Would you adam and eve it? I was at Bluewater yesterday and Mrs D’s Audi was low on petrol as usual so I pulled in to Asda at Greenhithe to fill up.

Deep joy, what a great place, basically you can only get petrol here, nothing else, no one queuing up to top up mobiles or electric keys, no one doing the lottery, no women digging up their bags at the front of the queue, no one buying papers or sandwiches.

You just fill up, drive up to the cashier and pay, how good is that, in and out in five  minutes. Asda, open up in Hoddesdon, this is proper old fashioned with a modern update!

Have a look as this load of garbage, this is just a small selection of the touting letters we collect from our properties to let. Obviously dim - witted letting agents scour our website and rightmove ads then use their brain cell to put a letter through the door. What a waste of time, energy and paper. I am pleased you have so much time to waste.

USEFUL TIP FOR DIM-WITS : IT IS POINTLESS PUTTING A TOUTING LETTER IN TO A VACANT PROPERTY - NO-ONE GETS TO SEE IT !

I am writing this piece as one of the leading local advertisers in lettings.

My feelings are that traditional newspaper advertising is old fashioned and no longer cost effective. In the lettings market we receive limited response from newspapers and the quality of enquiries are not as good as those sourced from the internet.

I have long felt that agents would not need the newspapers in the future, with the impact of the current property market that time has come sooner.

At Anthony Davies we firmly believe that having high profile offices and excellent internet media outlets is enough to bring our properties to the market.

So, we will be pulling our local newspaper adverts for lettings in the near future. I would encourage any other local agents to do the same, after all we will make a significant reduction in our advertising budgets and will all be on a level playing field anyway !

These are my thoughts, if you agree or disagree please email me at richard@anthonydavies24.co.uk to let me know what your thoughts are on this matter.

Richard 

What a couple of weeks I have had, busy beyond belief, Bens been working on his junior tan, enzo’s still looking for Brookridge Court and to top it all the Catholic father over the road has just driven straight in to the love machine !

I went to our Hertford shop the other day, have a look what is going on, Herts Highways have decided to dig up and replace the pavement right outside our shop, no notice, no need to replace it anyway, then the divvy workmen cut through a main electric cable and put out half of hertford for three hours. Anyway, County Council, Highways department consider yoursleves blogged for being total eediots and totally disrupting our business !

What is going on ? , the kids have just had half term, the weather is rubbish, I’ve got workmen in the house, enzo’s gone skiing, can’t even cut the grass, my new neighbour is burning half his garden down and its Good Friday already, roll on summer, anyway got to go, going to church.

I am sure Mrs.D thinks I am a grumpy old man at times but this one comes courtesy of my Mate Tim Skelton. We were having a beer before the Spurs game on Saturday and he was moaning about his post and newspapers only being posted half way through the letterbox,  he has even taking to berating the postman and paperboy about it, apparently it leaves a nasty draft, how grumpy is that ?

What has the Modern World come to, on Sunday night I was just settling in for Top Gear and there was a knock at the door, who was it ? A couple of 16 year old hoodies singing ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas ‘. What a load of tosh, I sent them off with their tails between their legs and settled back down to watch Clarkson and the boys. Anyway guess what ? Next day Mrs D found most of our front garden ornaments in the lake. Still, not as bad as Debby Swift from up the school, She only gave them a quid and was told she was a tightwad amongst other things, how bad is that !

Now, running out of petrol was quite common when I was young, mostly due to the cars we used to have not having a working petrol gauge. But, just imagine, you have a shiny new Audi, are driving along by the George and you think the yellow light is a reminder to get to the hairdressers. Well it is not Mrs D !, it is a petrol warning light and being as I rescued you in the rain and was recognised by half of Hoddesdon as a businessman with a can consider yourself blogged !                              

Is it just me or does it take forever to do anything these days, the other day I went to the garage to get some necessaries and I was waiting forever behind people topping up their mobile phones, doing the lottery and generally mincing. These are my three worst places in Hoddesdon where you could lose the will to live trying to pay :-

 1. Q8 Petrol Station, High Street - possibly the laziest and most atrocious service in the World.

2.Tesco ( Non ) Express  You could find Lord Lucan trying to use the self pay till in here.

3.Sainsbury’s petrol station- probably a bit harsh as staff are pleasant but WHY is there EVER only one person serving.

 Rich