Show us your real estate pawn (vol 3)
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Rich_W said:
Did it look like it does now back then?
Or was it nice?
It's the worlds most s
t bathroom that always makes me laugh! 
I’m pretty sure that I own the world’s most sOr was it nice?
It's the worlds most s
t bathroom that always makes me laugh! t bathroom. Landlocked. Window looks out over upstairs living room. Free standing bath in middle of room means you have to shuffle as if on a ledge to get to anything. Pan and bidet in different corners. Some tube lighting as if an 80s Morrison’s and floor tiling by Michael J Fox under the supervision of Stevie Wonder.
rodericb said:
Looking at the price history they've been fishing for that price for eight years. Then they've actually had to sell and 'met the market'!
Which should give you a bit of courage to lob in a cheeky offer on this one: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/... !!
That is probably quite near Trump's house. Great neighbour. Big neighbour. The Bigliest!!Which should give you a bit of courage to lob in a cheeky offer on this one: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/... !!
Edited by rodericb on Sunday 24th June 11:11
DonkeyApple said:
Rich_W said:
Did it look like it does now back then?
Or was it nice?
It's the worlds most st bathroom that always makes me laugh!
I’m pretty sure that I own the world’s most sOr was it nice?
It's the worlds most s
t bathroom that always makes me laugh! t bathroom. Landlocked. Window looks out over upstairs living room. Free standing bath in middle of room means you have to shuffle as if on a ledge to get to anything. Pan and bidet in different corners. Some tube lighting as if an 80s Morrison’s and floor tiling by Michael J Fox under the supervision of Stevie Wonder.
DonkeyApple said:
I’m pretty sure that I own the world’s most st bathroom.
Landlocked. Window looks out over upstairs living room. Free standing bath in middle of room means you have to shuffle as if on a ledge to get to anything. Pan and bidet in different corners. Some tube lighting as if an 80s Morrison’s and floor tiling by Michael J Fox under the supervision of Stevie Wonder.
Pics required...t bathroom. Landlocked. Window looks out over upstairs living room. Free standing bath in middle of room means you have to shuffle as if on a ledge to get to anything. Pan and bidet in different corners. Some tube lighting as if an 80s Morrison’s and floor tiling by Michael J Fox under the supervision of Stevie Wonder.
I don't ask for much:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...
Close to where we are now, but in a village, not on a ste estate. Shame this is way out of our reach price wise.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...
Close to where we are now, but in a village, not on a s
te estate. Shame this is way out of our reach price wise.
I hadn’t noticed that. I refuse to use the room and have commandeered the top floor bathroom (which in itself is bloody awful but I can at least walk in without being Houdini even if the corner bath has been fitted the wrong way round!!) and instructed the children that as they are midgets then can use this abomination.
Hopefully, a design can be settled upon for the conversion of one of the master bedrooms into the family bathroom can be settled upon this decade.
And then there is the kitchen which is utterly unusable.
Tiny sink, no work surface,l and what is there is total junk. All very strange. Again, a room pending Home Office final approval.
Hopefully, a design can be settled upon for the conversion of one of the master bedrooms into the family bathroom can be settled upon this decade.
And then there is the kitchen which is utterly unusable.
Tiny sink, no work surface,l and what is there is total junk. All very strange. Again, a room pending Home Office final approval.
DonkeyApple said:
I hadn’t noticed that. I refuse to use the room and have commandeered the top floor bathroom (which in itself is bloody awful but I can at least walk in without being Houdini even if the corner bath has been fitted the wrong way round!!) and instructed the children that as they are midgets then can use this abomination.
Hopefully, a design can be settled upon for the conversion of one of the master bedrooms into the family bathroom can be settled upon this decade.
And then there is the kitchen which is utterly unusable.
Tiny sink, no work surface,l and what is there is total junk. All very strange. Again, a room pending Home Office final approval.
Given the contempt for your home, I'm guessing you didn't have much input and left it to the the wife to choose the house in the first place?Hopefully, a design can be settled upon for the conversion of one of the master bedrooms into the family bathroom can be settled upon this decade.
