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UK Property to HALVE Between Now and July 29, 2010

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  • Mr.Brown_4
    Mr.Brown_4 Posts: 1,109 Forumite
    Actually a very good thread this. If you take out all the house price stuff. It flows along quite nicely.

    Let's face it we all know where prices are going anyway. I know they are going down, and Hamish knows they are going up, and everyone else knows what they know.
  • chucky
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    edited 7 March 2010 at 11:01PM
    Mr.Brown wrote: »
    Actually a very good thread this. If you take out all the house price stuff. It flows along quite nicely.
    is this why you visit the Bankruptcy and Debt Wannabe Boards?
    mewbie wrote: »
    Thank goodness I logged in. Had a meeting with an IFA later to organise first mortgage - 6 times borrowings - 200k for a one bed flat, or as my mate unkindly calls it - a sh1thole. Now if that's going to drop 50% or nearly 73k, I am going to put my life on hold for at least a year. I mean, I know women don't go out with renters, but I'd rather self abuse for (another) year than lose 73k.
    to be fair you would have been in the money and not lost £73k - how's the self abuse and the lack of women going?
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    edited 7 March 2010 at 11:06PM
    chucky wrote: »
    how's the self abuse and the lack of women going?

    Much better since I offered to show him my bagpipes.....

    (don't ask)

    Anyway....... What's with all the thread/post necromancing you've been doing lately chucky?

    Life a bit boring now that the crash is over?
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

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  • chucky
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    edited 7 March 2010 at 11:22PM
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Much better since I offered to show him my bagpipes.....

    (don't ask)

    Anyway....... What's with all the thread/post necromancing you've been doing lately chucky?

    Life a bit boring now that the crash is over?
    now, now Hamish - we don't know what is around the corner (for now)... :)

    but yes i like the wait you bait them, they always seem to bite and come back for more :eek:

    for anyone wanting to know what necromancing means
  • chucknorris
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    chucky wrote: »
    that's quite true - but people will look at you in a year or two's time and think how short-sighted you are and wonder where you've got to...

    Or maybe even a lot sooner that (refering to OP geoffky)
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  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    Or maybe even a lot sooner that (refering to OP geoffky)

    Who just bought a house.:rotfl:

    Priceless, ain't it?

    Even he doesn't believe his own spin.
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  • nembot
    nembot Posts: 1,234 Forumite
    Considering prices are upto 30% cheaper in some areas from peak, think he's done very well.

    I mean, he could of bought in 2007...
  • fatgit
    fatgit Posts: 188 Forumite
    do you have a dog?
  • System
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Who just bought a house.:rotfl:

    Priceless, ain't it?

    Even he doesn't believe his own spin.

    Gizza link to that old bean.
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  • ravenfield
    ravenfield Posts: 151 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

    In fact, all of my long term predictions have been on the pessimistic side of what has subsequently happened.

    But I've also been amongst the first to point out more positive news, and speculate it would have an impact.

    As indeed, it did.....

    So did you take advantage of your excellent prediction and went to buy lots of houses? You should have made lots of easy money by now.
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