Real Estate nightmares

[S11Steve]

Thankyou4calling said:

Decent flow to the floorplan on this beauty

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

It used to be a guesthouse... and I have a feeling I stayed a night there many years ago when I couldn'y get in a Premier Inn - https://www.expedia.co.uk/Northamptonshire-Hotels-...


It's also had a fair price uplift in the last few years - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[Hoofy]

anonymous said:

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Money aside, I'd rather live in Cobham than Earlsfield, thanks.

[DonkeyApple]

FourWheelDrift said:

Looks like it was a small care home.

My first thought was that it was an EU worker's lodgings.

[FRMATT]

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Maybe it would look better with furniture?

[FourWheelDrift]

FRMATT said:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Maybe it would look better with furniture?

"Rough Close"


They love their wipe clean houses.

[Hoofy]

FRMATT said:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Maybe it would look better with furniture?

It's like they forgot to put a swimming pool in there.

PS What kind of person takes the light fittings??

[easytiger123]

Hoofy said:

It's like they forgot to put a swimming pool in there.

PS What kind of person takes the light fittings??

Apparently the same kind of person who thought "what this soulless box needs to suck every bit of warmth and life out of the place, is tiling on every single floor".

[Graemsay]

Toilet in the kitchen? Useful for when your cooking experiments go badly wrong.



The house is in Fitzroy North, which is a suburb that's just to the north of Melbourne's city centre. Asking is around £480K at current exchange rates.

https://www.domain.com.au/71-rae-street-fitzroy-no...

[Hoofy]

Graemsay said:

Toilet in the kitchen? Useful for when your cooking experiments go badly wrong.



The house is in Fitzroy North, which is a suburb that's just to the north of Melbourne's city centre. Asking is around £480K at current exchange rates.

https://www.domain.com.au/71-rae-street-fitzroy-no...

Seen the other photos? A single bloke in his 60s lives in that, doesn't he? Has probably never touched a woman.

Out of shot, next to the toilet is a bath. Check the floorplan!

[S11Steve]

easytiger123 said:

Hoofy said:

It's like they forgot to put a swimming pool in there.

PS What kind of person takes the light fittings??

Apparently the same kind of person who thought "what this soulless box needs to suck every bit of warmth and life out of the place, is tiling on every single floor".

A friend recently purchased a house and all seemed quite amicable during the transaction. Nothing unusual about the sellers, but a few days before exchange they contacted my mate to ask if he wanted to buy any of the furniture, fixtures and fittings. He declined, as he has his own furniture, but assumed the carpets and light pendants would be left.

They were left, along with the laminate floors, curtains and rails - all in pile in the rear garden...

[Dave_ST220]

Hoofy said:

It's like they forgot to put a swimming pool in there.

PS What kind of person takes the light fittings??

Plenty of people take their expensive light fittings with them. You should replace with a bog standard pendants though & not just leave wires dangling from the ceiling!!

[BigMon]

FRMATT said:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Maybe it would look better with furniture?

I quite like some bits of it, but the conservatory is ghastly and who on earth tiles every room unless it's used for porn shoots or something similar.

[Hoofy]

S11Steve said:

easytiger123 said:

Hoofy said:

It's like they forgot to put a swimming pool in there.

PS What kind of person takes the light fittings??

Apparently the same kind of person who thought "what this soulless box needs to suck every bit of warmth and life out of the place, is tiling on every single floor".

A friend recently purchased a house and all seemed quite amicable during the transaction. Nothing unusual about the sellers, but a few days before exchange they contacted my mate to ask if he wanted to buy any of the furniture, fixtures and fittings. He declined, as he has his own furniture, but assumed the carpets and light pendants would be left.

They were left, along with the laminate floors, curtains and rails - all in pile in the rear garden...

What the...

I guess they thought they were being helpful?

[R8Steve]

S11Steve said:

easytiger123 said:

Hoofy said:

It's like they forgot to put a swimming pool in there.

PS What kind of person takes the light fittings??

Apparently the same kind of person who thought "what this soulless box needs to suck every bit of warmth and life out of the place, is tiling on every single floor".

A friend recently purchased a house and all seemed quite amicable during the transaction. Nothing unusual about the sellers, but a few days before exchange they contacted my mate to ask if he wanted to buy any of the furniture, fixtures and fittings. He declined, as he has his own furniture, but assumed the carpets and light pendants would be left.

They were left, along with the laminate floors, curtains and rails - all in pile in the rear garden...

When we moved into our recently bought house the seller had taken the doorbell and the house numbers. Still have no idea why as unless his new house was the same street number (it wasn't) what possible use would they be to him.

[Hoofy]

R8Steve said:

S11Steve said:

easytiger123 said:

Hoofy said:

It's like they forgot to put a swimming pool in there.

PS What kind of person takes the light fittings??

Apparently the same kind of person who thought "what this soulless box needs to suck every bit of warmth and life out of the place, is tiling on every single floor".

A friend recently purchased a house and all seemed quite amicable during the transaction. Nothing unusual about the sellers, but a few days before exchange they contacted my mate to ask if he wanted to buy any of the furniture, fixtures and fittings. He declined, as he has his own furniture, but assumed the carpets and light pendants would be left.

They were left, along with the laminate floors, curtains and rails - all in pile in the rear garden...

When we moved into our recently bought house the seller had taken the doorbell and the house numbers. Still have no idea why as unless his new house was the same street number (it wasn't) what possible use would they be to him.

Bizarre. Was it a fancy doorbell with a connection to a smartphone or something?

[FourWheelDrift]

Graemsay said:

Toilet in the kitchen? Useful for when your cooking experiments go badly wrong.



The house is in Fitzroy North, which is a suburb that's just to the north of Melbourne's city centre. Asking is around £480K at current exchange rates.

https://www.domain.com.au/71-rae-street-fitzroy-no...

Estate agent "Um....what can we do here. I know I'll put a towel on it, no one will ever notice"

[FourWheelDrift]

Ps. It's strikes me as being very arty and bohemian. Are there any bearded old men artists in the area that mothers tell their children to avoid?

Is it Rolf Harris' holiday home?

[Sheepshanks]

FRMATT said:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Maybe it would look better with furniture?

Some bizarre "features". Wonder what the story is - the garden (massive at the back) looks run-down yet looks OK on Google Earth.

I see it sold for £455K in 2005 (now on for £495K) although maybe it was bought by double glazing and tiling firm owner so those bits could be newer - maybe it'd be worth more unmolested!

[Oakey]

BigMon said:

FRMATT said:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Maybe it would look better with furniture?

I quite like some bits of it, but the conservatory is ghastly and who on earth tiles every room unless it's used for porn shoots or something similar.

I supposed you could always grow weed in that conservatory? It's certainly big enough to be your own private botanical garden.

[R8Steve]

Hoofy said:

Bizarre. Was it a fancy doorbell with a connection to a smartphone or something?

No, just a remote doorbell, even stranger was they left the sounder part of it rendering what both he had and what we were left with useless.

There was other random things taken and at the same time random things left. Some but not all lightbulbs, the key for the letter box, refusal to give me the alarm code for security reasons!? . All very strange.

An interesting conversation was had when he came to collect a parcel that had went to his old address in error.