Arg!!!
Three problems I have at the moment:
* Banks
* Letting Agents
* Inconvenient timings
My tenancy in my new flat in Bristol is due to start tomorrow (7th May), but I plan to pick up the keys on the 12th and move in fully by the 17th.
The problem with the bank
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Apparently they couldn’t recognise my signature on the documentation that the letting agents sent to the bank. I received notification of this on the Saturday 2nd May, after the banks had closed. Apparently I need to go to a branch (I can’t do this over the phone), and it was a Bank Holiday yesterday! Highly annoying because the bank needed to send back a reference to the letting agents before the tenancy starts. Whats weird is that I have never changed my signature ever since I invented it in my early teens, in fact its identical to the one in my passport PLUS I’ve never had this issue in the past!
Inconvenient timings
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Not only did this bank situation happen, but it happened just as I needed to go to Dublin (where I am at the moment), for a conference where I am speaking on behalf of the company that I am working for (OpenLink Software). I arrived in Dublin yesterday, and won’t get back to Oxford until late on Friday.
Apparently there is a branch of my Bank in Dublin… and it is looking like I might have to go there in a minute to see if they can fix this problem for me.
Also it is a bit annoying that I can’t seem to connect to the wireless in the hotel which the conference is in, it needs a special code which the conference organisers have to buy. I’ll try to find out if they do have a code in a moment, they should have bought one as this is a conference about the web. (plus the hotel which I am staying in doesn’t have wifi, I have to rely on a dodgy connection to another wifi spot which is unsecured.
Letting agents
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Because of this issue with my signature, and the fact that I can’t sign the tenancy papers before the actual tenancy starts (i.e. tomorrow!) they are threatening to “put the property back on the market”… even though I am definitely sure that I did mention that I was going to be picking up the keys on the 12th May due to this conference, but clearly we didn’t get this down formally in writing. I currently await a phone call from the agents about if the landlord is not unhappy to everything that is happening (fingers crossed). I really do apologise to the letting agents about this, and I said that on the phone to them. I seriously do apologise to them, as this is all out of my c