Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

I feel we need to work through this as a team Pastures. Always go and look, but what makes you think it is the "wrong sort of house" and in the "wrong area"? I don't know if we'll be able to help on the latter, but lots of us on here, will have lived in lots of different types of houses so we may be able to help you with any concerns you have about the first one.

It's an old old 1-bed cottage that's been "gentrified" by people with London-style aspirations

So the conservatory add on doubles the ground floor.

But it's in an unfashionable village of no note, outside of the grim/unfashionable parts of the centre of the county. It's 2-3 miles to the beach, up a lane, by some rough looking ground. There's no railway line anywhere near and no jobs for 10-15+ miles (I mean none, not few).

It needs to be 20 miles south, with a sea view ... for £20k less.

It's actually overpriced too, by about 30%, based on size/location - and it would only be bought by somebody who didn't know/understand the dynamics of the area, who fell in love with the posh touches.

Elsewhere, there's a "doable" bolthole, which started at £125k and is now down to £90k.... which is annoying because a completely undoable bolthole 5 miles from that started also at £125k and is now down to £60k. If the first one were £60k I'd be there viewing it now.

Let's face it - there's no shortage of actual houses really... no rush. Thousands out there I could afford.

lemonjelly

All I can say lir is good luck.

PM me/us if you need.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

so I just found out ...

Look on the bright side, which I know you try to - it's treatable. So there's a d4mned good chance she'll do that, feel !!!!!! for the summer, then come out the other side OK.

The trouble comes when they don't get offered it as it's untreatable.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's an old old 1-bed cottage that's been "gentrified" by people with London-style aspirations

So the conservatory add on doubles the ground floor.

But it's in an unfashionable village of no note, outside of the grim/unfashionable parts of the centre of the county. It's 2-3 miles to the beach, up a lane, by some rough looking ground. There's no railway line anywhere near and no jobs for 10-15+ miles (I mean none, not few).

It needs to be 20 miles south, with a sea view ... for £20k less.

It's actually overpriced too, by about 30%, based on size/location - and it would only be bought by somebody who didn't know/understand the dynamics of the area, who fell in love with the posh touches.

Elsewhere, there's a "doable" bolthole, which started at £125k and is now down to £90k.... which is annoying because a completely undoable bolthole 5 miles from that started also at £125k and is now down to £60k. If the first one were £60k I'd be there viewing it now.

Let's face it - there's no shortage of actual houses really... no rush. Thousands out there I could afford.

Are you still actively looking for work? If you were mortgage free could you live off the net stuff?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Look on the bright side, which I know you try to - it's treatable. So there's a d4mned good chance she'll do that, feel !!!!!! for the summer, then come out the other side OK.

The trouble comes when they don't get offered it as it's untreatable.

Thanks. And LJ. And missk who helped with stage one of this.

TBH, I supose the real issue isnt the cancer itself, its the relationship. Not every going to be resolvable completely yet still rankles that it can't be.

edit: tough on my parents, both reasonably physically healthy (one dose of treatable cancer, one with a thyroid condition) that they have had rotten luck with both of their kids' health.

lemonjelly

PN ever thought of building your own?

PasturesNew

I'll try to keep this straight forward .... this weekend I am porting over one website to another one, so I can tidy it up - and hoping I don't crash and burn the last 5 years' efforts.

My main website will stay exactly as it is... but I have always had a 2nd domain name I registered and just "pointed" it at the first one, so if you typed in that name you'd be instantly forwarded to the main site. And late last night (about 2am), I decided that I needed to get all the content from the website over to the 2nd domain name in its own right - in Wordpress instead of the other system it uses. This is a manual process as I need to nit pick through every page, and there are probably 200+ pages.

The objective is to use the existing content as a base, to improve and expand my google traffic. Also to ditch the !!!!!! pages. And to tidy up the ad zones. So I'll then have two very similar websites, with core stuff almost the same (it can't be a duplicate or Mr G will hate it)... and it'll be more manageable than my old website.

The thing is, I am hoping to do this without Mr G hating my old website as that is where 85% of its traffic comes from - and where 90% of my income comes from. The website either generates income directly, or sends people to other sites that make me some cash. So that one main old website being affected would be a devastating blow.

And there's really nothing I can do except cross my fingers and hope that by separating the two domain names and quickly (this week) building a 2nd similar website that I'll actually increase my market share.

It'll be annoying, long-winded, never-ending, relentless, dull, tedious ... and at times 'all too much'.... but I need to do this.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Are you still actively looking for work? If you were mortgage free could you live off the net stuff?

I need to have the potential to actively look for work - and, if settled, would probably actually seek some work.

Yes, the net currently brings me in the equivalent of about a NMW job, without having to dress up, brush my hair and go dance the tune of the man Mon-Fri 9-5.

But my 'new hobby' really needs space to be trialled, as a potential 2nd income.... and I need space to stop me going mad.

So I continually evaluate every property that comes to market, whether rental or to buy... and nothing makes me vaguely excited whatsoever.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

PN ever thought of building your own?

Thought, randomly see land on RM, but it's never in the right place. And it seems that those with PP on them are for the wrong type of house. It seems bits of land have PP for 4-bed detached houses.... I'd be happy with a well designed 2-bed detached, so then I'd probably want to put in for a Change of PP to two 2-bed detached... and some jobsworth would probably knock it back.

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

Thought, randomly see land on RM, but it's never in the right place. And it seems that those with PP on them are for the wrong type of house. It seems bits of land have PP for 4-bed detached houses.... I'd be happy with a well designed 2-bed detached, so then I'd probably want to put in for a Change of PP to two 2-bed detached... and some jobsworth would probably knock it back.

Fair enough, & a sensible response.
It just occurred to me, as it seems that you have a pretty good idea of what you are looking for. I see you post up a number of "potentials" but a few posts later post a list of reasons why the property is unsuitable. just wondered whether self building would sort this out?:)