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Incentives for users to buy my property

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  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite
    brit1234 wrote: »
    I bet every one who bought in the last couple of years is now starting to regretting it.
    I bought 4 properties in the last couple of years and I dont regret it for a moment.
    All were bought as reno projects well below the market value at the time and all are being rented out.
    These have been bought as long term INVESTMENTS.
  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite
    It doesn't sound like you're sorry for your 'friends', it actually sounds like you're gloating. I'm glad you're not one of my mates, that's for sure! :rotfl:
    DD you are right he does not care and is a gloater, if someone had time they could go back through his posts and confirm it.
  • Dithering_Dad
    Dithering_Dad Posts: 4,554 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Interesting gloat about living in a low-rent 'box' 200m from a tube stop. There are lots of low rent boxes near tube stops, but none that I'd like to live in.

    Brrr don't you hate cockroaches and rats. ug!
    Mortgage Free in 3 Years (Apr 2007 / Currently / Δ Difference)
    [strike]● Interest Only Pt: £36,924.12 / £ - - - - 1.00 / Δ £36,923.12[/strike] - Paid off! Yay!! :)
    ● Home Extension: £48,468.07 / £44,435.42 / Δ £4032.65
    ● Repayment Part: £64,331.11 / £59,877.15 / Δ £4453.96
    Total Mortgage Debt: £149,723.30 / £104,313.57 / Δ £45,409.73
  • beingjdc
    beingjdc Posts: 1,680 Forumite
    I certainly hate cockroaches. When my rented flat started getting them, I could have approached the neighbours and downstairs shops about the cause, called the council exterminators, and hassled the landlord. Instead, I killed them for a bit, and moved out. Problem solved.

    Wouldn't have liked to have been stuck owning that place, though! Would have made it very hard to sell, and I probably couldn't have afforded to move without the money renting has saved me.
    Hurrah, now I have more thankings than postings, cheers everyone!
  • brit1234
    brit1234 Posts: 5,385 Forumite
    Interesting gloat about living in a low-rent 'box' 200m from a tube stop. There are lots of low rent boxes near tube stops, but none that I'd like to live in.

    Brrr don't you hate cockroaches and rats. ug!

    Obviously you dropped out of school before they covered reading. Moving from a key worker building to a flat not box which is worth about £450,000 due to the great location. However I'm sure that price will fall.

    Dithering Dad how much have you buy to lets fallen in value just today? :D
    :exclamatiScams - Shared Equity, Shared Ownership, Newbuy, Firstbuy and Help to Buy.

    Save our Savers
  • brit1234
    brit1234 Posts: 5,385 Forumite
    It doesn't sound like you're sorry for your 'friends', it actually sounds like you're gloating. I'm glad you're not one of my mates, that's for sure! :rotfl:

    Actually being a friend I tried to talk them out of it, all of them. Some have took my advice others didn't and I feel sorry for them wishing them the best of luck.

    The only people I gloat at are buy to let investors suffering. Their greed will be their downfall.
    :exclamatiScams - Shared Equity, Shared Ownership, Newbuy, Firstbuy and Help to Buy.

    Save our Savers
  • oldMcDonald
    oldMcDonald Posts: 1,945 Forumite
    Interesting gloat about living in a low-rent 'box' 200m from a tube stop. There are lots of low rent boxes near tube stops, but none that I'd like to live in.

    Brrr don't you hate cockroaches and rats. ug!

    :naughty:

    DDad, you are being a naughty little wind-up merchant again, aren't you?

    Was it a boring day at work today by any chance?
  • Dithering_Dad
    Dithering_Dad Posts: 4,554 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    brit1234 wrote: »
    Obviously you dropped out of school before they covered reading. Moving from a key worker building to a flat not box which is worth about £450,000 due to the great location. However I'm sure that price will fall.

    I can only comment on the posts I read. Yours said: "I have spent the last 5 years in a key worker box room, its been a bit grim ". I do believe I read it correctly as it's quoted here verbatim. There was no mention of 'moving' or do you consider yourself to be another MSE 'celebrity', whose life story we should all know?
    brit1234 wrote: »
    Dithering Dad how much have you buy to lets fallen in value just today? :D

    Not one single penny :D
    Mortgage Free in 3 Years (Apr 2007 / Currently / Δ Difference)
    [strike]● Interest Only Pt: £36,924.12 / £ - - - - 1.00 / Δ £36,923.12[/strike] - Paid off! Yay!! :)
    ● Home Extension: £48,468.07 / £44,435.42 / Δ £4032.65
    ● Repayment Part: £64,331.11 / £59,877.15 / Δ £4453.96
    Total Mortgage Debt: £149,723.30 / £104,313.57 / Δ £45,409.73
  • Dithering_Dad
    Dithering_Dad Posts: 4,554 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    brit1234 wrote: »
    Actually being a friend I tried to talk them out of it, all of them. Some have took my advice others didn't and I feel sorry for them wishing them the best of luck.

    Of course you do. :rolleyes:
    Mortgage Free in 3 Years (Apr 2007 / Currently / Δ Difference)
    [strike]● Interest Only Pt: £36,924.12 / £ - - - - 1.00 / Δ £36,923.12[/strike] - Paid off! Yay!! :)
    ● Home Extension: £48,468.07 / £44,435.42 / Δ £4032.65
    ● Repayment Part: £64,331.11 / £59,877.15 / Δ £4453.96
    Total Mortgage Debt: £149,723.30 / £104,313.57 / Δ £45,409.73
  • Dithering_Dad
    Dithering_Dad Posts: 4,554 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    :naughty:

    DDad, you are being a naughty little wind-up merchant again, aren't you?

    Was it a boring day at work today by any chance?

    I'm still there and yes, it is a tad slow today :)

    Don't weep for brit1234 though, s/he was just gloating about his/her friends who are now (apparently) in negative equity. Some friend huh?
    Mortgage Free in 3 Years (Apr 2007 / Currently / Δ Difference)
    [strike]● Interest Only Pt: £36,924.12 / £ - - - - 1.00 / Δ £36,923.12[/strike] - Paid off! Yay!! :)
    ● Home Extension: £48,468.07 / £44,435.42 / Δ £4032.65
    ● Repayment Part: £64,331.11 / £59,877.15 / Δ £4453.96
    Total Mortgage Debt: £149,723.30 / £104,313.57 / Δ £45,409.73
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