discussion Reason for not posting recently.

[Guest]

Hi all .
I own my late parents bungalow and having done it up some years ago have rented out with an agent , gave a decent addition to my self employed pension.
Unfortunately the tenant was raided following an arrest in Peterborough by the police. In turn the Northamptonshire Police damaged the rear door and removed a cannabis farm ! Yes sounds unbelievable.
Now of course we have to along with the agents , a national firm by the way , have to arrange to repair the damage. Luckily I have some good friends I worked with like an electrician who dropped what he was doing and went to day to check the wiring. They had by -passed the meter ! So with out a test of the circuits the electricity supplier won't reconnect .Hopefully by Monday OVO will give a date to reconnect.
Done some damage in the loft by cutting out the A frames and replacing with badly fitted timbers . Luckily again the brother of my son in law is a joiner and is going up on Wednesday to check and make good asap. I just don't want to go up and see the mess so our neighbour who is a decorator has been extremely good, organised a cleaner over this weekend and acts as a general overseer before he and his businesses partner give the property a full repaint, including new ceilings . There were vine screw in the ceiling to hold wires to dry the crop !
After all this you will understand why I've not been posting. Both Mike and Dude 1 are aware of this .
Don't feel like doing much at the moment, this last week has been a nightmare of phone calls , emails . Tomorrow I'm hoping to do some work on those figures.

John .

 

[boatman]

WOW John very sorry to hear this dont worry about it
chris an jen

 

[Tworrs]

Wow JR, I can only sympathise with you, and that is the exact reason that we decided years ago not to enter the rental market.
I have to wonder what the agent was doing on their inspections, how could they not see or smell the wacky baccy farm.
All the best mate, and I hope your next tenant is of a better ilk.

 

[Ian M]

Seriously! Wow. hope all is normal again soon.

 

[Mickc1440]

What a mess JR but it does sound like there will be a reasonably speedy reversal of their damage.

 

[yak face]

Sorry to hear that john , but it can only get better from now on . The scumbags are no longer in there ( hopefully in custody ) and it sounds like you’ve got some fantastic mates to get things back to normal . The letting agent should be a bit more vigilant now . Cheers tony

 

[Andy T]

Not good John, I hope you and your mates can get things back to normal soon.

 

[simontie]

Wow thats crazy, john I hope this is all rectified quickly and you can move on,

 

[Guest]

WOW John very sorry to hear this dont worry about it
chris an jen

Thanks Chris , very hard not too as the bills for the work will probably out weigh the amount the insurance people will pay .

Wow thats crazy, john I hope this is all rectified quickly and you can move on,

Let's hope so .

 

[Jim R]

That's unbelievable. You read about this sort of thing but to have it happen to a friend is horrendous. I hope things get sorted as soon as possible. Must be incredibly stressful.

 

[rtfoe]

Sorry to hear this Wobble, I mean sounds like a movie script but to really happen must have been real bad. With all the good help I hope all will get better.

Wabble.

 

[Airborne01]

Sorry to hear this mate - I hope the scrotes get a decent sentence, but then again knowing our wet, weak judicial system I somehow doubt that :anguished:
Steve

 

[The Smythe Meister]

Hi all .
I own my late parents bungalow and having done it up some years ago have rented out with an agent , gave a decent addition to my self employed pension.
Unfortunately the tenant was raided following an arrest in Peterborough by the police. In turn the Northamptonshire Police damaged the rear door and removed a cannabis farm ! Yes sounds unbelievable.
Now of course we have to along with the agents , a national firm by the way , have to arrange to repair the damage. Luckily I have some good friends I worked with like an electrician who dropped what he was doing and went to day to check the wiring. They had by -passed the meter ! So with out a test of the circuits the electricity supplier won't reconnect .Hopefully by Monday OVO will give a date to reconnect.
Done some damage in the loft by cutting out the A frames and replacing with badly fitted timbers . Luckily again the brother of my son in law is a joiner and is going up on Wednesday to check and make good asap. I just don't want to go up and see the mess so our neighbour who is a decorator has been extremely good, organised a cleaner over this weekend and acts as a general overseer before he and his businesses partner give the property and full repaint, including new ceilings . There were vine screw in the ceiling to hold wires to dry the crop !
After all this you will understand why I've not been posting. Both Mike and Dude 1 are aware of this .
Don't feel like doing much at the moment, this last week has been a nightmare of phone calls , emails . Tomorrow I'm hopeing to do some work on those figures.

John .

Blimey John!!
Only just seen this..... so sorry,you must be fuming,and I expect Christine is very upset by it all too.
Trying to look on the bright side though...... it's great that you have so many connections who are willing to help,and quickly.
Keep your chin up mate,our VERY BEST WISHES are with you both.
Love from me,Rach,and of course..... Cohan:hugging-face:.

 

[JayCee]

Very sorry to hear this, John. As others have said, at least you have the backup to get things put right.
John.

 

[spanner570]

John.
Like the other lads have written, I'm so sorry to read of your troubles...

Just unbelievable!

What a great bunch of folks you know who are willing to drop everything to try and help out.

I hope it all gets sorted for you in double quick time.

Best wishes to you and Christine.

Ron

 

[langy71]

Sorry to hear of this John, not the best thing to find in a property you rent out,

When we bought our current house, we couldn't understand why we found a water feed system in the loft, didn't think much of it to be honest,...we honestly thought it was there to top up the central heating system, ..(.I didn't know much about boiler / central heating systems etc at that time ), so when we replaced the boiler we had it all torn out and capped off, and happily carried on with our lives.

fast forward to a few years later, whilst B&Q were ripping out the kitchen to replace it, we discovered a load of well hidden electrical cabling near the mains consumer board in the kitchen, this was connected to the mains 'before' the meter, this cabling had been cut off but left where it was installed, so it wasn't drawing any power,
the electrician upon checking this out ..(he was installing a new ring main for the kitchen appliances), he told us this was done to bypass the meter and so wouldn't be charged for and more importantly illegal,

it all pointed to the 'growing of cannabis', which then made perfect sense why the irrigation system was in the loft,

We were informed that he should now stop work and report it to the police and electricity board who would come and carry out an investigation leading to potential criminal charges being made against us, but seeing as the cable was had clearly been installed many years ago...it was the old colour cables, he did us a 'solid' and rectified all the wiring and accepting that honestly knew nothing about the dodgy wiring didn't report it to the police or electricity board.

this is just one of the many dodgy things we found that had been done in the house prior to us buying it.

 

[Dave Ward]

Surprising! Letting agents should be liable for any damage - due diligence & regular property checks not carried out. Our German friends will soon be able to grow their own - up to 3 plants per household for personal use. That would certainly cut down on cannabis farms - I think a lot of other countries are watching with interest......................
Dave

 

[Gern]

My brother-in-law was an electrician and one of his mates asked him to re-wire his terraced house. When he went up into the loft he found that doorways had been cut into all the attic dividing walls and there were about eight Asian families living there!

 

[David Lovell]

Sorry to hear this my old friend hope you and Christine get back on track soon. Dave

 

[adt70hk]

Hi John

Just seen this. Very sorry to hear about what's happened. Obviously hope you get it sorted out quickly.

Are you able to claim on the insurance for any of it?

ATB

Andrew