You’re not to blame – I think most have missed the punch line – and that’s my fault. It was actually an advert online for housing sales in NZ – it’s quite simple! Buy it and demolish because it’s unliveable, or else rent it out. NZ rented houses have no insulation, no heating, etc etc. The second to last house I lived in had 7 broken windows, and when I left they wouldn’t return the bond because “one window was more broken”. It wasn’t more broken, I’d just cleaned it! The last house gave me a breakdown – the landlords took me to court demanding over $5000 because I’d planted tomatoes where I shouldn’t have. They lost the court case, but as you know, court trials aren’t free. House for sale! Demolish or rent! I’ve never known a landlord who wasn’t a bastard.
In my younger days I shared a house with another fellow. It was on the condemned list as it stood in the way of Huddersfield’s ring-road widening scheme. Under English law at the time this meant that the rent couldn’t be increased. It was no palace but we got it for £10 a month (between us). Which, even in the late seventies was cheap.
WOW! WOW! £10 a month! At present I pay $420 a week rent on a $300 a week income! And I’m freezing to death, with the neighbour’s Rottweiler scaring me sh*tless!
Very much to the point, thanks Derrick. All my life I’ve longed to buy a house but have never quite had the where-withal. Hence having had to move rented house 13 times in the last 16 years! Saw a lady on TV yesterday, complaining. She owned 61 houses and “you’ve no idea the low class renters we landlords have to put up with”!
What an amazing tale behind your short, short story! A lot of people in the US buy older houses in better neighborhoods and tear them down – to build McMansions.
The thing I dislike most about renting is that the landlords decide to sell once I’ve tidied the place up! I refuse to have an overgrown, unkempt garden! One landlord was grateful to me (but never said so) – they added 100 thousand to the selling price “because of the beautiful garden”!
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Someday Earth will have to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
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!! NZ – where the renter is the underling (under the LANDLORD) – actually lets greedy people rent out demolishable dumps at exorbitant prices!
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I missed the punchline, if that be the case.
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You’re not to blame – I think most have missed the punch line – and that’s my fault. It was actually an advert online for housing sales in NZ – it’s quite simple! Buy it and demolish because it’s unliveable, or else rent it out. NZ rented houses have no insulation, no heating, etc etc. The second to last house I lived in had 7 broken windows, and when I left they wouldn’t return the bond because “one window was more broken”. It wasn’t more broken, I’d just cleaned it! The last house gave me a breakdown – the landlords took me to court demanding over $5000 because I’d planted tomatoes where I shouldn’t have. They lost the court case, but as you know, court trials aren’t free. House for sale! Demolish or rent! I’ve never known a landlord who wasn’t a bastard.
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Your final observation is a truth born out of the Big Bang along with the galaxies, stars, planets, asteroid etc.
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I should’ve said “landlords and bank owners”.
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In my younger days I shared a house with another fellow. It was on the condemned list as it stood in the way of Huddersfield’s ring-road widening scheme. Under English law at the time this meant that the rent couldn’t be increased. It was no palace but we got it for £10 a month (between us). Which, even in the late seventies was cheap.
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WOW! WOW! £10 a month! At present I pay $420 a week rent on a $300 a week income! And I’m freezing to death, with the neighbour’s Rottweiler scaring me sh*tless!
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I’m reminded of this one: https://derrickjknight.com/2015/03/17/up-for-auction/
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Very much to the point, thanks Derrick. All my life I’ve longed to buy a house but have never quite had the where-withal. Hence having had to move rented house 13 times in the last 16 years! Saw a lady on TV yesterday, complaining. She owned 61 houses and “you’ve no idea the low class renters we landlords have to put up with”!
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That is so true. I am also being owned by a bank!
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What an amazing tale behind your short, short story! A lot of people in the US buy older houses in better neighborhoods and tear them down – to build McMansions.
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The thing I dislike most about renting is that the landlords decide to sell once I’ve tidied the place up! I refuse to have an overgrown, unkempt garden! One landlord was grateful to me (but never said so) – they added 100 thousand to the selling price “because of the beautiful garden”!
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Hiss, boo. But we did the same thing many times!
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