Diary of an Estate Agent ; an Inventory Clerk Squelches Through a Waterlogged Flat, Locks Herself in and Encounters Painted Crucifixes All Over One Property

Evening Standard - London › July 02, 2008

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Monday It wasn't a great start to the week. I went to a flat in Golders Green to make an inventory following the tenants' departure that I knew I'd find flooded.

The people who lived downstairs had called the landlord to complain that water was dripping through their ceiling. The outgoing tenants had left the property with water turned off at the mains but had not realised that the kitchen tap had been left turned on. When the supply was switched back on by the water company, it rapidly overflowed from the sink.

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Diary of an Estate Agent ; an Inventory Clerk Squelches Through a Waterlogged Flat, Locks Herself in and Encounters Painted Crucifixes All Over One Property

I squelched across the hall carpet with my clipboard and marked the property down as "waterlogged" in the schedule of condition. The tenants will...

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