[James1234]

When I lived Smith Street,Nelson I remember when, (back in 1996) properties when done up same sort of thing a elevate but the area had and still has the same problem of rented accommodation with landlords neglecting their properties and renting to 'undesirables' who wreck the properties and some move out, me mum owned her house and got next to nowt for her property because of the state of the area.

It made the exercise of doing them up a waste of tax payers money, complete waste of time in my opinion.

As aforementioned in an earlier posting, the back streets that I've seen in some area's are a disgrace and although people shouldn't dump rubbish there or anything else they do so, plus more often then not without any punishment and the council don't seem to make any effort to remove these items, or indeed find out who's responsible for such offenses it's really infuriates me no end.

Sometimes I think you're better off unemployed, scrounging off the state, and living in squaller as it's the only way you seem to get anywhere and it's really sad me having to say such things as you'd be only lowering yourself to their standard, but it's true to my mind.

Incidentally other properties have also been done up on the surrounding streets, but the area doesn't look that much better in my opinion, ok the house's, appearance wise look better for having sandblasteding done and been given a lick of paint but thats about all.

What you do really need is to ship out all the bad tenants, the scrotes that contribute towards the problem and strip bad landlords of their properties, that'll make big difference for the better leave decent folk there who'll take good care their property and the area as a whole then things might start looking up, saving a fortune in the future.