Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

fc123

Doozergirl wrote: »

Worcestershire is lovely. Very green, pretty quiet but well connected, a little bit quirky. No gang problems that I'm aware of, PN will be relieved. We live in a different part of the county but the children leave their respective schools this year and we like two schools in Worcester.

The house is a bit too well priced. I suspect it will be totally broken, but that makes even more our kind of house.

This house is the one that we were going to build 2nd house on plot. We were very close at one point but had some 'professional' advice that set us back a long way and we lost heart for a good while. We've agreed now with each other to finish this house and divide it off from land. We'll go for PP again (sigh) and sell this. In what timescale we will get it to market and sell, I'm not exactly sure. I'd happily move out tomorrow.

That seems a good plan.

All I would like to do is flog ours when it is finished and run away to the seaside...but I can't.:(

I reckon we have at least a further decade in sarf east lundun as the parents are all ageing and both OH and myself are the eldest children + our kids are grown up (and the ones who lost out on the free-living 20's as we had kids young).

Ah well...hoping to get sunny Margate done for next summer so I can escape every so often. We went down to meet a trade there last Friday and even in the rain it's lovely.

Mind you, if we hadn't have known the area, the local stats would have terrified us...all sorts of gangs and crime and whatnot. 98% of folks are just 'law abiding just getting on with their life' types.

michaels

Doozergirl wrote: »

This house is the one that we were going to build 2nd house on plot. We were very close at one point but had some 'professional' advice that set us back a long way and we lost heart for a good while. We've agreed now with each other to finish this house and divide it off from land. We'll go for PP again (sigh) and sell this. In what timescale we will get it to market and sell, I'm not exactly sure. I'd happily move out tomorrow.

That is not the sort of horror story I want to hear.

We are being quoted £450 plus vat to have shading plans done which sounds a little on the high side to me?

fc123

Doozergirl wrote: »

Worcestershire is lovely. Very green, pretty quiet but well connected, a little bit quirky. No gang problems that I'm aware of, PN will be relieved. We live in a different part of the county but the children leave their respective schools this year and we like two schools in Worcester.

The house is a bit too well priced. I suspect it will be totally broken, but that makes even more our kind of house.

This house is the one that we were going to build 2nd house on plot. We were very close at one point but had some 'professional' advice that set us back a long way and we lost heart for a good while. We've agreed now with each other to finish this house and divide it off from land. We'll go for PP again (sigh) and sell this. In what timescale we will get it to market and sell, I'm not exactly sure. I'd happily move out tomorrow.

Any way you could buy it and do it up whilst living where you are now?
Grade 2 listed isn't for everyone either so it would be ideal for you.

Spirit_2

LydiaJ wrote: »

Here's hoping for the best for the weekend. Who knows? Maybe youngest will eventually get so used to James bringing a girlfriend to the house that he'll be able to cope with lovverrrr being in the house sometimes too.

Agree with this.

Sue, this sounds so positive and upbeat.

LydiaJ

fc123 wrote: »

omg I can't believe that house is so reasonable. What is Worcestershire like? I like it too

Worcestershire is lovely.

However, no pics of inside + "exceptional refurbishment and development opportunity" = totally trashed.

And totally trashed + listed = will need a mint spent on it to make it habitable

4 bed detached houses over this side of the country go for £400k+ so £200k seems reasonable for that if it's going to need at least another £200k and a lot of work to sort it out. (Mine - a little dated but basically in good condition when I bought it - is merely link detached, but it's got 4 bedrooms and a bigger downstairs than upstairs, and I paid a bit over £360k coming up for 3 years ago.)

X-posted with several people

Doozergirl

fc123 wrote: »

Any way you could buy it and do it up whilst living where you are now?
Grade 2 listed isn't for everyone either so it would be ideal for you.

Just the small issue of not having the money or time anymore to do that. This one will have to go to someone else. We had a perfect Worcester house project before, I'm sure there will be another.

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

That is not the sort of horror story I want to hear.

We are being quoted £450 plus vat to have shading plans done which sounds a little on the high side to me?

I've told you my best advice based on experience. Do not go to appeal!

I don't know what a shading plan is?

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

That is not the sort of horror story I want to hear.

We are being quoted £450 plus vat to have shading plans done which sounds a little on the high side to me?

We paid an awful lot more. For architects services. (What's a shading plan?)

But then we had an easy time going through planning and while the doozers won't always agree, , I think the architect was some of the best 'unnecessary' money we have ever spent

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

That is not the sort of horror story I want to hear.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I've told you my best advice based on experience. Do not go to appeal!

Michael, you know that book I recently posted a pic of, that's on the chest of drawers next to my bed? It's got a whole lot of stuff in there about how humans are massively over optimistic when estimating how much things will cost or how long they will take.

There are many ways for any plan to fail, and although most of them are too improbable to be anticipated, the likelihood that something will go wrong in a big project is high.

...

The planning fallacy describes plans and forecasts that
* are unrealistically close to best-case scenarios
* could be improved by consulting the statistics of similar cases.

lostinrates

DH and I are performing a sort of comedy sketch. DH has decreed even for me three shoes for one day are too many (dealing with foot changes more than crises of wardrobe, though the former creates the latter.) he says he'd carry them home for me at the weekend but that if I want to bring them home alone I'm going to struggle.

Also up for scrutiny have been my spare knickers (Bridget jones pants have been laughed at and unpacked.....so no one snigger at my tight clothes please tomorrow night!) ...well, they might want to prod at me having seen me. And a discussion over whether in autumn I really need a separate pair of day and night sunglasses.

I've had to unpack from the big handbag into the thing I try and pretend isn't a small weekend bag. . Its not the size, its the weight, I keep forgetting how weak I am these days.