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AIBU?

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Mmzz · 27/06/2017 17:50

My LL wants some work done. He wants 3 quotes and he wants me to be available to let the people who will do the quotes in and show them around.
The first quote was done and the man said to me that the change won't improve my experience of using the house at all (its to solve a problem that i do need solved but then man says this is not a solution).

I feed this back to the letting agent who says your landlord insists on the gettign the other two quotes, sorry if that's inconvenient for you etc.

So quote nbr 2 was due this morning. i waited in all morning and he simply didn't turn up. Eventually, i called his office, they called him and then they called me back to say he was busy and would like to make a new appointment with me for tomorrow morning. They said the reason that he hadn't tried to cancel the apppointment or let me know that he wasn't coming was because he couldn't get a mobile signal (except of course he could get one when they called him). I didn get a sort of haughty apology, but the tone it came in coudl best be described as "sorry, not sorry".
So, i said I am unavailble because I am busy (which i am) and that I am not minded to wait in again for them.
So they called the letting agent (doubtless to complain) and I've got an email from her saying: sorry that happened, no phone signal so couldn't cancel, and then your landlord ants this so ring the company again and ask for a new appoointment.

My question: AIBU to be feeling used and taken for granted?

and how would you respond to the letting agent?

OP posts:
Louiselouie0890 · 27/06/2017 21:36

Am I missing something? Surely you'd only arrange when it suits you anyway?

Mmzz · 27/06/2017 22:47

No i felt obliged to give them the apoointment they asked for. I knew I had something (business opportunity) coming up but i only knew it would be this week some time. So, I agreed to the tradesman coming over this morning.
Then I found out that the client was available this morning, which would have suited me a lot, but iinstead I arranged a different time with the client and waited in all morning for a no-show.

What really irritated me though was the sorry, not sorry attitude on the phone and the blase assumption that I'd wait in all afternoon too. Plus being lied to about his phone being out of range when I asked why he didn't call when he knew he wouldn't make it.

It all just made me want to dig my heels in and say sorry you had your chance and you blew it. I'm not waiting in for you again.

OP posts:
Louiselouie0890 · 27/06/2017 22:51

He was unreasonable to not let you know and was an arse but I think your unreasonable for fitting it round them. I only ever let them come when it's suited me

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