| Comment | Nope, I just put in the bid and it got accepted. I actually didn't expect to get it for that and even the estate agent was really surprised.
Don't get me wrong, there are things wrong that'll cost me some further cash to fix (kitchen's a bit grotty, it's still got old style single-glazed sash windows in the two front facing rooms and I suspect the boiler's a bit crap) but it's a really nice area, top floor and so quiet it sometimes feels like I'm the only one in the building.
The latter aspect is the most important because I nearly lost my fucking mind in my last flat in Prince Edward Street due to shite landlords renting terrible flats out to inconsiderate arseholes.
That's my pro-tip actually to anyone looking at flats: be wary of places with three flats to a floor. The middle flat will be really small and there seems to be a tendency for people to buy them and just rent them out to a series of pricks without ever doing them up. The flat above me had a family of six (!) living in a one bedroom flat that was barely big enough for me alone, and the one below was similarly over-crowded; the noise from both was often incredible. The larger flats on either side all seemed to be fine though. |
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