Friday, January 30, 2004

I get this letter the other day, turns out it's an invoice, from the local housing association ANCHO, who seem to want an estate management charge for the period from October to December of last year, for the sum of �19.00. No further information whatsoever came in the letter. My chosen method for dealing with this was to bin it. thewife however was more curious than I and decided she wanted to phone them for an explanation. Fine I said, but explain to them that they are getting FUCK ALL! She tried, very hard indeed to get through to them, but couldn't. The following day she did manange to get through to an apologetic admin worker on the other side, who explained that the invoice shouldn't have gone out on its own, that there should have been a letter explaining the situation. I found this on their website and basically looks like they can legally charge us �80 a year for this "service." I bought this house about three years ago and have never heard of the buggers before. Certainly have never seen anything of them in the streets and as for maintenance and estate management, they seriously have to be taking the piss.

The local rag had it on the front page as Poll Tax MkII. Seemingly all 200 + of the local owner occupiers are going ballistic. The reason why thewife couldn't get through at first was that they had to take the phones off the hook. I have emailed them with a list of questions, mainly around their competency to fill envelopes let alone manage an estate. I am awaiting the response to this before I involve local councillors, MSPs and MP. Its not the �80 that I am annoyed about. It's the principle of the fucking thing, they provide absolutely fuck all to me and I want an itemised invoice stating what they believe they provide before I laugh at them and bin it.

After that I should perhaps not mention that thewife is downstairs preparing a pheasant. I have never tasted one of those.
posted by timesnewroman at 10:11 AM  

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