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HIPS Scrappped, immediate effect
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this will be the next leg down in the house price crash
For sure. All those people who competitively priced their property because they were serious enough about selling to get a HIP are now up against every man and his dog dipping their toes in the market to see if putting 50% on top of the estate agents valuation gets anyone to bite now that there's nothing holding them back.
Only way is down for sure.0 -
Timber...there I said itI think....0
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I guess most of the training was in the area of the energy certificate and that stays.
From my understanding the training came in two sections you paid 6k for HIPS and a further 3-4k for the energy. I read a while back that a few training centres went bust and people had used finance through barclays to pay for it (linked with training centre) who were still demanding payment, eventhough they hadn't finished the course. People who had completed the course and were promised freelance work then found out it was oversubscribed and next to no work.Mortgage Feb 2015 £178,500 END 2043!!
MFW 2015 £100 /£1000
Watch this space, my MF end date will tumble!!0 -
We still have expensive home reports up here in Scotland. £450-£550 last time I checked.
Includes a valuation though0 -
sorryitsme wrote: »What happens to those people who trained and paid about 6k to become a freelance Hip inspector.
Unemployment benefit?“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
sorryitsme wrote: »What happens to those people who trained and paid about 6k to become a freelance Hip inspector.
Exactly the same as happens to anyone else who trains for a particular trade/profession only to find their trade/profession has been scrapped or severely curtailed for any number of reasons or that the "entry" criteria has been changed so that they're underqualified in one extreme or that the trade/profession has been deregulated and opened up to anyone at the other extreme. Sad, but that's life!0 -
sorryitsme wrote: »What happens to those people who trained and paid about 6k to become a freelance Hip inspector.
they are f*cked.
shame really, but you can't keep Hips just for these peoples sakes.0 -
All that time they were training, those poor souls never realised they'd end up as artificial Hips. If Labour get in next time, will there be replacement Hips? Or have the Hips had their chips?0
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