning the place making it impossible to rent out.
So I'm living in a house that is due to be condemned - which is a great conversation opener at a party, but makes for a kinda fucked living situation. The landlord will be bringing in builders of her own to completely overhaul the house, and has given us until November the 21st to move out. Finding a new place is going to be painful (doing anything in London is painful), but at least we get to escape this Hell Hole before it eventually implodes into itself like a collapsed star, dragging most of London in with it.
The only reason we've been hanging around here is because of the great rent situation (as in we stopped paying it two months ago). We should be living in a new place by the time the workers start ripping this place apart. God help them when they uncover the Indian Burial Ground the house has been built on.
posted by Beef at Monday, October 23, 2006
7 Comments:
Thats fucked up although you could now plan a few raves and wall-beatings, Teale-style
Are you still coming to live in London Catamite? God knows I'm painting a pretty picture of life over here.
Speaking of Teale, I heard he stripped naked at his brother's Stag Night and got knocked out by a Security Guard?
Beeg - After seeing your impersonation of how to make love to a pillow, you and Jimmy are more than welcome to sleep at my place up the road.
i swear i heard the same thing about teale in 1998 ....
should get back to france in March, then the hunt is on for a job in london impersonating russian builders. just doing the visa thing now. Ja ljublju vecherinki!
ja-sus! that sucks. good luck and stuff...
jody
Yeah, not paying rent is AWESOME. I am curious what average rent is like in London (if you gave it to me in pounds I could convert it, but no metric crap because that just goes over my head)
What of ceiling cat? Has he terrorized the Russians yet or is he laying low in anticipation of your next place? Living in a condemned building is pretty sweet, it makes you sound all tough and worldy and stuff. Just don't eat and asbestos.
Fucking bastard UK landlords. I had a crazy one when I lived in East Acton, I still can't talk about what could loosely be called "renovations".
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