Real Estate nightmares (Vol 2)

Real Estate nightmares (Vol 2)

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Indecision

394 posts

81 months

Friday 19th April
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I’d love to hear Equus’ view on that one!

KAgantua

3,878 posts

132 months

Friday 19th April
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Pit Pony said:
pocketspring said:
Matt Cup said:
Have we had this one?

“ Unfinished Urban Masterpiece “

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146964905#/...

The second picture looks like the original Amityville horror house.
In the estate agents bull5hit, it says its detached.

I'm not sure about that. The picture you show seems to prove its a semi.

abzmike

8,394 posts

107 months

Friday 19th April
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A street where self builders are invited to build pretty much what they want? And a case of where it didn't work out well.

hidetheelephants

24,438 posts

194 months

Friday 19th April
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ro250 said:
dxg said:
The aerial image of the road also suggest that the street is an example of what happens when youtube van-lifers do self-builds.
Absolutely. That road looks hideous. Houses crammed up next to each other, cars hanging off the tiny driveways, shanty style houses etc.
Kill it with fire, with luck the fire will spread and take out the adjacent shanties. A crescent of terraced houses would be appropriate, a planning failure.

FourWheelDrift

88,547 posts

285 months

Friday 19th April
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Bristol hippy street, check out the aerial of all the other hemp built houses.

Matt Cup

3,162 posts

105 months

FilH

623 posts

145 months

Friday 19th April
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Matt Cup said:
I'm assuming the architect was a 4 year old, as thats how you draw houses at that age!

Bonefish Blues

26,780 posts

224 months

Friday 19th April
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FilH said:
Matt Cup said:
I'm assuming the architect was a 4 year old, as thats how you draw houses at that age!
It's not exactly flooded with light, is it - look at the two gable ends also.

blue_haddock

3,218 posts

68 months

Friday 19th April
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FilH said:
Matt Cup said:
I'm assuming the architect was a 4 year old, as thats how you draw houses at that age!
architect?

Nah that was done on an etch-a-sketch!

hidetheelephants

24,438 posts

194 months

Friday 19th April
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WyrleyD

1,911 posts

149 months

Friday 19th April
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Bonefish Blues said:
FilH said:
Matt Cup said:
I'm assuming the architect was a 4 year old, as thats how you draw houses at that age!
It's not exactly flooded with light, is it - look at the two gable ends also.
Looks like no car parking space/garage either.

Gigamoons

17,710 posts

201 months

Friday 19th April
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Matt Cup said:
Jeez those levels make my teeth itch.

If you owned it surely you’d just order some lintels one day 1 and get a builder to knock some decent sized symmetrical windows into it.

zalrak

387 posts

86 months

Friday 19th April
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Check out the street views - there are loads of a similar “design”.

ambuletz

10,750 posts

182 months

Friday 19th April
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it looks horrible from the front, but someone from japan would probably love it. there are some interesting property in japan, but many people want tiny or no windows at the front, alot of the new builds will have tiny windows because they value privacy. the whole thing just ends up looking so claustrophobic

CanAm

9,228 posts

273 months

Saturday 20th April
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And not much better from the back

Gigamoons

17,710 posts

201 months

Saturday 20th April
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Bloody hell, it's like an exercise in designing the least aesthetically pleasing house possible.

Admittedly I do tend to buy houses with my head rather than my heart, but even I'd have struggled to sign on the dotted line for that abomination.

Sporky

6,281 posts

65 months

Saturday 20th April
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I can't imagine head loving that any more than heart.

DonkeyApple

55,378 posts

170 months

Saturday 20th April
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FilH said:
Matt Cup said:
I'm assuming the architect was a 4 year old, as thats how you draw houses at that age!
Could be that Barry went on an HTML course in the 90s and just did the one day as being a genius he knew everything after one day and missed the day 2 stuff about cell padding and justifying?

DonkeyApple

55,378 posts

170 months

Saturday 20th April
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FourWheelDrift said:
Bristol hippy street, check out the aerial of all the other hemp built houses.
Social experiment on what happens when you hand a small brownfield plot to an Aldi Trustafarian who has dedicated their adult life to telling as many people as they can that they don't want a 5 bed McManshun while secretly only ever wanting a 5 bed McManshun but knowing they'll never be arsed to get the kind of job that requires hard work and would actually be intellectually beneath them ever since they bought an unused copy of one of the lessor known books by Dostoevsky, that despite having the spine strategically damaged remains unread. All while waiting for mum and dad to hopefully die early in a tragic and freak accident while preparing flowers for the Church and not before they've pissed everything away on bloody cruises and healthcare when they should be clearing the son's mortgage!!

Meanwhile, the wife's inheritance has now all gone due to a grotesque misunderstanding as to the basic costs of life, which gets blamed on fascist regulations and the crippling rise in the cost of humous. And adding to the stress are that pair of total s, Emma and Giles that you met on a basket weaving retreat in the Forest of Dean several years ago and decided to engage in Insta warfare with and have lost every single battle over the last three years as Giles smashed through his modernist eco build on the outskirts of Bath and it's panoramic seasonal views that have left you dreading each season arrival and the pinging of your iPhone 15. And Emma's relentless publishing of cookery weekends in the Doedogne, foraging in the Surrey Hills with some prick off TV and sharing a fondue in the Alps with the current Lady Wristington-Shaftstain who you're sure used to be a stripper when you were at Durham uni. And you're still posting images of insulation board and complaints about its price and you've long since stopped posting photos of the wife because her tits are now round her knees, her arse in on backwards after years of site labouring and that stupid knitted hat just makes her look like Benny from Crossroads. But at least you've got the pictures of Emma on your Insta feed.

And that balding stbag ponce, McCloud has never returned a single call in the last decade as if you're some kind of peasant who didn't attend Clifton in 6th form!!!

minimoog

6,895 posts

220 months

Saturday 20th April
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I've seen more accomplished masterpieces in Kowloon Walled City.