House

No, not of the M.D. sort.

So we've been trying to get ourselves somewhere to live next week. It's been a week so far and things aren't going too well.

Viewing 1

Houses booked for viewing: 6
Houses viewed: 3

Combination of some houses having been already taken, some houses being unavailable. Alright, that wasn't their fault. Well... ¬¬ I want to think it was.

Viewing 2

Houses booked for viewing: 2
Houses viewed: 0

After viewing the first lot, we saw one we really, really loved. But we probably couldn't get it because there was a family viewing who were ready to move in yada yada... we couldn't have it for September. So, we found houses on the same street to look at. In fact we got recommended two more that were identical.

We'd viewed number 2, and we had booked more viewings for houses 5 and 7

... we ended up being shown round number 17. An absolutely lovely house, roomy, well furnished, newly refurbished, safe area, clean, good rent...

5 bedrooms?

There's 4 of us. We'd specifically said we were looking for a four bedroomed house. The woman who came to show us round was equally unimpressed, as she put it 'this had been a complete waste of everyone's time'. So, while we were on the right street, we phoned them.

"Oh yes, sorry about the mistake, we'll send someone straight out - they will be there in 15 minutes."

30 minutes came and went. We phoned again.

"Oh yes, we're trying to get hold of the woman we're sending out, we'll ring you back when we get hold of her."

50 minutes later

"Sorry, we couldn't get hold of her."

So why did they not have the courtesy to ring us back? We were standing outside in the freezing cold for an hour.

Needless to say we're going back tomorrow and opening a can of whoopass.