Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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Possibly less than funny, but it cost me a shit load of money and taught me a valuable lesson...I had been living in my first owned property for just over a year when I met mr b3th and decided to relocate south from God's own country to Englandshire.
Having just thrown a bunch of money into the flat, I didn't want to lose it, and decided to rent it out while I was down south. No problem, thinks I, some other bugger pays my mortgage and I get a cosy life of free sex in a nice house in a seaside town.
Since I was a long way away from the said property, I left it in the capable hands of an agent - The mayfair Partnership. Avoid like the proverbial if you have any chance - bunch of useless thieving tossers.
Anyway, to cut a long story slightly less long, I decided against the added expense of landlord's insurance, thinking that the agent would ensure only suitably nice people moved in.
The bastards let my tenant skip rent for about four months, during which time she moved in her skanky lowlife boyfriend and turned my flat into a crack house. As it was on the ground floor, they had the added advantage of being able to sell drugs out of one of the bedroom windows.
When I found out, I went home to see the damage and nearly cried - did any of you see Mr Trebus' house on tv? It looked pretty much like that.
The agency washed their hands of the whole affair, refused to put right what the tenant had fucked up, and I was a lot of thousands of pounds to the bad.
I had to throw out every stick of furniture (except the washing machine, which was perfect) and all the carpets etc.
Needless to say, new agency, new tenant ( a polisman with a big scary polis dog) and lots of landlord's insurance.
Expensive lesson learned.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 25 Oct 2007, 12:34,
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Surelyyou'd have some sort of claim against the agent? Ask rachelswipe, she'll know.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 13:21,
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YouPoor lass. You've got my sympathy.
Also, no claim to be had sadly.
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