I'm experiencing higher volumes now

Maisie11

Sorry Carolt - brought up by a single mother and went to the local catholic comp which was awful with very low expections for their pupils. I did OK but it was despite the teaching. Choosing to educate my children is actually none of your business. Shows the little green monster is coming out....

lostinrates

carolt wrote: »

I've got absolutely nothing against private school, or people who send their children to private school. Lots of friends etc..... Not to my taste but nothing against it.

It was the poster's attitudes to me, and renters in general, I objected to, not the choice of school.

My apologies for brusqueness.:o

mewbie_2

Maisie11 wrote: »

Choosing to educate my children is actually none of your business.

Except you chose to [STRIKE]brag[/STRIKE] tell us about it. Was that to invite comment / discussion or just to big yourself up?

dopester

Maisie11 wrote: »

Thanks Chucky. How on earth does Dopester know that we didnt do anything. We did - we renovated the house and built an extension admittely for our own use and to live in a larger property - how dare we.....

My guess wasn't so far out was it? My mother spent £7,000 on a new kitchen back in 94 or something. Family help to rewire the place. New bathroom twice since that time. Roof fixed, and a whole load of other stuff like a sun-room, the drive done twice, and new carpets time and again. They were in it for the long term, just like you. Kitchen is getting a bit dated now... if I find a liquidation sale for quality kitchen units at a low price I might buy.

Maisie11 wrote: »

Trying to remember that far back Lostinrates, we brought in Aug 1999...

We brought the house for about £450k I seem to remember but it needed large amounts of work doing to it.

Maisie11 wrote: »

We did build a 2 storey large extension. To be honest the kitchen was a joke and one of the bathrooms was a potential fire hazard. We knew as it was a long term house for us that we would have to do this work.

So how much have you spent all in all, after £450K I wonder... for an extension and so on... it does not matter, you don't need to justify it to me or anyone else if you don't want to.

If you can get £1 million + for your house, because I am not a wealth-hater at all, I wish you well with it.

I'm just trying to explain that values can rise and fall, even if you put a lot of work in to something to improve it.

If you can sell, great, but I hope you don't think you somehow are protected from the workings of the market proper. Gerrards Cross doesn't look totally immune to the crash, in my opinion, as people always have to sell for many reasons, and some will cut prices so transactions go through at lower prices, which brings down wider prices.

carolt

Maisie11 wrote: »

Have I said that the falls will stop or that I 'know' that prices will increase. I cannot possibly know any of this and neither can you. You want them to keep falling because you feel you 'deserve' a better house in the area of your choice. Will the house of your dreams become within your reach - I dont know. So, the whole of South Bucks is unacceptable - what a silly thing to say.

No sure why you keep harping on this.

I don't feel I 'deserve' anything. I will get a house, by luck and/or design, that I can afford dependant on how hard I choose to work and in how lucrative a field, and on where house prices may happen to be in their cycle.

And why this obsession with S Bucks? My children are at school - why on earth would I want to uproot them to move them to the (I assume) utopia that is S Bucks? I don't even know anyone there..... :rolleyes:

Clearly, your love nay obsession with the place has led you to fantasise that everyone else also shares your fantasies about moving to S Bucks.

Really sorry to disillusion you, BUT THEY DON'T. :eek:

whathavewedone

OMG Carolt. Get a grip woman. Recession or no recession Maisie is in a position that most of us would love to be in.

She has lived in a home that she has loved for 10 years, improved it to meet her family's requirements, she and her husband have good jobs, savings and pensions and even if prices fall heavily she will still have plenty of equity.

Trying to make her feel as though she and her family are on the verge of penury just makes you look really ridiculous tbh.

So you're jealous. That's understandable but by the sounds of it Maisie and her family have made their own luck by working hard rather than simply by the rise in property prices. £450k in 1999 for a house that needed work was still a jolly expensive house and they were clearly able to afford it. Why not try to look at what you can do to be in such a good position instead of trying to make her feel bad (I doubt you'll succeed!) in order to make yourself feel better?

Just made a mental note to add your name to the posters not to be taken seriously. Ever.

mr.broderick

carolt wrote: »

Oh no, I am gutted.

Because I just dreamt of moving to S Buckinghamshire. :rolleyes:

Out of interest, are all the people there that smug, or is it just you?

Why on earth would I want your poxy, overpriced house?

Just amused that you imagine that you can deduce from the fact that you don't actually want/need to sell your house to = no-one in the UK will want/need to sell their house and therefore prices will not fall.

Whether you like it or not, house prices have fallen approx one-fifth across the country from peak - and yes, that's S Bucks too. And even the most moderate of vested interests agree on a minimum 10% fall this year. Let alone after that.

Where I live, as I posted on another thread, a house I have my eye on has fallen by approx 25-30% from peak.. That's what I care about. As nothing on earth would make me want to live in S Bucks, its house prices personally matter as much to me as house prices in India. I just dislike reading smug self-satisfied gloating posted as advice on a money-saving site.

Carol please for the last time, what the hell is your malfunction?

Maisie11

I am tired of people who have a problem with how we educate our children. I know how prickly an issue private/state education is and how strongly people feel about this but we have worked really hard to get this for our boys. We both work full time and having being educated in a school with low expections for pupils it wasnt something we wanted for our children. Yes, there are some fab state schools. We still have the grammar schools in Bucks and they are extremely popular but is there any difference in moving and paying more for a house in the catchment area for these schools or just taking the plunge and buying the education in the private system. Believe me I can think of other ways of spending the money. My mother has just left the state system after teaching for over 40 years and agrees that our money is best spent on private education. Not to everyones taste I realise.

mr.broderick

carolt wrote: »

I thought you were fairly desperate to sell, from your other posts?

If anybody wants to know why this thread has descended into another bitter, bitc.hing thread the above post is the catalyst.

In fact from now on i am going to highlight the post that ruins the thread/forum/board.

mr.broderick

Maisie11 wrote: »

I am tired of people who have a problem with how we educate our children. I know how prickly an issue private/state education is and how strongly people feel about this but we have worked really hard to get this for our boys. We both work full time and having being educated in a school with low expections for pupils it wasnt something we wanted for our children. Yes, there are some fab state schools. We still have the grammar schools in Bucks and they are extremely popular but is there any difference in moving and paying more for a house in the catchment area for these schools or just taking the plunge and buying the education in the private system. Believe me I can think of other ways of spending the money. My mother has just left the state system after teaching for over 40 years and agrees that our money is best spent on private education. Not to everyones taste I realise.

There is nothing wrong with private education it was just a side issue from the real problem that carol has, the fact she cannot afford to buy a home for her family.