{"id":1851,"date":"2013-08-06T21:48:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T21:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2017-07-16T20:40:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T20:40:26","slug":"tuesday-6th-august-2013-i-promise-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1851","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 6th August 2013 – I PROMISE YOU …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"av<\/a>… that this shall be the last time that I’ll mention parking.<\/p>\n

So here’s a photo of two different vehicles well-advanced in front of the rear limit for parking, and this time a car parked here in the foreground and overhanging the pedestrian crossing. <\/p>\n

What more can I say …“haven’t you said enough?” – ed<\/em>
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Meanwhile in other news, the first of the furniture has gone from the apartment. Nothing large or bulky though, but nevertheless it’s a start. I’m now \u20ac20 richer than I was before, so “spend, spend spend!”, hey?<\/p>\n

But this blasted agent immobilier<\/em> is thoroughly getting on my wick. She’s uncovered another problem now – that the monthly service fees are so astronomical that no-one will buy the apartment (and so she will lose her commission of course).<\/p>\n

“I know they are” I told her. “Marianne was on a very limited income and so when the boiler was repaired in 2009 and the lift was overhauled in 2011 she didn’t have the money to pay her share”.<\/p>\n

“Consequently the gerance<\/em> of the building arranged two loans for her (and for other people too) for their shares and the monthly repayments are included in the service fees”.<\/p>\n

“And if you remember “I continued “I mentioned this to the people who came this weekend and I told them expressly that these loans would be paid off at the sale and so they will have no implication for any new purchaser”.<\/p>\n

“Well I spoke to your notaire<\/em> and they know nothing about it” she wailed, and that angered me, her not believing a single word that I told her and her clients<\/p>\n

“That’s hardly surprising” I retorted, “seeing as how my notaire<\/em> is on holiday. You probably were put through to the teaboy.”
\nAnd on and on and on she wailed until I lost patience and told her to f*** off.<\/p>\n

5 minutes later I had someone from the notaire<\/em> on the telephone. “Will you tell that blasted Madame Blum to stop flaming well ringing us up every 5 sodding minutes about your flaming apartment. It’s getting on our blasted nerves”.<\/p>\n

Yes, this stupid woman is the cause of more problems here than she solves. <\/p>\n

Everything is a crisis for her, every reaction is a panic. She’s frightening away more customers than she’s recruiting, thanks to her attitude, and also with her business practices, about which I shall have much more to say at a later date. <\/p>\n

But doing business with her is a nightmare. She is making problems out of nothing at all.<\/p>\n

And apart from that, when I had the time (which as you can see, wasn’t as much as I would have liked) I did the two radio programmes for the Radio Anglais rock shows on Radio Tartasse. <\/p>\n

I have to do two because I’m away at the end of September (I hope, unless there’s another crisis) so I’m recording two months’ worth at the end of August.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’ll start to attack the rest of the programmes.<\/p>\n

If the blasted agent immobilier<\/em> lets me. What a shambles.<\/p>\n

-8<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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