And then there is the kitchen which is utterly unusable.
Tiny sink, no work surface,l and what is there is total junk. All very strange. Again, a room pending Home Office final approval.
At least it looks like you have good scope to transform the place in to something rather nice.
Edited by MWM3 on Monday 25th June 18:12
MWM3 said:
Given the contempt for your home, I'm guessing you didn't have much input and left it to the the wife to choose the house in the first place?
At least it looks like you have good scope to transform the place in to something rather nice.
Equal input. I liked the fact that the bathrooms and kitchen were awful as I can’t stand ripping out perfectly good stuff even if it’s not to your taste so they were a plus point to me. What I wasn’t expecting was for the wife to not have chosen the replacements yet. Still, I’ve pressed on with the garage, workshop and garden. At least it looks like you have good scope to transform the place in to something rather nice.
Edited by MWM3 on Monday 25th June 18:12
Another one that's fairly local:-
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...
I suppose you could just move in, but really you're looking at six-figure sums to sort it out properly. Wonderful spot, though.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...
I suppose you could just move in, but really you're looking at six-figure sums to sort it out properly. Wonderful spot, though.
louiebaby said:
That's lovely, but I couldn't like in a house called Champerty I wonder what the story behind the name is.DonkeyApple said:
Equal input. I liked the fact that the bathrooms and kitchen were awful as I can’t stand ripping out perfectly good stuff even if it’s not to your taste so they were a plus point to me. What I wasn’t expecting was for the wife to not have chosen the replacements yet. Still, I’ve pressed on with the garage, workshop and garden.
friends of mine have just fitted a 50k dream kitchen to their house, which they intended to sell soon. Kitchen that was in there was perfectly fine for resale, perhaps just a bit of minor work needed to address some very minor issues. I just don't get it. How on earth do they think they will recoup this spend....? the house size and position just does not justify such a very high end kitchen, and its not going to appeal to all tastes anyway..,..
they could have spent a grand and it would have been the same to a new buyer.
joestifff said:
I don't ask for much:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...
Close to where we are now, but in a village, not on a ste estate. Shame this is way out of our reach price wise.
I grew up in Kirklington (next village) and delivered papers to that house on my bike every morning. Nice spot.https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...
Close to where we are now, but in a village, not on a s
te estate. Shame this is way out of our reach price wise.TTmonkey said:
DonkeyApple said:
Equal input. I liked the fact that the bathrooms and kitchen were awful as I can’t stand ripping out perfectly good stuff even if it’s not to your taste so they were a plus point to me. What I wasn’t expecting was for the wife to not have chosen the replacements yet. Still, I’ve pressed on with the garage, workshop and garden.
friends of mine have just fitted a 50k dream kitchen to their house, which they intended to sell soon. Kitchen that was in there was perfectly fine for resale, perhaps just a bit of minor work needed to address some very minor issues. I just don't get it. How on earth do they think they will recoup this spend....? the house size and position just does not justify such a very high end kitchen, and its not going to appeal to all tastes anyway..,..
they could have spent a grand and it would have been the same to a new buyer.
I sold the flat last year and learned that while the new owner really liked the kitchen, liked the layout, liked the colour, liked everything she really wanted a Poggenpohl kitchen so the chap that fitted ours came along, ripped it out and fitted a Poggenpohl as requested for another £40k.
Our old neighbour is convinced that it’s the same kitchen as nothing looks different apparently.
Out here we could have a really nice bespoke kitchen fitted, there are good firms locally but our plan is to be here about 10/15 years before downsizing and frankly I’d hate to sell knowing that a bespoke kitchen was just going to be binned. My current thinking is to fit Howdens units and then spend on the stone tops.
A friend of my wife’s oversaw the installation of the kitchens into 1 Hyde Park. £250k a pop appararently and every single one got ripped out and skipped by the buyers. The chaps doing the work all have some of the most expensive kitchens on the planet in their nice little South London homes.
I just struggle with this kind of waste and feel too many people are drunk on cheap debt and simply not thinking straight.
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