That's it - I'm moving!

[Loztastic]

5 years ago, i endured the experience of buying my first flat/appartment, and i'm ready to move, as it is slowly turning into a money-pit!

in the last 9 month the following have happened

needing to have my central-heating/water heater replaced

needing all the room-thermostats replacing (took 3 visits due to various complications)

needing the toilet repairing (took 3 visits from the plumber)

having thunderchav above me decide to set up a full night-club-style music system in his living room, and frequently showing it off to his friends at 2am. the vibrations from this have also cracked all my paint-work

and now, my central-heating radiators seem to have a micro-leek somewhere, and another plumber is comming out tuesday to look at that (no water on the floor or anything, but my central-heating loop slowly looses pressure)

oh, and two of my electrical sockets seem to have packed up, so i may need An electrician too!

so, tommorrow i'm off to the book-shop, to buy a book of preparing a property to sell

[Bill Lumberg]

Best of luck

I can relate to having to sink a lot of money into my first property and to having loathsome neighbors. "Thunderchav" should immediately be entered into the OED, by the way.

[Stebehil]

That thing with the neighbours can be really maddening. I had one who was a huge techno music fan, and turned it hugely loud as well. He lived downstairs from me, and one day he managed to turn it up so loud that I could not have a conversation in my flat, and that he didn´t hear me knocking on his door. Some time later, he turned up his TV set (or whatever) so loud in the middle of the night that I woke up. After some time, I decided to go downstairs, and he opened the door more or less naked. I guess he was with somebody and wanted to drown the noises or something like that.
Another neighbour in the same house lost his door key once, and instead of asking the landlord for a new one, he exchanged the lock on the door - the main door, mind you, not the apartment door.
I moved out soon after these incidents.
Luckily, I don´t own the place we live in.

Stefan

[Valegrim]

wow; that is something; not as bad as the movie money pit; but I know a few people that had their hot water heaters go out; flood their house; rot the floor; man that was bad; but your experience sounds pleanty frustrating; good luck to you.