My Life is Currently like a Bad Sitcom

[Bod]

I really don't believe it......

What has recently happened to me could be straight from 'One Foot in The Grave'.

My local City Council or RENEW are serving me with a Compulsory Purchase Order so they can knock down my house. Now that was bad. It's a scheme to improve housing in the UK, kicking people out of the houses they own and giving them a shitty price for it. Quite legal and for our own good though apparently because we live in working class homes we are too stupid to realise it. This has been going on for 9 months and I was getting my head around it. BTW there's nothing wrong with my house, it's in very good condition, but it's a terrace and some in the row behind me are a bit dodgy. So of course the whole block has to go and has absolutely nothing to do with the road the council wants to build to all the new crappy flats they've built recently.

So I eventually found a new home and last week I had my offer accepted and the mortgage company agreed the transfer. All was going well and I went on holiday for a week, thinking all my worries were over.

Yesterday the Estate Agent phoned me, a little nervous, this was a new one on her. RENEW have made a bit of a mistake.... they've accidentally entered my NEW home and gutted it!! Ripped out the carpets, the kitchen, bathroom and fireplace. Totally empty now.

Not sure how this happened but I've been told that 'someone' got the wrong street. So when the key they were given didn't open the lock, 'someone' drilled the lock and broke in and tore everything out. Then replaced the lock with a new one. Who knows who has the key now.

My housing Agent laughed hysterically, the Council Solicitor was aghast. I was gob smacked and couldn't stop laughing too, but it is quite serious.

So not only are they knocking down my current home, they've buggered up my new one. As the mortgage company haven't inspected the property yet, I may no longer get the mortgage because the property is no longer as described when the price agreed.

The new house being gutted is totally disconnected to my current house being demolished, but quite an amazing coincidence, being done to the same person by the same organisation. Bad luck like this is the stuff of comedy.

This could only happen to me.