Real Estate nightmares

[Doofus]

dibbers006 said:

If it looks like Camilla's gardener's cottage - Pass

If it looks like Jordan's gardener's cottage - Nightmare

I wish I knew what this meant. Maybe you need a gardening-oriented username ...

[Escort3500]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

Bake to nightmares
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/8205611/

Could be nice after redecorating tho

That interior

Made worse by plastic windows and acres of hardsurfacing.

[jakesmith]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

Ok what makes a nightmare maybe we should re calibrate so we know

A nightmare is a house that:
- has an unredeemable blight like a nuclear power station
- is in such a state of repair that it is uneconomical to buy
- is devoid of taste or quality to the point that it would be difficult to improve
- is in a poor plot such as a pizza slice shaped garden
- has a milder version of the above but is comically optimistically priced
- has an extremely odd feature / bespoke personalisation worthy of note and derision Such as a toilet in an inappropriate place or large collection of dolls or indoor planting
- has a bizarre legal situation such as disputed boundary that is clearly a sign of a mad owner, neighbour or nightmare legal situation for the incoming buyer

Not simply a bland or overpriced house.

[PositronicRay]

jakesmith said:

Trustmeimadoctor said:

Ok what makes a nightmare maybe we should re calibrate so we know

A nightmare is a house that:
- has an unredeemable blight like a nuclear power station
- is in such a state of repair that it is uneconomical to buy
- is devoid of taste or quality to the point that it would be difficult to improve
- is in a poor plot such as a pizza slice shaped garden
- has a milder version of the above but is comically optimistically priced
- has an extremely odd feature / bespoke personalisation worthy of note and derision Such as a toilet in an inappropriate place or large collection of dolls or indoor planting
- has a bizarre legal situation such as disputed boundary that is clearly a sign of a mad owner, neighbour or nightmare legal situation for the incoming buyer

Not simply a bland or overpriced house.

Does office block chic count?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

[RC1807]

PositronicRay said:

Does office block chic count?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

It is pretty ugly for £1.1m!

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Nothing is truly a nightmare anything with enough cash can be your idea of glorious

[Doofus]

RC1807 said:

PositronicRay said:

Does office block chic count?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

It is pretty ugly for £1.1m!

They could have stocked the wine rack for the photos!

[Camoradi]

PositronicRay said:

Okay you got me.

How about this?

Perfectly livable, but at the same time somehow wrong.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

I wouldn't class it in nightmare territory perhaps, but the photographs have achieved the unlikely feat of making a real house look like a series of computer generated images. I'm still not convinced it actually exists

[AJLintern]

Camoradi said:

I wouldn't class it in nightmare territory perhaps, but the photographs have achieved the unlikely feat of making a real house look like a series of computer generated images. I'm still not convinced it actually exists

If you look on Street view it does exist... along with the rest of the housing estate that the photos try hard to avoid showing. Not sure I'd want to be paying that sort of money to have neighbours so close by!

[shalmaneser]

AJLintern said:

Camoradi said:

I wouldn't class it in nightmare territory perhaps, but the photographs have achieved the unlikely feat of making a real house look like a series of computer generated images. I'm still not convinced it actually exists

If you look on Street view it does exist... along with the rest of the housing estate that the photos try hard to avoid showing. Not sure I'd want to be paying that sort of money to have neighbours so close by!

It is snug isn't it? Why haven't they carpeted the bottom two steps of the staircase? Is this A Thing?

[PositronicRay]

AJLintern said:

Camoradi said:

I wouldn't class it in nightmare territory perhaps, but the photographs have achieved the unlikely feat of making a real house look like a series of computer generated images. I'm still not convinced it actually exists

If you look on Street view it does exist... along with the rest of the housing estate that the photos try hard to avoid showing. Not sure I'd want to be paying that sort of money to have neighbours so close by!

To me it's trying too hard to be rustic, but at least you'll be in a nice little enclave of like minded people.

[irocfan]

gobuddygo said:

This thread is really going downhill, crap decor and loads of junk but hardly a nightmare and not even in the crap part of Wakefield

the thing is though that crap decor does come into it. Some people cannot see beyond that and can pass up a perfectly good house - at that point it's a nightmare

[zygalski]

Yep.
Horrendous decor throughout a decent sized house that would require a £20k+ cost to correct counts as a nightmare in most people's books.

[S1KRR]

RC1807 said:

PositronicRay said:

Does office block chic count?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

It is pretty ugly for £1.1m!

Given there's a Senna statuette on the dining room table (it's a rep of one at McLarens factory)



I guess this house is owned by a PHer!

[irocfan]

S1KRR said:

RC1807 said:

PositronicRay said:

Does office block chic count?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

It is pretty ugly for £1.1m!

Given there's a Senna statuette on the dining room table (it's a rep of one at McLarens factory)



I guess this house is owned by a PHer!

The interior is great - however the building is ugly as sin with one room offering a lovely view of a brick wall (#11 I think)

[Flip Martian]

irocfan said:

The interior is great - however the building is ugly as sin with one room offering a lovely view of a brick wall (#11 I think)

I can't understand anyone paying so much for a house with 3 windows looking out onto a brick wall, whatever the rest is like. It's not like that wall is likely to go away, or for those windows to have any practical use.

[rodericb]

Flip Martian said:

irocfan said:

The interior is great - however the building is ugly as sin with one room offering a lovely view of a brick wall (#11 I think)

I can't understand anyone paying so much for a house with 3 windows looking out onto a brick wall, whatever the rest is like. It's not like that wall is likely to go away, or for those windows to have any practical use.

It'd count as a "lightwell" in the real estate floggers business.

[Flip Martian]

rodericb said:

It'd count as a "lightwell" in the real estate floggers business.

How does anyone accumulating that much wealth get taken in by such drivel...

[Rostfritt]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Down the road from us. After looking at the photos take a look at the floorplan, and try to work out what on what on earth is going off

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

Why is the fridge round the corner from the rest of the kitchen? That would do my head in!

Is that a corridor with a cupboard at the end of it and nothing else? Next to a windowless store?

If you needed the bathroom in the night and someone else was using the main one, you would have to walk across the landing, down the stairs, through the dining room, which is much more tight than it looks, through the two disjointed halves of the kitchen, the porch, the store and a weird hallway to reach the downstairs one. I think I would hold on until they were finished.

[CPWilliams]

Has this been posted?

Budding horticulturalists should check out what's growing in the plant pots too...


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...