Accommodation (Toronto Road)

For Zhong Li and Elaine. . .

Hey gurl. . here are the videos on the house.

Also, Elaine!!! Attached are some pics of the house's exterior - for u to have a look ;)

Video 1: Entrance into the House - Recorded as my cousin walked down from the stairs

Video 2: Lower Level's Large Room

Video 3: Living Hall + Kitchen + Garden

Video 4: Upstair's Bathroom

Video 5: Upstair's Double Bedroom

Pic 1: Outside of the house

Pic 2: Side door to the garden - also accessible from the front

Pic 3: To the left of the main entrance , about 600m - bus stop and convenient store

Pic 4: Other houses for rent

Pic 5: Roundabout outside UWE

Below are the comments made by my cousin:

a. Condition : not too good - old and abit of carpet smell (those house around that area are all very old ie 1930s and i bet the condition can not be any much better than what i've seen)

b. Surrounding - its generally college/uni kind of students. Surely black people are present but not concentrated (they are everywhere anyway). Well, its not a porsh area and i guess you shouldn't expect more?

c. Other things that you shoud know:

i. the good stuff: there's two bus that goes from your area (toronto road) to the uni. I don't know the second one but i manage to try bus 70 (operated by 'first). One bus at each different end of the road. - bus 70 is about 5min , and the other about 1min.For bus 70 - it takes around 10-15min to your UWE, along the way, there's retail shops ie halfords, McD...and loads of others. Bus is about 30min interval.

ii. Convenient store - have got one just at bustop - 5 min away- not too bad

d. other contract stuffs:

i. waterbill/sewerage - landlord pays

ii. council tax - not applicable for students and hence required to pay

iii. internet/phone/gas/electrivity - tenant (how much? - the landlard is a complete duh - can't even give me an estimate - they are really old - as old as the houses there)

iv. room rates - GBP206 for the small room, 240 for each other big rooms

v. tenancy period - at least 6 mths contract : can the tenancy period be extended up to Nov

vi. repair - all will be done by landlord upon you calling them. they will bear the cost unless is something not related to wear n tear

vii. kitchen utensils - included

viii. who maintain garden and reduced rent during July' & Aug (forget to ask about this but by the sound of it - she doesn't even want to reduce a penny - which leads to my second point below)

ix. can you take whole house & will it be cheaper (yes- u can take whole house and sublet one out yourself but rates will not be any cheaper - she was suggesting that she's offering about GBP40 per month cheaper than others - maybe u can find this out with your friend?

Do let me know what u gurls think ASAP

- whether to go ahead with the accommodation or not -

P/S: Recent Updates from my Cousin.

hi there. well i think there's something u guys need to consider. i've only been able to view one unit and hence couldn't tell how it fare against the rest. but based on June's casual questions to those who knows Bristol, you couldn't expect more. nonetheless, u have to remember this - u can NOT compare the house that u r staying against mine. Mine is <10yrs>