The Nice Decade Poll-Who missed out?

Pobby

Had another think about this as well. The "nasty" side of the last 10 years also is apparant. An ever widening gulf between rich and poor. The ever growing " underclass " that NuLabour seemed so keen to foster.Celeb !!!!! and as much as I try to avoid it I still feel bombarded. The " because you are worth it " culture that seems to have got so many into the carp they are in today.

The last 10 years have been devoid of spirituality replaced by the " look what I`ve got " culture. Unpleasent!

macaque_2

boyse7en wrote: »

Why, apparently, has everyone else got virtually no equity after 10 years?

A sound that kittens make.

macaque_2

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

The figures probably don't work out with the peak in 2007, so they changed it. Just rubbish journalism I'm afraid.

When newspapers were inventing spin stories for the benefit of the property industry, this was hailed as 'hard news'. Now that we are getting genuine hard news, it gets dismissed as rubbish journalism. I love it.

oldMcDonald

macaque wrote: »

A sound that kittens make.

"Greed"? Oh, you mean "Mew":D

Dithering_Dad

macaque wrote: »

When newspapers were inventing spin stories for the benefit of the property industry, this was hailed as 'hard news'. Now that we are getting genuine hard news, it gets dismissed as rubbish journalism. I love it.

Was it?

I seem to recall that a few estate agents started reporting 'grass shoots' and we all gave them short shrift on here.

mitchaa

chrisandanne wrote: »

Sorry to be dim Mitchaa... what ?? A x

Sorry thought it was obvious,

Why you got more than your sister? Surely you were both children of your deceased parents? Why would 1 get more than the other?

Not wishing to delve into your own personal situations, but it has just recently happened in my family, 5 children, 1 got 80%, the remainder 4 got 5% each.

Its caused havoc and the ''uncle'' who got 80% has been disowned from the whole family. He widdled his way in, even helped write the will in her last days, he knew she was going a little senile so acted fast:rolleyes:

I do not agree with it, and i too have cut off contact with Great Uncle X.

Sounds fairly similar but you appear to be Auntie X

My parents would never do that to us, everything will be split evenly, and not 1 of my brothers or sister would want it any other way.

Perhaps ive misread your post and got the wrong end of the stick?

Edited...Just re read it, apologies, you helped your dad out by buying the house. Have to learn not to jump in and read things properly:doh:

oldMcDonald

mitchaa wrote: »

Sorry thought it was obvious,

Why you got more than your sister? Surely you were both children of your deceased parents? Why would 1 get more than the other?

Not wishing to delve into your own personal situations, but it has just recently happened in my family, 5 children, 1 got 80%, the remainder 4 got 5% each.

Its caused havoc and the ''uncle'' who got 80% has been disowned from the whole family. He widdled his way in, even helped write the will in her last days, he knew she was going a little senile so acted fast:rolleyes:

I do not agree with it, and i too have cut off contact with Great Uncle X.

Sounds fairly similar but you appear to be Auntie X

My parents would never do that to us, everything will be split evenly, and not 1 of my brothers or sister would want it any other way.

Perhaps ive misread your post and got the wrong end of the stick?

Mitchaa, that is sad. A similar thing happened in my DHs family and he no longer has any contact with his brothers and sisters. It sucks how some people act once they think they can get a bit of money.

I read it that ChrisandAnne had bought the house from her father when he could no longer afford the mortgage payments and he lived in it until it needed to be sold as he was moving in with her? It sounds like it was her house and she gave some money from the proceeds of the sale to her sister as a gift.?

mitchaa

oldMcDonald wrote: »

Mitchaa, that is sad. A similar thing happened in my DHs family and he no longer has any contact with his brothers and sisters. It sucks how some people act once they think they can get a bit of money.

I read it that ChrisandAnne had bought the house from her father when he could no longer afford the mortgage payments and he lived in it until it needed to be sold as he was moving in with her? It sounds like it was her house and she gave some money from the proceeds of the sale to her sister as a gift.

Yep, apologies i did read it too quickly and failed to spot that she helped her father out.

However, when thinking about it a little deeper, would it have been fair on the sister if the below had happened....

House Value 2002 = £100k
Mortgage left to pay £15k (Highly likely situation given age)

Anne steps in and bails out her father by paying the £15k for him.

House value 2005 = £150k

Annes investment after 3 yrs has netted her £135k profit. She feels sorry for her sister and gives her £10k walking away with £125k to herself??

Is this fair?? I think not, and its this kind of thing that splits families in 2.

Anne...I am not saying this has happened and its none of my business if it has, im just looking at it from perhaps the pis**d off sisters point of view, not accusing you of anything, so chill out if you are getting frustrated with my response

If it had been me in this situation i would have taken my original £15k out, perhaps a little more adding on say 5-10% interest and then split everything left down the middle, or in my case, 4 ways.

Why is your sister pis*ed off with you Anne?

StevieJ

macaque wrote: »

This is a bit like asking who drank the most at a party. The ones who had the most to drink during the 'nice decade' face the biggest hangovers (unless they sold up in 2007).

Why? If you had bought in 1998 you would be quids in, not everyone Mews

macaque_2

StevieJ wrote: »

Why? If you had bought in 1998 you would be quids in, not everyone Mews

Hello? People keep moving the date back. A year ago every home owner in the land was humming a smug tune. That changed to: 'I'm safe because I bought in 2006'. The 'window of smugness then started creeping back year by year. Today the Times ran a story on prices falling back to 1999 levels. Now we have reached the; 'I'm safe because I bought in 1998' stage.