HPC Closes It's Doors

Hectors_House

Pimperne1 wrote: »

Incidentally, if you joined in 2005 when the average house price was around £157k, and it went up to £184k, then down to £149k and now up to £167k would you not have been better buying in 2005?

I was looking for houses in a small area and wanted something Victorian.

The house I ended up buying didn't come onto the market until just over two years ago by which time, through reading both HPC and MSE I'd realised I didn't have to panic and offer the asking price straight up. LOL!

Pimperne1

Hectors_House wrote: »

The area isn't undesirable/desirable but the EA made the mistake of telling me they had changed their business model to concentrate on selling repos (the house was repossessed on the day I went around for the first viewing, which was cancelled of course).

They gave me the usual guff about offering the asking price cus it was a really popular house etc. etc. so I left it for a month and when they chased me I called their bluff as the previous owner had left a greeting present of grease on the floor in the hallway. EA didn't know what I was talking about but had to admit that he hadn't actually been in the house (which would explain why they marketed it as a two-bed when it has three) and we were, in fact the only people that had shown any interest in it.

I can't remember when I found this site but it was a while after finding HPC. I hadn't been an HPC member long when my crappy laptop had problems logging me in one day. I tried to change my password and locked myself out so just went to lurking after that.

My signon was taken up by someone else soon after.

Good for you (though you were lucky that when the EA announced the "We have an offer of ..." in the local press you didn't get into a bidding war).

Incidentally, I bought a repo last year which the surveyor has since valued at (I think £160k) and which I bought for £125k. When I mentioned the purchase on Creditcrunch there was a chorus of "No, you didn't get a bargain, you paid market price as you were the only one prepared to pay £125k".

I only mention it because some people become so blinkered in what constitutes a bargain that they can't see the wood for the trees.

joguest

Pimperne1 wrote: »

Stick to Science joe. That's just stupid.

I can't compete with such intellect.

bingobob777

They appear to have banned me from posting both as bingbob777 and as a second log in I created.

Both times I dared question Bruce Banner's pompous, sanctimonious whining on about his belief that hordes of people invade HPC every day with nothing better to do than try and talk up the housing market.

The site does have some valuable information on it, but generally it's just a bunch of right wing, bitter, middle aged IT geeks

geneer

bingobob777 wrote: »

They appear to have banned me from posting both as bingbob777 and as a second log in I created.

Both times I dared question Bruce Banner's pompous, sanctimonious whining on about his belief that hordes of people invade HPC every day with nothing better to do than try and talk up the housing market.

The site does have some valuable information on it, but generally it's just a bunch of right wing, bitter, middle aged IT geeks

I've no idea how they possibly could have considered you to be a troll. :rotfl:

Hectors_House

Pimperne1 wrote: »

Good for you (though you were lucky that when the EA announced the "We have an offer of ..." in the local press you didn't get into a bidding war).

Incidentally, I bought a repo last year which the surveyor has since valued at (I think £160k) and which I bought for £125k. When I mentioned the purchase on Creditcrunch there was a chorus of "No, you didn't get a bargain, you paid market price as you were the only one prepared to pay £125k".

I only mention it because some people become so blinkered in what constitutes a bargain that they can't see the wood for the trees.

This is so true.

I have a neighbour who paid £130k for his house (in the same terrace so exactly the same) and he keeps telling me I got a real bargain.

I didn't.

I got a house at about what it's actual value would have been had it not been for a stupid housing boom and had the luck that it was a repossession.

I doubt these same houses will be worth £130k again for a long time.

Unless ew revert back to 10% pay rises on average I don't think houses will ever truely be worth what folks have been paying for them this last five years or so.

doire_2

Another stupid post by the village idiot. HPC closed? I must be in another dimension then because i have been able to log in for the past few days.

superted187

bingobob777 wrote: »

They appear to have banned me from posting both as bingbob777 and as a second log in I created.

Both times I dared question Bruce Banner's pompous, sanctimonious whining on about his belief that hordes of people invade HPC every day with nothing better to do than try and talk up the housing market.

The site does have some valuable information on it, but generally it's just a bunch of right wing, bitter, middle aged IT geeks

I use HPC - the posters aren't as right wing as you may think.

Yes, many of the posters are Anti EU and Anti excessive levels of government and government interference - things you could associate with right wing ideologies.

But most are also massively against corporate greed - e.g. It was from reading HPC that I discovered that the director of HMV (a failing business) had increased his own wage by something like 50% in the last 2 years.

Most are also against any erosion in workers rights - e.g. Cameron's constant drive to "make it easier to hire and fire staff".

I get the impression that most of them are Libertarian, and are against the elite that run the government and big corporations.

StevieJ

superted187 wrote: »

Most are also against any erosion in workers rights - e.g. Cameron's constant drive to "make it easier to hire and fire staff".

I get the impression that most of them are Libertarian, and are against the elite that run the government and big corporations.

Is that a two para oxymoron

MrRee_2

HPC wouldn't be so bad if it allowed an opposing viewpoint - which it doesn't - the usual losers just jump up and down shouting 'Vested Interest!!' ...... and then you find you have been banned for relaying what the reality is in the area you are house hunting!

They are a serious case of delussional individuals who wouldn't get on in the real world if their lives depended upon it!