Why all the anguish about renting?

Graham_Devon

headcone wrote: »

This forum has descended into little more than a Daily Mail circle j@rk off party

Well your post really pulled the rug from under the feet of that one didn't it!

Out,_Vile_Jelly

I can't believe I didn't think of this before! Not many plots of land lying around in London mind, but I'm sure it will be ok if I start building myself a nice shack in Hyde Park. I've never done any DIY, but I've seen some TV programmes where people paint feature walls and make their own cushions so that should suffice.

Fiddlestick

headcone wrote: »

Stop wishing for HPC which would be of benefit for you and therefore in essence detrimental to others,that is greedy lazy and spitefull.

Funny, switch HPC for HPI and you have exactly the opposing view

nembot

I think headcone is having a bad day in fantasy land.

Davesnave

Excellent. You've done very well.

TBH there's not many travellers who can make the transition that quickly.

doire_2

headcone wrote: »

Get off your backsides and do something positive.

Stop wishing for HPC which would be of benefit for you and therefore in essence detrimental to others,that is greedy lazy and spitefull.

Do what I did buy some land work you n@ts off and build a house yourself.

It`s difficult,bloody hard work but emminently possible.

The benefits are spectacular,ie mortgage free or as close as to it as possible.

There is no end of information freely available including ready made plans which can be modified to suit your own needs.

I did it and built a 5 bed 3 bath home over a period of 3 years while living in a caravan with two young kids.

It was sheer murder with days without sleep and working two jobs at once but if I did it plenty of other similarly motivated people can do too.

Stop moaning start doing!!!!

This forum has descended into little more than a Daily Mail circle j@rk off party and people should be ashamed to display such envy of others in a better position.

Are you on the glue again?

doire_2

Sibley wrote: »

That sums the HPC gang up. Best ever post I've seen on the subject. :beer:

Its posts like this that i wish we still had the rolleyes smiley

Davesnave

doire wrote: »

Its posts like this that i wish we still had the rolleyes smiley

Have one on me. I imported some from Belgium. Not quite the real thing, but from a casual glance you'd never know. :A

Chris2685

Is this a joke?

OK, sure, it might be possible. But really, I'd rather rent than do a bodge job on building a house that I built myself! There is no way I would be able to do it properly myself, and I don't know ANY builders, plumbers OR electricians who could help me...

Also, where on earth do I buy land from that I can actually build on? I think I am right in saying that land is usually a third of the price of a new build development, so say a house I wanted to build would be worth 300k (I think if I was going to build it myself I would want to build a decent sized one!), that means I need to first have 100k to build with. Then I would need to somehow buy all the building materials and then plod on building, and no doubt making several mistakes along the way costing me thousands of man hours.

No thanks, I'll just rent until I can afford to buy. Cheers for the idea though.

chucky

Chris2685 wrote: »

Is this a joke?

OK, sure, it might be possible. But really, I'd rather rent than do a bodge job on building a house that I built myself! There is no way I would be able to do it properly myself, and I don't know ANY builders, plumbers OR electricians who could help me...

Also, where on earth do I buy land from that I can actually build on? I think I am right in saying that land is usually a third of the price of a new build development, so say a house I wanted to build would be worth 300k (I think if I was going to build it myself I would want to build a decent sized one!), that means I need to first have 100k to build with. Then I would need to somehow buy all the building materials and then plod on building, and no doubt making several mistakes along the way costing me thousands of man hours.

No thanks, I'll just rent until I can afford to buy. Cheers for the idea though.

funny you say that - someone on here (can't remember who it was) reckons that it costs only £12k to build a house