18 minutes? Well…maybe it will fly by.
1:15 – She has Lego…
3:15 – She’s giving a tour of her new place.
4:15 – There’s a pantry. Well, that is interesting. I’ve never seen one. I don’t even really know what it is. A separate room to store food, I guess.
4:30 – “Nobody is going to care about the bathroom.”
What are you crazy? I’m already imagining you on the toilet.
The rooms are all really small but she keeps describing them as big. This is how properties are in the UK.
These are box rooms. She even describes them as such. So she knows. Box rooms are not big. I’ve never encountered this term in the US so don’t know if it exists there but it’s a room that fits a single-sized bed and that’s it. No bedside table. No double sized bed. Nothing. A single-sized bed.
6:00 – She shows one of these tiny rooms completely overflowing with her shit.
8:30 – She shows you her old place and again says that it looks “massive”. It does not. It looks lilliputian.
9:30 – I’m actually feeling claustrophobic and it’s really hitting me how tiny these place are. It’s shit. Why am I living like this?
She was also really concerned about cleaning the place. This is another indictment on England. The “estate agents”, which she also references, will take money from your deposit no matter how well you clean it. It’s a scam. And there’s no easy way to dispute it, if memory serves.
But in Scotland, I disputed it every fucking time with…I don’t know…there’s some organisation that holds your deposit and if a letting agent (“estate agent”) tries any of that bullshit, you can dispute. I’ve won every fucking time.
I had one guy say that he was going to deduct £50 because there were some crumbs in the kitchen that he himself cleaned up. So I told him that I’m going to dispute it. Then he goes on about how unreasonable I’m being.
I’M being unreasonable? You’re the asshole who’s trying to claim £50 that you paid TO YOURSELF for cleaning up some crumbs. Fuck you, you piece of shit. So he ended up not pursuing that £50 claim.
I also only lived there for like a month. How dirty is it getting in a month? And I left because that place was complete fucking dogshit. Jewish owners, of course. Always a bad sign. They used a fake, non-Jewish name when registering the property so I had no way to know.
That’s another advantage that Scotland has over England. In England, they have six month leases. It used to be the same in Scotland but about ten years ago, they changed the law. No minimum leases. You can leave the day after you move in. That’s basically what I did at that place where the guy wanted to pay £50 to himself for picking up crumbs.
11:15 – The living room is the “gaming room”. Because there’s no fucking room anywhere.
13:00 – She say, “Living room/front room, whatever you call it.”
I had some piece of shit landlord come in during covid, petrified of me, petrified of catching a cold, some old woman who sounded English (so was either English or a rich Scottish person) but her adult children had low-class Scottish accents. And she comes in and says, “Can you go to the sitting room, please?” She was talking about the living room. Fuck you and your sitting room.
17:15 – “If there’s anything you want to see in the future, let me know down in the comments.”
Wait a minute. She didn’t show the bedroom. Was that too salacious?
Anyway, that 18 minutes did fly by. Well, relatively. For any other woman who I talk about 18 minutes would be a completely impossible task.
Maybe she could turn one of those rooms into a tiny sex dungeon.
I’ve never had a deposit returned. The landlord just takes it. There’s never been any problem, they just make up some shit and take the money. I just accept it as part of the rent. To be fair they might use that money to replace something another asshole did that costs a fortune. It’s not my fault though! Why are landlords the biggest tight assed cheap fucks ever? You just slowly accrue money for owning property. You should be rich with little work so why so greedy? Are all places in the UK this small? Someone from Germany told me a detached house there, in Germany is a luxury and the space between most houses isn’t enough for a person to fit into. I imagine England especially the cities are too crowded but shit, in Japan where it’s super densely populated nothing is that small. The apartments are still a normal sized room. I rented a 2 bed apartment in Japan that was the same size roughly as one in the US. Of course the Japanese one was built 50 years ago. The American one was built last Tuesday. But if you want something bigger you just pay out the ass for another room. 3-4 bedroom apartments exist. They don’t give you that box room shit. You just pay more.
I used to just not pay the last month’s rent but these scumbag landlords and letting agents in the UK usually charge like 1.5 maybe up to 2x the monthly rent so you would still lose something. But with this scheme where some separate company holds the deposit now and you can easily dispute any deductions, there’s no need to do that.
Every place I’ve ever seen has been really small. I even went to a house in one of the wealthiest streets in Scotland and it was a terraced house with rooms that weren’t particularly impressive in terms of size. For example, he had a gym but it was maybe the size of Lyndgendary’s kitchen. He had a home office but it was maybe twice the size of her box room home office. This is luxury in the UK? The guy was a millionaire, the place cost a fortune, and it looks like this.
Detached houses are extremely rare in my experience and not even indicative of an expensive or nice place. Rural areas, for example, will have detached houses, of course. The outskirts of a town might have some shitty detached houses with tiny yards. It’s not anything like you would see in the US, at least not from my experience.
those people never grow up do they