the daydream fund challenge thread

rozeepozee

Wise words from everyone. It's frustrating at the moment as we're living in a way-too-small rented property and we'd all love to be settled but I think patience is the key.

We're not looking purely for a smallholding as we don't want farming to be so consuming:with a very young family, we have our hands full at the moment and I'm not sure we're ready for that level of greenfingeredness yet. Ideally we'd like something with a second unit which we can let out some of the time or one property with enough land that we could perhaps let out during school holidays and we'd live in a static (would need enough land to make this viable).

I agree with the views on the state of the market. It is mystifying though.

We saw one property for sale for £450K, http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-18836700.html fab location though quite remote to get to. It went to a bidding war (something I wouldn't get involved with) and was at the asking price, two weeks later, both bidders have cold feet, dropped out and the seller has reduced the asking price to £400k!

This is lovely, http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/15146839 but Mathry doesn't have a primary school, and is one hour further away from our rental properties so makes managing the bread and butter business trickier.... Also, further away from the extended family and we feel we're far enough away as it is....

DP likes this one and it ticks all our boxes except for the land!!!! http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30100717.html. I know what you mean about having to compromise, Dave, but I don't think I can compromise on land - that's what we moved here for

We'll go and look at this one next week but I don't know how they've arrived at the current asking price. We missed out on one property we really liked and that sold for £298K similar to this in many other respects (location, size) but needing cosmetic improvements and with 2 less acres, so how can they justify £200K more? Baffled! http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30995815.html

Now we are down here, I think our main priorities are location, needs to be within walking distance of a village, with land, a property in good condition that would be lettable some of the year or one with convertable outbuldings/a second unit. If the village also had a primary school, that would be "perfect" though I'm now starting to accept that maybe we will have to drive the children to a local school if we find somewhere that is suitable in all other ways.

I may get desperate enough to sign up to one of those house finding programmes if nothing comes up by the time winter's out...

rhiwfield

When you wish upon a star.............

Hmmm, I'd like:

• 3 bed energy efficient single story property, not overlooked
• south facing with pv on roof
• garage
• workshop
• small barn
• wood stores
• largish greenhouse
• woodland belt to west for shelter and firewood
• 1/4 acre of land for crop growing
• river frontage with fishing rights for letting out
• weir with hydroelectric potential
• close to GCs
• easy Mway access but no noise
• large village/town location, close to shops, library, doctors and pubs
• not on a flight path
• not on a main road
• low crime rate and quiet
• good neighbours

pretty please

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

When you wish upon a star.............

Hmmm, I'd like:

• 3 bed energy efficient single story property, not overlooked Yes, more or less.
• south facing with pv on roof Yup, possible.
• garage Err...demolishing ours!
• workshop Yes
• small barn Big barn!
• wood stores Yes
• largish greenhouse Polytunnel?..well, it's large anyway!
• woodland belt to west for shelter and firewood Yes, but it's not ours. We do have firewood to the east
• 1/4 acre of land for crop growing. Agreed, our garden is too large.
• river frontage with fishing rights for letting out I so wish!
• weir with hydroelectric potential As above.
• close to GCs Not near kids, but far enough from MiL !
• easy Mway access but no noise Err, no. Nearest M'way 30miles.
• large village/town location, close to shops, library, doctors and pubs Yesss!
• not on a flight path Sort of, but we get bombed/strafed occasionally! :eek:
• not on a main road Yes, but still on a bus route.
• low crime rate and quiet Yes,:) apart from Mr Dog. :mad:
• good neighbours Yes,:) mostly!:(

pretty please

The blue bits show we were doing well, but then the red bits crept in!:(:(

I'd add

• sheltered situation, but not in frost pocket
• a spring
• 'moist, but well drained':rotfl: non-stony and fertile soil
• large, natural pond

Davesnave

We just did a bit of calculation. One plum tree in the chicken orchard has produced well over 100lbs of fruit.

The small, 8' high damson tree by the new polytunnel produced 50lbs.

The other trees haven't been as prolific, but then, they don't need to be!

lostinrates

rhiwfield wrote: »

When you wish upon a star.............

Hmmm, I'd like:

