So a few years ago I moved. I'm still in the same place but due to some unbelievable luck it really doesn't look like it.
It started badly, we received notice from our landlord to move out in 6 weeks...that's quite a challenge if you haven't planned but it is do-able, although the housing market in this area moves very fast. We took it as a good thing as we had problems with our neighbours etc and started the frantic search for somewhere else to live.
A couple of weeks into looking - already after several viewings and lots of disappointment - the 'new owners' of the property had come over...the flat had been sold to a housing association. They didn't hesitate to offer us the option to stay (or move to another one of their properties). I used to work with social housing so I understood that they would never allow us to move to another property of an equivalent size - we are just a couple living in a 3 bed flat after all - so we opted to stay where we were (thank you sitting-tenant rights!) and have the place refurbished around us.
To give a little background, the building is an old tenement which had been listed a few years ago and was in desperate need of work. The took it back to the very shell of the building. Not a single room or part of the flat was left untouched....so. much. dust. It was a great amount of upheaval and almost a year of workmen coming in every day for different things. We lived in the bedroom for at least a week!
But is was worth it..
On top of getting an almost entirely new flat they also let us choose the colour of the paint in each room...not sure they expected the front room! (There's not a drop of magnolia in the whole place)
Thankfully now the work from the housing association is completed on the
inside - we still have some new floors to put down ourselves but that's
a work in progress. The outside of the building is covered in scaffold
whilst they fix the roof..Not idea quite how long that will last - one
day I will be able to see out the (new) windows properly again!
(and I've been wondering why I haven't had time to post!?!)
It started badly, we received notice from our landlord to move out in 6 weeks...that's quite a challenge if you haven't planned but it is do-able, although the housing market in this area moves very fast. We took it as a good thing as we had problems with our neighbours etc and started the frantic search for somewhere else to live.
A couple of weeks into looking - already after several viewings and lots of disappointment - the 'new owners' of the property had come over...the flat had been sold to a housing association. They didn't hesitate to offer us the option to stay (or move to another one of their properties). I used to work with social housing so I understood that they would never allow us to move to another property of an equivalent size - we are just a couple living in a 3 bed flat after all - so we opted to stay where we were (thank you sitting-tenant rights!) and have the place refurbished around us.
To give a little background, the building is an old tenement which had been listed a few years ago and was in desperate need of work. The took it back to the very shell of the building. Not a single room or part of the flat was left untouched....so. much. dust. It was a great amount of upheaval and almost a year of workmen coming in every day for different things. We lived in the bedroom for at least a week!
But is was worth it..
On top of getting an almost entirely new flat they also let us choose the colour of the paint in each room...not sure they expected the front room! (There's not a drop of magnolia in the whole place)
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