I had a phonecall from our landlord yesterday. He said he’d got our letter about moving out at the end of July, and he wanted to sort out when their painter could come in and redecorate, so that when we moved out he wouldn’t have to charge us 3 or 4 million francs for wear and tear. Yeah, right, whatever. The truth of it is, he wants the flat to be newly re-decorated by the time we move out so that he can rent it out again immediately, and he even told me that their painter doesn’t have anything to do at the moment.
At first I was a bit annoyed, as the flat wasn’t in great shape when we moved in, and it hasn’t suffered particularly over the last 3 years. Yes, it needs redecorating, but it did 3 years ago and they didn’t bother doing it then! Then I decided that at the end of the day, having the painter in will force us to get organised, and at least we’ll get to live in a newly-decorated flat for the rest of our time here. The landlord said it will only take 2 or 3 weeks, but I’m dubious about that! We’ve already had their painter in to do the kitchen after the boiler exploded. He’s a nice bloke, but every day he came he arrived later and left earlier!! It took him 5 days to do the kitchen and it’s the smallest room by far.
Oh well, I’m resigned to living without one or other of our rooms for the next few weeks (the landlord wants to see us on Monday and get the painter started straight away!).
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