Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

In the meantime, could you make a few bob out of it renting it to a local Car Boot Sale organiser? Or is it not that big/full of veggies....?

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

In the meantime, could you make a few bob out of it renting it to a local Car Boot Sale organiser? Or is it not that big/full of veggies....?

I think it's land-locked.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I think it's land-locked.

I thought he had maintained a road access.

Edit: Found it http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=44143240&postcount=7388

Suddenly, we needed the second garden to store lots of equipment, building materials and plants, and in order to get into it ourselves, we had to give it independent access.

Sounds like it's full of veggies though.

John_Pierpoint

PasturesNew wrote: »

Every time I go to my website, night or day, there is always 60-90 people on it. Scarey.

That is better than many of the subsections of the MSE web site achieves;)

Davesnave wrote: »

Got the agent's quote for selling our old garden yesterday and not sure that we like it:

£1k for a sale price of £20k
£2k for a sale price of £20-25k
£3k for a sale price of £25-30k
£4k for a sale price of £30k+

Personally, I think we could get to £20k without him, but it's worth paying £1k to keep out of the frame. The rest looks a little steep and I don't like the stepped scale as opposed to a true sliding one.:(

He argues that as he may have to negotiate with a number of different people, value their houses with & without the land/access etc it will involve him in more work. I say we could pretty well value the houses off the Internet (two have sold in the last year) so that's twaddle. Anyway, will they take much notice of what he says, as he's working for us?

What do you folk think? The needs of country folk mean that I will be on a major foraging expedition in a short while, so won't be around for a few hours, but I'll be back later.

I missed the start of this saga - was it when I was on holiday recently?.
At those prices you are paying to have the land taken away.
If you "click" with an estate agent he can earn this fee by getting you a better price than you could get yourself.
It can help if the principal as well as the agent gets involved - some people don't trust agents (surprise!) nor do they trust principals hiding behind agents, even when there is no skulduggery what so ever.

I've been involved in selling 5 interests in land in the last dozen and a half years - two of them with houses on them. All something to do with the estates of deceased relatives.

2.5 of the transactions involved an estate agent.

One of the transactions involved agricultural grazing land, not a million miles away from your neck of the woods (Devon?!)
I agreed 2.25% (if I remember correctly) for the 4 fields (one an SSSI, one the size of a tennis court but two with ransom value.
(Would you want travellers or boot sales at the bottom of your garden or looking down into your garden from the other side of the road?)

Why are you selling.

Let me know here or by PM if you want further information or thoughts.

John.

BTW
If you do the lottery, thanks guys and girls, "you" bought the SSSI.

PS Presumably this land does NOT have "hope value"?
Might have ransom value - what are the neighbouring people like?
Agricultural land or garden land or neither?

PasturesNew

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

(Would you want travellers or boot sales at the bottom of your garden or looking down into your garden from the other side of the road?)

The land is his ex-garden, where he moved from.
It's not where he is now/adjacent.

John_Pierpoint

Even more scope for getting a ransom price from his ex neighbours:D
(I have had some grief from my neighbour selling a plot of land to someone, without offering me a chance to buy it first - currently growing a nice crop of Ragwort)
http://www.natural-animal-health.co.uk/ragwort.htm

silvercar

All the agent can add is the distance that Dave wants to keep between himself and his neighbours.

I suppose also there is the risk that the neighbours get notes through their door and all do nothing, in the anticipation that one neighbour will take the lead and galvanise the group.

PasturesNew

*does the muneh dance*
New 'thing' I bought 3 weeks ago's just paid for itself.... might be others, but this one "sale" as a direct result of buying something to become organised results in me receiving an instant email. Other things I'd have to go round and log in/look, or wait for a random payment to turn up in 2 months, never knowing the sale was made today.

So .... 2pm today - today's income is 2xNMW. I'm so quite good at this lark.

Doozergirl

I've got a stinking cold and am at that point where I'm seriously considering twisting up some tissue, sticking it up each nostril and leaving it there.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

I've got a stinking cold and am at that point where I'm seriously considering twisting up some tissue, sticking it up each nostril and leaving it there.

You can get some capsules that dry up the symptoms. And they actually work. I used to have some about 35 years ago when I was swimming .... and they worked then. Stuff like that's even better these days.

They were little see through capsules filled with microscopic balls.

Any chemist will have them .... and it'll stop you looking like a JK MOM.