Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

michaels

Lydia (or anyone else) I found my DD1 (rising 7) watching a fairly unsuitable Rihanna song on youtube (good song tho) and realised I need to put in place internet controls now. Have you investigated the best way to achieve this as your DKs are a little older?

Davesnave

michaels wrote: »

I find locally spending 50k to bring a house up to designer standard adds 100k to the selling price and achieves a much quicker sale - there are clearly a subset of buyers who put great value on 'move in condition'

I think I understand that too. With the frenetic lives some people lead, the prospect of project managing, doing without and devising workarounds would be scary. More money, but maybe more time to make money too.;)

TBH I'd have willingly paid another £50k to have this place with a 'normal' layout and decor, rather than the tatty and quirky set up we inherited. However, as one of the last sub-£300k properties in Devon with outbuildings and more than token acreage, it was this or nothing. At least it is very solid!

neverdespairgirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

bit odd, i suppose it just reflects that most people only applied for the popular events, and you had to apply for absolutely loads of stuff to stand a realistic chance of getting anything.

We applied for badminton, archery, judo, swimming, cycling, and horsey-stuff.

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

I find locally spending 50k to bring a house up to designer standard adds 100k to the selling price and achieves a much quicker sale - there are clearly a subset of buyers who put great value on 'move in condition'

that's certainly true in central London - local EAs say it's a "turn-key" market, meaning people just want to be able to move in without doing anything.

Worked very well for us - our surveyor reckoned that we'd add £200k to our new flat by doing £50k's worth of work to it.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

There was a group of teenagers in the library today, studying economics. They decided to put down their textbooks and talk about the real life example that's playing out in Greece. Very interesting listening to their opinions. Warmed the cockles of my heart it did. Teenagers get a bad rap sometimes but for the most part the students coming in to the library to study have been a joy.

In my day ... we'd have been chucked out for speaking in a library

Not that economics was studied anyway ... and nobody used the library in the village as it was a mile in the wrong direction, so it'd add 2 miles extra to the walk home from school.... it'd never happen

PasturesNew

This doing up houses lark helped increase house prices and made them unaffordable to the poorer people.

If everybody had bought a £100k house and spent £50k on it, to make it worth £200k, you'd run out of people to sell them to.

PasturesNew

Mine was bought for commercial purposes... they've bought three across the area. I couldn't afford to stay one night in my ex house now

Bl00dy posh they made it!

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

This doing up houses lark helped increase house prices and made them unaffordable to the poorer people.

If everybody had bought a £100k house and spent £50k on it, to make it worth £200k, you'd run out of people to sell them to.

We don't want to sell it though, we want to live in it!

Davesnave

vivatifosi wrote: »

Teenagers get a bad rap sometimes but for the most part the students coming in to the library to study have been a joy.

Same goes for the youngsters my DD2 lives with at uni and those she works with in the shoe shop.

In the shop, far from the situation Mary Portas found, these youngsters think seriously about how to increase their performance, using psychology. They'll tailor their selling approach to the person they think they have in front of them. It works too, with successful staff almost taking double the money others achieve.

DD now regularly cracks the £2k/day barrier, but as she says, there's still a way to go if she's to beat her friend's store record of close to £4k/day.

And as you may have guessed, these kids earn around £7 /hour....

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

And as you may have guessed, these kids earn around £7 /hour....

I'm in the wrong town! They'd get minimum wage here.

The last work I did round this way I had to drive 20 miles each way, for £7/hour as a specialist Access report writer... getting out some of that Freedom of Information Act data from datasets that weren't designed to extract the information being requested.

And, the job actually required somebody with more Access programming skills, than just my Access data skills.... so at £7/hour I said "thanks, no thanks" and didn't return for day 2.