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How long can FTB-s afford to wait?

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  • replumbed
    replumbed Posts: 60 Forumite
    Recently bought three homes, off bulls who paid to much and sellers desperate to sell. Fortunately having invested in silver and gold I bought them with small mortgages and at good prices. Some plumbing work required, some idiot bull who didn't want to leave poured concrete down the sink.

    I love rewired.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    replumbed wrote: »
    Recently bought three homes, off bulls who paid to much and sellers desperate to sell. Fortunately having invested in silver and gold I bought them with small mortgages and at good prices. Some plumbing work required, some idiot bull who didn't want to leave poured concrete down the sink.

    I love rewired.
    naerlynew living in his fantasy world again.

    100% gauranteed :T
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    Jimmy_31 wrote: »
    Every working person in britain should be able to afford a house, is it wrong of me to think this, if so correct me, or ignore me, whichever is easiest for you

    That would be nice but hasn’t been in the past and unless millions of houses are built it never will be in the future.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Jimmy_31 wrote: »
    Every working person in britain should be able to afford a house, is it wrong of me to think this,

    How do you expect that to happen?
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • replumbed
    replumbed Posts: 60 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    How do you expect that to happen?

    Stop BTL mortgages, bring back the death penalty for a range of crimes, encourage old people to retire to spain, decrease benefits for unemployed (they can live in a more generous european country).
  • replumbed
    replumbed Posts: 60 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    naerlynew living in his fantasy world again.

    100% gauranteed :T

    A debt junky offering guarantees? lol :rotfl:
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    How do you expect that to happen?


    House price drops, build more houses.
  • brian_723
    brian_723 Posts: 337 Forumite
    what does bomad mean
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    brian_723 wrote: »
    what does bomad mean

    bank of mum and dad, it means taking your mum and dads money to pay the deposit for an overpriced home
  • System
    System Posts: 178,374 Community Admin
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    Why does naerlynew need a new screenname? Is the old one so discredited it's become useless?
    This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com
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