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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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I'll burn your bloody sign!

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cranberryx · 03/01/2016 21:34

I probably am being unreasonable but just wanted an opinion.

We bought a downstairs flat 2 years ago, the upstairs flat had a 'to let' sign by their steps (technically on our driveway) when we moved in. Speaking to upstairs, they had lived their 3 months and the sign never got collected. I just assumed that upstairs would deal with it, it's not been impacting my life and it's not my sign so I haven't been too bothered about.

The sign has been there almost 2 years now, and two tenants. Recently in the high winds it has fallen down into the middle of our driveway, so we moved it to the side and spoke to the new upstairs neighbours about getting it removed. They haven't had much luck with the estate agents who said they would collect it "when they get around to it."

My elderly father, who has recently had back surgery and doesn't have very good eyesight got out of my car today and slipped on the sign! I am sick of this bloody sign!!

I have emailed the estate agent and told them if they don't remove it in 24 hours, I will burn it. I was polite but specified that "I will dispose of it by burning it."

DP said this was a bit extreme and that sleepless nights with a newborn are taking their tool. I think I am justified and fully plan to burn the sign (in the log stove, although I didn't say that!)

AIBU?

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witsender · 03/01/2016 21:57

You left it there for 2 yrs?! It would have been gone in 2 hrs.

VenusInFauxFurs · 03/01/2016 21:57

wasn't even on my property.

OP, you said it was "technically on our driveway"! Don't start confusing the matter when we're all on your side!

Grilledaubergines · 03/01/2016 21:58

They've had two years of free advertising, bet they're delighted!

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cranberryx · 03/01/2016 21:59

I can go out and take a photo if you'd like, it's a complicated set up as it's upstairs and downstairs flats venus their stairs technically are on our driveway, and that's where the sign was. But it was next to the stairs for the upstairs neighbour (if that makes sense)

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VenusInFauxFurs · 03/01/2016 22:00

Oh wait, did you mean "our driveway" was a communal driveway?

Not that it matters. Burn the fucker this weekend. Invite the neighbours. Serve mulled wine.

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cranberryx · 03/01/2016 22:00

It is physically on my driveway, next to my car as I type though!

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Grilledaubergines · 03/01/2016 22:01

When we were selling, we made sure the agent knew not to put a board up - curtain twitching neighbours!!!

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cranberryx · 03/01/2016 22:01

The driveways are split in two. It's my driveway, marked with my flat number but at the end of my driveway are their stairs to their front door which is how the sign ended up there when it fell!

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Nanny0gg · 03/01/2016 22:01

I might mention that your DF was injured by their sign...

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cranberryx · 03/01/2016 22:02

I do have some mulled wine left over from xmas

Seeing the PP's that have had this problem I could probably find a few neighbours to start a tradition with...

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MidniteScribbler · 03/01/2016 22:02

I had an argument with the estate agents over the one on the last house I bought. It wasn't a little sign, think a big metal sign that is taller than me. I kept bugging them, but because it was out of their normal selling area they couldn't be bothered. In a fit of rage after several weeks, I had a neighbour help me rip it down and we dumped it on the edge of the nature reserve over the road. The council picked it up, and fined the agents for dumping. I hate real estate signs.

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cranberryx · 03/01/2016 22:05

Scribbler justice is served! This sign is about 7 feet tall with a big wooden board about 50cm across, it's plastic backed which made it slippery when it fell!

Thanks to all of the PP's who expressed concern for my DF, he was fine after a cup of tea but a bit shaken which is why I saw red a bit.

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SalemSaberhagen · 03/01/2016 22:05

I read this as 'bum your sign'. Which is a whole different thread, I think.....

SecretlyChartreuse · 03/01/2016 22:05

Our council gives landlords two weeks to take it down after letting it (not moving in).

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cranberryx · 03/01/2016 22:06

Just realised I am using too many exclamation points... Sorry, how very un-MN of me.

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cranberryx · 03/01/2016 22:06

Bum your sign

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BlackeyedShepherdsbringsheep · 03/01/2016 22:09

was it in a long post? I would be tempted to post that through their letter box... [evil}

VenusInFauxFurs · 03/01/2016 22:11

After two years of the sign being out in all weathers (and no doubt an inevitable re-branding exercise in the meantime), the Estate Agents aren't going to want it back.

As PPs have said, they just enjoyed the free advertising and the possibility of people phoning up and saying "We saw you have a flat to let in Cranberry Towers. Is it still available?" "Sorry, no. Let us try to shamelessly flog you something else."

Can I just say you sound EMINENTLY reasonable for a sleep-deprived mother of a small baby. You are blaming the Estate Agents as is right and proper. An unreasonable person would be blaming the upstairs tenants or DH or Barack Obama or Mr Tumble.

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cranberryx · 03/01/2016 22:17

Thanks Venus I didn't even think about it that way, I always thought it was laziness was the reason. I probably would have been more bothered by the sign if people had knocked on my door to ask if it was still for let, luckily my door is hidden.

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Pidapie · 03/01/2016 22:23

When this was the case for us, we just took it down and put it down the side of the house. The sign was "to let" by an agency other than the one we just rented the property from! Just get rid of it :D

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