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The "have a look at this!" thread II

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  • Cakeguts
    Cakeguts Posts: 7,627 Forumite
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    Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »
    But you could easily get £500 a month from each lodger

    Especially if you found all the extra rooms that keep appearing and disappearing.
  • Cakeguts
    Cakeguts Posts: 7,627 Forumite
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    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-59144221.html Another one with no internal photos. However in this case it probably wasn't worth the extra effort. Along the lines of who would pay that to live there?
  • Cakeguts
    Cakeguts Posts: 7,627 Forumite
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    Penitent wrote: »
    Is it a bad place to live? It looks pretty enough on the outside, but for the non-Euclidean greenhouse.

    It is competing with this http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65629469.html which is much nearer to the village centre and isn't positioned on a fairly busy road. Not everyone wants a paddock or a garden that is all uphill. The first one is not on a bus route and is over 1 1/5 miles from the village centre so not exactly convenient either. The nearest neighbours are a council estate and a new housing development so not isolated in open countryside. Just very expensive for where it is.
  • GDB2222
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    Cakeguts wrote: »
    It is competing with this http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65629469.html which is much nearer to the village centre and isn't positioned on a fairly busy road. Not everyone wants a paddock or a garden that is all uphill. The first one is not on a bus route and is over 1 1/5 miles from the village centre so not exactly convenient either. The nearest neighbours are a council estate and a new housing development so not isolated in open countryside. Just very expensive for where it is.

    You can maybe get a studio in London for that money! What a lovely house that is. I'd better move.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    glasgowdan wrote: »
    I didn't even get to the pictures...too busy sniggering at the address
    Ah, but the high-minded among us probably mis-read it. :D

    I did. I was thinking of this place:

    http://www.benenden.kent.sch.uk/

    "School fees for the 2016-17 school year are £11,900 per term....."

    Crikey, that's enough to buy the house!

    Hmmm, thinking's free.....My girls went to the local comp!
  • bouicca21
    bouicca21 Posts: 6,512 Forumite
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    You can maybe get a studio in London for that money!

    In my bit of London that would just about buy a 2 bed flat. I console myself that since there is no picture of a back garden, the house probably lacks an amenity important to civilised living.
  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    bouicca21 wrote: »
    In my bit of London that would just about buy a 2 bed flat. I console myself that since there is no picture of a back garden, the house probably lacks an amenity important to civilised living.

    I expect it does have a back garden. I'm surprised they didnt show it. That's not a bad house and it's certainly one that I would expect to have a back garden - so one would have thought there'd be a small patch of grass and a patio with table/chairs on it with one like it.

    As you say - a garden is important to "civilised living" and one of my first thoughts on viewing a house is "Where am I going to put an outside table/chairs?" - closely followed by "Where am I going to grow things?". A lot of people don't want to grow things - but would like a patch of grass.
  • cazmanian_minx
    cazmanian_minx Posts: 4,048 Forumite
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Ah, but the high-minded among us probably mis-read it. :D

    I did. I was thinking of this place:

    http://www.benenden.kent.sch.uk/

    "School fees for the 2016-17 school year are £11,900 per term....."

    Crikey, that's enough to buy the house!

    Hmmm, thinking's free.....My girls went to the local comp!

    I was working on a job recently that involved Aiglon College in Switzerland and just for a laugh I looked up their fees. For the sixth form it's £81,800 a year and that doesn't include quite a lot of things they class as extras!
  • Rambosmum
    Rambosmum Posts: 2,445 Forumite
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    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47966583.html

    bathrooms!
  • Cakeguts
    Cakeguts Posts: 7,627 Forumite
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    Rambosmum wrote: »
    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47966583.html

    bathrooms!

    Where is the oven?
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