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The "have a look at this!" thread II

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  • System
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    polkadot90 wrote: »
    Hi. No, it's not my own house. It's one I'm going to view soon. No sink in the kitchen - can't see it in photos nor is it mentioned in the below part describing the property. Would this be something I could negotiate on price with if I like the rest of the property? I think the utility is through the door seen in the photo of the kitchen.


    I am guessing the sink is hidden from the photos, could be next to the bin in pic 7 as behind the wall, that's where the utility sink and washing machine plumbing.

    The wallpaper in pic 9 makes me dizzy.
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  • System
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    Does it need 10 photos of the outside of a one bed flat and 6 of the bathroom?

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47894945.html

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  • chazsucks
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  • polkadot90
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    A kitchen needs a sink for food preparation, even if there's other provision for dish-washing.

    Without a kitchen sink there isn't a kitchen as the property could be regarded as legally below habitable standard (and therefore unmortgageable).

    this worries me as it might explain why it's not sold for 6 months. do you think this might still apply if the utility room is right next to the kitchen with a sink in?
    Trying to save up for a deposit for a mortgage....could be a while!!

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  • phoebe1989seb
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    polkadot90 wrote: »
    this worries me as it might explain why it's not sold for 6 months. do you think this might still apply if the utility room is right next to the kitchen with a sink in?

    I'm no expert but IMHO I wouldn't have thought so. Our last house was unmortgageable, one of the reasons being there was no kitchen at all - PO had gutted the place then abandoned it early in the renovation process due to ill health. The set up in the house you are looking at puts me in mind of an old scullery type layout - I vaguely remember my grandmother's house in the 1970s having a kitchen with table and oven to prep food and cook it, but the (old belfast) sink with wooden drainer was in a tiny attached lean-to at the rear of this.

    Does seem a weird set up though and would no doubt put a lot of potential buyers off......
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  • Igamogam
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    Unusual ground rent...

    "Tenure
    Subject to a new lease for a term of 999 years from 25th December 2014 at a current ground rent of one daffodil per annum to the Duchy of Cornwall."

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-33794370.html

    He cant even buy his own daffodil for Saint David's Day ...sheeesh!
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  • Owain_Moneysaver
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    Igamogam wrote: »
    He cant even buy his own daffodil for Saint David's Day ...sheeesh!

    but the lease starts on 25th December ... you try buying daffodils in December - a christmas tree would probably be cheaper.
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  • stalkah
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    LeeBalders wrote: »

    Nice use of a fish eye lens :S
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,393 Forumite
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    polkadot90 wrote: »
    Any things that you would flag up or wonder about, such as there being no sink in the kitchen?

    This one has a microwave ... in the living room

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-33877125.html
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