Advice Needed re Landlord

[mcquiggd]

When younger (7-8) I suffered extreme allergic reactions - including the swelling of my windpipe. I had numerous tests, including both arms being subjected to small samples of various things from dog hair to gawd knows what...

I was allergic to raw egg of all things... grew out of it eventually. Fibres from new carpets in our house had caused the breathing difficulties. Also 'E numbers' in foods caused adverse reactions. I was in hospital for a couple of weeks and was pretty ill... over time I guess I grew out of most allergies, although I still suffer from exczema on my hands from time to time (stress related usually).

[HankWangford]

which city Atw just out of interest?

[Mordac]

>I asked him for the name of the company and engineer who fitted the boiler. he said he cannot say as they guy was doing a 'backhander'.


Remind your landlord this is a criminal offence (has been for some years) and he could go to prison. It's OK (not illegal) in a private house, but as soon as you rent it out you are liable.

[AtW]

When younger (7-8) I suffered extreme allergic reactions - including the swelling of my windpipe. I had numerous tests, including both arms being subjected to small samples of various things from dog hair to gawd knows what...

Yes I had it too - around 30-40 small tests to determine what you allergic to: for me it was dust, so my mother cleaned room like twice a day and it was helping - you definately need to find out allergens because this way at least you can remove them and minimise astma attacks. The method I was told is indeed too early for 2, heck I'd say it was almost too early for me and I think I was 12-13 at the time. Either way be extremely careful with inhalers - especially those of them (not up to date on it, maybe things changed) that are hormone based or something like this - very very very bad.

By the way it is possible that it is cold that's the allergen - don't think it is official, but I do get a bit of a very very very very mild astma thing for certain colds, not too sure, perhaps it is not researched well, but it may apply to your case, and in any case cold is no good for 2 year old so dont take any chances - you are in the right, both legally and morally, so no need to be shy.

It is strange but seems that lots of British people have astma - think the highest ratio in the world.

I was born in so called Academic City - some info here.

[mcquiggd]

It's possibly dust mites Alexei, rather than dust - they are a very common cause of allergic reactions.

Certain vacuum cleaners use very fine filters to catch dust particles and mites - HPVA filters I believe,

I was allergic to our pet dog, but when we moved house, she died of emphysemia, possibly brought on by the new carpet 'shedding fibres'.

When I bought my first house I had new carpet laid down - it was about sixth months before the hoover stopped getting clogged with fibres (and this was Brintons 50oz top quality carpet - bloody expensive). These days it's wooden flooring and rugs for me......

[AtW]

By the way Hank, I would recommend looking at homepathy - in this country it seems to be viewed as a con, and it is possible that it was and is full of conmen, and I read that many doctors consider it placebo like things, maybe, but I did have real astma and my cousin was a very well known doctor in homepathy so she was supplying our whole family with it - it really did help, not just me, maybe it's a placebo, I could not care less since it worked - I am pretty certain that it is not placebo because I had no clue what it would do so I could not psycologically prepare myself. This is not to say that any homepathy will work, but that, holding breath for 5-10 seconds to build up CO2, plus accupuncture saved me from very serious astma: I could not walk to buy bread because I would get astma attack grasping air like a fish on ground, but after said treatments I became #3 runner in class, could play football and stuff. I was still getting heavier flues and colds than otherwise, but for all intents and purposes astma gone for good. I used it to dodge the national service draft though

[wc2]

Mrs WC2 suffers from secondary FMS. She paid http://www.yorktest.com/ to perform a full test on her blood.

They sent her a list of things that she reacts to, each one given a grade.

When she took it to the doctors for advice the quack told her it was all bulltulip.

However when she avoids the food's on the list she does not suffer (Strange that)

[bobhope]

I do wonder why people bother to be landlords, when the yield is sub 4% and you have the hassle of safety checks, repairs, etc.

[AtW]

Mrs WC2 suffers from secondary FMS. She paid http://www.yorktest.com/ to perform a full test on her blood.

Was it test on allergies? I am not sure it should be done on blood - I had them a few times and I am pretty certain they need to be done on your skin: they made around 40 small scratches on my hand and back and put there allergens of all kinds, then in 20 minutes checked where visibly my skin reacted to them cross referenced and it was clear what I had allerge from body reaction. I had it done a few times and it was in late 80s, so these days it should be much better researched question, though not sure blood test is good in this case.

If you have astma, but never had similar allergen test like I had then you must have it - it is pretty comprehensive and nevermind the price (if there is any): if you know your enemy at least you can avoid it.

I do wonder why people bother to be landlords, when the yield is sub 4% and you have the hassle of safety checks, repairs, etc.

Some of them bought property a while ago, so yields are better, but in any case they want to have 2nd or 3rd home with morgage paid off by someone else hoping for big increase in value.

[MarillionFan]

"I do wonder why people bother to be landlords, when the yield is sub 4% and you have the hassle of safety checks, repairs, etc."

Gets very expensive after a while. Gas Certificate, Electrical Certificate, Hoover checked every year, fire doors, fire blanket, fire alarms - and then the general upkeep. I had a couple, but the yields (when compared to the increased price) were getting close to 5% with hassle factor so I sold them.
And the boiler kept going wrong at least twice a year and I was responsible to get somebody around and get it fixed and these Corgi types charge a bloody fortune!

Commercial property though. Lessee has to pay for everything, including the upkeep of the property. Yield is normally 7%, mine 8-9%. If I convert downstairs into a flat and rent seperately, yield for the property becomes 10-11%, but then I get the whole hassle again.

You could have guessed that AtW would have asthma, and a cure for it. If someone had Aids, AtW would have caught it twice and been cured.