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Priced out FTB? Buy a bus!
Graham_Devon
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Hamish will be proud!
Excellent story! Well done them I say for doing the best they could!
Not too sure about the idea they have for the kids though!!
Excellent story! Well done them I say for doing the best they could!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/903684-couple-transform-bus-into-two-bed-home-to-beat-property-pricesThe self employed auto-electrician was desperate to move in with girlfriend, Stacey Drinkwater, 20, but the young couple couldn't afford to buy anywhere.
They couldn't save enough for a deposit and found it impossible to get a mortgage from the bank as Daniel is self employed.So the electrician decided to buy the double-decker bus last October despite his mum telling him it was 'barmy idea'.
Daniel and Stacey now live in the converted 1991 Leyland Olympia and say they could not be happier with their solution to the plight facing first time buyers.
Not too sure about the idea they have for the kids though!!
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I saw that, but then I wondered how he could park it on land... they never explained that. You can't just live in a bus on land.... or anywhere really.0
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PasturesNew wrote: »I saw that, but then I wondered how he could park it on land... they never explained that. You can't just live in a bus on land.... or anywhere really.
They rent a plot of land apparently.0 -
But it'd still need some kind of PP to live on the land... a converted bus is like a big fat campervan.... you can't just rock up, park and live.... or we'd all be doing it.Graham_Devon wrote: »They rent a plot of land apparently.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »But it'd still need some kind of PP to live on the land... a converted bus is like a big fat campervan.... you can't just rock up, park and live.... or we'd all be doing it.
There are plenty of travelers that seem to do this already though
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PasturesNew wrote: »But it'd still need some kind of PP to live on the land... a converted bus is like a big fat campervan.... you can't just rock up, park and live.... or we'd all be doing it.
i would imagine that the land they rent is on some kind of caravan park, complete with electrical hookup etc etc
that would make sense, as the rent would be fairly low and therefore practical enough to make it work'Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.'
GALATIANS 6: 7 (KJV)0 -
You can still only stay on those for X days of the year .... unless you play the ducking and diving game... and there's a limit to how many places that could be found like that.RUN_RABBIT_RUN wrote: »i would imagine that the land they rent is on some kind of caravan park, complete with electrical hookup etc etc
that would make sense, as the rent would be fairly low and therefore practical enough to make it work
The article makes out that you "just do it" and everything's hunky dorey.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »The article makes out that you "just do it" and everything's hunky dorey.
lots of travellers seem to do this quite easily... takes years to get the law to move you on...0
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