The "have a look at this!" thread II

CKhalvashi

pinkteapot wrote: »

But it's on a main road (red lines outside) and next to what is effectively a kebab shop. Guess it might appeal to someone who goes out themself every Fri/Sat night and isn't bothered by the noise of revellers outside getting munchies on their way home.

I’ve just got in from work, having been razzing about London for the last 16 hours (I own a music company, for those that don’t know me from elsewhere)

If I didn’t have OH and two kids, it’d be perfect for me, but I’d still rather have my house (worth about double money, 5 bed, 3 large receptions, victorian etc etc) to go an hour outside of London.

CK

CKhalvashi

jackieb wrote: »

That's really weird! I could understand if it was like a guest house or a place to put the teenagers and it belonged to the owner of the house. It must be pretty complicated regarding the deeds - is that what they call a floating something or other (brain dead tonight! lol )

I certainly wouldn’t want anyone living about my garage (even though we don’t have one).

CK

Strapped

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's a sign of the silliness of our times that you are sniggering at two perfectly functional, if dated, kitchens and bathrooms. They were the height of fashion of their day, and they were well enough built to have lasted. Just think, as you install your fashionable new bathroom, how people will snigger at it in 20 years time - if it has not fallen to pieces before then.

I confess, my bathrooms are "worse" (but functional). I thought this was a money-saving site? I'm banking on them being back in fashion before long...

namecheck

jackieb wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that this is a detached property, and one of the garages is your own, and the other 3 belong to your neighbour? :eek:


http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-22150095.html?premiumA=true
I really don't like how some developers try to squeeze as much profit as they can onto a small plot. It's a nice property inside but it just seems wrong.

I know a development similar to this. The "detached" house was very difficult to sell.

spannerzone

Imagine if one of the garage owners decides to rebuild his old MG midget every evening and weekend and you live above it.... you'd be listening to radio 2 and hear lots of cursing all hours!

jackieb

spannerzone wrote: »

Imagine if one of the garage owners decides to rebuild his old MG midget every evening and weekend and you live above it.... you'd be listening to radio 2 and hear lots of cursing all hours!

spannerzone, with a name like that I think you might be describing yourself?

Matt1977

jackieb wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that this is a detached property, and one of the garages is your own, and the other 3 belong to your neighbour? :eek:


http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-22150095.html?premiumA=true
I really don't like how some developers try to squeeze as much profit as they can onto a small plot. It's a nice property inside but it just seems wrong.

Apart from the asking prices, it doesn't seem that bad to me. Having living space over a row of garages seems like a good use of space. One of the garages closest to the door is for the upstairs flat. Only problems would come if one of the garage owners kept revving their car engines and the exhaust fumes rising into the flat.

Quite a few 1960s/70s council flats around Norwich are built like this - once the council realised how popular car ownership was.

Matt1977

Strapped wrote: »

I confess, my bathrooms are "worse" (but functional). I thought this was a money-saving site? I'm banking on them being back in fashion before long...

Hear, hear! I hated the avocado bathroom suite in my parents' house (eventually changed to boring white in the mid 1990s) but now I an quite nostalgic about them - to the point that I actually want a coloured bathroom suite now when I can afford to get on the property ladder!

poppysarah

DRP wrote: »

:eek: that's a first

Back in the days one of the mortgage companies were giving away a car with a mortgage.

West Bromich I think it was.

jackieb

poppysarah wrote: »

Back in the days one of the mortgage companies were giving away a car with a mortgage.

West Bromich I think it was.

A Brum Brum mortgage where you got a Rover 25 thrown in.