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is this a haunted house, or the credit crunch haunting him

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  • chrisandanne
    chrisandanne Posts: 434 Forumite
    The screams are probably the previous late owners on opening the gas bill !!

    A
    Don't believe everything you think.

    Blessed are the cracked...for they are the ones who let in the light. A x
  • wymondham
    wymondham Posts: 6,356 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Mortgage-free Glee!
    Sounds like he's attention seeking!
  • Pretani
    Pretani Posts: 2,279 Forumite
    What credit crunch?
  • Old_Git
    Old_Git Posts: 4,751 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Cashback Cashier
    why did he just hand the keys back to the bank ,I mean why not TRY to sell .
    "Do not regret growing older, it's a privilege denied to many"
  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,515 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Old_Git wrote: »
    why did he just hand the keys back to the bank ,I mean why not TRY to sell .


    Because he bought at teh height of the boom and thinks he'll get out of his mortgage obligations that way? (No chance!)
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • gordonstights
    gordonstights Posts: 359 Forumite
    Yeah surely if he really thinks it is haunted he could sell it to someone interested in "that sort of thing" :confused:
  • epz_2
    epz_2 Posts: 1,859 Forumite
    Given the bank will need to auction it off i doubt claiming the place you just ran away from is haunted is a good idea.

    I recon given his "I have £25million"claims the bank haven let him set it up a company loan or some other way which means the owner has limited liability
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    They also claim to have seen apparitions and heard knocking on the wall of the 17-bedroom mansion in Nottinghamshire.

    The ghosts didn't want us to be there and we could not fight them because we couldn't see them," he said.

    Eh? can't fight the ghosts you see because you can't see them?

    I think he overpaid, as well, from Wikipedia:

    In 2004 they were up for sale for £500,000.

    And he paid £3.6 million 3 years later!
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I looked at it on birds eye view - it looked like the whole place was gutted, and the houses down the road were refurbished and extras built
    http://www.aboutmyplace.co.uk/showmap?id=573776&type=postcode&search_location=ng11%208nj

    Here are the ones 100 feet from his front door: http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=%22Clifton+Hall%22++ng11&n=100

    I wonder how much money was spent on the refurbs. Seems to be a lot of heavy duty clearing work going on on the birds eye view link.
  • epz_2
    epz_2 Posts: 1,859 Forumite
    he wouldnt happen to be friends with the developer by any chance
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