Property Snakes and Ladders; 2009

dopester

Davesnave wrote: »

Chris, you or I would never come through even the first round of the selection process.

He might have been a candidate if he'd not pulled back from the edge last year, and bought that house at £220K with homebuy-scheme to "help" him do it.

Chris has smartened up, but to be fair, I think even Beeny might have been a bit stumped for ideas with that place of his. It's on a new listing now, but if he'd bought it at £220K, with Beeny overseeing any spending improvements at all.... that could have easily been car-crash television.

PasturesNew

Facts:
- buy any house [A], spend any amount on it , it's automatically worth [A]+ +£25-50k
- to be successful you have to work hard, if you work hard you will be successful. It has nothing to do with luck, it's working hard that matters
- your ideas will always make you rich because you are a genius
- if you start a business, you will make as much money from it as you want. People will always pay extra for something fab and you can write your own ticket.
- you have the best taste in the whole world, any fool can see that. Once you've stylishly refurbished any item/property it will instantly be worthy of winning top design awards and they will come in their thousands to admire just how clever you are.

The above are the rules the couple were working to.

RabbitMad

Bump - a little reminder that the muppet show is on tonight.

OH was very disappointed when they realised the episode on more4 last night was the tavistock one and they had to wait a further 24hours before they got a fresh instalment.

Phirefly

PasturesNew wrote: »

Facts:
- buy any house [A], spend any amount on it , it's automatically worth [A]+ +£25-50k
- to be successful you have to work hard, if you work hard you will be successful. It has nothing to do with luck, it's working hard that matters
- your ideas will always make you rich because you are a genius
- if you start a business, you will make as much money from it as you want. People will always pay extra for something fab and you can write your own ticket.
- you have the best taste in the whole world, any fool can see that. Once you've stylishly refurbished any item/property it will instantly be worthy of winning top design awards and they will come in their thousands to admire just how clever you are.

The above are the rules the couple were working to.

But don't you find its the idiots who happily go along stumbling from one semi-success to another? Whereas those [of us] with a modicum of intelligence can't help but be put off at the outset when [we] methodically reason through the pitfalls and decide the risk is too high?

Anyone watching the latest series of Build a New Life In The Country? If you can get beyond the presenter who has clearly been briefed to study and replicate every last minutae of Kevin McClouds presenting style, it makes for a nice P'!!!!!! fix between the more widely viewed showings of HUTH/PS&L/GD.

I've only caught one episode, and for once, I was truly rooting for the couple featured, Darren & Mel who'd gone after their dream "to convert a 19th-century barn into a modern family home". Mel said 'we're just average people with average jobs' (he a car park supervisor her a personal trainer) and they were befallen by setbacks utterly out of their control; it made for a much more realistic storyline than those on PS&L/GD where they seem to be able to draw on an endlessly sprouting money tree to get their projects finished.

Their plight did very little to assuage my hairbrained whims though and I just emailed Mr. P a link to this near us. To which I received the following; "STOP LOOKING AT RIGHTMOVE OR I'LL BLOCK IT FROM YOUR PC"

lostinrates

Phirefly wrote: »

Their plight did very little to assuage my hairbrained whims though and I just emailed Mr. P a link to this near us. To which I received the following; "STOP LOOKING AT RIGHTMOVE OR I'LL BLOCK IT FROM YOUR PC"

OOOh, look for me then, I like your taste! That (plus some acrage) would pretty much fit the bill here.

Thrugelmir

Phirefly wrote: »

But don't you find its the idiots who happily go along stumbling from one semi-success to another? Whereas those [of us] with a modicum of intelligence can't help but be put off at the outset when [we] methodically reason through the pitfalls and decide the risk is too high?

Because they've been fortunate in the same way as walking walk into a casino. Going up to the roulette wheel and placing all their hard earned saved money on black. It is black. So repeat the same bet. Black again. They win. So thinking they've found the recipe for financial sucess. They mortgage their assets to increase the size of their bet.

They lose.

Unknown to them the wheel has been rigged by the casino.

The casino is life. For someone to win someone else loses.

Phirefly

lostinrates wrote: »

OOOh, look for me then, I like your taste! That (plus some acrage) would pretty much fit the bill here.

With pleasure. Dunno bout acrage, but this is the current Phirey wishlist...

http://details.vebra.com/property/1936/15380167

http://details.vebra.com/property/1936/14354072

http://details.vebra.com/property/9133/16704222

http://details.vebra.com/property/629/17726725

http://details.vebra.com/property/7884/14538436

http://details.vebra.com/property/799/17185595

See a theme emerging? I just long for a dump on the fringe of civilization. Get me some distance from the Proles. Long as there's a decent view, when our ship comes in we can flatten it and build the Phirepalace.

lostinrates

Phirefly wrote: »

With pleasure. Dunno bout acrage, but this is the current Phirey wishlist...

http://details.vebra.com/property/1936/15380167...
See a theme emerging? I just long for a dump on the fringe of civilization. Get me some distance from the Proles. Long as there's a decent view, when our ship comes in we can flatten it and build the Phirepalace.

Love that one: such good value, comparatively!

Yes, yet another similarity here:rolleyes:. We're noisy though, and as well as wanting not to see/hear anyone else much, don't fancy seeing or being heard too often.

DH wants a garden he can garden in naked. Which I'm not sure goes hand in hand with me running a business that involves, well,clients, being around :rotfl:

As regard view, I don't mind aless open view than most. I alsways think its a bit of a bummer when people buy for a view then a big ugly thing gets built in that view. So,woods or a hill for me in a dream scenrio.:o


ETA: hey, I'm the top of a page. Except I think thats another thread.

Phirefly

lostinrates wrote: »

DH wants a garden he can garden in naked. Which I'm not sure goes hand in hand with me running a business that involves, well,clients, being around

Mental images of Benny Hill style scenario with Mr LIR frolicking round naked in the middle distance while you try to sheild his modesty from the Very Nice People with random pieces of tack.

One of the nicest things about Tha Wharf is our little waterside setting, but we're still in the middle of town and our open aspect makes us effectively a living soap for anyone who happens to pass on the towpath. And our view beyond the cygnets and lillypads is of the 'owd folks home opposite. I suppose thats why I crave a bit of remoteness...

Davesnave

DH wants a garden he can garden in naked. Which I'm not sure goes hand in hand with me running a business that involves, well,clients, being around :rotfl:

No problem. It works OK for these two::p
http://www.abbeyhousegardens.co.uk/about.htm