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[Closed] Tenement Communal Areas - Leaving Shoes Outside Flat Door

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And if he gets mad and chases you, he's barefoot so you have the advantage.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 4:29 pm
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Hoof him with the flats.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 4:54 pm
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Thank you dknwhy. Yes well done all, 64 posts to get an answer is pretty good going.

Unfortunately it's hopelessly wrong. English property models do not apply to Scottish tenement flats.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 4:54 pm
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Sit outside the door in just your pants caressing his shoes.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 5:01 pm
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Tie the laces together and sling over the nearest cable above the street, seems to be the way around some parts of Cheltenham.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 5:11 pm
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English property models do not apply to Scottish tenement flats.

😕


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 5:11 pm
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Hoof him with the flats.

Well done.

Invite them round for a meal? Build a relationship?


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 5:17 pm
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Thank you dknwhy. Yes well done all, 64 posts to get an answer is pretty good going.
Unfortunately it's hopelessly wrong. English property models do not apply to Scottish tenement flats

Please explain? The regulatory reform order 2005 is for England and Wales but I was under the impression that Scotland have similar fire safety regulations regarding communal areas.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 5:30 pm
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Invite them round for a meal? Build a relationship

And while he's there chuck his shoes out of the window? Whilst he's wearing them.

I like your style.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 5:30 pm
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Put dog poo in a paper bag.
Light paper bag.
Ring his doorbell.
Watch and wait.
Do this a few times and he'll soon learn that he needs his shoes inside his flat.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 5:34 pm
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Don't move next to me then, sometimes it's the bin bag left outside the door. Seriously though, living in flats means a bit of compromise. If you can't handle something minor like that, how do you cope with significant problems?


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 5:54 pm
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Fill shoes with water and place in freezer overnight.

Seriously having stayed in a tenament in glasgow, it seems to be a thing oop there, told to remove shoes and place in cardboard box outside front door.

and in our block of appartments, we all got a letter banning floor entrance mats as theyre now seen as a bigger danger to society than Jeremey Corby, due to the risk of people falling over them.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 6:00 pm
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Shoes not even an issue.

Do you take your turn to clean the stairs?

Bicycles and big stuff like the effing washing machine abandoned for the last month outside my door by the landlord of flat next door are a problem. I have made it more of a problem for them now and highlighted his tardiness with sarcasm.

It will not help but makes me feel better.

Anyone Wanna help me move a washing machine?


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 6:22 pm
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Invite this gentleman this to come and visit...or should that be visit and come?
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/well-worn-trainers-fetish-reebok-classics-stomp-trash-trample-sex


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 6:28 pm
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This thread has really cheered me up! Thanks for the laughs.

On the scale of annoying-things-left-on-your-doorstep-in-a-communal-area, it's below my experience several years ago, when I had to put up with drug dealers, a human poo, and a lit newspaper. Admittedly your neighbour sounds a bit dodgy.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 7:45 pm
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write left / right on the wrong ones.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 7:50 pm
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I bet all his pairs of shoes look like this..

Captain flash lives down south, not in a Scottish tenement


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 8:18 pm
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@dknwhy

I'm assuming that the OP owns his flat.

There is no leasehold/freehold distinction is Scotland - essentially all property is freehold. Therefore there is no landlord or leaseholder. Scottish tenements do not typically have a managing agent.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 8:20 pm
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Mix up a bit of egg and milk and pour a little bit in his shoes each night. It may back fire a bit as the hallway will soon stink but pretty sure he will have to do something about it.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 8:58 pm
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Do your neighbours look like this?

If they do then should there ever be a fire the OP's neighbour will be able to extinguish the flames with one of his big clown shoes (wasn't that an episode of Seinfeld?)


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 9:14 pm
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We have a rag and bone man, ok that's putting it romantically, it's actually gypos.. Who are shall we say very enthusiastic about removing anything that's not nailed down.

