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

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

A brilliant, brilliant man if you don't mind rude stuff.

Outed Saville in about 1989. Was punched on stage in Canada for pointing out that neither English nor French were the languages that should be spoken in Vancouver as there was a local language that shouldn't have been usurped.

I've a strong tolerance of rude Scottish comedians. Got to say the funniest comedian up there is very un-PC. Wish he wasn't but he's off the scale in terms of creativity.

Would see Jerry if poss.:D

vivatifosi

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

Mine is 82sq m, a small 3 bed. That's plenty big enough for just two of us. Dimensions don't include garage which is in a block. It's more about the layout.

I'm loathe to add anything to your shopping list, but my preference would be for a house that is more than 12 ft wide if you have an adjoining house. This is so if you end up with noise from next dooe you can move somewhere else. I speak as someone who had a one bedroom house that was 12 ft wide and I could never escape my next door neighbour's piano. She put it on the adjoining wall and practiced her scales at 7.30am, even on Christmas day. Not had another who has been quite so inconsiderate, and my house was only 36 square m, but for me it is a big consideration.

I therefore prefer short fat (ie wide) houses to long thin ones, though the bigger the house - especially now I'm in a semi as only one wall anyway and lovely neighbours - the more space to get away from noise. My current house is still long and thin in spite of what I've said.

neverdespairgirl

hjd wrote: »

1970-75.
Considerably before you, I imagine!

A long time before I was there, but I think most of the teachers were the same! They'd all been there forever.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Is it that blue dress you had on in bath? I loved that! Simple and lovely and fresh, very nice and suited your colouring so nicely.


I'm wearing the stained jumper still, and socks and knickers. . Last word in glam..........I better go and sort that out actually.....

I think it was - I like it, I like the colour, and the shape and fit. And being Jersey, I should be able to wear it for a while, yet (-:

hjd

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

A long time before I was there, but I think most of the teachers were the same! They'd all been there forever.

Well, they had certainly already been there a long time when I was there, but that sort tend to go on well past their sell by date (although, to be fair, there were some excellent teachers).

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

I think that might work to your advantage. Landlords trying to offload tenanted properties like buyers who aren't in a chain and who are able to be flexible about timing. A property with tenants who have been given notice should go for less money than an equivalent property being sold by owner-occupiers, so this may be a chance for you to get something you can afford. Just don't exchange contracts until the house is actually empty!!

I totally concur with all that, except I don't understand the final sentence: "Just don't exchange contracts until the house is actually empty!!"

I don't understand why not? Clearly, completion will only be with vacant possession, which it is the landlord's responsibility to obtain. So, there could be a bit of trouble if the tenants don't move out on time, but eventually the LL will turf them out, and completion can take place.

Can someone explain where my thinking is incorrect, please?

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Mine is 82sq m, a small 3 bed. That's plenty big enough for just two of us. Dimensions don't include garage which is in a block. It's more about the layout.

I'm loathe to add anything to your shopping list, but my preference would be for a house that is more than 12 ft wide if you have an adjoining house.

I'll have to take what's available, while there are several layouts possible, this is typical of a layout of a house, allbeit 2 beds http://media.rightmove.co.uk/24k/23270/44277998/23270_BSC3845_FLP_00_0000_max_600x600.GIF

But then I am most likely to buy a 2-bed house.

With 2 beds and usually 1 living room the layouts are limited.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'll have to take what's available, while there are several layouts possible, this is typical of a layout of a house, allbeit 2 beds http://media.rightmove.co.uk/24k/23270/44277998/23270_BSC3845_FLP_00_0000_max_600x600.GIF

But then I am most likely to buy a 2-bed house.

With 2 beds and usually 1 living room the layouts are limited.

Actually that is what the 2 bed version of my 3 bed looks like. They aren't bad as if the living room is noisy you tend to have the bedroom that's not above the lounge, in my old house I didn't have that. Plus here, those houses are viewed as too small for teenagers, so less noise there too.

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

I totally concur with all that, except I don't understand the final sentence: "Just don't exchange contracts until the house is actually empty!!"

I don't understand why not? Clearly, completion will only be with vacant possession, which it is the landlord's responsibility to obtain. So, there could be a bit of trouble if the tenants don't move out on time, but eventually the LL will turf them out, and completion can take place.

Can someone explain where my thinking is incorrect, please?

Take a trip to the house buying board. There are often stories of exchanged properties where the vacant possession goes wrong. Say for example that they exchange and then the tenant refuses to leave, while the liability is with the selling party, it also impacts on the buying party if they are packed up, ready to leave and have given notice that they are quitting their own place.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

You see... this is one of the big problems I am seeing in the houses I look at. Most have no storage and no understairs cupboard. The rooms are quite smallish so, while I could build big cupboards against an entire wall, the reality is that I'd like a place to "lob stuff" into .... initially, with a 2-bedder, I'd clearly lob it all in there.... but there comes a day when it needs to have its own home.

It's amazing just how much stuff can accumulate.... even a clothes airer, vacuum and some brooms need to go somewhere... and a laundry basket and pegs bag ... and that's before you get to the lilo, small beach tent, bicycle lamps/pump/panniers, the toolbox .... it all adds up.... and it all has to go somewhere handy, yet out of sight, and organised. I've also got some boxes of "dad's stuff" and shortly "mum's stuff". Then there's all the paperwork I have to keep for myself, my past 6 years' accounts and mum's PoA stuff etc... even if I get a filing cabinet, that'd need to go somewhere too!

Stuff....

I even have an airing cupboard. An airing cupboard!