My BIL had an old house rewired 15 years ago, still hasn't received an invoice.  Quoted price was about $10k.

Employing a builder a few years ago, despite being very good at doing the job he was hopeless at all paperwork, dealing with consent inspections, design variations / talking to engineers, code compliance certificate applications, dealing with quantity estimates for material orders - basically threw the lot back at me, which was fine, as I'd have been paying him an hourly rate for stuff I could actually do myself, and he was quite happy to sign off (as LBP) documents that I'd completed.

If there's a reason for this apparent madness, it's possibly that plenty of people with good skills and easily smart enough to do the work probably came out of the school system with poor literacy skills. 

neb: I do agree that they're laying it a bit thick.

There will be good reasons underlaying the situation. Someone is pulling the wool over their eyes, but it is nylon impossible to see who. Perhaps we will have to parquet the issue for a while.

even the smallest piece of dust is so damn visible on walnut color laminate flooring... vacuuming everyday. 

kobiak:

even the smallest piece of dust is so damn visible on walnut color laminate flooring... vacuuming everyday. 

Handsomedan:

 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/renting/124820264/auckland-rental-home-so-cold-tenant-and-daughter-had-to-share-a-bed-for-warmth

 

This annoys me on a couple of levels: 

 

 

1. The tenants had to huddle together to keep warm because there was no real insulation (our house  - built in the early 90's - was the same when we bought it)
2. "There was no heating"...I'm sorry, but that should be on them - they should be responsible for obtaining and using heating - nobody else

 

I think you're reading only what you want to read. They lost the bathrooms for two months due to an unrepaired leak, the door didn't lock, the rooms were draughty, the bond wasn't lodged, and the place wasn't insulated. I don't consider "use a fan heater" a viable alternative to providing basic insulation in a house, have you seen how much power those things suck down? Over a year they'd burn enough to contribute quite handsomely to insulating the place.

And have you looked at the article? By the looks of that photo, the fence has collapsed too - sure the landlord gave a toss about that.

(I guess what I mean is something small that annoys me is landlords).

kobiak:

 

even the smallest piece of dust is so damn visible on walnut color laminate flooring... vacuuming everyday. 

 

Get staff.

Kyanar:

 

 

 

(I guess what I mean is something small that annoys me is are some landlords).

 

FTFY

Note: I am not a landlord.

Dingbatt:

 

FTFY

 

Note: I am not a landlord.

 

Yeah, I see your point. Very hard not to see them all in a bad light when their public representatives at the Property Investors Federation or Real Estate Institute or what have you are such despicable people - whenever they open their mouths it's to put the boot in.

allan:

Large companies who only provide a web form for you to contact them in writing - require an email address as part of the form completion, but do not email you back your web form submission. This is not hard to do! But does make it very easy to deny that you ever sent them anything in the first place.

MadEngineer: https://asawicki.info/news_1730_how_to_disable_notification_sound_in_messenger_for_android

Classic Android.

Phones screeching every five minutes would be something small that annoys me!

I have silenced everything on my phone except for phone calls and important diary items. 

That VW NZ require my name, email and phone number before they will let me download the brochure on one of their vehicles. Forget it.

eracode:

 

That VW NZ require my name, email and phone number before they will let me download the brochure on one of their vehicles. Forget it.

 

I went to the website of one of their dealers, Tristram VW on the North Shore, and downloaded the brochure no problem. It's not a vehicle I have any intention of buying, their new kombi-style van-based camper van, called California - I just wanted to have a look out of curiosity.

VW NZ need to learn some stuff about marketing.