The 3 bed property for 120K thread.

wotsthat

homelessskilledworker wrote: »

Yours is a daily quest to make life harder, it is probably ok for people like you(or maybe you are massive debt, who knows!!)or Wotsthat who purchased his council house and now sits in his empty estate agents most days preaching on MSE.

OK. Let's work on the insults first.

1) Why is it an insult to say someone's purchased their council house? I haven't by the way but I'm interested.

2) The estate agent insult is very lame. Mainly because everyone knows you spend a couple of hours a day crying on your keyboard whilst browsing Rightmove.

I just don't know where things went so wrong between us. We've both lived the life of good little bears surely? Worked hard at school, got decent qualifications, never been IO or lied on mortgage applications, borrowed at salary multiples that will ensure our entry to bear heaven and saved for the future. For gods sake I even pick up litter after the poor people on my estate and donate the cans they chuck out of their car windows to charity.

Sometimes I wish I'd been a little more bullish but it's all worked out really quite well and the benefits are now being reaped. Just can't understand why you are so sad and angry - you've lived the life of a good bear too and must be delighted with the outcome just like I am.

DervProf

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Yeah.

Sorry about that. I suffer from Litotes.

[If you need to look it up, you'll find it in the dictionary between 'irony' and 'metaphore']

No need to look it up. A friend of mine suffered with the same problem. His Doctor put him on a course of antibiotics, and it cleared up within days.

Loughton_Monkey

Hate to spoil the party, but has anyone else noticed that Hamish is missing?

Last post 11:36 p.m. on 10th September.

Since that one was aimed at me, I feel in some way responsible. Did my reply frighten him? Or what?

The conclusion I have reached, though, is that he is now travelling to York, Chester, Solihull, Shrewsbury, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Oxford or anywhere in the South, to see if he can pick up a nice 3-bed (with garden) for £120K

Can I ask, therefore, for help from all of you living close to any of the areas mentioned? Trawl your local Estate Agents, and ask them to be on the lookout for any Scotsman trying to pick up a 3-bed (with garden) for £120K. They aren't very busy, so will undoubtedly notice him.

Important not to alarm them. Tell them to act normally, do not under any circumstances challenge his assertions on house prices. Simply report sighting to the police. They'll pick him up and have him back in the bed, in the home, where the nurses will look after him.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

has anyone else noticed that Hamish is missing?.

Now look here, this gloating about being old and retired simply won't do.

Some of us still have to work for a living you know....;)

Loughton_Monkey

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Now look here, this gloating about being old and retired simply won't do.

Some of us still have to work for a living you know....;)

Gloat?

I don't gloat. I'm retired, now, having made my pile, and have no axe to grind with those having to get up every morning and go to work.

I just missed you, that's all. Was looking forward to your sacrificial daily slaying of Graham. On a day that mortgage lending has gone up, Barratts are making profits, FTB's deposits are dropping.....

Very large gin & tonics all round......

PS 62 is not old!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

I just missed you

You big cuddly monkey you.....:grouphug:

PS 62 is not old!

Says you...:D

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Was looking forward to your sacrificial daily slaying of Graham. On a day that mortgage lending has gone up, Barratts are making profits, FTB's deposits are dropping.....

Well yes, but on a day that mortgage lending has gone up, Barratts are making profits and FTB deposits are dropping, engaging in a sacrificial slaying of Graham would be far too easy.

DervProf

Get a room.

Or maybe you could use one of the 3 bedrooms you seem to be looking for Hamish.

Loughton_Monkey

DervProf wrote: »

Get a room.

Or maybe you could use one of the 3 bedrooms you seem to be looking for Hamish.

Don't need a room. Got plenty of rooms. 4 computers is enough [Only two of us, but am too old to walk from room to room] and don't want to buy another one.

As much as I would welcome Hamish living in Loughton, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to afford it.

Graham_Devon

wotsthat wrote: »

I think we'll see many future occasions when you've got people like ukcarper running around calculating £30k compounded over 25 years with bank A, B or C as that, to keep it like for like, needs to be subtracted from our homeowners 'profit'. The same calculations where you argue that it's 'sensible' to disregard the capital value of the buyers house at the end of the term.

Like for like has it's place but the real world should encroach your little bubble occasionally.

I think the answer to my question was, no, you can't find a post, and yes, you did indeed make things up to have a go.

Cheers.