[andrew stone]

tony

that is what i said to the guy.

he said that if rental demand is very high a lot of houses that come on the market will be purchased by landlords.

i have a landlord customer who has over 100 properties!

andrew

[Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus)]

Don't assume that all renters live in flats with badly stained carpets.

How do you know which of your customers are tenants unless you ask them.

My parents, for example, live in a lovely home, full of expensive furniture and a well stocked garden - they have rented that house since the day they moved into it 45 years ago !

There is a large American community living in a well to do town near me. They all rent and their houses are owned by the companies they work for.

[wynne jones]

I do tend to end the phone call quickly....

I do clean a lot of carpets on the married quarters but it's usually a few weeks after they have moved in But still, when it comes to the march out, I advise them to go with the "Other Guy"....

I don't mind doing EOT cheaper.

Of course someones going to go with the cheapest if they have no interest other than getting a deposit back or an inspection passed. I do enough to get their money back and that's it, which can often work out the same hourly rate as 'normal' jobs.

If someone else is cheaper than I'm prepared to do it. I think good luck to them. 

[tony bish]

Andrew dont think this country will ever be like the european way of thinking regards property .Their mortgages are totaly different from ours ,in fact a lot are for more than 25 years and can even be transfered to relatives our system is different altogether.We still live in a house buying society albeit renting has gone up slightly, recently for mainly younger people who want to get on the housing market but cant for reasons I said in my last post imo .If you go back to the sixties and seventies most people rented and could only dream of owning ,then in the eighties it changed and you could make a killing on property with silly mortgages.The market not the economy is where it should be now and I for one cannot ever see the interest rates ever hitting the silly rates of 15-16% as it did in the 80s .This country rightly or wrongly relies on the building industry and the house buyers market and imo will come good in the end .