Cowboy Builders Cowboy Traders Channel 5 C5 Lancashire Lettings

[Theorysparky]

Letting agents

old wylex no cover on it at ground level

even a visual would have picked that up

letting agent should have spotted it

same house no hot water,,,faulty gas oven and damp

wtf tenant cant get out of the agreement

really ?????

i would sort it for the tenant

aka one danger notice,,,,one phone call to the DNO

have that !!!!

or i could just put a new cover on it

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

It wasn't cowboy builders, it was Cowboy Traders. the series is about other trades, this one letting agents. I gave up watching, as its the same same stuff again. What i could not work out (maybe as i did not watch all of it) was, the letting agents should let the landlords know. Its not usually their responsibility to sanction works other than emergencies or to a set level (normally under

 

[batty]

Slips it was because the landlord also was the letting agent so didn't give a damn. Very sad for people that are down on there luck anyway and then up getting into a situation that they can't afford to get out off.

 

[Theorysparky]

I watched all of it

could not understand why the tenants did not go to the council or even trading standards

not being funny but some tenants are not the sharpest ...

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Slips it was because the landlord also was the letting agent so didn't give a damn. Very sad for people that are down on there luck anyway and then up getting into a situation that they can't afford to get out off.

Ahh, that explains it. It amazing some loopholes in contracts, i was listening today on the radio that hot water is not a legal obligation, only running water on let properties. Most contracts however do state running hot & cold but if you didn't read the small print !!

 

[ProDave]

"Estate agents" and "surveyors" know NOTHING about electrics.

I had a little estate agent job. House about to be sold. The Surveyor was horrified to find "bare wires poking out of the wall" so I was called to "fix" it.

The bare wires were the old tails left behind when the economy 7 supply was disconnected, and were no danger, just ugly. So I removed them.

But the surveyor didn't bat an eyelid at the old MEM metal clad rewireable fuse box dating from the 1960's that's still feeding the whole house. Nor the fact that in 2 of the bedrooms was just ONE single 13A socket, and 2 single 13A sockets in the master bedroom. the place was crying out for an electrical rewire / upgrade, but I was not there to do a PIR, just to "correct" what the surveyor had found. The agent said "it's a nicely presented property that should sell quickly" Yes indeed it was well decorated, but the electrics I am sure leave a lot to be desired. But nobody seems to care. And I wonder what the electrics were like in the new kitchen? There are a lot more sockets there than the rest of the house, I wonder how they were wired?

As I say they know nothing about electrics so should not form ANY opinion whatsoever. If I were buying that house, I would factor in that it needs a rewire, but I'll bet most people won't.

Home Information packs have been scrapped in England. That's because they were full of meaningless carp by people that knew nothing about what they were looking at. Perhaps if the HIP had required a PIR from a competent electrician, then they might have been worth more?

 

[mikep]

Did they not notice it was a sh**hole to start with when the tenant viewed the property, did they not notice the smell of mushrooms growing on the walls, it's all just a load of old carp !! plus the dancing baby Dominic little-man running around saying he's going to confront these people, of course he will when he has 2 x 20 stone doormen behind him for protection.

I cannot watch these programs they are so staged.

 

[steptoe]

Ive said it before, and I'll say it again, use a lot of common sense when buying a house, all you are buying is 4 walls and a roof, get them checked out and if they are fine then go for it.

about the only useful thing my survey told me was there is a motorway within so many metres of the rear of the property,

no s h * t sherlock, I did notice that when I went and looked at the house!!!!!!

 

[batty]

Steps lucky you didn't go when it was shut otherwise you may have missed it being there after all they do shut them for a few hours each day (not).