You obviously have some connection to Wolvo.

I can't think of any,

What are your views based on then?

to Crippen. Wasn't there a phrase years ago about being a 'bigger liar than Crippen'?

smiley face.

sorry vendetta, my post was to the doc

I'll bet V hasn't even been to the Shrewsbury flower show.

One good thing about Shrewsbury i think its still legal to kill a Welshman with bow and arrow between dusk and sunrise. . .

Sorry John I was confusing you with Emden, who seems to be a bit of a snob.

Not like V who is a complete and utter snob.

brngtwt     09 Jun 12 22:02
You find a persons accent boring rather than what they are actually saying?
Incredible stuff.
What would you call an interesting accent?
I am fascinated.

Sorry for expressing my honest onion, but I just find it extremely boring in the way they speak. Have a Brummie at work, and every time he speaks I just find myself yawning.

I know I am going on about Barry again, but he was the boring one of the magnificent 7. The people who recruited the cast got it dead with this accent.

Hope this hops

Lots of people say they find the Brummie accent grating, fair enough, but I've known many Brummies and not one speaks like Spall does on that show, or comes anywhere near to speaking like that.
I'd like to know in which part of Birmingham he's supposed to come from?
In fact the only place I've heard an accent like that is on the television.
Perhaps that’s what the Brummie knockers base their opinions on - actors on the television playing Brummies.

I'll let you into a little secret, Black Country folk don't like outsiders, and they certainly don't like Brummies. Cockneys are an inferior species to them, and they can just about tolerate Northerners.

As far as they're concerned you might as well be from a different country if you don't speak like they do, because they'll tell you straight to your face to f'off.

Dr Crippen     11 Jun 12 10:30 
Cockneys are an inferior species to them

Now I know he's mad

Thought Barry sounded like he came from Gornal way.
He was the funniest one in AP, imo.

That's complete carp, crippen.
As a cockney living (and trading) in the Black Country, I have found nothing but friendliness.

Generally the accent is not like that in Brum, but you do hear it from time to time.

"I'll let you into a little secret, Black Country folk don't like outsiders"

You mean you?

Dr Crippen 10 Jun 12 21:39

Not like V who is a complete and utter snob.

Or "southerner" as they say in Birmingham.

Not in Brum.

No but I followed a case where a colleague’s property had been damaged by the tenant.

After all the photographs and evidence had been presented to them, the DPS agreed to pay the entire deposit to the landlord in the absence of the tenant who had done a bunk

The snag was they insisted that the form that the landlord had to sign for the release of the funds also had to be signed by a solicitor or a justice of the peace.
Talk about jumping through hoops.

Watch out for the new thirty day rule for getting the deposit in, it also includes getting the information about the DPS and the deposit to the tenant as well.
It’s little more than a loophole for them to stop you from exercising a section 21 notice.

And of course this deposit bollox is another stumbling block to trip up the unwary landlord.
It's best to get the tenant to sign to say they've received the relevant information.
They've turned these deposits into a nightmare for landlords.
I read of one bloke who doesn't take deposits now because of the hassle involved. 

V have you joined the Landlords Referencing Society yet?

You can submit all of your tenants to their database, and then have access to other landlord's tenants.
All the toe-rags are on record for you to inquire about.
If you tell your tenants that you are a member, they'll certainly want to leave you on good terms.

but all this nonsense puts rents up

Like so much legislation to protect consumers it's the consumers that end up paying for it.
The Financial Services Act designed to protect policyholders and investors cost the insurance companies so much to set up the compliance procedures and departments that their products often became poor value.

There seem to be lots of Landlord Referencing things - are they geographically speicifc or is there a clear leader or what?

Hey guys

Serious question but is buy to let really this dismal & depressing

It's half the reason i'm looking for a cheap place to buy cash (60-70k)so i can try to buy a second place as a buy to let for an investment (30k)

If i stay where i am & buy a house (i've offered on one at the moment & will cost me 97k) that'll be everything gone with no further chances in the forseeable future

I could try the mortgage route but am wondering if i'm doing the right thing trying to buy a cheap place for cash first of all ?

Don't worry Dudley's no longer my plan .. but are many other places with cheap affordable places in the 60-70k region in & around the midlands

I'm just wondering if my whole plan is viable really without an income .. would they be willing to lend to me in the future if i owned one place & also had a 35% deposit for a second place ?