The "have a look at this!" thread II

picket_fence

Davesnave wrote: »

I found this on Trip Advisor:
“" A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME & MONEY "”
Reviewed 28 April 2012
We recently re-visited llwernog silver lead mine after 7 years from our last visit. The new mine tour has nothing to do with mining just a load of rubbish nonsense about so called " orks ". It was very expensive at £66.00 for 2 adults, 2 oap's & 3 children. This is totally not suitable for anyone under 8 years old & especially not a 2 year old. A freak dressed in costume totally freaked out our 2 year old & made my 12 year old daughter cry. The freak of a tour guide just rambled on throughout the tour about you are my slaves & i will eat you etc crappy nonsense. This place did have a good educational & factual tour 7 years ago & was less than half the price. Very very disapointed. I just hope potential visitors with young children read this before your young ones are mentally scarred for life.

Visited April 2012

:rotfl:

The one I read made some interesting comments about the smell of the tour guide and the interesting stains on his clothing :eek: ....I shall say no more. Funnily enough, we decided not to take the kids there :rotfl:

Davesnave

picket_fence wrote: »

Unfortunately, there are a lot of really over priced houses and flats in Ceredigion.

....Which is why I'm here in Devon, not over there, where I'd hoped to be.

Grumpelstiltskin

picket_fence wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40960243.html

"water via a borehole. This property is ideally suited to cash buyers who want to get far from the madding crowd"
I think picture 1 sets the tone nicely :rotfl:

Spot the Blues Brothers

Davesnave

picket_fence wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40960243.html

"water via a borehole. This property is ideally suited to cash buyers who want to get far from the madding crowd"
I think picture 1 sets the tone nicely :rotfl:

When viewing, we soon learned that when West Wales Properties describe a house as 'quirky,' what they really mean is 'a bit crap.'

picket_fence

Davesnave wrote: »

....Which is why I'm here in Devon, not over there, where I'd hoped to be.

:(:( You'd like to think that eventually people would come to their senses and accept that they aren't going to find anyone willing to pay that price. I'm not about to hold my breath though. There are some properties that have been on for at least six years, and the vendors haven't lowered their prices AT ALL, in some cases they've put the price up :rotfl:

EdwardS033

picket_fence wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45127820.html

Fancy buying a tourist attraction? I remember there used to be a particularly inappropriate, but very funny review of it somewhere on t'interweb but I can't seem to find it at the moment

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g186428-d4406571-r172531002-Silver_Mountain_Experience-Aberystwyth_Ceredigion_Wales.html#CHECK_RATES_CONT

lol

Callie22

Mojisola wrote: »

Always intriguing when most of the house is very bland and one room is so colourful.

It's weirdly common in rentals. The whole house will be painted in cheap magnolia, but then you'll get either the kitchen and/or bathroom painted in one of two colours - bright blue or lurid yellow. I blame 'Changing Rooms'.

Davesnave

picket_fence wrote: »

:(:( You'd like to think that eventually people would come to their senses and accept that they aren't going to find anyone willing to pay that price.....

We were quite keen on 2 properties, both with 'issues,' and both about £100k over what we thought they were worth. In one, the octogenarian owners hadn't been upstairs for over 2 years...:eek:

They both sold eventually. The old couple's went for what we'd said it was worth 3 years before. The other one, totally uninhabitable, went more speedily, no doubt because the failed developer's ex-wife was pushing him for the £££. That one was £95k over-valued.

It was all incredibly frustrating.

toozie_2

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43924936.html

I think this is cute for the price, opposite a railway line though, and no view.

StumpyPumpy

Davesnave wrote: »

The flood risk is there, but low. Maybe not low enough last winter, although the chipboard kitchen units survived, so it wasn't that bad.

However, there are other factors at work, including backing onto a school and proximity to high voltage power lines.

But the real killer is the type of house, which looks like concrete construction to me.

The water course is actually the Basingstoke canal which needs the Woodham rise series of locks to get to Sheerwater, (IIRC the rise is about 40 feet) I don't recall the area being flooded last winter, doesn't mean it couldn't happen of course, but the risk is probably more due to the canal failing than excess rainfall.

Concrete houses are definitely a killer for a mortgage, but what would put me off (apart from the general level of grimness) is the fact that a huge new development is about to demolish loads of properties next door - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-22779978 - They get compulsory purchased, you get to live next to a building site for 7 years. Great fun.

SP