This is a bit long winded but bear with me:
We still own our house in NZ and currently have tenants in.
At the moment there is a drainage issue and after a camera going down the sewer it seems that the drain is damaged by tree roots under next door's property. We need to get it fixed and need to ask the neighbours for permission to carry out the work and also see if they will be happy to contribute to the cost.
The problem is that on the next door's property there are 4 houses and we weren't clear as to under which house the problem lies so we have beeing to-ing and fro-ing via email with the agent and tenant to find the marker left by the drainage company who put the camera down the drain so that DH and I can approach the neighbours ourselves.
ANYHOO - it is all very tedious and the agent has been faffing like a trouper .... [yawn]
But then I got two emails today - one from the tenant and one from the agent. I don't know what to think about the terminology they have used but I am very taken aback ... and the issue here is nothing to do with the drainage problem. What do you think? (I copied and pasted by the way so the emails are word for word)
- Email A: From the tenant
Hi there
It seems that the marker Jane and I were looking at is the boundary marker, rather than problem drain area.
However, looking further this morning I notice a rust coloured marker IN the garden of the Asian?s house (front garden).
- Email B: From the agent
Hi 'ghosty',
I've just had an e-mail from S, saying that the marker falls within the Asian's property - hope that clarifies things.
Am I being silly thinking that clarifying my neighbours as 'The Asian' is at best a bit odd and at worst totally out of order? Wouldn't 'The people at 56C' or something like that be more appropriate?
Does it matter? I feel it does ...
Thoughts ...?