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Previously on "What is the worst Hotel, B&B, Flat, Shared Room, Home Share you have ever?"
Working on a gig last year in Knutsford and I was staying in a B&B and got very bored after 3 months or so, so this bloke in the pub everyone called "Mad Tim" was looking for lodgers in his 6 bed queen ann mansion. Linky
He lived up to his name, as he reckoned his alsation was an ex MOD dog that only spoke Italian, had late night hoovering parties with his elderly mother (who he doted on) and would drag me out every night to see bands in the local pubs.
A glorious 6 months of beering it up and talking bollocks until 4 am.
Working on a gig last year in Knutsford and I was staying in a B&B and got very bored after 3 months or so, so this bloke in the pub everyone called "Mad Tim" was looking for lodgers in his 6 bed queen ann mansion. Linky
He lived up to his name, as he reckoned his alsation was an ex MOD dog that only spoke Italian, had late night hoovering parties with his elderly mother (who he doted on) and would drag me out every night to see bands in the local pubs.
A glorious 6 months of beering it up and talking bollocks until 4 am.
LOL - I thought I had seen some stuff.. I see it from the other side.
Two clients came from overseas - never used sheets before and both slept straight on the bare bed. It was quite bad - I had to buy new beds. They had gone a funny brown colour. They actually refused to use sheets even when we offered to supply them.
One lady moved into a fully furnished room with all frills, furnishing and rugs etc - moved out and took everything ..... even the curtains!
Lovely house share in Tamworth - 3 sets bunk beds in the two double room, and one bunk bed and a single bed in single room! (21 people in 3 bed semi) Ant powder sprinkled around each persons belongings on the floor. Downstairs floor so sticky that my shoes nearly got left behind.
Hotels in the UK are revolting ripoffs. Even the £200 a night ones are on the whole revolting, dirty and cramped.
WHS
I'm often bemused when I have to part with £150+ for one night and still do not get my breakfast. Last worst experience was at the best western somewhere in Bedfordshire...
It is not until you travel outside the UK do you realise how overpriced UK hotels are.
At a backpackers in Sydney which turned out to be pretty much a halfway house.
As part of a group of four, we got there to find someone threatening to stab the owner as he was being chucked out for doing something wrong. The owner had a spider's web tattoed on the bridge of his nose so it was a brave move. Then one of us had to swap our bedsheets as soon as they got them as there were specks of blood on it.
Of our roommates, one kept an ashtray under his pillow, bragged about outstaying his visa for three years and would get hammered and forget where his bed was. The nicest blokes were two brothers who were both recovering heroin addicts who had been sent to live there as part of a programme.
Anyway for some reason we paid for a week. Happy days!
Changes to the law a few years ago around planning for caravan parks made the land astronomical. You can sell a static caravan like a house and then charge back electricity, site fees etc.
Went to an auction a few years back where a site came up for £300k (30 caravans or so). It went for £3.5 M due to a change in the law. My mate who owns a building firm was livid at me for not telling him, he reckoned it was an easy £4-£4.5M
Lend us some cash DP
must have missed that one on homes under the hammer
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