Now guys, see if they've... I swear that one's going up.

I thought it was 1,700.

It's not even window protection right next to the Westgate.

Twice for that.

That's been up since we moved in.

That's been up.

And all they got then, one's embargoed.

That's too much.

I think Brinstones, you really need to lower your prices now because you ain't gonna get people in there, Mum.

You're just not gonna get people in there.

I mean this is us strut, I think.

These shops, they'll be left to rack and ruin.

Like, have you seen this one?

Like 1,250 a month, right?

Now bearing in mind, that's what I rent my Blackwood shop as, right?

Now, Blackwood, they're looking to put it up, mind.

Right?

They're looking to split it into three and put it up.

Right, look at the state of this shop for 1,250.

Look at the ceiling.

That's asbestos.

If that's broke, you won't be able to trade.

This is what happened to us, you see.

And if the landlord won't fix it, you can't trade.

And they can shut you down like that with asbestos.

This is what happened to us in Albert Bargard and this is what happened to us in... there was damage to a ceiling and they'd lied and told the council or they'd lied on their record and they hadn't fixed it.

And we actually went out case with that one.

I didn't even bother with the one in Riska.

To be honest, I was just happy to be able to form that one.

And look, we've got the donation centre now.

Looks a million times better, doesn't it?

But we actually went out case with that one and we ended up with like three and a half thousand that we didn't have to pay.

They'll come back to us, like, because of the asbestos, because they hid it on the report.

So yeah, I mean, we've got no chance with that.

And look, 1004 in Caerphilly, you ain't going to get it.

You've got food businesses can't afford to be there.

Takeaways can't afford to be in there.

This is tiny.

Food business can't afford it.

This one had been up for ages because this is the one I've been looking at for a long time.

Right.

It's been up for ages.

Sealing tiles missing.

The thing is, you'll fail your fire on that, right, because you've got to have the sealing tiles in there because they're low burn.

So you have to have them in there.

To be honest, like I wouldn't pay any more than 500 for that shop.

I could stay at the front of it.

Tredegar, I think it's a bit dear for Tredegar.

I think you'd get them filled.

I wouldn't even touch Cumbrian because they've got so many problems with the people who run it, the management agency.

They've got so many problems with that and their prices are ridiculous.

And when that guy set fire to his bag over here, when that guy went over there and smashed all those windows, they didn't do a thing.

They just let him do it.

And they were still liable to pay for the windows.

Or they had to come out with their insurance.

So I wouldn't touch anything over there.

Where's this one?

Pontyprede.

If Super Drug Carnethorne, 2,000 an hour a month, who do you think is going to afford it, you fools?

I think they've got a cup over there.

Where's this one?

Evervale.

No, look at it inside 1,000 pound a month.

Look at the state of it.

You won't get it, guys.

You might get it.

I'm not saying you won't get it.

You might get somebody come along and take it.

But what I'm saying to you is they're not going to be sustainable.

Within a year, they're going to be gone.

Within two years, they're going to be gone.

So what is the point?

Put up a sustainable rent.

Keep your rents low and get somebody in there.

And the thing is, if the rent is low enough, they start doing up the property for you because they're like, oh, I'll just fix it.

I won't bring in the landlord for that.

That's what we do.

We're like, what's the point?

We've got a bulb out.

What's the point in bringing in the landlord?

Dan will come over and deal with it.

You know, never ring the landlord for something like that.

Well, I think I looked at this one before, Berthes, but it's dead in that area.

It's dead.

You know, so for you that I think you should think about it because you're always raising money in Berthes.

I think it'd be nice if you had a shop because you could just shut the door on it then.

It is nice to just go home and forget about it.

I wouldn't touch Cumbrian now.

Oh, that's Mertha, sorry.

I wouldn't touch Cumbrian at the moment because of the management people are going and we've heard so many bad things.

So I won't go in there at all.

That's too far down in Bargard, I think.

It's not too bad because you've got the...is it Iceland there or something?

