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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    a courtyard garden isn't much use to a family of 6
    It is commonplace in Cornwall for houses in towns to not have any garden, just a courtyard, takes a lot of getting used to, but then you realise that if you're in most towns, they just never bothered with gardens. So, for a similar house in the area, the garden size wouldn't be an issue.

    Also, mostly, 6-bed houses aren't bought for families.... they're bought by people who want to run a B&B, or have a lot of room for people/family to come and stay, or aspirations of opening a surf lodge. Or, the other one they WERE doing ... is splitting places into flats. You can get a good 3 flats out of one of those, if the layout's right. If somebody were looking for a family house, they'd not be looking "in" town, on that road... mostly.

    There's always a few quid to be made hanging a sign out and taking in random people in the summer months....
  • bristol_pilot
    bristol_pilot Posts: 2,235 Forumite
    Hmmm. Thinking about retiring to Newquay now....buy a 6 bed for the price of a bedsit round my way and have a few surf dudes to stay from time to time. Could be quite pleasant.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Hmmm. Thinking about retiring to Newquay now....buy a 6 bed for the price of a bedsit round my way and have a few surf dudes to stay from time to time. Could be quite pleasant.
    The last thing it would be would be pleasant, truth be known.

    It's not as idyllic as it sounds.

    Genuine surfers are quiet, sports-loving, good types .. but as the sport and area became more popular, a surf lodge is most likely to be populated by lager-swilling, fat, loud blokes down for a stag weekend ... or, long-term, unemployed weed-smoking idiots just hanging about the place like a bad smell.

    Six to a room in bunkbeds, £25/night ... it does make some money .... if you're the type to be able to manage rowdy troublemakers with a strong sense of entitlement.

    Holidaymakers, surfer dudes .... none of them are like we imagine in our little dreams. They turn out to be loud, drunken, uncouth, yobs and scum a lot of the time. People who feel that they're miles from home and are there to just enjoy themselves.... which invariably means making the lives of others hell.

    You'd need a good water tight shed just to keep the new mattresses in when they pee them... that happens a LOT when blokes drink too much. If I've heard one story from a lodge/B&B/hotel about guests who wet the bed, I've heard 100 of them.
  • darkblue_2
    darkblue_2 Posts: 676 Forumite
    You'd need a good water tight shed just to keep the new mattresses in when they pee them... that happens a LOT when blokes drink too much. If I've heard one story from a lodge/B&B/hotel about guests who wet the bed, I've heard 100 of them.

    Wow. I feel a little part of my sense of humanity has been chipped away. That's worrying.
  • bristol_pilot
    bristol_pilot Posts: 2,235 Forumite
    LOL...maybe not then. I only know a few surfers and they're all of the quiet sporty type.
  • brownbake
    brownbake Posts: 561 Forumite
    Maybe it is because the house is way above the ceiling price for the road and it is surrounded by dodgy types.

    Doesn't look all that either, sorry but looks a bit tacky..
  • darkblue_2
    darkblue_2 Posts: 676 Forumite
    I wouldn't say tacky, but the living area has lots of nick nacks that could be hidden before a viewing so that people can imagine their own items there and it would make the place seem bigger. Your eyes tend to stick to objects when there are things out, rather than taking in the size.

    Magnolia throughout? I'm never keen on that, although my recent move has led me to one. It was in spite, rather than because of it.
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    I'll look at surfers in different light after today, that's for sure.....

    Does the ground floor bedroom bear classification as a 'Family Room'?

    Surfers aside, I'm still seeing 5/6 beds as a family house...... without knowing the area.
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    ...but back to the OP, and I think there's people up and down this country who would regard 3 viewings and 1 repeat viewing in 6 weeks as 'busy', and would maybe bite the OP's hand off for this level of interest.......
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite

    You'd need a good water tight shed just to keep the new mattresses in when they pee them... that happens a LOT when blokes drink too much. If I've heard one story from a lodge/B&B/hotel about guests who wet the bed, I've heard 100 of them.

    When we've been surfing, I've been far too tired to be drinking all night too! Early bedtime, and up for the tide (-:
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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