Point 1 - I have somehow ended up being the one to get quotations and organising repairs to our access drive, shared with two other properties and instigated by one of the neighbours, who wouldn't let it rest (its not even that bad). I am organising it all mainly because the others are incapable/too damned lazy. Instigating neighbour has taken to emailing me every second day to find out "where I am" and what progress I have made. Now, I don't know if you have ever got quotes from constructions companies, but they are often on jobs and don't do it quick. Nevertheless, I have now obtained 3 quotes and instructed the best value/most competent sounding one with all our agreement. That construction company is currently tied up on an over-running job, and may start sometime towards the end of this week, but most likely not til next week or the week after. It is not possible to get a date out of them, but they are a long established company and I know they will start reasonably soon. This has all been explained to the instigating neighbour, most recently on Friday of last week, yet he still automatically sends me emails every second day, chasing me up. I am repeating the same thing over and over again, as I did when I was organising the quotes. (instigating neighbour's single attempt at getting a quote himself resulted in a 60% higher quote than the one we are going for, a ludicrous over-specification and for some strange reason the contractors visiting him at his house several times to discuss the matter yet not producing a proper written quote). Of course, I also made sure that all three of us set up a joint bank account where we are all joint signatories, (as their idea was to be completely vague about it and perhaps pay varying amounts based on who had the most money and how many people lived in their property). We have all paid our shares into the account of expectation of the work being done and I am getting comments about this in the emails too!
Grr.
Point 2 - at the same time, I have somehow ended up putting in a theatre license application for a company which is renting one of the properties I manage. They had started it themselves, got it all wrong repeatedly and in order to process signing of the lease on behalf of my client, I asked them to send it to me to check over. It ended up being easier to submit it for them, and obviously, local authorities take a certain number of weeks to process it and get responses from all the stakeholders, etc.. Nevertheless, I am getting an email every week asking me if I have finalised their theatre license yet!
Now I am particularly sensitive right now because I am also on holiday abroad. Both parties know that I am on holiday and have emailed me their usual chasing up messages, despite knowing I am on holiday abroad. In fact, both of them started their emails with the words "I hope you are enjoying your holiday"! And to the theatre license one I actually told her not to contact me while I was on holiday!
Is this a thing now? I would tend not to contact them unless I actually have something to tell them, and don't appreciate being so constantly chased up/pestered. I have been fairly clear in sending emails explaining this to them. Am I being U in hoping the pair of them spontaneously combust and go away and leave me alone?