r/Glasgow Tools

We rented with them for a few years before we bought a flat. Nothing too bad to report, but they were pretty weird. They would do regular checks on the flat (fair enough) but early days accused me and my partner of operating a business from home as they saw we had a laptop each, one desktop PC and a Playstation and XBox, lol!

We literally had to explain that having a a laptop each and one shared desktop is not in any way unusual nowadays for a 30-something couple, and you can't really "run a business" off games consoles (for some reason it was the XBox and Playstation they seemed to think was damning evidence?). It was a compliment that they thought we had enough energy to work full time outside the house then come back to our secret, illicit Fable 2 or Peggle start-ups to live our tycoon best-lives...

After gently explaining a few times what a games console was (as they literally did'nt know according to them and they thought if we could access the internet off it then we must be running an underground set-up of some description, of which they never did elaborate what though) and trying not to laugh as it was a bit of a mad conclusion to leap to, they conceded maybe we did just like playing games at home but gave off a "we're watching you..." vibe for a bit afterwards.

Got all our deposit back no problem when we moved out after 3 years, but will also add that they advertised the flat as a council tax band lower than it was, to both us and the people moving in to replace us, despite us explaining a few times it was band D and not C we had to pay and the council triple checking and confirming this to them as well (quite a bit of a difference in cash each month on top of usual ott rent). Good luck x