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Tag Archives: letting agent

the carrot purée looked like a frenzied crime scene

2 Comments Posted by on October 15, 2009

These people are officially off their heads: A terrace of houses in an exclusive new enclave in Ranelagh come with home cinemas, walled gardens – and are ready to move into , writes MICHAEL PARSONS Monsieur Doorley memorably noted that “the carrot purée looked like a frenzied crime scene” and braised pig’s cheek was “incorporated [...]

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sexy time

4 Comments Posted by on August 4, 2009

This is a monument to the ever increasingly disgusting advertising campaigns that some ‘clever marketing exec’ dreamt up to sell shitty apartments in Ireland: Candidate #1 – The Grange, Stillorgan, Dublin. Prices: From EUR 540,000 to EUR 1,400,000. It all started with this one I think. Billed as South Dublins Ultimate address They had signs [...]

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when Nobody shouted stop

Comments Off Posted by on July 6, 2009

Some sad stuff from the Sunday Tribune about eerie ghost estates. It is strange because a lot of people shouted stop but nobody wanted to listen. ‘Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?’ ‘Do you remember the good old days, before the ghost town? We danced and sang, and the music [...]

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million dollar booby

2 Comments Posted by on May 21, 2009

This is about where I live and is taken from http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?p=278092: a few eejits back in 2006: Apartment launched today – have to say its a lovely development. We had a look at them today. All the two beds are already gone and they are taking cancelations. I can’t believe it. – what ? Nice [...]

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taking it up a notch

4 Comments Posted by on May 16, 2009

This follows after http://atoast2toast.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/time-to-move/ I rang the doorbell of the house next door and there was no answer. I went back and left a note explaining that unfortuntately due to the layout of the apartments it appeared that her washing machine was next to where I slept and could we talk about it. She called [...]

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the lost art of being a letting agent

Comments Off Posted by on May 13, 2009

I had to misfortune to overhear 2 letting agents discussing their murky business today. One of them is a commercial agent and the other residential. The sniveling residential guy has a small premises that he wanted to let out in an area that is a yellow square in the Irish monopoly board. He was more [...]

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a fistful of hair

1 Comment Posted by on March 30, 2009

My landlady’s rotund farmer husband is trying to fuck me over to pay for sofa. He claims it was bought new from Belgium when I took the apartment. I told him “I have paid you over 40000 in rent and this is the way you treat me”, I also said “I owed you 2000 for [...]

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award winning design, irish style

2 Comments Posted by on March 10, 2009

I am pretty much moved in, apart from the mountains of clothes in the spare room. I had a few small issues to work out with my new place. I left a note for DJ from Beaufort * Co. Kerry who owns the Cork registered golf that is parked in my space. He was nice [...]

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txt speek letting agent

Comments Off Posted by on February 27, 2009

I was woken up with a hangover this morning by a text from the lady who is letting me an apartment. She said “Mornin kevin, how r u today? Waitin for owner to come bac to me about offer i think there r a dey people interested. cheers.” After deciphering that I told her to [...]

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hatebury lane anonymosity

1 Comment Posted by on February 26, 2009

George Costanza (yelling out loud, so everyone can hear): You know, we’re living in a society! We’re supposed to act in a civilized way. I met a letting agent on Heytesbury lane this morning. I had a print out of the entire price history of the property showing the drops and rises. He didn’t seem [...]

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