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Where can we buy a cheap and comfortable house?

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  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    Go onto Rightmove and put the name of a county in the search box and click on lowest price first. Do this county by county and you'll find most of the cheapest ones in the country. You're the best judge of what 'comfortable and good condition' is - I have no idea of your standards.
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • churchrat
    churchrat Posts: 1,015 Forumite
    thankyou, audrey Toulson for starting this wonderful thread. I cant wait till we get to the bit where another new poster will come along with just the info you were looking for, with a nice little link to a fantastic web page which will sell you just what you are looking for.

    I think iceland is very nice.
    LBM-2003ish
    Owed £61k and £60ish mortgage
    2010 owe £00.00 and £20K mortgage:D
    2011 £9000 mortgage
  • JQ.
    JQ. Posts: 1,919 Forumite
    wotsthat wrote: »
    The nice part of mogadishu?

    You have to be carefull of structural movement in many of the buildings - quite often the roofs, walls and foundations are all in different postcodes.
  • geoffky
    geoffky Posts: 6,835 Forumite
    Ask sibley will he sell his slum in Bangkok? you will have to get rid of the lady boys.
    It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
    Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
    If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
    If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
    If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.
  • scooterpig
    scooterpig Posts: 118 Forumite
    JQ. wrote: »
    I'm sure there's lots of cheap housing in the USA.

    Only in some areas, sadly not where I'm looking (but you do get more space for your money...)
  • Badger_Lady
    Badger_Lady Posts: 6,264 Forumite
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    tomitma wrote: »
    Actually, I was only reading the local paper last night and I noticed an advert for a house in Maesteg, South Wales, Roughly 20 miles from Cardiff right on the M4, Three bedroom semi-detached house, in excellent condition, with rear and front gardens, new kitchen and bathroom, 38,000 thousand pounds.

    You cant get any cheaper than that.

    Yep, Wales is awesome.

    If you've got £90k to spend, get a nice little terrace with a garden on a nice residential area in a City with awesome transport links.

    If you've got £20k to spend, get a terrace of 2-bed cottages in Merthyr Tydvil (no employment there but it's cheap).

    If "comfortable" to you means a little village in the countryside, well you can't beat the view in Wales :grin:.
    Mortgage | £145,000Unsecured Debt | [strike]£7,000[/strike] £0 Lodgers | |
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    geoffky wrote: »
    Ask sibley will he sell his slum in Bangkok? you will have to get rid of the lady boys.
    It's the ladyboys that make it comfortable.
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