Property Snakes and Ladders; 2009

lostinrates

moneysavinmonkey wrote: »

Just rewatched last 30seconds on 4OD.... it is definately the woman I thought who is facing the 500k loss. Oh dear, although she seems to have plenty of other revenue streams so perhaps can swallow it more than others who have sunk all their life savings into a project.

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Gosh, good detective work. what is her sport, I wonder. I tried to gt aclue from the medals, but no one's sport can be in electric fans

Doozergirl

Kets wrote: »

Hi my first post so I hope that you'll go easy on me. I watched this show and couldn't quite make head or tale of the profit figures for the oast house so I checked on the programme website and here's what I found. Purchase price £225000 Build Cost £225000 Total £450000 Valuation £495000 Profit £81000 Am I missing something here??

Welcome

There were two valuations of £550k as well. Ms Beeny takes the average figure of the three valuations to calculate the potential profit/loss. Average is £531,000 hence the £81,000 figure.

moneysavinmonkey

lostinrates wrote: »

Gosh, good detective work. what is her sport, I wonder. I tried to gt aclue from the medals, but no one's sport can be in electric fans

got that feeling when you know a face so quickly tracked her down!! google is your friend!

if you are able to drag you eyes away from her 'medals' her sport is listed just below! incase you can't - it's powerboat racing!

PasturesNew

She's a powerboater.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

Is that a genuine question? A kitchen breakfast room fits a small table, a kitchen diner comfortably fits a proper dining table.

There's no denying that much of it is for marketing purposes, but how do you quickly convey something to someone who can't decipher what the written down measurements of the room mean to how you can use it? It quickly tells you that you can eat it it which will quickly tick a box for some people.

Yes, its a genuine question! I've seen huge ''kitchen breakfast rooms, wher the breakfast bit is bigger than a dining room in a more modest house, so it must be something to do with proportion too.

How I'd convey is probably a picture, or a floor plan, showing a little table bt I have no complaint about using kitchen/diner etc on sales particulars: I just find it a bit odd when people talk about them when not in a descriptive way -''Come through my property to have a cup of tea in my kitchen/diner''

wageslave

Sapphire wrote: »

Personally, I thought what was done to the house with the bread oven was utterly hideous – totally out of style with the building; horribly bland plastic-looking stuff everywhere; hideous chandeliers; all of the interesting features ripped out.

I have one of their chandeliers in the paen to Barbie that is my daughters bedroom. She fell in love with it in Homebase and I graciously conceded to the purchase when I saw the 50 quid price tag.
Their taste seems on a par with hers. Top end finish my artichoke.

PasturesNew

Kets wrote: »

Hi my first post so I hope that you'll go easy on me. I watched this show and couldn't quite make head or tale of the profit figures for the oast house so I checked on the programme website and here's what I found. Purchase price £225000 Build Cost £225000 Total £450000 Valuation £495000 Profit £81000 Am I missing something here??

And Loss of Face on national TV: priceless

lostinrates

moneysavinmonkey wrote: »

got that feeling when you know a face so quickly tracked her down!! google is your friend!

if you are able to drag you eyes away from her 'medals' her sport is listed just below! incase you can't - it's powerboat racing!

aha, I didn'trelate that too her,I thought it was a headline for something else

Doozergirl

nearlynew wrote: »

The point is you don't have to say anything. When I come to view I can see for myself what I want to do with this "space".
I might want a table in the kitchen, I might not.

It is estate agent bull-!!!!!! that looks good in the advert.

What if it was described as a "small kitchen diner"

I'd refer you to my post before this last one of yours. You can't stick a blank piece of paper in an EA window or a blank page on RM and expect people to view the property. You have to describe it. Concisely.

With the small amount of time someone takes to eliminate a potential property, how does someone get you in to see the big kitchen with room for a table in the first place?

The advert needs to look good. It's not BS though because you can dine in the kitchen - what's BS about it? A mews property has a garage underneath doesn't it? They were made for horses surely, the description was born before the advent of the modern Estate Agent.

You might not like it and choose to scoff but you'd understand the description before you had time to decipher the very physical descriptions you've come up with. You'd probably get fed up and complain about that!

bluey890

Why do some people on this thread like to make fun of others misfortune?