Ideas to add value to this house

Jockey666

IMO if you need to ask you shouldn't touch it.

silvercar

Jockey666 wrote: »

IMO if you need to ask you shouldn't touch it.

Forums would be pretty dead if no-one asked questions.

Are you saying that anyone who asks a question about getting a mortgage shouldn't have a mortgage?

If you read my posts, I haven't asked about price only views on layout. I don't see anything wrong with getting opinions on design and layout.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

For this sort of thing, do you get quotes for all the work before bidding?

BTW, that looks like a really useful set of auctioneers. I like sales where there are only a few lots.

I've got ball part figures from local tradesmen that have done work for me before, not gone to the effort of detailed quotes partly because my price limit is low and I think there are idiots around who will pay too much and partly because the really clever auctioneers:rolleyes: have really limited viewing times.

Not only are there only a few lots for auction, the time clashes with another much bigger auction in London.

cupid_s

So the 5 bedroom house advertised is actually a 4 bed :rolleyes: ? Surely they can't advertise a house as 5 bed if one room will not physically fit a bed in it!

I would remove the shower from little bedroom and make the room as big as possible and have the bathroom small (maybe just a shower room). Then put another bathroom in the box room.

Only because I would be willing to pay more for a 4 (decent sized) bed house with 2 bathrooms than a 3 bed/office with 2 bathrooms or a 4 bed/office with 1 bathroom.

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

The time clashes with another much bigger auction in London.

I'm not really looking at auctions (yet). Which other one is on 30 September?

Strapped

Sorry silvercar, but I think that this is a case of "you can't polish a t*rd" (I really hate those townhouses!).

GDB2222

I have great confidence in Silvercar! I have less confidence that other buyers will avoid bidding this property up to uneconomic levels.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'm not really looking at auctions (yet). Which other one is on 30 September?

http://www.eigroup.co.uk/onlineauctions/

One at the cafe royal and another at bracknell.

Jockey666

silvercar wrote: »

Forums would be pretty dead if no-one asked questions.

I agree but with the current housing market, its not really a time for the inexperienced to start. Unless they have a pot of cash they wish to loose.

Doozergirl

This thread is like beating your head against a wall. If she bought the house for 10p she'd make a hell of a lot of money. But nobody would? There's no common sense on this board any more. The bleating that goes on is as 'sheeple' like as the people being initially talking about when the phrase was coined.

And it's great silvercar, that so many people wouldn't because it means that there will be less people bidding at auction. If you've got money to spend, I think there are some deals to be had right now. Auction prices have fallen off a cliff and they were still, in general the place to pick up something cheap. There also seems be a choice now that wasn't available when everybody was at it. I've got nothing to spend but there are building plots apparantly falling out the sky round here at the moment there are so many when there were once none. Seems people just sat on opportunity instead of using it.

The absolute best thing about ugly houses is that when you sell, they sit at the bottom end of the price range which means you get people looking for value over style. People who want to live in an area but will compromise on looks and vote for space instead. I'd sell them all day to be honest.

If three years, week in week out of contributing on this board doesn't qualify you to take the calculated risk then there's no one here qualified to advise you against it either. As for not asking questions :rolleyes:

So many people wouldn't take the opportunity at all. Never mind now.