Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

900 sq ft = 83 sqm is a pretty small 3 bed but they would almost certainly let you build something similar as a 2 bed. Doozer is really the person to ask but you should be able to get something of that size built for about 100k. You could probably park a mobile home on site whilst the building work was going on.

I doubt there'd be room for a mobile home.... nice idea, doesn't work with modern plot sizes Could get a touring caravan in ... and first job would be to wire up one of those proper outside leccy sockets and get a shed with a plumbed in loo in it.

£100k is a bit more than I'd have available ... on the hasis that there's bound to be a small overspend somewhere. Unless I got a fixed price, but then you think they might cut corners.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

We notice that too. We fell in love with the current house because it's a bit tardis-y. From the front you can't quite figure out how it can have so many rooms and how they can be so large.

When the builders made it they used every inch for room space. It took me a while to realise the boiler was hidden in the attic and there was nowhere to store an upright vac or an ironing board.

The obvious storage areas are used to make room for a hidden shower + WC room. It's pretty standard now for builders to leave property looking big and empty but cupboardless and wardrobeless and the buyers have to just hit IKEA and get all the cupboards/wardrobes, shelves etc. and fit them as needed.:)

Nice brick built outbuildings are good for "random stuff and dirty stuff". Things like - keeping spare oil for the car ... where's that to go in modern flats/houses, next to the sugar/flour?

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

5-6 hours' googling and checking every which way every day should show something .... most seem to go within 5-6 weeks. I am now focussing on the one area ... but still doing a daily search on RM for "all houses, up to my budget, within a 10 mile radius, in the last 24 hours" even if I don't want to be anywhere else. Still scanning through them all.

I am using various sites/methods to try to dig out hidden stuff. I have thought of sticking notices in local shop windows .... and maybe even leafleting specific roads/houses, but as it's so close to Xmas and I've other stuff on my mind, I've just left it all a bit late really. Wish I'd decided on this current area of interest a year ago.

A major step forward in the saga of me buying this house was when I wrote speculatively to the owners of a house I really liked and knew had been on the market the previous year, but which hadn't turned up in the "sold" stats. It turned out to be because they'd agreed a sale twice, and both times the chain had collapsed further down. So don't be afraid to try unconventional leafleting kinds of strategies.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

900 sq ft = 83 sqm is a pretty small 3 bed but they would almost certainly let you build something similar as a 2 bed. .

I've just checked my list of misc houses I've spotted/considered and none of them have been that big really. Many seem to be 750-800 sq ft

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

A major step forward in the saga of me buying this house was when I wrote speculatively to the owners of a house I really liked and knew had been on the market the previous year, but which hadn't turned up in the "sold" stats. It turned out to be because they'd agreed a sale twice, and both times the chain had collapsed further down. So don't be afraid to try unconventional leafleting kinds of strategies.

I'd need to either buy a printer, or use a library to print out letters and shove them through doors. Shoving them through doors I could just target the ones that were 'right' ..... on the other hand I might end up getting OCD about every one and fully researching each one/history/price etc before I shoved a letter through the door

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd need to either buy a printer, or use a library to print out letters and shove them through doors. Shoving them through doors I could just target the ones that were 'right' ..... on the other hand I might end up getting OCD about every one and fully researching each one/history/price etc before I shoved a letter through the door

I don't know how anyone gets by without a printer. They're as cheap as chips nowadays. For Canon ones you can find cheap cartridges online.

Ones with scanners are (almost) just as cheap as plain printers. Tesco, ebay, any supermarket, no need to be spending more than £50.

Relying on a library's fine when you need occasional prints during opening hours, but you need access to a basic one to do loads of things nowadays.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

I don't know how anyone gets by without a printer. They're as cheap as chips nowadays. For Canon ones you can find cheap cartridges online.

Ones with scanners are (almost) just as cheap as plain printers. Tesco, ebay, any supermarket, no need to be spending more than £50.

Relying on a library's fine when you need occasional prints during opening hours, but you need access to a basic one to do loads of things nowadays.

Well, somewhere in the boxes I might still have an HP PSC, but the ink cartridges often cost as much as a new printer. With everything stacked in sealed boxes I can't recall what I kept and what I binned.

I rarely need to print ... printing is often a life choice. So I've usually chosen to not do it.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, somewhere in the boxes I might still have an HP PSC, but the ink cartridges often cost as much as a new printer. With everything stacked in sealed boxes I can't recall what I kept and what I binned.

I rarely need to print ... printing is often a life choice. So I've usually chosen to not do it.

When we bought a house we had to drive to a store that had a photocopier to copy documents, and had to print out all sorts of things.

I'd strongly recommend getting a cheap printer ( or better a 3-in 1) after checking maybe on this forum what ones accept cheap online cartridges. I bet you'll be amazed how much use you'll get out of it. They're slow and noisy but always available night and day. If the one you've got in a box can accept cheap cartridges then see if you can dig it out.

Even if you'd rather write personalised letters for houses you're interested in you'll find a printer useful for drafting.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've just checked my list of misc houses I've spotted/considered and none of them have been that big really. Many seem to be 750-800 sq ft

We have just put in plans for a 126sqm 3-bed which looks a bit small to me, our first set of plans was about 140 (no garage for either) This is on a plot about 20m x 18m. Our 3 bed semi was about 80sqm before we extended.

Last printer I got from ebuyer was a laser duplex dell with 7000 sheet toner which was free by redemption including postage if you sent an old printer for recycling. This was such a good deal I bought 2 more for selling on eBay and made 150 profit.

I find with a cheap inkjet unless you print regularly the heads get clogged and it takes all the ink in a set of carts to run the cleaning app...

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

This is on a plot about 20m x 18m.

That'd make a generous row of 4 terraceds.

If I take the smallest as being a road frontage, 18m is 60'.

Many of the houses I look at are no wider that 12'.