hegley
never odd or even
I doubt anyone who is moving is physically going into an EA office. We moved in October and everything was done by phone/post and email. None of the offices were accessible to the public, even if staff were there working.
Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Not sure what the legal status is for signing documents of that type electronically...
BlanketAddict
Well-Known Member
Boris (and Trump) have spent the whole year carping on about turning the corner/all clear in a few weeks/soon be back to normal blah blah blah.
Shameless bravado and wilful ignorance in the face of reality at the expense of people's lives.
BlanketAddict
Well-Known Member
Are high-flying business types still allowed to drop by for their meetings?
Puddy_Tat
happy mew year
From what i can gather, it was difficult during first lockdown, and I can see us being back in that position if not more so by january.
There were other reasons for deciding not to go ahead with it (including risk of being laid off before I could start if lockdown 3 started), but that was a factor.
May or may not have been the right answer long term...
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
They're all open round here, rooms full of the parasites in full disgraceful view non stop.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Sorry, but that should become the standard thing to say when a conspiraloon leaves the room from now on.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
I'm sure the BTP would have been delighted to teach them the error of their ways.
Film it and send it to BTP - if you cant'd find their local twatter, then use the security problem links (the see it say it sort it contact)
LeytonCatLady
Well-Known Member
Yeah, but it's often quicker to find a private letting. When I got a month's NTQ in August, I made an appointment with the council, and the earliest one was six weeks away. I did the rounds on Gumtree and Spare Room, found somewhere and had moved within two weeks.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Christmas then, a mega-fuck-omnishambles of politics, expectation management and fucking with people's lives and mental health. And 100% avoidable if politicians weren't such shithouses. But my question is 'what's next'? If this (Tier4) is premised on the prevalence of the new strain, it will probably have spread beyond the Tier 4 areas already. Can schools go back in January? I do hope the fuckwits who run our universities manage to just make a collective decision to go online (as much as possible) form Term/Semester 2. They won't and the government will fail to make a decision on that for another month.
We're going to be in a really bad place till tens of millions get the vaccine. If they vaccine doesn't work on the new strain, doesn't bear thinking about. If the vaccine hope gets wiped out we really do get into a mental health crisis. Of fuck.
We're going to be in a really bad place till tens of millions get the vaccine. If they vaccine doesn't work on the new strain, doesn't bear thinking about. If the vaccine hope gets wiped out we really do get into a mental health crisis. Of fuck.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
More tier 4 areas after xmas, effectively giving a national lockdown. Schools delayed by a couple of weeks while we see if the tier 4 restrictions have worked/if this new variant is as bad as feared.
Would be my guess.
Cid
Proper break this time
Same here. There's one on my way to work that perpetually annoys me. No distancing, no masks etc. Is there some aspect of estate-agenting that requires access to secure systems that can only be used in the office? I find it hard to believe they actually have the braincells needed for that kind of set-up.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Officially it's going to be a 'staggered return', but schools will be open in Tier 4.
prunus
Tick tock.
HMLR have made special dispensation to allow for electronic signatures on land transfer documents during this.
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
just because I had to search on this as I'm bored
Still need a physical witness present to also elctronically sign the witnessing
Cid
Proper break this time
This would be more on the legal side wouldn't it? i.e solicitor rather than the estate agent (and I mean obviously the witness is whichever vaguely respectable person you can dredge up). Doesn't require anything to be done in the estate agent's office.
ash
Inittogether
We had the same experience last month for
Uncle in law- dystopian funeral. Now my aunt in law who lives in chessington and was supposed to be spending Christmas with her son in Bristol will presumably have to be alone
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
I know we all hate estate agents but they do a fairly vital service. You might need to get somewhere. There are lots of harrowing situations such as relationships breaking down and domestic abuse. Not everyone who is suddenly homeless is broke, without these people the options are limited. Hotels are shut. Might get an Airbnb if you’re lucky.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Though I walked to the high street around 2pm yesterday and it was fucking mobbed, so maybe we’ll be catching up with the rest of the county soon enough. I turned around and went home again. Then told my mum she can’t come over on Friday. And then had a bit of a cry.
cupid_stunt
Where's the bloody sun?
I think you will, as will us.
My niece & family lives in Tunbridge Wells borough, they had very low numbers (under 80 per 100k) when all of Kent went into tier 3, so I've been watching with interest & shock at how it has spread, from just 3 local council areas in the north of the county, turning most of Kent purple (over 400 cases per 100k) on the government's interactive map, now 9 out of 11 areas are purple. Just TW & Sevenoaks boroughs have turned from light to dark blue, on around 300 cases per 100k, but I suspect not for much longer.
It's seriously hit Ashford in the last week, and spilled over into East Sussex, hitting both Rother district & Hastings borough - all 3 of those areas seeing increases of over 120% in a week. The other 3 council areas in ES have seen increases of between 78 & 210% in a week.
