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I'm moving house on Saturday (just down the road, to a very cute little house I'll be sharing with a friend). Spent all afternoon packing books and have a fair bit more to do - so of course the logical thing to do when I got tired was to relax with a pizza and a beer. Hey ho.
I went and had a look round the place last night - I'll need to acquire a bed but pretty much everything else we might want is there. Except for a complete absence of mugs and a scarcity of bowls. Mugs I don't have a problem with - flat-mate-to-be and I have more than enough between us - but I was thinking I might ask the landlord if he'd reimburse us for some bowls. I mean, I don't mind paying for a few, but I don't have a lot of money... Flatmate-to-me said she wouldn't feel comfortable asking for bowls, as in her experience furnished houses didn't come with any kitchen utensils and she was quite surprised there was so much.
Personally, I expect if a house is let as furnished it would have everything (well, at least the basics) - when I let my place in Edinburgh the letting agents gave me a long list of what I should provide and it included crockery and cutlery etc. But maybe the conventions are different in Scotland? I'm pretty sure crockery was provided last time I rented in England, but that was almost 20 years ago and for large student houses (privately owned and let on a joint tenancy) so perhaps the expectations were different.
Anyone out there have experience of privately rented housing in England, and the expectations thereof.
I'm not querying because I want to argue a point with the landlord - I'm just surprised at my friend's assumptions...
Of course, moving means being off internet for a while. Not that it'll make much difference, given my recent (in)frequency of posting, but just so you know...
I went and had a look round the place last night - I'll need to acquire a bed but pretty much everything else we might want is there. Except for a complete absence of mugs and a scarcity of bowls. Mugs I don't have a problem with - flat-mate-to-be and I have more than enough between us - but I was thinking I might ask the landlord if he'd reimburse us for some bowls. I mean, I don't mind paying for a few, but I don't have a lot of money... Flatmate-to-me said she wouldn't feel comfortable asking for bowls, as in her experience furnished houses didn't come with any kitchen utensils and she was quite surprised there was so much.
Personally, I expect if a house is let as furnished it would have everything (well, at least the basics) - when I let my place in Edinburgh the letting agents gave me a long list of what I should provide and it included crockery and cutlery etc. But maybe the conventions are different in Scotland? I'm pretty sure crockery was provided last time I rented in England, but that was almost 20 years ago and for large student houses (privately owned and let on a joint tenancy) so perhaps the expectations were different.
Anyone out there have experience of privately rented housing in England, and the expectations thereof.
I'm not querying because I want to argue a point with the landlord - I'm just surprised at my friend's assumptions...
Of course, moving means being off internet for a while. Not that it'll make much difference, given my recent (in)frequency of posting, but just so you know...
