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Confessions of a property website addict

When does a harmless hobby become a weird and irresistible compulsion?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/8369047/Confessions-of-a-property-website-addict.html

I wonder if she comes from Aberdeen? :rotfl:

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  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite

    Very much doubt it
    I know by heart the floorplan of every house for sale in Cambridgeshire at the moment.
    How many people can say that, truthfully? Farmhouse or town house, show me the RICS diagram and I can tell you the address. I'm also pretty au fait with all the homes for sale in Norfolk, Suffolk and Northamptonshire. And Rutland, let's not forget Rutland, even though it's small. And tonight, for the first time, I investigated Devon, Cornwall and Dorset.
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Seriously though, she's an amateur...... I do 2-3 hours every day, without fail, minimum. Every day. Without fail. Have to look ...... all those houses I'll never buy/don't want, something catches your eye and you're off. When did it last sell, how much for, what does zoopla think, were there any planning applications, who objected, what's it like on google streetview, what's it like on the satellites. Check the crime maps, what about adjoining areas... How about an imaginery rail journey or three (times and costs) to places I will never actually travel from the house/s I'll never buy (or even view).

    I love it :)
  • System
    System Posts: 178,376 Community Admin
    10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    She's also fiictional.
    This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,082 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Joeskeppi wrote: »
    She's also fiictional.

    She's not. She's really not. :D
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • The_Fox_3
    The_Fox_3 Posts: 299 Forumite
    If you are talking obsessed, how about this guy

    http://my.fool.co.uk/profile/KingofNowhere/activity.aspx

    Every single day he clocks on this site and ramps his Bull message throughout the day, in the process he complains constantly to Fool staff and has made it his mission to remove anything bearish on property on whatever technicality he can get away with, he is a nightmare to the staff there.

    FOURTEEN THOUSAND POSTS, and this is only this site, he has also posted on singing pig, houspricecrash and here at MSE, and god knows how many other sites have to put up with him.

    Can anyone beat that:)
  • nicko33
    nicko33 Posts: 1,125 Forumite
    The_Fox wrote: »
    Can anyone beat that:)
    We have a postcard from Graham in Devon...
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