the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

I'm so happy I want to go and do a dance on Choille's new floor....PP and listed building consent have been granted!

Now.....anyone know how where to best site a money plant?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm so happy I want to go and do a dance on Choille's new floor....PP and listed building consent have been granted!

Now.....anyone know how where to best site a money plant?

woooooohoooo!!!
congrats.....brilliant news.._party_:dance:_party_:dance:_party_

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm so happy I want to go and do a dance on Choille's new floor....PP and listed building consent have been granted!

Now.....anyone know how where to best site a money plant?

Now what would you be needing one of those for, I wonder?

Tis great news though. Another hurdle .....er.....hurdled!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

just wondering who will have the next lot of good news... well doesnt good news come in 3's or is that bad news....lol...

rozeepozee

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm so happy I want to go and do a dance on Choille's new floor....PP and listed building consent have been granted!

Now.....anyone know how where to best site a money plant?

Nice one

rozeepozee

Still house hunting but feeling more than a little nervous about the turmoil in our financial markets and wondering if this is the right time to be ploughing all our cash and savings into a new property.

Saw a lovely place yesterday. It's not new to the market but reduced - from £450K originally to £375K now. It has lots of large rooms, 3 good bedrooms, a static, outbuildings and 2 and a half lovely acres incorporating a caravan and camping club site. Another plus point is a brand new school half a mile up the road. Downsides: It needs mainly cosmetic work doing to it, isn't in a village. Food for thought, though....

We didn't bring a TV down here and none of our digital radios work (we were previously permanently tuned to Radio 4) so we hardly ever know what's going on! I'm sort of hoping that if we get our place in Wales, wherever it evnetually is, we'll be able to ignore most of what goes on in the world. Is that a crazy thought?

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

Saw a lovely place yesterday. It's not new to the market but reduced - from £450K originally to £375K now. It has lots of large rooms, 3 good bedrooms, a static, outbuildings and 2 and a half lovely acres incorporating a caravan and camping club site. Another plus point is a brand new school half a mile up the road. Downsides: It needs mainly cosmetic work doing to it, isn't in a village. Food for thought, though....

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sounds good. TBH, if the caravan thing is really an option for you you will need to consider location: IME people who host these in or on the edge of a village can be very unpopular. Being outside a village but near one for facilities is a ''safer'' option.

We looked at a place in the NF with caravans and I was amazed at the profit they brought in.

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

just wondering who will have the next lot of good news... well doesnt good news come in 3's or is that bad news....lol...

Your business rationalisation, choille's floor, my planning. That's three.

Davesnave

rozeepozee wrote: »

Still house hunting but feeling more than a little nervous about the turmoil in our financial markets and wondering if this is the right time to be ploughing all our cash and savings into a new property.

I'm sort of hoping that if we get our place in Wales, wherever it evnetually is, we'll be able to ignore most of what goes on in the world. Is that a crazy thought?

The question is, what else can one buy with savings that's safer than a house and land? Art? Fine wine? Gold? Shares?

When we were 'money rich and house poor' in the turmoil of 2008/9, I worried about having most of our savings in cash, which is just digits on a computer screen nowadays.

One can't live inside cash, paintings or gold bars, or grow vegetables on them. It's comforting to know that if prices do fall further, a house is still worth 'a house.'

The Warren Buffet mantra of buying 'when others are fearful' seems appropriate, although he wasn't referring to property. Certainly, there are bargains out there......but will they still look like bargains in a year's time? To answer that, we must look at what might happen in the next year that would re-ignite the feel-good (or at least the feel-better) factor. Me? I'm not sure....:o

That's probably where the world picture comes in, and Radio 4... Usually level-headed, and far less scary than the 'Debate' channel on here, at any rate!!!:rotfl:Go there at your own risk! :eek:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rozeepoze, the value of any item is what the buyer is prepared to pay for it, plus i agree with Davesnave... a house is home, memories etc....so all i can say is go for a house within your budget that 'feels like home' you know the feeling when you walk into a house and you automatically want to kick your shoes off make a cuppa and sit down and go aghhhhhh as that homely feeling is priceless...

If this is a long term home, then i would not worry if the house 'might' go down in value after you have bought it, as somewhere over the years it will go up in value,

We are all worried about spending money, whether it is a house, a car, or even clothes, etc... with the doom and gloom they are telling us on the news.... and this is adding to the panic...