The "have a look at this!" thread II

Slinky

Dandie89 wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-57458623.html
Spot the Christmas tree. The most minimal one I have ever seen!

What an odd place to dump a few paving slabs and your garden furniture, half way down the lawn. Very odd.

The random vertical mosiac tiles in the bathroom would annoy me.

moneyistooshorttomention

Slinky wrote: »

What an odd place to dump a few paving slabs and your garden furniture, half way down the lawn. Very odd.

The random vertical mosiac tiles in the bathroom would annoy me.

....and the bathrooms having carpet on the floor. Welcome back to the 1970s.:rotfl:

Davesnave

Slinky wrote: »

What an odd place to dump a few paving slabs and your garden furniture, half way down the lawn. Very odd..

The property has 3 outside seating areas, but being NE facing, two of them won't be much good for alfresco eating in any evening sunshine available.

Upsidedown_Bear

Davesnave wrote: »

Meanwhile, here's a house that dare not show it's face:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-63816923.html

Also for sale since November with a different agent for £15K less :think:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45591132.html

Davesnave

Upsidedown_Bear wrote: »

Also for sale since November with a different agent for £15K less :think:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45591132.html

Perhaps they finished the kitchen?

'Extended kitchen which needs to be completed.'

But the other lot aren't showing it, so I doubt it. There's a lot missing, besides a good look at the building itself.

The EPC seems to indicate it's beyond hope, but it's 'packed with character,' so that's OK. Shivering under a rug is so character building...;)

JP08

vansboy wrote: »

Always a good idea to let buyers know it got a new roof.....14 years ago!!!

VB

For a slate roof that will last a 100 years, 14 years is new ... about the same in lifespan proportion as a flat room done in the last 2 years.

moneyistooshorttomention

JP08 wrote: »

For a slate roof that will last a 100 years, 14 years is new ... about the same in lifespan proportion as a flat room done in the last 2 years.

I get the point - having replaced a slate roof - at around 110 years old. But I would have described it as a "new roof" if I'd done it in, say, the last 2 years or so. If I'd done it 5 years or more ago - then I'd have just said "roof has been replaced" - to indicate that the Victorian original roof had now gone.

Dandie89

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Technically yep. In actual fact (and good conscience) I am livid at someone with so little in the way of morals that they could try and save themselves a measly little £50 (!!!!- aka peanuts) knowing very well that they were putting the buyer at heavy duty risk of the ceiling in room collapsing on them that very first winter (courtesy of the rain coming through the roof) in a tatty old-fashioned little house. Added said buyer being a woman on her own in strange area.

Words fail me.

The law allows it - but my conscience wouldnt have let me do that to someone. Plus the knowledge it's not a very big place and "lots of people know people";) - and the community grapevine has hopefully dealt with telling them exactly what I think of them for doing that to me:rotfl:

I doubt the community will take on this task for you and what would be the point?

I think anyone reading this, particularly if they are thinking of buying a "tatty old-fashioned house", should take away the understanding that it is not down to the vendor but the purchaser to understand its condition and that they should, therefore, pay for an appropriate survey, read it and act upon it.

Dandie89

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

That's quite a nice little flat.

But my thoughts are "What a shame. That kitchen looks nice and pretty much in accordance with my/many peoples tastes. But then they go and spoil it by having that odd sort of cut-out bit in the base units to the left of the sink". That leaves me wondering whether it would be possible to just get a couple of new doors and a carousel to put in the corner unit and fit them faultlessly okay - otherwise I'd have visions of having to rip out a whole pretty new kitchen just because of that. All the more so - because the kitchen can be seen clearly from reception room space.

That's the sort of thing that would niggle at me - until I just had to put it right and hope it could be done cheaply/easily.

The layout seems flawed to me too. Looking at the photos they appear to have the child in the master bedroom and you can understand why as the other bedroom has doors directly to the outside, however, this gives the child the ensuite shower room, not ideal for a young child either and leaves the master without. All wrong

Dandie89

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

- apart from a glimpse of en suite loo.

Looking at the floor plan you get an en suite loo in bedroom 1 and 3 but you really luck out in bedroom 2 and 4 where the loo appears to be an integral part of the room:D