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The "have a look at this!" thread II

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  • 9ja4life
    9ja4life Posts: 226 Forumite
    mozza78 wrote: »
    I hope the person who lives here is punctual...

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/property-60848933.html

    My FIL has 40 clocks in his house. Most chime on the hour, some half an hour. Takes me 2/3 days to get used to all the ticking and tocking :(
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,200 Forumite
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    Nice house - apart from missing a bit of the back garden by the look of it. A house that size with a garden that size doesnt quite match - and I guess the answer is that newer house that looks as if it's just behind the wall of the back garden (ie probably sitting on land that used to be part of the garden). That fact would aggravate me enough to put me off the house I'm afraid (unless that house was also on the market - so could be bought/knocked down and rest of garden restored).

    You'd need a lot of money to be knocking down a house in Southwold....

    Unfortunately although it's a lovely house, it's on the junction of two roads and would have quite a lot of traffic going by, so I'd need to be able to pick it up and move it somewhere else.
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  • Mardle
    Mardle Posts: 518 Forumite
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    edited 17 August 2016 at 3:17PM
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,200 Forumite
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    £50K for a 3 bed house, that's just nuts.
    Make £2025 in 2025
    Prolific £617.02, Octopoints £5.20, TCB £398.58, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £60, Shopmium £26.60, Everup £24.91 Zopa CB £30
    Total (4/9/25) £1573.21/£2025 77%

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  • System
    System Posts: 178,369 Community Admin
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    Only 6 of the photos are inside the property!

    Counted 13 rugs!
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  • JP08
    JP08 Posts: 851 Forumite
    This one popped up on wreck of the week - though it's no wreck.


    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54441241.html


    Somewhere between wonderful and w.t.f - fantastic location, but no utilities at all and needing a 4x4 to get to it !
  • bouicca21
    bouicca21 Posts: 6,719 Forumite
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    edited 18 August 2016 at 9:37AM
    Strangely I can fantasise about living without mod cons in the middle of nowhere but can't rid myself of the worry that the cliff will collapse and eventually take those cottages with it.

    Also, just thought, what kind of modernisation is possible for a house with no access to utilities? Surely it's just a case of decorating?
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    bouicca21 wrote: »
    Strangely I can fantasise about living without mod cons in the middle of nowhere but can't rid myself of the worry that the cliff will collapse and eventually take those cottages with it.

    I feel much the same about this one, although the mod cons are in place:

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41385993.html
  • chelseablue
    chelseablue Posts: 3,303 Forumite
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    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-55728526.html


    300k for this?!


    And it says its a 2 bed bungalow but the blurb says its a one bed house over one level
  • chrissie57
    chrissie57 Posts: 4,857 Forumite
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    Lovely house - but spot the dog :)

    and little 'n' large pet doors (pic 31)
    "If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you. "
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    We are such stuff
    As dreams are made on; and our little life
    Is rounded with a sleep.


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