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Having been a tenant with my parents in a house for the past three months my story certainly is horrfic to say the least. Upon entry to the house I was shocked to smell this most unpleasant smell of burning outside the property which I found ghastly. Though I will save that point until later. The move to the new house went well as to say the delivery company handled our previous furniture with great care and with good efficiency. The days that followed were not so great.

Upon the first night of sleeping my body felt a shock of not psychological pain though more embarrasing physical pain slowly yet surely my condition started becoming worse and worse at this new place I had moved into. The walls everywhere are painted in a prison white colour and the finish on the edges of the rooms are seemingly rather patchy. Secondly not having seen the problem upon the initial viewing months earlier, upon closer inspection there seemed to be creases in the plaster boards on the ceilings in a few of the rooms. It gets worse from here.

Next door to this house, is a awkward lower level bungalow property owned and lived by an elderly lady. The problem here is that the elderly lady has a bio mass fuel energy generation shed accompanied by a chimney stack on a lower level to the house being rented. The positioning of the chimney also can be adjusted to shoot the flames directed at the window of the property. People with an idea of chimney dust and how strong and offensive these odours are will know what I am talking about. The pavement to the exterior of the house is covered in some pass a pass building decoration attempt in having a bichumen tarmac grounding. The smell as my parents use the gas central heating reacts to a horrific smell when near the front and the back of the house.

Garden wise it seems a nice garden being around 65 feet in length. The grass is seemingly tidy and leaves around the edges. The house has a non smoking policy which I will mention more about this briefly later. One day I went to bed and heard this racket of noise like electricity shuddering, and for minutes I heard this loud noise in the early morning. This caused some pain internally as the force of this energy hit parts of my body. Whilst I tried to ignore this, I wanted to sleep and realised some flakes of paint falling slowly on my head and these allergic reactions caused me some discomfort. Every other morning the milkman arrives to deliver the milk on the front door step and I am woken up by the sound of this mobile milk float vehicle which I have since cancelled his services as the noise of the vehicle is easily identifiable by my hearing on this quite little road.

What is worse than this, is that the place has an open chimney stack and particles of soot flow around the house at times when the next door neighbour burns this environmentally friendly fuel which I believe is paper or wood pieces. Mix this issue with paint falling down on the ground and onto clothing and on the body is a nasty recipe.

My personal ordeal will not be forgotten lightly especially as the house I was renting previously had none of these little nagging insulting problems at a lower monthly rent.

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