I had thought that they had given up building hovels; that went out in the 19th century and here we are in the 21st. The house I saw today was a hovel, a large back to back, or should that be a semi-detached 10-year-old hovel. Actually the house itself wasn't half bad but, the tenants clearly had not studied a domestic science at school nor had they learned how to look after a house. They had used and abused it; they did not care about it, lights did not work a bath was full of water because the plug was stuck and of course there was a mess everywhere. The flat roof over the bay window looked like an ashtray! Heating was a full on; the dwelling was like being in a sauna and because windows aren't opened condensation thrives. The house itself was different, in a reasonably useful location and of interesting design; I liked it, but that was all. Still, remove the tenants, clean the house, and make good superficial repairs and re-decorate it, internally as well as externally, and then you have a pleasant modern show home of which you can be proud…   more »