I may have previously ranted about randoms appearing at the door with suspicious looking Council ID, asking to inspect the property for some licence thing we'd never heard of, and which our lettings agency had never heard of either, so agreed we were right to turn them away as a probable scam.
Anyway, after much back and forth, it turns out that they are in fact legit - it's an experimental thing for private lettings in specific wards - and they had been failing to communicate with our agency (seemingly because they were emailing someone who's off sick with a non-functional out-of-office message). Anyway, we'd agreed that they were coming to inspect between 9 and 11 this morning - barakta (who is living in the dining room, because hip surgery) got up and dressed and toileted specifically in order to be ready.
And they haven't turned up. (There's is a slight possibility that they may have turned up and knocked ineffectually rather than using the doorbell as they managed the last two times.) This is annoying, as we've wasted the morning freezing our arses off with windows open in anticipation of COVID-spewing strangers, and we're presumably going to have to go through it again at some point.
