After a month of HARD slog, the latest house is now occupied with two tenants and another moving in this weekend. The house looks great - clean, pretty, modern and yet it has retained a character of charm and uniqueness that it had when we bought it. Interestingly the two downstairs bedrooms were rented out first and then the front upstairs room. The single room is taking a while to shift ... I'm not sure whether that is due to the price, the fact that it is a single room, or something else?
However, it is somewhat rewarding to be in a positive cashflow position after a few weeks of not being! All the utility bills are now set up and running nicely. One flaw in the plan has been with John Lewis. Oh how I wish I could ordinarily shop at John Lewis. However, did you know they have recently set up their own broadband service? https://www.johnlewisbroadband.com/
A good deal it looked and so it was booked! At least, should I say we had it in OUR diaries. Sadly, their engineers did not. So although we had advertised free broadband, we could not provide it as John Lewis decided they could not now install it until November. My DH researched the market and discovered Mifi from 3 and that is the temporary solution we have now implemented.
Tenants gone from pleasant and understanding (but was there underlying irritation I wondered) to delighted and pleased!
We now have broadband, a toastie house, tenants settling in and a £50 refund from John Lewis for the inconvenience they caused in not delivering when they said they would.
The only dilemma now is whether I reward myself for all this hard work with a coffee and a cake at a local supermarket of excellent reputation... but you know who owns Waitrose don't you?!
