Property Snakes and Ladders; 2009

nearlynew

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'd refer you to my post before this last one of yours. It is there to convey something quickly. 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 need 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'd come up with. You'd probably get fed up and complain about that!

It 's a brief description of something that exists.

OK OK You've convinced me.

I will inform mrs new that our large kithcen shall henceforth be referred to as
"the kitchen diner space"

Right, it's getting late.
I'm off to my first floor sleeping space.

Goodnight.

wageslave

bluey890 wrote: »

Why do people like to make fun of others misfortune?

Well I cant speak for anyone else but it cheers me up immensely.

lostinrates

bluey890 wrote: »

Why do people like to make fun of others misfortune?

Thats an old question: ask a clown.

But this isn't purely misfortune- part of it lack of planning, lack of preparation and lack of knowledge: all things that could be prevented, and they have good fortun too, the luck of being chosen to get advice from a successful person, and then ignore that advice often!

, and I'm not exactly laughing - though I do like to seethe comedic in things.

Doozergirl

nearlynew wrote: »

OK OK You've convinced me.

I will inform mrs new that our large kithcen shall henceforth be referred to as
"the kitchen diner space"

Right, it's getting late.
I'm off to my first floor sleeping space.

Goodnight.

Super. Think of me when she does

That would be your Master Suite would it not? Come on!

Night!

dopester

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??

Yes.. the profit. It hasn't be sold yet. A valuation is only a valuation... someone's opinion on what it could be worth. It is not a completed transaction and money in the bank.

Also I think the show, for valuations, took the average of the values given by the EAs.. £495K and £550K if I recall correctly. Not just £495K.

PasturesNew

I don't want to ever own a table, in any room. Damned big things cluttering up rooms... then there's that whole having to choose one thing ... and with a table, well, you would need table cloths and placemats, then good cutlery. Then it's posh plates (no more 19p ones from Ikea) ... and glasses. Then serving dishes.

Oh, then friends ...

What a load of old tosh and a waste of space. I just want a breakfast bar that doubles up as an eating space, workspace, food preparation space.

I do just want one big L shaped room really. Just me, all open plan.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't want to ever own a table, in any room. Damned big things cluttering up rooms... then there's that whole having to choose one thing ... and with a table, well, you would need table cloths and placemats, then good cutlery. Then it's posh plates (no more 19p ones from Ikea) ... and glasses. Then serving dishes.

Oh, then friends ...

What a load of old tosh and a waste of space. I just want a breakfast bar that doubles up as an eating space, workspace, food preparation space.

I do just want one big L shaped room really. Just me, all open plan.

I have mismatched antique and vintage and new plates etc and have had fancy people eat at them, no complaints. No need for serving dishes, serve in the kitchen. You probably do need placemats to protect the table.

As for friends, well, you can host the debat HP forum nutters cinvention. We'd attend.

seven-day-weekend

I too tend to think dining rooms are a waste of space unless you entertain frequently. I'd rather have another sitting room/study/bedroom/ games room/plants room/dressing room/library.

Doozergirl

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I too tend to think dining rooms are a waste of space unless you entertain frequently. I'd rather have another sitting room/study/bedroom/ games room/plants room/dressing room/library.

Mmmm. Dressing Room

We'll never have a separate dining room. I get lonely cooking and need the dining table in there. How much I cook directly correlates to how much company I have in the room. No company = no dinner!

H made me sell the house with the kitchen right in the middle. result = take aways.

dopester

bluey890 wrote: »

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

Again, both couples tonight already owned their own homes already. The older couple being Paul Clayton (a psychologist) and wife Karen, (a telecoms manager).

Why does nearly every muppet think they are property-developers to sell at a whacking great profit?

When they take on those risks, leverage their own homes, push values up to ever greater insane extremes, price out FTBs... well they made their own decisions.

In tonight's show both couples were prepared to risk hundreds of thousands of pounds with scant knowledge about listed buildings, and the resulting problems it caused them. Laughable.