I have found a run down empty house BUT.....

Dan29

dunc wrote:

Hi i've been doing a bit of research into this (still in early stages) having seen a tv programme series recently.

How to Rescue a House - the website may have some useful info for you.

rozeepozee

Ian_W wrote:

or more likely:

stick a for sale sign up in the garden.
wait 2 months and replace it with a sold one.
move in
do it up
try to sell it
buyers solicitor says
owner turns up and says, "thanks very much, Mr Gypsy, for doing up the place, been waiting for someone to, Now F@rk Owf.
:mad: :wall: _pale_ :doh:

NICE use of smileys, Ian. Very creative :T

BobProperty

MyUserNamesTaken wrote:

I know someone who has actually done it. He moved into an abandoned house in Plaistow, East London. Managed to claim adverse possession after living in it for 12 years uninterrupted. He's flogging it now for £180K.

Can I just come back on this one. Many years ago I actually spoke to a writer who claimed his was the original book on how to do this. He claimed several other people were copying his idea and "passing it off". He had NEVER managed to do it himself, although, again, he claims he did nearly pull it off once. Most of these books (as that's how long ago it was) involved fencing off patches of unregistered land and putting up notices with the intention of fully claiming it later. I will readily admit there are cases where squatters have eventually taken over properties and more commonly, people have made successful claims over land adjacent to their own which they have used over the years. But I do not know of any case where someone has identified an unregistered piece of land, fenced it and claimed ownership 12 years later.

nmiah786

scheming_gypsy wrote:

then you bury him in the garden

Then his ghost haunts you for the rest of your life :eek:

scheming_gypsy

i don't believe in ghosts so i'm laughing

Murtle

no the ghost haunts whoever buys the house :rotfl:

nmiah786

scheming_gypsy wrote:

i don't believe in ghosts so i'm laughing

LOOKS AT scheming_gypsy's avatar and wonders why??? :rolleyes:

MyUserNamesTaken

BobProperty wrote:

Can I just come back on this one. Many years ago I actually spoke to a writer who claimed his was the original book on how to do this. He claimed several other people were copying his idea and "passing it off". He had NEVER managed to do it himself, although, again, he claims he did nearly pull it off once. Most of these books (as that's how long ago it was) involved fencing off patches of unregistered land and putting up notices with the intention of fully claiming it later. I will readily admit there are cases where squatters have eventually taken over properties and more commonly, people have made successful claims over land adjacent to their own which they have used over the years. But I do not know of any case where someone has identified an unregistered piece of land, fenced it and claimed ownership 12 years later.

I think you probably meant to quote the person talking about land, rather than my post. The house in question in my post is real. I've been there. He took adverse possession of it in 1987 or so.

rozeepozee

Well, the guy who my cousin bought the land off definately took adverse possession of it. It was directly adjacent to his terraced house and used to have 6 terraces on it so it was a fair size too

Lorian

If the OP is really interested in purchasing this property they need to find the current owners. They know the name from the land registry search. The next thing to do would be a search for them using the electoral register.