My fridge freezer broke down, no problem I thought, put it outside thinking it would be gone in 12 hours.. They saw it alright, and stripped all the metal compressor bits out, and left the carcass where it stood, so I still had to take it down the tip that evening.

Can't even get good gypsies round my way.


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 9:25 pm
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I suggest you tread lightly on this one..


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 9:25 pm
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Get all aggressive - go for brogue....


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 9:32 pm
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Have you no sole? Your neighbour sounds like a heel but maybe he is on his uppers? Surely this won't last and he will buckle and eventually toe the line?


 
Posted : 10/08/2016 11:26 pm
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OP, are the shoes actually creating an obstacle for you, or are you just being a fussy boots?


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 5:08 am
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Buy exactly the same shoes as he has, but two sizes too small, and replace them one night, and swap them back the next.

Repeat.


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 5:27 am
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Scottish tenements do not typically have a managing agent.

They do. Maybe the terminology is different up here but every tenement I've lived in or owned had a managing agent which is referred to as a "factor" up here.


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 7:31 am
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The poor neighbour obviously has issues that you don't understand.
Take his shoes, wear them saunter 1600m then you might know his angst.


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 7:45 am
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They say that before you condemn a man you should walk a mile in his shoes.

Then you can say what you like with impunity......'coz you'll be a mile away with his shoes.


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 7:48 am
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These shoes?.


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 7:48 am
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THose aren't shoes. They're gutties.


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 7:49 am
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Write **** on the soles he will never see but everyone walking behind him will


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 8:07 am
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Spray water into each of them lightly every night using a plant sprayer thing - they won't be wet but they'll never dry out & it won't take long until they look like this...

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Posted : 11/08/2016 9:37 am
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Scottish tenements do not typically have a managing agent.

They do. Maybe the terminology is different up here but every tenement I've lived in or owned had a managing agent which is referred to as a "factor" up here.

I'll concede that many do. But none of the ones I've lived in ever have 🙂


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 9:47 am
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This thread is probably going to be the inspiration behind some comedian's fringe set.
Keep up the lulz, plz.


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 10:15 am
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mcj78 - that's genius.


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 10:34 am
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why thank you - my earlier suggestion of setting them all on fire was a little inflammatory 😉


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 10:43 am
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[quote=donald ] Scottish tenements do not typically have a managing agent.
They do. Maybe the terminology is different up here but every tenement I've lived in or owned had a managing agent which is referred to as a "factor" up here.
I'll concede that many do. But none of the ones I've lived in ever have

Then you've been very lucky! Property factors are the scum of the earth


 
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Posted : 11/08/2016 10:51 am
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Depends on the location - Edinburgh tenements haven't had a Factor for many many years. The council took over admin of shared repairs when owners couldn't agree, and added a charge. Much corruption followed, so now I think nobody does it.


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 10:55 am
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Do you think you could sandal him if it became physical?

If someone chased a female friend of mine down some stairs I'd probably deckshoe him, then chelseaboot him in the bo-loakes


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 11:04 am
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Each night. glue on an extra, thin outer sole until you've built them up to platform shoes without him realising.


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 11:05 am
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6 quid will solve your problem......

Wow thats a good deal..... Just imagine that arriving in the post after a drunk internet purchase......... 🙂


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 11:10 am
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I didn't read all of the above. Is it a religious thing? I ask because I religiously leave my walk- and work-boots in my own porch, because the smell a bit, and because the sunlight dries them out and may help disinfect them.


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 12:30 pm
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Do you know anyone that has a dog with a taste for chewing shoes....


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 12:39 pm
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Have a look at your deeds - some tenements will have something like a 'Feu Charter' dictating rules over what should or shouldn't happen in communal areas. A lot of Feudal stuff was abolished in 2001 in scotland (it was a system by which someone could sell land or property but dictate conditions over what can happen on that property in perpetuity after the sale) but Feudal stuff relating to things like common areas in tenements is still valid.


 
Posted : 11/08/2016 1:16 pm
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Can you not start leaving your dildo collection on your doorstep, see how her likes it


 
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