the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

i craved....i ate !! :rotfl:

alfie_1 wrote: »

LIR.. is it the 2/3 tier cane sort of cages you are after ??

as for the cars...no interest so far approx £4000 tho....

I thou get they would be snapped up by collectors.


Not sure what I am looking for but I will know it ..or them..when I see them. It's for hall lighting.....I wanted to replicate this http://furnish.co.uk/items/185081-bird-cage-lamp as both a table lamp and three over heads but Dh has decided after a few years of me wanting it, he would prefer something more traditional. So bird cages might be a compromise. But not sure, would have to have cane slatted bottoms too, for light. I might just make the modern table lamp and get different overhead fittings.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Just caught up on all the posts..

Rhiwfield... I would call him 'a plonker':p... as choille said.. we all make boobies when to comes to buying and selling.. and will learn by them... good idea about putting all the carp that hasnt or will not sell on fleabay/bootsale back into some mixed box lots for the auction...

talking about light polution etc i have been watching that stargazing programme, interesting, but Brian Cox loses me the minute he opens his mouth:rotfl:

I have decided if i am to try and make larger chunks of money to go towards buying a place, I might have to take some gambles:eek:

Now i have seen a property which is a right minger.. i mean derilict sp? which i was thinking of offering a cheeky offer ( alot lower than the asking price) and putting it straight into auction, with a gamble it might make me a few grand?

what do you think?

I dont want to put a link on here, but i can pm you a link, and would really appreciate any thoughts on it,

Allways s@d's law that we have seen another property that is going to auction in approx 8 weeks, (local) and we just cant get a mortgage it is so flipping maddening, but yet they will flipping give me a 91k Mortgage on a flipping field and a barn:mad:. ( the house with a large garden and 1.5 acres ( which is a bit carp, over grown rough land with a culvert running through it, plus it is opp the house, like an island with a dirt track road one side and a public footpath the other) .

It has an estimate of 80k - 100k but there has been loads of interest, so there is no way i can get that sort of money so quickly...lol.. so this is making me think i need to maybe i should maybe think about trying to get bigger amounts of money somehow..


Think i will have a gander in the poundshops over the next week or so, and see what fruit trees they have,



EDIT..... I AM GETTING SO FRUSTRATED.....AAAAGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Davesnave

Erk! :eek: Not keeping up here , but I just wanted to say I had my choille bonfire yesterday and although it was late, it was a good 'un!:j

Will have to return later, much later, as it's Panto rehearsal night, and 'she who must be obeyed' will be after me over the tax stuff today.....:(

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I have decided if i am to try and make larger chunks of money to go towards buying a place, I might have to take some gambles:eek:

Now i have seen a property which is a right minger.. i mean derilict sp? which i was thinking of offering a cheeky offer ( alot lower than the asking price) and putting it straight into auction, with a gamble it might make me a few grand?

what do you think?

I dont want to put a link on here, but i can pm you a link, and would really appreciate any thoughts on it,

EDIT..... I AM GETTING SO FRUSTRATED.....AAAAGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, frustration.....Been there....2002 to 2009. Not that it qualifies me to say anything, as someone in the same position might have seen a way forward. I might have been far too cautious.

That's why I'm going to say gambling the property market is for the professionals, who can afford to lose some as well as win, so long as it all averages out OK. If you think you can beat them.....

But, if this place is derelict, and you could see it as a long term thing you'd be happy to use in some way, without selling it, then a cheeky offer would do no harm. Then, if the auction route doesn't yield, you are not left with a millstone or a loss.

To my mind, property prices will only be going one way in the forseeable future.

You know my email if you want to send details over,. but I'm probably going to be Mr Pessimist, or at best, Mr Non-Committal! :rotfl:
Advising others is just so scary!!! :eek:

Right, now to do what she thinks I'm doing! :rotfl::rotfl:

Itismehonest

I've go with Dave on this one, CTC.
Only ever gamble with what you can afford to lose & walk away from.
If you think you could live there relatively happily then it's a different matter.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

the property is miles away, and would be a lot less than 20k

If i lived in that area i could see the potential as a business premises for passing trade, tea room, antique/craft/art business etc, or as a holiday home/let

but as i say it would be buy it, and then put it straight into auction with the above ideas in the discription, all subject ot planning of coarse;)

Davesnave i will pm you the link..

I am just thinking there might be a few grand to be made, after legal and auction fees etc, not a huge amount, but a possible profit..

Worst comes to the worst i would have bought something, that i would just have to sit on for a few years....

I am getting frustrated as a few places have been 'just' outside my reach... and i just cant seem to be able to raise the funds for the final push/step so to speak....

so this is why i am thinking ways to up my game.... but then maybe i am going into an area where i know nothing, only what i have seen in tv programmes when it comes to auctions:rotfl:

choille

CTC - Could you post me a link.
I know where you are coming from, but it's a dodgy game & especially the way the market is at the mo.
remember you have fees on top - commission & catalogue photos to pay the Auction house, plus VAT on the commission which is 20% ( The VAT on the commission).

Fruit trees - such as apples & pears are good from LIDLs when they get them in but some varieties are more suited to certaim areas.

The wind is scaring me here, it's coming in fierce & bringing snow....this wasn't forecast.

lostinrates

Oh choille take care in the weather...any improv,ent in the ear?

CDC, be very, very careful is my advice.

The wind this morning here was from the south and surprisingly warm. I know I am odd Bout weather, but things like that make me weirdly elated...wind isn,t meant to be warmer than the air it's blowing into, so it's an amazing experience.

There was a lot of condensation on the outside of the house which I find odd anyway, but also with a breeze blowing.

The wind has dropped now, and it's dank and cold and miserable.

On the homestead front, we had the tank emptied today, it's been in almost a year now, and really wanted to see how the system is coping. The poo tank man was very pleased with it and said if all people managed a tank as well as me his would be an easy job. Now, that's something to have printed on a tshirt, eh?

Itismehonest

Take care, choille.

Mucky, misty & miserable here

I'm wondering what's going to happen to all these people meeting at Dulverton this evening. I hope it's better over there or they're gonna be groping around & won't see each other let alone any stars :rotfl:

choille

LIR - I do rather like the bird cage light affair, but feel it would be easy to make from a fire guard & those fuzzy covered birds with pipe cleaner feet. I feel that ceiling & matching lamp shades would be over doing it a tad - a bit Alfred Hitchcock...........

My ear thing will be a while I fear & can be a bit of a nuisance regards returning. The doc said mid feb before it will start to subside......worse when bending so doing that slowly.
Just advertised two surplus cockerels - almost too handsome to eat I said in the local rag - which they are, but if they don't sell.......

If you shop at Morrissons this month they have a lotto thing running - the barcode on your receipt goes into a raffle type thing & you can win that day's shop cost back. When we go through I buy all their cheap bread & freeze it for the hens & us too - really good bread & when they reduce stuff they seem to really cut the price.

More paperwork beckons............grrrrrrrrrrr