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News on the Block is a trading name of Premier Property Media Ltd.
So, there I was on holiday lying on the beach minding my own business, when all of a sudden I found an old tin lamp lying in the sand. While trying to clean it up I thought a sand storm had erupted.
Out of the dust and smoke a big blue figure stood in front of me. My first thought was l shouldn’t have had that third bottle of ouzo! But then it spoke.
“I am the genie of the lamp and l can grant you any wish you like”.
As a winner of the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys ‘Prize for Public Spirit’, I immediately asked if the genie could summon all his powers and solve the crisis of the Middle East; bringing peace to the Israel conflict, getting Islam and the West to live in perfect harmony, getting all to see the others’ side and not be entrenched in conflict.
The genie, whose face was one of puzzlement and pain, looked horrified and said when he had intimated ‘any wish’ he wasn't thinking quite that big!
So, being a reasonable sort of chap, I turned my mind to one of the properties we manage. Rethinking the scale of the wish, I just asked him to resolve a burst pipe and the resultant damage to the owner’s satisfaction, sort out a dispute on parking spaces sold twice, resolve kids causing nuisance when the police don’t want to know, stop residents leaving doors open or letting strangers in, agree service charge budgets, and repaint the block at no cost plus …
The genie leapt in “Wow, what the heck! Let me hear about the Middle East again!”
Anyway, I guess even a genie doesn’t like a property manager’s life! Holiday’s over and back to reality.