Morning, guys.

We're at Bright and Early.

I'm not in work today.

None of the shops are open.

Loretta might be able to open up one until five in Pontypool, but I need to get back to you with that.

So, don't leave any donations outside shops.

Blackwood is open.

It's all free, so take what you want.

It'll be wrapped up today, so that'll be it today.

It's only because we were all exhausted with the heat yesterday.

We couldn't just pack in our cars and what have you.

We packed two and we were like, oh, give it up now.

Oh, that's lovely.

Oh, I finally come that way.

Look, I wouldn't have seen that lovely Ford.

Right.

So, yes, I've got two shops to view this week.

Landlords, you need to wake up big time, right?

Because I'm viewing a shop which I don't think is going to be in the right place, but I'm going to have a look at it anyway because it's a shop, a small shop, Blackwood High Street and a three-bedroom flat with a garden, 850 pounds a month.

Bargain.

I might just snap it up just for storage.

850.

And then you've got that idiot at the marketplace complaining about us, you know, and changing the lock because the lock was broken and taking the lock out because it's our lock and the rest of it threatening me with the demise of his family, you know,

if we leave him and all the rest of it.

And I'm thinking, why am I paying a thousand pounds a month when I could be paying 850 pounds a month for the same square footage on the high street and the back garden?

You know, you know, back garden, I could put storage in as well.

See, I could, you know, I can negotiate that and then put metal sheds in the back and have storage out there with crates.

That's what I'm thinking.

I'm also viewing another shop which is fairly big in a prominent place.

It's been there for over 10 years, the business app.

The 650 in Newport.

I'm like, forget the Blackwater High Street because we need to get down Newport as well.

We've got a lot of followers in Newport, a lot of members in Newport that rely on us.

And I'm like 650 in a prominent place.

And I mean, these are starting rents, you know, and the business that was there before has been established for over 10 years within the Asian community.

And I think it'd be ideal location for us.

Absolutely ideal.

I do.

I'm really, I'm quite sort of, let's get that one this week.

I am quite, that one in Newport is really, really appealing to me.

The one in Blackwater not so much because it isn't where I want it.

And, you know, we've learnt its location within the location and I don't want to make the wrong decision.

But I want to see what the storage is like out the back.

I want to see how many blooming shipping containers or blooming sheds I can get in the back of there for storage.

Because 850 a month for a three bedroom flat and a shop and storage out the back.

It's a no brainer that one.

But like I said, I don't know if the shop would be any good in the position where it is.

Hence that's why it's up.

But I think landlords, you need to wake up now.

These two landlords that I'm seeing next week have woken up.

We've had other landlords wake up.

If you're advertising your shop with brinstones, you need to speak with them.

Because I've dropped in my offers to lots of shops with brinstones and I don't think they're giving you the offers.

I don't think they're contacting the landlords with the offers, unfortunately.

Which is supposed to do by law.

But if you've got a shop with brinstones, I think you need to have a chat with them.

Because you're never going to get it filled at the street.

Never.

And I wouldn't go through an agency again now anyway.

Because regardless of going through the agency, I've had to leave Blackwood Shop because they can't do nothing with the harassment that we're getting from the current landlord up there.

And it's easier for me to go.

It's easier for me to go from there and find another shop.

There's always a plan to move onto the high streets anyway.

We're always going to move a shop if we get a better offer.

It's as simple as that.

We've got a better offer.

Caerphilly.

You know, Caerphilly shop.

Lovely.

No work need doing to it.

Room for a pony.

Private parking.

Again, no brainer.

