Consensus on renovating or buy somewhere done.

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Hi all I've owned a house for 20 odd years and it has become tired and dated, looking at renovating most of it and building an extension I'd be looking at with fag packet maths 45-55k costs.

Now the house is in a convenient location, lots of pubs and shops nearby and a generally sought after location however what was once a nicely tendered street has become a sea of paved gardens as black cab drivers have bought the properties over the years filling the street and gardens with cabs making it difficult to park which is peeing me off no end.

I've seen they are building some new homes a few miles away that would only cost me 20k more than renovating my house.

I guess I'm trying to talk myself out of an option but what would the collective do?

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13m said:

If the cabbies really annoy you there is probably not much you can do. Sooner or later the black cabs might be replaced by Uber mini cabs I suppose, but broadly the situation isn't going to change.

My heart sank this morning when the house next door but one which has been up for sale for a week had a black cab turn up to view it, I'm fed up of parking in the next street as each driver seems to own 3-4 of the bloody things.

My house is a mid terrace, nothing special 3 bed with one bathroom, the new houses are 3 bed 2 bathrooms plus en-suite and a drive.

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Cheers all, taking in to account what I still owe the cost for both properties is probably the same.

I shall go an d have a look tomorrow at the new build.

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I'm single, I won't have that problem

Just want to go home and shut my door.

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I reneted a new build for a while last year and they are not the same as 80s and 90s new builds, I found them well insulated and cheap to run.

mine probably needs gutting inside and starting again.

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mikees said:

Why not change jobs and take up being a cabbie? Just saying?

I don't speak arabic

Anyhow I looked at the new build today and it's tiny, living room then kitchen you'd literally have no where to go if you were bored, at least I have 3 rooms downstairs to potter around in.

The dilemma continues.

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I used to like it, it is a very narrow street and when I bought the house the road was filled with older married couples who kept their front gardens well tended. As they have been dying off the street has changed, Take Fridays for instance all the taxis park up and we can have 20-30 blokes all standing in the street ruminating with each other. The community feel has gone.