Comments on: Perfectly put

By: cjbuttigieg

cjbuttigieg — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:12:32 +0000

I would like to say that it is highly unfair that (like me) one has a private property which cannot be used (by me) as it has been rented to someone at a ridiculous and miserable amount of Lm18 per annum. I think I spend more than that on bubblegum. Why should an owner suffer and buy another property to reside in if he owns something already. This is entirely unfair..who is the needy one here? I’m sorry, but these are leeches.

By: Leo Said

Leo Said — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:28:56 +0000

@ Andrea

One must first define “Gemütlichkeit” and then consider the circumstances, which may affect it.

By: kev

kev — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:26:21 +0000

@Atoine – “If someone wants to sleep without paying any rent (or hardly any), a large box might be a cosy option actually.”

I see. So this is why you’ve come to need that box cutter.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:00:24 +0000

@Leo Said

Do you seriously want to give up ‘Die deutsche Gemütlichkeit’?

By: Leo Said

Leo Said — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:45:10 +0000

My siblings and I inherited an apartment from our parents. The apartment was rented out in the era of controlled rents at less than Lm100 p.a. (about 40 years ago). As I do not yet own any property in Malta, I had speculated on acquiring this apartment in the hope of relocating back to my roots.

En prison. Rien ne va plus.

By: Mario Debono

Mario Debono — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:20:35 +0000

Gerald, I hear that a cardboard manufacturer is on a four-day week. Maybe if we landlords throw out our ‘pennies’ tenants, this company would up production to keep up with the sudden demand for boxes and it could go back to normal. Now isn’t that just ingenious? It would suit your socialist mindset no end, wouldn’t it? Killing two birds with one stone, a la Mintoff.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:07:22 +0000

Gerald
“Although I have to admit that some rents are ridiculous, are you implying that sleeping in boxes is where we want to end up in Malta?”

If someone wants to sleep without paying any rent (or hardly any), a large box might be a cosy option actually.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:58:17 +0000

Although I have to admit that some rents are ridiculous, are you implying that sleeping in boxes is where we want to end up in Malta?

By: Graham C.

Graham C. — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:23:38 +0000

G.Mangion, it is totally fair, considering fil-bzonn families in the greatest democracy of the world sleep in boxes.

By: Marku

Marku — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:59:22 +0000

Well said Pat.