• 3 bed energy efficient single story property, not overlooked three bed atm......but . |we're not overlooked by any houses, but the tractors do go past the kitchen window, and atm the garden....but trees will sort that soon.
• south facing with pv on roof well, we have a small bit of roof on the house where the solar thermal is going....the pv will go on one of the barn rooves in the future
• garage will barns do? The ''coach house'' will one day be a garage/woodstore/workshop combo
• workshop as above,
• small barn check
• wood stores currently in barn, will be in coach house
• largish greenhouseNo. I'm thinking of having a smallish heated pretty green house in the garden (we don't have a conservatory, so it would be instead of...there is room for a greenhouse elsewhere though.
• woodland belt to west for shelter and firewood No, the lack of trees is one of my larger gripes here. We'll be planting more.
• 1/4 acre of land for crop growing yep
• river frontage with fishing rights for letting outAnother of my sadnesses here.
• weir with hydroelectric potentialNope, but we are considering lake bottom thermal heating, aswell as ground source.
• close to GCs
• easy Mway access but no noise Yep....we can get east or west on m4 nice and quickly, and down to the a303 swiftly too.
• large village/town location, close to shops, library, doctors and pubs nope, we';re out of the villages ...which we prefer...but doctor etc all within a few miles, one gp in the village. we;re a couple of miles away equidistant from three pubs and three villages,..a couple of mins in the car. Its nice, as we get a choice of which to be part of at any given time!....we go to the town...not so far.
• not on a flight path nope. We get gliders though, but they are beautoiful. And the occasional bomber, but not enough to be a nuisance
• not on a main road check!
• low crime rate and quiet quiet....what is low crime rate...we have some crime.
• good neighboursThe best.

pretty please

I still would like to build one day. I don't know whether I'll get to though. We're avctually pretty lucky with the spot, we wanted isolated, and we're not quite that, but we are alone, but with people round the corner, and the villages all not far, and towns very nearby. I didn't realise, for example, we'd have such an amazing choice of restaurants....as near (time wise) as a tube ride in London.

we'd want, in another place, more land, more isolation, possibly a tiny bit further east, excellent riding/walking....and...the opportiunity to build.

Davesnave

what is low crime rate...we have some crime.

So does everyone, but it helps to know what kind of crime goes on. Here, it's mainly anti social behaviour when pubs kick out.
This is the Police UK crime map for a place quite near me. You can put your own postcode in and see how it compares:

http://www.police.uk/crime/?q=Eggesford, Devon EX18 7, UK#crimetypes

Edit: You will probably find nothing much goes on in hamlets. Crime is mainly centred on villages with pubs, or in towns.:)

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

So does everyone, but it helps to know what kind of crime goes on. Here, it's mainly anti social behaviour when pubs kick out.
This is the Police UK crime map for a place quite near me. You can put your own postcode in and see how it compares:

http://www.police.uk/crime/?q=Eggesford, Devon EX18 7, UK#crimetypes

Edit: You will probably find nothing much goes on in hamlets. Crime is mainly centred on villages with pubs, or in towns.:)

I was horrified to read in our parish magazine that the ASBO rate has gone down since we had a local police special route...we should have NO asbos!

The flip side of that is we have a lot of young people in the villages, all three, and a school, a local in two and soon three of the the pubs and not the deadness of an aging population village. There is something to do almost every day of the week in one or other...whether its tai chi or art group, or choir or gardening club. The other thing I like about here, is its slightly more culturally diverse here....not hugely, but a bit. It wouldn't make people stare to see a black person here, for example. (though that is very certainly not where the asbos here stem from)

most of these minuses ..like asbos, have a flip side...the vibrancy of community.

rozeepozee

rhiwfield wrote: »

When you wish upon a star.............

Hmmm, I'd like:

• 3 bed energy efficient single story property, not overlooked
• south facing with pv on roof
• garage
• workshop
• small barn
• wood stores
• largish greenhouse
• woodland belt to west for shelter and firewood
• 1/4 acre of land for crop growing
• river frontage with fishing rights for letting out
• weir with hydroelectric potential
• close to GCs
• easy Mway access but no noise
• large village/town location, close to shops, library, doctors and pubs
• not on a flight path
• not on a main road
• low crime rate and quiet
• good neighbours

pretty please

Think that more or less sums it up for us, although I have an aversion to bungalows & would like a plot of an acre plus plus we need 4 bedrooms (we've 3 kids), possibly a second lettable unit or a decent static, not bothered about motorway access and I don't know what a GC is

Also decent internet

COOLTRIKERCHICK

rhiwfield wrote: »

When you wish upon a star.............

Hmmm, I'd like:

• 3 bed energy efficient single story property, not overlooked
• south facing with pv on roof
• garage
• workshop
• small barn
• wood stores
• largish greenhouse
• woodland belt to west for shelter and firewood
• 1/4 acre of land for crop growing
• river frontage with fishing rights for letting out
• weir with hydroelectric potential
• close to GCs
• easy Mway access but no noise
• large village/town location, close to shops, library, doctors and pubs
• not on a flight path
• not on a main road
• low crime rate and quiet
• good neighbours

pretty please

mmmmmm at this moment in time a house with no supermarket a few yards away..


I will 'nick' your wish list, but change the land...and the house, i would like an oldie worldie type house like the ones in the link that Davesnave gave us, i would like a few acres, so i could have some livestock... poss a few pigs and sheep..

rozeepozee

Here's our crime map. Interesting! http://www.police.uk/crime/?q=Cilgerran,%20Pembrokeshire,%20UK#crimetypes

This is how our former address compared http://www.police.uk/crime/?q=Norton,%20Sheffield,%20South%20Yorkshire%20S10,%20UK#crimetypes