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The "have a look at this!" thread II

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  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    Bossypants wrote: »
    Tiny but adorable:

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41127660.html

    Kind of place I'd love to retire in, though not sure about that staircase for future old and decrepit me...

    Voice of experience time on a staircase like that - some of us feel a bit "queasy" walking up and down a staircase like that. I was never very keen on having to do so. I did wonder how the home-owner ever managed to get their furniture up or downstairs either.
  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    Clutterfree wrote: »
    Exactly, I agree.
    I'd not want a listed building due to the restrictions.

    There is a lovely listed house in our village. Well it was lovely 20 years ago. Owner went into a care home but refused to sell it and it ended up in a state of disrepair. She has since died and a developer bought it - huge garden ripe for building on and a couple of barns ideal to convert.
    Yet the developer has let the listed house get even worse. Now a huge hole in the roof so I dread to think the damage it has caused inside and structurally. I'm pretty sure he has deliberately let it get like this so he can argue it isn't viable to renovate and can apply to have it demolished. :(

    ...or not have too much suspicious questioning if there is a very "convenient" fire destroying it...as people are thinking "What a wreck!" anyway....

    I've certainly heard before now of a bit of "careless" fire precautions on an inconvenient house....
  • AlexMac
    AlexMac Posts: 3,065 Forumite
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    Tygermoth wrote: »
    It that a blood covered table cloth as a bed sheet?
    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41628462.html

    If I was planning to pay an EA north of £three grand to sell my house (Smartmove of 147 Victoria Road, Aldershot, who I assume will charge 1.5% of the £275k asking price) I'd hope they might have the wit to throw the bedcovers over, pick up some carp or turn lights on before taking pix?
  • ManuelG
    ManuelG Posts: 679 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    Bossypants wrote: »
    Tiny but adorable:

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41127660.html

    Kind of place I'd love to retire in, though not sure about that staircase for future old and decrepit me...

    The large concretetower blocks in the vicinity, along with the enormous circular steel silo type thing opposite, would be somewhat less adorable!
  • mumps
    mumps Posts: 6,285 Forumite
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    moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
    ...or not have too much suspicious questioning if there is a very "convenient" fire destroying it...as people are thinking "What a wreck!" anyway....

    I've certainly heard before now of a bit of "careless" fire precautions on an inconvenient house....

    I heard of a developed who was building on some land but not able to demolish the listed building on the site so was having to build round it. Unfortunately one of his men had an accident with a large vehicle, bulldozer maybe?, and the house was demolished. I think he was fined.
    Sell £1500

    2831.00/£1500
  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    I rest my case Mumps.

    Though one thing I have seen before now is a rather attractive/decently-maintained house of the type that might be listed (I don't know if it actually was??) being totally demolished and then rebuilt exactly the same as it was before.

    I wouldnt have known the difference personally - if I hadnt thought "Oh...that nice house has gone" and then seen it apparently re-appear a few months down the line.

    I don't know what the circumstances were of this happening - so I guess there might be a possibility that local Councils just "might" be able to force an identical rebuild??
  • Deep_In_Debt
    Deep_In_Debt Posts: 8,579 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Mortgage-free Glee!
    Bossypants wrote: »
    Tiny but adorable:

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41127660.html

    Kind of place I'd love to retire in, though not sure about that staircase for future old and decrepit me...

    Love the place. I could see me living there if only I could afford it.
    Debt 30k in 2008.:eek::o Cleared all my debt in 2013 and loving being debt free :)
    Mortgage free since 2014 :)
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Deep_In_Debt wrote: »
    Love the place. I could see me living there if only I could afford it.
    Overlooking a refuse transfer station the size of a large Tesco isn't my idea of heaven, but I guess it takes all sorts! :rotfl:
  • Cakeguts
    Cakeguts Posts: 7,627 Forumite
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    Deep_In_Debt wrote: »
    Love the place. I could see me living there if only I could afford it.

    Waste transfer at the front? Burial ground at the back? Close to all amenities?
  • ManuelG
    ManuelG Posts: 679 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    Cakeguts wrote: »
    Close to all amenities?

    The shops up the road by the concrete jungle are still open. OK, so the flats above them are boarded up, but...
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