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Titolo: Stanza/appartamento a Londra - posso?

Devo lasciare in affitto una stanza/appartamento a Londra. Secondo voi posso 
annunciarlo qua. Il manifesto del NG non dice niente a riguardo. Se ricevo 
una valanga di no, non vado avanti. 


Okay, so is anyone interested or does anyone know someone who might be 
interested in renting a room/flat in Chelsea? I say room/flat because its a 
two-bedroom flat but I need to keep one room (the smaller one) for myself, 
to keep my stuff in and to use when I come to London. As this would be quite 
a rare occurrence (I might be there for a few days once every two or three 
months on average, because I live and work in Sardinia), it means the 
tenant(s) would have the flat to himself/herself/themselves most of the 
time.
The only down side (if you're a complete and utter snob, that is) is that 
it's an ex-council flat in a council block, but its quite decent as council 
blocks go and quite a few of the flats are privately owned. Most of the 
residents are "hard-working families", as Tony Blair might put it. It's not 
a tower block, just 8 storeys and I'm on the seventh with a view of Albert 
Bridge and Battersea Park on one side and Earl's Court and Stamford Bridge 
on the other.
The main plus is the location, just off the King's Road, between this and 
the river, 50-100 metres from each. If anyone knows this part of London, 
it's more precisely between Milmans Street and the World's End pub in that 
corner of Chelsea known as the World's End - postal district SW10 - opposite 
Vivienne Westwood's shop and the 328 bus terminus on the King's Road and 
near the houseboats on the Thames. It's also on the 11, 22 and N11 bus 
routes. Unfortunately this part of Chelsea is not so well-served as regards 
the tube with Sloane Square, South Kensington, Gloucester Road, Earl's Court 
and Fulham Broadway stations all roughly equidistant and 10-15 minutes' walk 
away.
Other plusses are that there's unlimited hot water, which I pay for as part 
of the service charges, and it's well-insulated and very warm in winter.
The price? I've been advised that a fair rent is £600 a month plus council 
tax to be paid by the tenant(s) and plus electricity and gas bills, with a 
month's rent in advance and a month's rent as a deposit. I think that's the 
norm.
If anyone is interested, please contact me privately as soon as possible. 
I'll be in London next weekend from the 20th to the 23rd, so I could show 
you the flat and discuss it over a drink. Come to think of it, if anyone 
just fancies going out for a pint, get in touch anyway.
The reason I'm announcing this here and in a couple of other 
language-related newsgroups is just that I thought it would be nice to try 
to find a like-minded tenant before advertising in the London press or 
resorting to an agency.
Chris Pain 

 and plus electricity and gas bills, 
It's possible I have become seriously disconnected from London prices,
(I used to live in London, and visit it every year or so) but off the
top of my head this is a pretty steep long-term rent even for
London. What's the market value of the property?
-- 
Chris Malcolm 
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 What's the market value of the property?
In Chelsea?  Pick a number that boggles your mind and start adding
zeroes.  
Des
will say when to stop


I just checked and a very similar flat in an identical block is on sale for 
£245,000. Maybe a more reasonable estimate would be around the £225,000 
mark. Obviously if it were in an all private block, let's say just on the 
other side of the King's Road, it would be a hell of a lot more, as I 've 
just seen Des Small suggests.
Even though the fact that its ex-council pulls the price down, the location 
pulls it back up again.
I don't know if the rent I am asking is too steep; that figure was suggested 
to me by an Italian friend who has been working in London as an accountant 
for several years and who has two flats himself which he lets. According to 
him that's the going rate. 

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Well, my Italian accountant friend who lives in London did say not less than 
£600. 

 which he lets. According to him that's the going rate.
I really would go through an agent if I were you; or at the very
least get a proper contract drawn up. Bad things happen to landlords:
our Aus solicitor expressed it in formal legal language with the
words "Tenants are bastards".
-- 
Mike.

interested in renting a room/flat in Chelsea? 
Ah, your handle now makes sense.  I'd been mishy-phening it as 'World
Sender'.
DC

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I've got a rental property and I never considered *not* using an
agent.  OK, it costs me 40 quid a month, but then I know I  don't ever
have to go round the place to collect unpaid rent.
DC

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Goog God! (As the English pronounce it.) I was still doing so till I
read that.
-- 
Mike.

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Me too.
Now, wasn't there a short-lived soap on TV in the UK that was set 
thereabouts?

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Would that have been Ease Tenders?
DC

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I may have been away a long time, but even I know that World's End isn't 
in the East End, and, anyway, we get "Eastenders" here, about two years 
behind what's shown in England.
The series I remember was an early evening soap opera kind of thing, 
with everyone spending all their time down at the pub - even the girl 
who had run away from home and become a Mormon. More like "Westenders"
I won't be able to sleep now until I remember what it was called.
Fran

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You are right, Fran. There was a short-lived soap opera called World's End, 
centered around a pub called the Mulberry made in 1982. I seem to remember 
it was a total flop and deservedly so. The Mulberry was based on the Cross 
Keys, a nice pub I used to frequent in my youth but which was/is situated 
round the corner from Chelsea Old Church in the heart of the posh part of 
Chelsea and nowhere near the World's End, which is the only working class 
bit of the borough. The only reference I could find to the aforementioned 
soap was this:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/nostalgiacentraluk/80stv/1982/we.htm
The real World's End has recently been immortalised in the wonderful World's 
End: A Memoir of a Blitz Childhood by Donald James Wheal, which narrates the 
author's wartime childhood and a lot of local history including that of the 
now forgotten Cremorne Pleasure Gardens which once occupied much of the 
World's End.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844136825/202-6555258-0927834
 

 
That sounds fascinating; I will have to put it on my wishlist, and drop 
heavy hints about my birthday present.
Fran

On Sat, 14 May 2005 08:02:58 GMT, worldsender wrote on
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The water table in Florida, in the area where I am, averages something
like 13 feet.  My next-door neighbor is having his pool re-Marcited
(1) and has drained the pool.
I've always heard (though it's probably an urban legend) that if it
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It's been raining most of the day, I have visions of my neighbor's
pool in my back yard tomorrow.
(1) While a swimming pool is mostly poured concrete, the interior
surface is coated with some product.  Marcite used to be the most
common product, but there are others.  "Re-Marciting" has become the
generic term for having the interior re-coated.
-- 
Tony Cooper
Orlando FL

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You have become seriously disconnected. When I read down the article
and came to the price, I thought "wow - 2 beds in Chelsea at only 600 a
month". You'd find it hard to get a 2 bedroom flat *anywhere* in London
at 600 a month now. I stopped renting eight years ago, but we were then
paying 525 a month for two bedrooms in Lewisham, and Lewisham's much
cheaper than most of London. Admittedly, rental prices have been
standing still for quite a few years now, and the World's End estate is
from what I recall, a scummy council estate incongruously dropped next
to one of the wealthiest parts of London, but I'd be seriously tempted
by that price with the opportunity to live in that location.
Matthew Huntbach


Actually, it's not on the World's End Estate, which is 70's high-rise and
the police are in and out of there night and day. I'm on the Cremorne
Estate, which is next to it but much nicer, built in 1949-50, much smaler
blocks, but still, as I just read someone else wrote it's not Cheyne Row.


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 DC
I'm just very attached to my little corner of London, which I sadly don't 
visit very often.
What does Django Cat refer to? Anything to do with the greatest two-fingered 
guitarist of all time?