But you need to be down where Savers is because that's where everybody comes around.

They all go to Savers, you see.

So instead of going to Morrison's to pick up their toiletries, they will make an effort to go to Savers and it's right next to the bus stop as well.

That's been empty and the one next door to it since we've been there.

I think to be honest, we were duped into having our shop up there and we were told a lot of stuff just to get us in there.

And I never take it on verbal again like that, right?

Ever.

I never take it verbal.

We were lulled into like, oh, you can have this, that and the other and you can do this.

And I would never do that again.

But it was nice when we first started because we were safe, because we were locked in and we had backup.

But now we're OK.

We could, you know, any problems now, deal with it myself.

Just go down on the ice street and deal with it myself.

Like, but I think that's come down because it was six hundred and odd.

But you ain't going to get anybody in there for that because it's not five hundred and forty two.

It's five hundred and forty two.

Then they add the VAT on.

Right.

Then you've got to pay the market charges.

Then you've got to pay the... what's the other charge?

There's another charge up there, right?

So, you know, you pay in then for the security guard to rig health and safety like he did with us because we were leaving the shop, you know, and not to clean up the pigeon pool, but not to deal with that, you know, and then to try and make out that the toilet was all our responsibility,

which it wasn't because the toilet, they'll say to you, you've got your own toilet, but it isn't.

Right.

The toilet is actually for all of those shops down there.

And we've put things like hand soap in there at our expense, the and then things like toilet roll in there.

And we come back and they've gone or we've come back and they've let somebody on that row have left the toilet in a stinking mess.

And they're like, no, you've got to clean it up.

But no, I'm paying you to manage it because that toilet isn't part of your rent of your shop.

But they, they tried to get us to do it.

And I was like, I'm not doing it.

So we don't leave our toilet roll and soap out there no more.

We've got to bring it in and take it out there every time we go out there.

Like if a mum or somebody uses the toilet, we go out there and we check it after and we make sure it's clean.

But they won't.

And then there was a load of mould growing in there because it was damp.

And there was a big fuss because you had to go and clean it all.

It's like, well, yeah, that's what we're paying you for.

We're not paying you to sit in the office and watch the security and don't do nothing about it when it does happen.

Right?

Because we've had kids that they were like vodka, drinking vodka and stuff and then throwing bottles everywhere.

And we're like, if that goes and goes into one of our windows, that's a massive window that we would have to claim off our insurance or we'd have to wait for you to do it.

But in the meantime, it's going to be boarded up.

So, you know, I, I, like I said, you pick where you want to go, what's right for you.

But there's a lot of hidden things when you go up the marketplace.

And like we had to issue a cease and desist to Peacock staff because of their attitude in me.

Then the ever charge shop come across and I'd go with me the one day about something.

And I was like, what are you having to go with me for?

You know?

And then everybody else we haven't had problems with anybody else there.

Everybody else has been lovely.

But like the talking shop was there in, out, in, out, which I understand a lot of it goes on their funding, but one minute they're there, one minute they're not, one minute they're there.

And it's like, and that, that building, they want something like a two and a half thousand a month for, cause they even tried renting out their basement for like activities and they couldn't do it up there.

It's, it's flat up there, unfortunately, but it isn't, when you look at it and you go, well, 125 a week is good.

It's not, it's not.

And they tried to pile loads of other stuff on me when I was up there and I was like, nope, nope, nope.

I'm still having, I think this way, like turn up for the aid ambulances bills because they haven't paid their electric.

So, you know, there's, there's outstanding and they're still turning up and I keep saying to them, you can see us in all the aid ambulance.

Why are you still here?

Like, you know, and we asked them when we moved in there to change the market signage, take the aid ambulance off and they still haven't done that.

And when I stuck my own on there, they were like, no, you can't do that.

I can't have nothing outside your shop.

Can't do this, can't do that.

Can't, can't this, this, this and that.

And it's like, just get over it.

Like, you know.

