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The Wilsons are going under.

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  • dopester
    dopester Posts: 4,890 Forumite
    edited 7 March 2010 at 9:50PM
    carolt wrote: »
    Wow, amazing detective work, dopester!

    Thanks, but if it is the correct house, then it was just a simple goal-hanging tap-in after Poppy10 did the main work of setting it up.

    Also I'm not 100% convinced it's correct.

    Just doing a search of the street name and postcode, I've unexpectedly clicked on this as my first result. I'm still unsure.. it's close but maybe not it.

    Manor House Drive, Kingsnorth, TN23 2 bedroom terraced house to rent - £162 per week (£700 per month).

    On Globrix for over 2 months.

    wilsonhousemaybe.jpg

    P1030322.JPGhttp://www.globrix.com/property-details/20232455-manor_house_drive-kingsnorth-tn23-2_bed-terraced_house
    Leading to similar: http://www.expertagent.co.uk/EstateAgentSoftware/EstateAgencyProperties.aspx?pid=0c54b8eb

    a%3E
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    So not on sale at all, but to rent.

    The plot thickens, as the web of lies and utter !!!!!!!! becomes murkier... :eek:
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Hmmmm... not sure its the same house. As you pointed out Dopester, the roof tiles are a different colour, but also the burglar alarm boxes are in slightly different positions?

    Definitely look like they are identical 'models' though :)
  • dopester
    dopester Posts: 4,890 Forumite
    Nikkster wrote: »
    Hmmmm... not sure its the same house. As you pointed out Dopester, the roof tiles are a different colour, but also the burglar alarm boxes are in slightly different positions?

    Definitely look like they are identical 'models' though :)

    A drain pipe in a different position too. Although it is possible it could have been improvement work over a few years - our gutters are about to be changed at this house - but perhaps not either.

    A really strange coincidence that the one possible match we've found is also up for rent though. :rotfl:

    In the PDF link from the rental info pages, you get a bigger pic. This is the last transaction data for number 14 (I think it's 14 from the pic) from houseprices.co.uk.

    14, Manor House Drive

    02/08/2002
    £94,500
    Ter.
    F
    New Build: No

    http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=TN23+3LP&s=71&n=10
  • These two greedy chancers need locking up. And not just for crimes against fashion.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Nikkster wrote: »
    Hmmmm... not sure its the same house. As you pointed out Dopester, the roof tiles are a different colour, but also the burglar alarm boxes are in slightly different positions?

    Definitely look like they are identical 'models' though :)


    Doesn't it feel a bit...depressing, that that is how similar houses are nowadays? Tile colour and drainpipes? Not...oh yes, that's Mr wilsons house...had it made with that grey water drain to the south side to more easily water his prize winning marrows, and the master bedroom window on the side with the view of the pub, so he could see when Mrs wilson was on her way home...or some such peculiarity of personality?
  • Mr.Brown_4
    Mr.Brown_4 Posts: 1,109 Forumite
    I'd like to agree with you, but there are whole estates of identical 1930's houses, or Victorian / Edwardian terraces. In some ways the new build large developments do offer different 'styles'. There is just something so depressing about the deliberate built in differences. My main hate is roads that go nowhere, just round and round more houses. How it is possible to get completely lost. See no one walking. No shops.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Mr.Brown wrote: »
    My main hate is roads that go nowhere, just round and round more houses. How it is possible to get completely lost. See no one walking. No shops.
    they're called roundabouts - i find taking the exit that says where you're going helps
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Mr.Brown wrote: »
    I'd like to agree with you, but there are whole estates of identical 1930's houses, or Victorian / Edwardian terraces. In some ways the new build large developments do offer different 'styles'. There is just something so depressing about the deliberate built in differences. My main hate is roads that go nowhere, just round and round more houses. How it is possible to get completely lost. See no one walking. No shops.


    Yes, that's true, but often those very of their style period houses have a feel too....e.g. some I can think of near here are identifiable from others by the colour of the stone ...along the grey stone up near bristol, the pale gold on the bath side then the richer gold down in south somerset. Then there is the breaking up for a parade of shops, or the odd old house to pretty to knock down at the end of the road, and the ge getting greater as one walks to wards what wuld have been the old centre...not just endless, faux curvy lines f the same lego bricks.

    I guess it is all down o roof tile colour after all. :o
  • Pobby
    Pobby Posts: 5,438 Forumite
    No doubt I will be flamed for telling another gloomy tale.The nice youngish couple next door have just got a BTL. Had it on the go for 4 months. This week end he was moaning to me that the rent is not getting paid in full. The place is getting shabby and the mortgage is not getting covered. They are evicting in a couple of months. Then he tells me his firm is going to close down in the next year or so and he needs to get mortgage in insurance on his own place.

    Right old game.
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