It's not stopping at the border with West Sussex, it has already started creeping over, with the county seeing increases of around 80% in a week. For some reason the urban borough of Worthing maintains the lowest case numbers in WS, compared to the rural district areas around us, but it's still up over 100% in a week, taking us to just over 100 cases per 100k with yesterday's figures, from a low of under 25 a couple of weeks ago.
It's scary watching it spread day by day, and the map changing to ever darker colours as it does, I wish they had put all parts of East Sussex into tier 4, together with Brighton & Hove City and West Sussex, before it gets totally out of control. We felt fairly safe right from the start of the pandemic, but that feeling has evaporated in the last week.
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cupid_stunt
Where's the bloody sun?
The Dutch has banned flights from the UK, and who can blame them?
Although, I suspect they are too late, and this new strain, if it did actually start in the UK, has already travelled to mainland Europe.
www.france24.com
ETA - And, Israel too.
Although, I suspect they are too late, and this new strain, if it did actually start in the UK, has already travelled to mainland Europe.
More EU nations ban travel from UK amid fears of new virus strain
France, Germany, Ireland and a host of other European countries have imposed restrictions on travel with the UK, in a bid to stop the spread of a new strain of the coronavirus that is believed to be…
www.france24.com
ETA - And, Israel too.
It is really maddening. Am very sad for people who desperately want to see family and businesses in that will struggle. Am also really angry at the government but that is nothing new. More than that a lot of people's Winterval plans. I am upset more people will get sick and die. Also worried about NHS staff, teachers and other frontline stuff.
This plan for relaxing over Winterval idiotic. The government can't be trusted, the media can't be trusted and a lot of the selfish public can't be trusted.
This ^ is nothing new but am amazed anyone took the governments Winterval break seriously.
Would like to hope that these new unprecedented #worldbeating #moonshot Tier4 measures will be strictly managed by police/councils, and adhered to by the public
This plan for relaxing over Winterval idiotic. The government can't be trusted, the media can't be trusted and a lot of the selfish public can't be trusted.
This ^ is nothing new but am amazed anyone took the governments Winterval break seriously.
Would like to hope that these new unprecedented #worldbeating #moonshot Tier4 measures will be strictly managed by police/councils, and adhered to by the public
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Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Regarding estate agents, I am in a tier 4 area, sold my house on Wednesday when we were still tier 2 and currently live in a hotel as I am working locally until NYE
From January I am moving to another part of the country to start a new job so will certainly need an estate agent to find myself somewhere more permanent to live than a hotel
From January I am moving to another part of the country to start a new job so will certainly need an estate agent to find myself somewhere more permanent to live than a hotel
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
I'm not sure about the chance of avoiding this latest episode really, short of changing the entire response from the beginning. I also think lots of the pressure for Xmas relaxation actually came from the media incessantly going on about Xmas since October, but I do think anecdotally plenty of people I have talked to have wanted something like that as well.
I also think a sudden change in restrictions when the news of the new variant was all they could do, and I'm not pissed off with them about that, and I do find the moaning about cancelled plans for Xmas, etc. quite ridiculous and selfish in the face of 80,000 dead in this country, and likely many more before this is over. I personally wish they'd been tighter restrictions all the way through, but I recognize that is not what many people want, and they also come with other disadvantages, and I do know that it is a balance between various competing needs in society.
My thoughts from reading and listening to stuff are that this variant is really worrying them (like in March when the modelling came in and forced a sudden change) and it seems clear that Tier 3 isn't enough to control its spread, hence the growing cases in some areas despite being under that level of restrictions. I think we'll see an inevitable spread across the country in the next 1-2 months, and we'll end up in a national lockdown/Tier 4 sometime in the new year. Fuck knows about schools, it's a hill they have chosen to die on.
I think the nightmare scenarios are either (1) the vaccine/s doesn't protect against the new variant, or (2) it causes more severe illness and outcomes in some way. Or both... (I also have some concerns the vaccine take-up is going to be low, and that the rollout is going to get fucked up and delayed in some ways...).
As an aside it doesn't even to have a higher fatality % rate to actually kill more people. If more people just get ill and overwhelm the NHS then more people will die, and/or if more people just get it than might otherwise have before we have a vaccinated population then also more people will die.
It really is going to be a very grim few months I think.
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Sadly this.
The vaccination effort has been good (compared to everything else) so far. How long it will take and to roll out to the critical mass is hard to judge.
I think a few months more is probably accurate
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
My dad who's a retired biochemist says that if as has been mentioned in some news stories this new strain seems to be hitting younger people harder, then it would mean Covid is following the same pattern as the Spanish Flu pandemic, where at first it was old people who died then about a year later the virus mutated and started killing young adults. Nicola Sturgeon having taken serious measures to try and keep it out of Scotland and extending the school holidays/doing online learning for the start of next term may reflect this.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I'd be inclined to post something in the way of evidence alongside a terrifying claim like that, personally. Too much innuendo and guesswork around as it is.
There's really no reason to expect this virus to behave like 'flu, in fact assuming that it would was a key reason why the initial modelling and the response (or lack of) based on it were so wide of the mark.
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