Triumph Rocket III

I found this tonight and just had to share it with you. It was this very same process that produced BlueDoor all those years ago!! The embryonic BlueDoor was also kept in a cupboard next to the photocopier and no-one ever believed it would one day be a fully grown BlueDoor with its very own knobs

Happy tenant

Dear Greg

Thank you for organising the washing machine, which is working fine - and probably makes my neighbours happier as it is so much quieter! I hadn't realised how noisy the other one had become.

Unbelievably, I am approaching the end of my second year here. I would very much like to stay - is that going to be possible?

Of course it is, and we won't charge you for renewing

Hello Summer!

We have a little box for a message on our statements and most batches go out with a little something to cheer you up. Last week we sent out a bundle of statements all with the jolly message 'Summer is here at last. Enjoy the sunshine!'

Oops. Did you hear the thunder this afternoon? Or see the cats and dogs raining down?

Bluedoor has absolutely no weather forecasting skills whatsoever and we apologise for raising anyone's hopes!

What is new with you? We are all ok meeting new people and trying to spread the Blueness.

Still here

Crikey! You miss a call or two, people forget about the joy of emailing instead of calling and all of a sudden folks are wondering if we are still in business!

We are alive and kicking and very, very busy. You may have seen that our listings on rightmove and bluedoorlettings.com are numerous and splendiferous at the moment and this has led to lots and lots of viewings on lots of lovely properties. When I have been on the phone I've had a few tricky conversations with landlords this week about hitting the 'sweet spot' regarding rents. Thankfully (for them) those landlords seem to have come round to my way of thinking.

Humourous advert + ouchy rent = a good laugh but no interest.

Humorous advert + sweet rent = instant response from interested parties, very often within hours.

Would you believe that we had 61,715 summary views on rightmove in the last 28 days? The blog data is very much smaller and I am so ashamed that I am not going to post how may (few) hits we've had this month at all.

We have also been struggling with taking Bluedoor's back office into the world of terminal servers and remote desktops necessitating new printers and some rethinking. This is mainly all good but as a result of all this hocus pocus our statements will be printed in black and white from here on in which is a bit of a sad moment for us as blue is our thing. Perhaps blue paper is the way forward?

There aren't enough hours in the day to run the business and think about paper colour....