the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

id be interested in them.... always a way round getting ignorant people to "see the light"....:D can but try ??? are they close to you??

yes. I'll try and get some more details for you. I've never seen/met them. There are ''health issues'' which might also be relevent...potential cost implications. tbh, from what I've heard it might simply be case of taking them, giving them a nice place lie in deep straw while they get sent on their merry way to the long sleep.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

yes. I'll try and get some more details for you. I've never seen/met them. There are ''health issues'' which might also be relevent...potential cost implications. tbh, from what I've heard it might simply be case of taking them, giving them a nice place lie in deep straw while they get sent on their merry way to the long sleep.

thanks. will hopefully be able to do SOMETHING for them or

COOLTRIKERCHICK

rhiwfield, its a hard one to date, as its homemade maybe? i might be totally off on this date, but the 1950's came to my mind,

I really do feel sick at the thought of those poor horses/ponies.
If you had them on 'loan/lease' but hten refused to give them back, surely it would cost them too much for them to get them back, going down the legal road? or if they are that bad, i would just go and nick them, but i am not saying that is right, i would totally be thinking of the poor animals welfare.

couldnt the horse society welfare society get involved?


Land front.. I withdrew my offer yesturday....

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Land front.. I withdrew my offer yesturday....

CTC, I'm sorry. Its so hard, I really do remember all the places we dreamed very veyr hard about only to have a bitter bite of reality that woke us up. One has to compromise, but sensibly.

Its a beautiful beautiful plot, if nothing else I'm glad you got to see it, walk round it and dream a beautiful dream. It also will have focused your thoughts on what you can do with the right one. AND about funding, which is excellent news, excellent, excellent prospects now...just need to find the right place.

Huge daydreaming best wishes to you because yo probably feel a little deflated. The right place will be found.

Davesnave

Yes, it's hard the morning after a property becomes just a piece in the jigsaw of experience, but it's amazing how quickly the urge to better it comes back!

As lir says, the plot was lovely, but I couldn't work out where the income potential was without the planning. You need income potential if you can't live in a place, or it's got to be a 'pocket money' price.

Good job we can live here. The taxman is going to take a hit for the last two years, but now we have no business......Well, at least we'll not be accused of hobby farming.

alfie_1

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

rhiwfield, its a hard one to date, as its homemade maybe? i might be totally off on this date, but the 1950's came to my mind,

I really do feel sick at the thought of those poor horses/ponies.
If you had them on 'loan/lease' but hten refused to give them back, surely it would cost them too much for them to get them back, going down the legal road? or if they are that bad, i would just go and nick them, but i am not saying that is right, i would totally be thinking of the poor animals welfare.

couldnt the horse society welfare society get involved?


Land front.. I withdrew my offer yesturday....

ooooooooooooo CTC so sorry your bubble has burst but only you know all the facts and FIGURES !! and something else will turn up and you will be glad you said no to this one.

as for the hosses...my thoughts exactly.;)

alfie_1

LIR...if can be arranged i could "visit" these hosses this weekend... if only to show interest in the loan side and go from there....;)


done an early heathrow run and am now back and off to another days work....
s**t weather here, grey,drizzly and depressing BUT not cold??
hope everyone has/has had a good day tho.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

thanks all,

it wasnt ment to be, and as choille said, allways follow your gut feeling.. and thats waht i done..

it is now back on the market but he has added another 30k to the price:eek::rotfl:



I have also found out it was sold about 4 years ago for approx 50k

choille

CTC - best getting somewhere that you can live. I think it was over priced really.

Found a dead chicken this morning - one of the two Scot's Grey females that I was keeping & this one was perfect - a real cracker. She mustn't of gone in last night. There wasn't a blemish on her - no tell-tale two holes in the neck. one eye was opened & milky opaque - like she's had a knock on th ehead. V windy last night - maybe she's roosted in a tree & been blown into the truck - that's all I can think. What a waste.

dave - I think I'm probably a hobby farmer - I don't make ay money at it. I'd be better off if I didn't do it!

rozeepozee

Here I am again, refereeing children and trying to read the post I've missed in between squeals and complaints!

Our sale fell through. The survey said the property was worth £50k less than we'd agreed to pay (subject to valuation) but the seller would not come down. Given that the work required on the property was about £50k's worth but it would not increase the property value (just make it up to modern standards), we decided to call a halt.

It means we've had to find a new rental property as this place is way too small and we are moving gain, to a house a door or two up from our's which has just been done up for a holiday let but which the owner will rent us on a 6 month term for the winter. So we're still unsettled but at least we will be in a better environment.

Lessons learned? However good you do your research, sellers find it hard to make the leap from what their property is worth now compared to what it was worth at the peak (especially if they bought it then...) so even if your offer is reasonable, it may be worth getting a pre-offer valuation survey, so the offer is based on "expert opinion", rather than what you think it's worth (The seller was outraged by my initial, carefully researched offer of £335K but the surveyor said the property was worth £325). This would have saved us the cost of a full structural survey.

Sellers in negative equity or who have lost a lot of equity are not easy to negotiate with because they are !!!!ed off and are likely to project that anger upon you, however reasonable you feel you are being.

In this market, estate agents are your friend. Avoid private sellers for the above two reasons.

We were disconsolate and thought there was nothing else of interest on the market but we made a concerted effort today and decided to take a walk to have a look at an unattractive auction property outside our village. It was a pleasant surprise. A do-er upper of a bungalow and four interesting acres with it's own lovely stream, a nice flat paddock, a bit of a woodland and pleasant views.

On our way home, we stopped to ask a local about the property and he told us that the farm that had been for sale in the village was about to be split. He wanted to buy the land of 50 odd acres which adjoin his own land and the property is now for sale with four acres....

We are going to view both the above properties tomorrow so watch this space. I'm feeling quite excited again!