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And another bear bites the dust... mbga9pgf's epiphany....
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new_home_owner wrote: »Who said anything about green shoots, the housing maket is going to crash 30 percent the only reason i am buying is im getting 30% off and i reckon my house will be like geofkkys and it will go up 50,000 pounds a month after i buy it lol.:rotfl:
:rotfl::rotfl:
Oh i forgot geof paid cash thats why he got 30 percent off, if yours is that much of a bargain whats going to happen when a cash buyer comes in at the last minute..:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::T
Stop being an annoying little !!!!. I couldnt give a frig if prices fall 50% more in a year, or if they level for the next 50 years. We have almost have a home for life, thats all I have worked,tired, slaved for the last 5 years.
Its not about making money.0 -
Stop being an annoying little !!!!. I couldnt give a frig if prices fall 50% more in a year, or if they level for the next 50 years. We have almost have a home for life, thats all I have worked,tired, slaved for the last 5 years.
Its not about making money.
its all about saving money and the housing crash has done us proud,,,,,great little money savers that we are..:T:T:T:TIt is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.0 -
Is this an early nominee for pettiest thread of 2010?0
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hold on a sec Geoff, you're coming across a bit of a fantasist...its all about saving money and the housing crash has done us proud,,,,,great little money savers that we are..:T:T:T:T
you've claimed in the past to have a bank account that had a cash amount of 7 figures (that's over a £1 million for the hard of reading Graham et al) but you've just bought a house a quarter of that value. something ain't adding up here sunshine...
you telling porkies again:eek:0 -
Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »Is this really what the internet was invented for?
Yeah pretty much
Seriously though - it's funny to see the extreme bulls and extreme bears fighting it out amongst themselves. Talking of the internet, it is really interesting to see how people's opinions alter over time - and not just on this site - on HPC as well.
I'll make my usual disclaimer of saying that I'm neither a bear or a bull....
It was interesting to see how some of the bears on HPC were crowing about N% drops 70% off etc. etc. then there would be a 2-3 month silence, and they're back saying that they've bought and they're happy etc. etc.. but a few months before, anyone who bought at this time was a fool!
I think also, there are often other powers at work. Whilst some members of MSE and HPC are blatantly posting from their Mum's attic, some appear to have girlfriends/wives. Isn't it interesting that most of the extreme bulls/bears are male? Anyway, Mr. Bear might be holding out for the extreme drops, but if Mrs. Bear says "I'm fed up of renting and I want to buy now", then things change.
Some of the bulls aren't much better. First there wasn't going to be a crash, and then it wasn't a crash it was a "correction" etc. etc..0 -
new_home_owner wrote: »I told you i could remember him posting about only having 30,000 pound and now the man has saved more than what him and his partner earn, he his just another walter mitty, just like geofkky....
It just goes to show whilst he was coming on here preaching and hoping house preices would fall, he also had his monopoly money out adding it to his real money, ive never known so many losers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exactly - pure fantasist - said he earnt £50K a year - £2450 net is about £42K a year (got a barrage of abuse about that as he couldn't work out gross and net salary). Another thread he said he saved £5K a month - hasn't even got that coming in (that got me the 'cockmunch' comment when I pointed that out)
He spouted a barrage of abuse at me when I picked holes in his arguements and vile attacks on the elderly. He then assumed I was elderly and in negative equity which contradicted his whole arguement about the elderly being cash rich becasue of their property position.
He said he worked in the airline industry - I suspect he sweeps the tarmac judging by his language and posted inconsistencies of how much he has earned / saved etc.
Good riddance - poor Canada is all I can say.0 -
Yeah pretty much

Seriously though - it's funny to see the extreme bulls and extreme bears fighting it out amongst themselves. Talking of the internet, it is really interesting to see how people's opinions alter over time - and not just on this site - on HPC as well.
I'll make my usual disclaimer of saying that I'm neither a bear or a bull....
I wouldnt say i was a extreme bull or bear and if i am show me a post when i have been, the only thing that really does my head in are people who lie and then try and back pedal to say they never said that
Whether its true or not that house prices have gone up 10 percent in the last 12 months, i dont know but reports everywhere say they have.
Now you have geoffkky and mgbadjf saying on here 12 months ago house prices are going to crash, which clearly hasnt happened, then the pair of them say they have bought or buying and they have got 40 and 30 percent off from peak prices.
Its nice to see each of them congratulating themselves on becoming house owners, but is that really the case?
I think they are both lying, just to save face, if house prices do fall like they have both been telling us for the last 2 years, they are going to look like a right pair of plonkers, especially now they have both flapped and bought.
Oh know them 2 will be alright geoffs house has gone up 50,000 in a month and mgfaded has had a whopping 30 percent of his repo.;);););)0 -
Stop being an annoying little !!!!. I couldnt give a frig if prices fall 50% more in a year, or if they level for the next 50 years. We have almost have a home for life, thats all I have worked,tired, slaved for the last 5 years.
Its not about making money.
:D so why have you been telling people house prices are going down bigtime for the last two years?
What a waste, all them post's you and geoff have made only to scurry off and buy half way through your predictions of massive falls.
You two are a prize pair of pr!cks, and i dont think you need me to tell you this, you both have made yourselves look like it by your own actions.
And thats if its true.0 -
So, how buying 30% off market peak am I at a loss? 30%-40% was always my goal anyways.
Shame your figures got blown out of the water you prize cnt
peak when. peak this year?last year? 3 years ago.5 years ago or 1984?
What figures you said you earnt 70,000 pounds, the figures i done were wrong but they was still below 60,000 pound, so whos the prize cnt?0 -
your wage after tax 2450 a month x 12 = 29400 a year
your wifes wage after tax 1300 a month x 12 = 15600 a year
If you add tax of 20 percent has you both earn less than 40,000, the total for you and you wifes gross earnings are 29400 + 15600 + 20 percent tax = 54000
£54000 is not 70,000,
Now i might have got my figures wrong but so have you and your the one who told everyone it was more like 70,0000
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