The General Chat Thread (2023)

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LissaC said:
What are period rental property checks?
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Regular inspections designed to keep check on tenants to supposedly prevent them trashing another person's home and not following the tenancy agreement. Basically are you looking after the place or are you a slob not caring about other people's property (literally in this case) and not cleaning, not hoovering, letting kids draw on walls etc. Making sure you are not breaching (so ignoring or breaking the terms of) your tenancy agreement.

Nothing in our agreement says we should waste a precious resource (if it doesn't rain, we have no water) and nothing says we have to keep the lawn alive in times of drought (for that matter it says nothing about it keeping it alive when there is plenty of water, only that if I wanted to put a new veg plot in or a new plant border, I need to get our landlady's consent first.

Most landlords are just happy to get a tenant that looks after their home and keeps the garden tidy and doesn't leave them with $$$$ of repairs when they leave (or are thrown out). We have actually put a lot of time and effort into the garden and it looks 10,000 times better than when we moved on. The agents don't see that, but our landlord/lady regularly see the garden because they drive passed each time they go to the farm (we're on a sheep ranch).

Expectations living rurally are different to living on town or city water. We don't have an endless supply of water from a pipe. If I keep the lawn green when conditions naturally would have it dying back, where is my drinking water, sanitation water, and so on going to come from if it doesn't rain for the next month? The only place it comes from here is the sky and you have to plan for that so always have water conservation at the back of your mind. My landlord/lady know that. They have exactly the same problem with their livestock. But the agents are city people, not rural people and haven't taken the fact it had barely rained since the 1st Jan into account. Dormant grass (its not dead, it's doing what it is meant to when the ground is dry) is much less important than ensuring we have water in the house and for our livestock. They just need to find something to comment on that something isn't up to "standard". Lol
 
Update on the train crash: the cause is a construction crane truck that was put on the rails by a construction worker who was in it at the time. Research must be done but most likely faulty communication is the cause of the accident.

There was a utility train that crashed against the crane truck, causing it to move to the other track where it then collided with the intercity .

The crane truck driver is dead, the intercity driver will never be able to walk again, two passengers are still on the ICU and 30 passengers had minor injuries. The other 20 escaped unharmed despite the fire.
 
Interesting news. I knew DFW Airport was busy, but not this busy.

World’s top 10 busiest airports for passenger traffic in 2022​


1. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, Georgia (ATL): 93.7 million passengers; up 23.8% from 2021

2. Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (DFW): 73.4 million passengers; up 17.5% from 2021

3. Denver, Colorado (DEN): 69.3 million passengers; up 17.8% from 2021

4. Chicago O’Hare, Illinois (ORD): 68.3 million passengers; up 26.5% from 2021

5. Dubai, United Arab Emirates (DXB): 66.1 million passengers; up 127% from 2021

6. Los Angeles, California (LAX): 65.9 million passengers; up 37.3% from 2021

7. Istanbul, Turkey (IST): 64.3 million passengers; up 73.8% from 2021

8. London Heathrow, United Kingdom (LHR): 61.6 million passengers; up 217.7% from 2021

9. Delhi, India (DEL): 59.5 million passengers; up 60.2% from 2021

10. Paris Charles de Gaulle, France (CDG): 57.5 million passengers; up 119.4% from 2021
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Regular inspections designed to keep check on tenants to supposedly prevent them trashing another person's home and not following the tenancy agreement. Basically are you looking after the place or are you a slob not caring about other people's property (literally in this case) and not cleaning, not hoovering, letting kids draw on walls etc. Making sure you are not breaching (so ignoring or breaking the terms of) your tenancy agreement.

Nothing in our agreement says we should waste a precious resource (if it doesn't rain, we have no water) and nothing says we have to keep the lawn alive in times of drought (for that matter it says nothing about it keeping it alive when there is plenty of water, only that if I wanted to put a new veg plot in or a new plant border, I need to get our landlady's consent first.

