Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

vivatifosi

Oops, in the time I took to type that and work some other stuff out you've had a bunch of other replies. I am s-l-o-w tonight.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Oops, in the time I took to type that and work some other stuff out you've had a bunch of other replies. I am s-l-o-w tonight.

Yeah, but with my memory its good to have it repeated.

sss555s

Doozergirl wrote: »

The speech bubbles are multiquote. The other one I just pressed and it took me to the reply box at the bottom.

edit: I thought it might quote, but it doesn't, so it's pointless.

The other one takes you directly to the quick reply box at the bottom of the page.

I guess if you want to do a quick reply to a post at the top of the page when there is a lot of posts already on that page it may save you a bit of time scrolling.

lostinrates

Horses et al all behaved tonight, first time this week i think, so though i would have an easy night at last, ut now the dogs are gong crazy because there are hedgehogs out and the dogs, and cats, seem to adore hedgehogs. Go figure!

lostinrates

sss555s wrote: »

The other one takes you directly to the quick reply box at the bottom of the page.

I guess if you want to do a quick reply to a post at the top of the page when there is a lot of posts already on that page it may save you a bit of time scrolling.

Vsave feeling sea sick while scrolling:o

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

A 4 bed, 1 bathroom, extended and done up ex-council (but doesn't look it), set back from the main road was repossessed 2 weeks ago. Had an asking price offer already. £484k!!!

That's nearly half a million quid!

That's why selling them off makes no sense.... that'll be snapped up by a BTLer ... and rented out at full private rent prices .... paid for by the council - when they could have been paying out the council rent each week.

It's never made sense...

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Say for example Pastures said something about beaches,

As if!!!

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GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

A 4 bed, 1 bathroom, extended and done up ex-council (but doesn't look it), set back from the main road was repossessed 2 weeks ago. Had an asking price offer already. £484k!!!

That's nearly half a million quid!

How much was it on the market for before it was repo'd?

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's why selling them off makes no sense.... that'll be snapped up by a BTLer ... and rented out at full private rent prices .... paid for by the council - when they could have been paying out the council rent each week.

It's never made sense...

I entirely agree with you that it never made sense to sell off council housing. It was a Conservative electioneering stunt. But I had better not go on too much about this, as some people may be offended.

I do not think that this house will in fact be rented out, at least not to housing benefit claimants. The local reference rent (on which housing benefit is based) for four-bedroom houses in Outer North London is £282.69 per week. That would provide an absolutely miniscule yield of just 3%. So, this will not be a sensible letting proposition.

There's no reason why an ex-LA property in a good area should not make a very nice home for somebody with £500k to spend.

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

A 4 bed, 1 bathroom, extended and done up ex-council (but doesn't look it), set back from the main road was repossessed 2 weeks ago. Had an asking price offer already. £484k!!!

That's nearly half a million quid!

Is this No. 92? Bought in 2007 for £385,000, so it's slightly surprising that they have been repo'd with the value having gone up by £100k, since they bought it. Perhaps they MEW'd?