Day 43

Due to the fact we thought we had been broken into I had to taake the day off work....
In the morning I received a call from an anonymous number and It was a man claiming to be the landlord. He then asked me what my problem was about him coming into my flat! I then said to him he had broken the tenancy by doing so and I want him to call and speak to my dad... he then started shouting at me and said "I’ll make this simple for you! You’re the tenant I’m the landlord I’m talking to you!! And I can come into the flat whenever I want!!!"
I told him then he can talk to my dad as I didn’t want to talk to him and that he’d broken my rights as a tenant to which he replied "you’re expecting me to fix your flat..... And your preventing access!!" he kept shouting at me and I replied your being abusive and I’m hanging up and I hung up after that.





I called my dad and told him what happened and gave the name of the person claiming to be the landlord ....Victor his name was and my dad said that’s not the owner that’s 1-2-lets director I then told him what he had said and my dad called the letting agency. We have now discovered that the owner of the letting agency 1-2-Let is also the owner of the company that own the flat Easilet as "L" or Lynne from the agency couldn’t hide it from my dad anymore.. We have been played the whole time and they were never going to fix the problem.

I called Shelter Scotland after this and managed to get an appointment to speak to someone. We have got the first bit of good news in ages! We are handing in our 1 months notice as we are legally aloud and leaving at the end of the month :) Shelter Scotland are amazing I’m so happy that we are going to leave soon :) we will lose the deposit but it’s worth it :)

Day 42

I got on the bus to work and 2 stops later a guy who nearly missed the bus sat right behind me and started talking to the guy at the back of the bus.....

"awright Jay-pee how ye dane man?! ah pure nearly missed the bus man!!"

"am awright Tam own ma wiy tae college!"

"whit ye studying noo!?"

"um ganny be a chef whut aboot you?"

"um still no workin man....bit ma flat in aw thats piyed fur be the bru cos eh ma sare leg"

"How did ye run fur the bus then!?"

"A diddny ah walked!"

"Oh aye so ye did mate"

At this point after listening to their horrible voices full blast at 740 in the morning I turned the iPod up as loud as it would go!!



After work I was going to see my mum and dad back in civilisation but due to fantastic public transport it took me nearly 2 hours to get home.... I eventually made it back and had dinner and a chat with my mum and dad then came back to the flat.

On my return to the flat I noticed the loft hatch had been opened and we both started to panic as someone had been in the flat and I was worried they came through the loft, I called my dad in a panic the called the letting agency’s emergency number.... I left 2 voicemails and got nothing back....I spent the night thinking I’d wake up with a junkie in my bedroom :(

Day 41

We had moved everything around and the new bedroom is now the room we spend all the time in lol..... there’s not much to say about today as we have spent the day playing arround with the lap tops and doing as little as possible ... The leak is still dripping and I've sent an email to the landlord to get it fixed lol.....

We met our mate in town but by the time we had met her it was torrential rain in Glasgow so she drove us to the west end and we entered a Pub Quiz with the nick name of Edd's Dream team.... now it was a great laugh but we where rubbish lol.... couldn’t understand the guy who was asking the questions and then we decided to use my I phone.... and we still got the questions wrong.... at the end we came last but it was a good laugh....

We got back to the flat and found yet another leak in the living room... the original leak had started up again.... it was all over the carpet again .. Difference is this time We really didn’t care.

The new bedroom seems to be on the quiet side of the building so we didn’t here as much Ned’s screeching and actually got to sleep pretty fast :)

Day 40

Saturday we went to the doors open day in Glasgow, 1st of all we went of a tour of Glasgow Green We heard a great story about the day the Dolton fountain was opened, That night it was turned into the biggest bubble bath in Scotland as 2 Ned’s had poured 2 bottles of fairy liquid into it and caused it to foam up!...Then we were told about how nelsons column had a lightening conductor fitted to it and a Ned had climbed up to the top and removed part of it.... Glasgow Scotland with style!

After this we went to the Penoptigon Theatre I have wanted to see it for years.... It was pretty impressive and it’s a shame that it doesn’t have more funding.... We then went on an educational tour after that with one of the town planners and a load of middle aged Bearsden house wives; I can safely say I go from one extreme to the other... Dole scum to snooty old people....fan-dabby-dosey :)





During the tour we walked past a stall full of Nazi's in George square ... and then everyone in the street was shouting ..."get the Nazi scum off our street" and they tipped over the stall.... GO GLASGOW its times like this you are proud to be a weegie as we don’t put up with people like that....well apart from the pope lol.....
In the evening we decided to go shopping it was around 7pm and we were standing at the bus stop when we seen two guys getting out of a taxi shouting ... f*ck you ya ..... something racist and the guy in the taxi shouted back at them then the two guys started running down the road chasing the taxi shouting "mon the!!" then they started shouting at me "whit the f*ck you looking at!" I did get a bit of a fright but then they started shouting at a child who was walking down the street whit his mother... they were calling him a "f*cking Hun!" I don’t know how they got away with that as this is a "Hun" are... then they followed the boy and woman along the street and I turned around to see a junkie pull flowers from the pots in the town square and walk across to the bus stop with them in his hand and started talking to them at this point we decided to move to the next bus stop.

We got to Tesco and spent a fortune then went to the bus stop again to see a Ned trying to dance like in step up the movie... robot dancing and they were doing there Ned laugh .... It was a great wee floor show at the bus stop... we then got home and moved the bed into the smaller bedroom and have been moving things into the old bedroom to create a new lounge...I can now safely say I really don’t care anymore weather the original living room gets wet or not ... as you will have read earlier it leaked again and I don’t care ...:)



We have Just returned home from a night out and foud that the 1st patch up is now leaking aswell....I am not putting anything under it it can ruin the carpet i really dont care :( also just hit my head on a low light fitting and smashed it.... I hate this place!!!

Day 39

My mate came over Saturday night and when I went to let her in the close we discovered someone had pished all down the bottom set of stairs it was disgusting...

We were sitting chatting and all of a sudden heard what sounded like cats fighting, We looked in the street and seen 3 girls shouting and screaming one of them had another on the ground in the middle of the road and was slapping her. There was a queue of traffic and people beeping at them to move... one of them then started shouting at the car and kicked the back of it.... all you heard was her screaming and I couldn’t make out what she was saying... eventually the guy got out of the car and lifted one of them off the road... it was hilarious as she was shouting and screaming at him.....at the end up my mate stayed over and I had to warn her that I hadn’t locked her in the spare room... as sometimes the door sticks and you need to pull it open with force lol....

Day 38

Friday I spoke to a Scottish legal advisor who advised me either withhold the rent and get evicted which we cannot do as my mum’s my guarantor or we withhold the rent until the roof is permanently fixed he also told me I’d be better to get a lawyer involved but we can't afford one :(

Day 37

Wednesday morning on the bus nothing exiting happened however but by the time I got to work I was nearly in tears and spent the day trying to concentrate but couldn’t help but worry about the flat...

 I have to say most of my new work mates have been great in putting up with my moans and me nearly crying.... I think it got to me more that day as I finally feel like I have a job I like and now I don’t have a real place to call home


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I actually dreaded going home on Wednesday and had to call for legal advice for the first time in my life.... I spoke to a person who specialised in English law however advised me that I have a case and that someone who deals with Scottish law would contact me.

Thursday we began to use the living room less and less and had completely removed all electric Items from it and only had dinner in that room. I also spoke to citizen’s advice who informed me to withhold the rent and also that id be better getting a Lawyer.