There can’t be one council office department anywhere in the country which doesn’t have a black book of howling genuine complaints received from tenants. Try these on for size�?/SPAN><o:p></o:p>

1 - My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has fungus growing in it.<o:p></o:p>

2 - And he’s got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can’t take it anymore.<o:p></o:p>

3 - It’s the dog’s mess that I find hard to swallow.<o:p></o:p>

4 - I wish to complain that my father hurt his ankle very badly when he put his foot in the hole in his back passage.<o:p></o:p>

5 - …and their 18-year-old son is continually banging his balls against my fence.<o:p></o:p>

6 - I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off.<o:p></o:p>

7 - My lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand?<o:p></o:p>

8 - I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the wall.<o:p></o:p>

9 - 50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster, and the rest are plain filthy.<o:p></o:p>

10 - Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.<o:p></o:p>

11 - Would you send a man to repair my spout. I’m an old age pensioner and need it badly.<o:p></o:p>

12 - Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third so please send someone round to do something about it.<o:p></o:p>

13 - I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do something about the noise made by the man I have on top of me every night.<o:p></o:p>

14 - I have had the clerk of the works down on the floor six times but I still have no satisfaction.<o:p></o:p>

15 - This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broke and we can’t get BBC2.<o:p></o:p>

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