{"id":727,"date":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/yorkshire-estate-agent-in-bizarre-activities\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:50:09","slug":"yorkshire-estate-agent-in-bizarre-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/yorkshire-estate-agent-in-bizarre-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Yorkshire Estate Agent In Bizarre Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate Plus (https:\/\/seoultimateplus.com) - Code Inserter module -->\n<script async>(function(s,u,m,o,j,v){j=u.createElement(m);v=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0];j.async=1;j.src=o;j.dataset.sumoSiteId='b68b392479b5981b8acf46565e9fe32a0734fc21a1f7c1e60121eaa6ca1a1c64';v.parentNode.insertBefore(j,v)})(window,document,'script','\/\/load.sumo.com\/');<\/script>\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate Plus -->\n\n<p>WHEN a Yorkshire residential letting agent carried out a routine inspection of one<br \/>\nof its rented properties, it soon became apparent why their tenant was looking rather<br \/>\n\u201csheepish\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Wandering round the sitting room of the home in Wakefield was a lamb \u2013 sporting<br \/>\na pair of giant underpants.<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWhen asked what the animal was doing, the tenant replied straight-faced that she had a big garden to maintain and it was cheaper than buying a lawnmower,\u201d said Nick Simpson, Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linleyandsimpson.co.uk\/index.php?page=index.html\">Linley &amp; Simpson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The episode is just one of a number of strange and funny incidents that staff at the company\u2019s network of eight Yorkshire offices have been asked to deal with over the past<br \/>\n12 months. Other bizarre requests have included:<\/p>\n<p>? A tenant in Horsforth, Leeds, saying it was too dark on the street outside and could Linley &amp; Simpson arrange for the council to put up extra streetlights.<br \/>\n? A\u00a0Leeds city centre client claiming he was allergic to central heating.<br \/>\n? An Ilkley resident asking for urgent help to remove a worm from a cellar.<br \/>\n? A York man who claimed that the carpets in his property triggered panic attacks and a Wetherby tenant complaining about the smell of the person living next door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have completed more than 25,000 lets since launching the business 12 years ago, so nothing should really surprise us any more \u2013 but it does,\u201d said Mr Simpson<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHEN a Yorkshire residential letting agent carried out a routine inspection of one of its rented properties, it soon became apparent why their tenant was looking rather \u201csheepish\u201d. 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