Most landlords are just happy to get a tenant that looks after their home and keeps the garden tidy and doesn't leave them with $$$$ of repairs when they leave (or are thrown out). We have actually put a lot of time and effort into the garden and it looks 10,000 times better than when we moved on. The agents don't see that, but our landlord/lady regularly see the garden because they drive passed each time they go to the farm (we're on a sheep ranch).

Expectations living rurally are different to living on town or city water. We don't have an endless supply of water from a pipe. If I keep the lawn green when conditions naturally would have it dying back, where is my drinking water, sanitation water, and so on going to come from if it doesn't rain for the next month? The only place it comes from here is the sky and you have to plan for that so always have water conservation at the back of your mind. My landlord/lady know that. They have exactly the same problem with their livestock. But the agents are city people, not rural people and haven't taken the fact it had barely rained since the 1st Jan into account. Dormant grass (its not dead, it's doing what it is meant to when the ground is dry) is much less important than ensuring we have water in the house and for our livestock. They just need to find something to comment on that something isn't up to "standard". Lol
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That sounds like something we most definitely need in Portugal. There are enough stories of tenants thrashing houses, or long term tenants hallucinating they're the property owners so they decide to redo the kitchen or tear drown walls or put down trees without the owner's consent. Landlords can legally visit the home's they own, at a time and date agreed with the tenant, but even that is frowned upon.
 
LissaC said:
Landlords can legally visit the home's they own, at a time and date agreed with the tenant,
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They can here as well with a minimum period of notice (I can't remember if it is 24hrs or 48hrs) but given our's work the land that we live on, they see the property every single time they are on the farm because they drive passed it to access the farm. Plus occasionally we'll need to contact them regarding the sheep or access for this, that, the other, someone arrived for them in the wrong place for a delivery and so on, that's not an agent issue frankly. And sometimes they'll knock on the door to ask a question, or query (the last one was regarding a police visit following their daughter being run off the road in their vehicle, the driver didn't stop but the vehicle was a write off. They did report it but for whatever reason messages didn't get through so when another motorist spotted their yute trashed in a ditch, they called the police who failing to get hold of them by mobile, visited the address to yute was registered to (farm vehicle so our address because we share the address) ). That time we invited her in. She was stressed, it was very hot out and we could all sit down inside etc). Honestly, she sees the property more than the agents do!
 
caseydog said:
Interesting news. I knew DFW Airport was busy, but not this busy.

World’s top 10 busiest airports for passenger traffic in 2022​


1. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, Georgia (ATL): 93.7 million passengers; up 23.8% from 2021

2. Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (DFW): 73.4 million passengers; up 17.5% from 2021

3. Denver, Colorado (DEN): 69.3 million passengers; up 17.8% from 2021

4. Chicago O’Hare, Illinois (ORD): 68.3 million passengers; up 26.5% from 2021

5. Dubai, United Arab Emirates (DXB): 66.1 million passengers; up 127% from 2021

6. Los Angeles, California (LAX): 65.9 million passengers; up 37.3% from 2021

7. Istanbul, Turkey (IST): 64.3 million passengers; up 73.8% from 2021

8. London Heathrow, United Kingdom (LHR): 61.6 million passengers; up 217.7% from 2021

9. Delhi, India (DEL): 59.5 million passengers; up 60.2% from 2021

10. Paris Charles de Gaulle, France (CDG): 57.5 million passengers; up 119.4% from 2021
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I’ve been to/through five of those.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
Me neither, and I'm older than TR and have lived in t he USA longer than he has!
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The Velvet Curtain said:
I've done 3, LAX, London and Paris
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LissaC said:
Only 1 :(
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caseydog said:
Six for me. Atlanta is a terrible place to do a short connection. It is ridiculously large.

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FowlersFreeTime said:
Wow 7 of 10 for me, but 1 shouldn't count as I was a child back then...
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For me, it’s Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, London, and Paris.

Atlanta is the worst to me, though Paris really seems to want to outdo them on that.

Heathrow, as much as I love going to the UK, does annoy the 💩 out of me. If it were anywhere other than the UK, I probably wouldn’t like it at all. Every time we use that airport, I like it a little less.
 
I had the Immigration Police around this afternoon.

Three of them in a squad car.

Gave the neighbours something to gossip about.

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