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A question for the regulars planning to buy houses

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  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Dan: wrote: »
    Graham, you bought into shared ownership a few years back.

    Thanks for informing me. I dunno what I would do without you Dan.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    I have a 2 bed house, shared ownership. Two parking spaces. A bathroom (with a bath), one of those funky new age kitchen diners with no space for the diner part, and one tree takes up my entire front garden.
    Now you're just trying to impress me.
    I don't generally go out the back so I dont really know what's out there.
    That's not what the word on the street says.

    I don't have a cat as I'd be tempted to swing it, just so I could make a complaint about the size of the rooms.

    I do, however, have a loft.

    Can I go back on the list!?
    Begging is soooo cute.
    I've put you on the reserves.
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    Ahaaaaa

    It's not quite shiny new. Like Cleaver, I'm down with it, and as I too have bought scruffy jeans, I thought I'd do the same with a house.

    I have a 2 bed house, shared ownership. Two parking spaces. A bathroom (with a bath), one of those funky new age kitchen diners with no space for the diner part, and one tree takes up my entire front garden. I don't generally go out the back so I dont really know what's out there.

    Do you literally not know what's out the back of your house? How exciting. You could open your back door and find a jungle. Or a set of singing swans. Or a series of blue cats floating in brine.
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
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    hey pn! i thought i was the only one with a list around here! :mad: :rotfl:

    whos your top 5? ;)
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • Dan:_4
    Dan:_4 Posts: 3,795 Forumite
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    Thanks for informing me. I dunno what I would do without you Dan.

    So, now back to my orgional point - it will be difficult for you to get shot of this if your in NE.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    Do you literally not know what's out the back of your house? How exciting. You could open your back door and find a jungle. Or a set of signing swans. Or a series of blue cats floating in brine.

    That's what I do find.

    And I did go out there once and found a snake.

    So generally I sh*t my knickers about the thought of going out there now.

    Last owner just slabbed it all over. I could go out there and just, well, I dunno, spose theres a whole load of fun times I'm missing with a garden full of slabs and nothing else.

    Could build a wall I guess.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Dan: wrote: »
    So, now back to my orgional point - it will be difficult for you to get shot of this if your in NE.

    Again - Thanks for informing me Dan. I dunno what I would do without you.

    :undecided
  • Dan:_4
    Dan:_4 Posts: 3,795 Forumite
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    Again - Thanks for informing me Dan. I dunno what I would do without you.

    :undecided

    Well don't bang on about "being a mortgage slave" and then deny you have one.
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    I'm going out for a run. If Graham kills Dan in a fit of pure rage can someone fill me in on the details later? Cheers.

    By the way, are you aware you're in negative equity Graham? Just thought I'd point that out. That can happen when you buy a flat though.
  • leveller2911
    leveller2911 Posts: 8,061 Forumite
    edited 14 September 2009 at 8:22PM
    For me it purely down to affordability.I know what I can afford to borrow for a mortgage together with my deposit currently £35k.Mortgage would be £90k so I need to look at houses around £125k.
    I need to stay in the area due to my business,alas at present cheap mid terraced houses are going for £180k.
    I am a realist so if it happends it happends if it doesn't then I will still live my life,thats more important to me.
    Believe it or not my main reason for wanting to buy is purely down to being able to "stamp my identity" on it as Im a joiner(nice hand built kitchen,small conservatory,hand made doors etc etc etc,rather than any future increase in value.
    I have looked into shared ownership but its just not for me..

    Also looked for self builds groups but they seem to be a thing of the past....Land prices are the main barrier.It always use to be land was 30% of the build cost, now its nearer 100%
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