Previous posts on this subject are here: https://www.hellemoller.eu/category/neighbours-from-hell/.

The promise that my balcony would not be affected was made in a meeting between administrator and owners about two years ago, and is to this day the biggest lie anyone has ever told me. I think it was in the same meeting that we were promised some kind of compensation. I did not pay much attention since the amount was negligible – actually on hindsight completely pitiful – and I just thought yeah yeah whatever since my balcony “would not be affected”. In any case, there has been no mention of that compensation since then, so that was probably just another lie.

The other day, I had just cleaned the balcony floor and shelves for I don’t know which time, and suddenly it looked like this again:

So I cleaned up again, just in time for them to turn up and place some covering there, so now it looks like this:

I guess this qualifies as progress, unless they leave it like that for another couple of years.

But for now, I am keeping up hope. Having the full use of my balcony back would be far more important to me than receiving the COVID19 vaccine. The vaccine would not make a big change to my current lifestyle anyway. I would still have to adhere to most restrictions, including my own, and masks will be required for many months to come, and besides, with the new mutations spreading from banana republics such as Brazil and India, the current vaccines are not going to be much good for anybody in the longer term.

Being able to use my balcony, not to mention the fact that if they finally finish work on that wall, that part of the scaffolding can be removed, and I will get the daylight back which it is currently stealing and has been for almost two years now. All that would hugely enhance my quality of life.

And by the way, the size of the balcony and the light were among the main reasons I bought this flat.

Schön & Sever, Cresco Capital Group, Victoriahöfe, GBP Architekten