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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

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  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    My mortgage offer advised that the house needed to be insured for a minimum amount.

    I'm assuming you don't have a valuation PN?
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    lemonjelly wrote: »
    My mortgage offer advised that the house needed to be insured for a minimum amount.

    I'm assuming you don't have a valuation PN?

    No valuation - the only valuation I have is how much I offered :)
    Which is a lot more than the rebuild cost....
    My offer price is £10k more than 80% of your asking price.
  • bugslet
    bugslet Posts: 6,874 Forumite
    lemonjelly wrote: »
    These people are very helpful to me. & I'm only trying to buy a home!:o


    :rotfl:

    I wish I could be more hlp LJ and PN, but it's a long time since I bought a house and never bought one for me to live in!

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  • michaels
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    Day off today (and tomorrow) finding it very confusing to be home on a day that isn't a weekend. Trying to sort out house tenant transfer.

    DW went to town and got parking ticket so that is £35 that could have been spent on doing something fun if she had bothered to check :mad:
    I think....
  • silvercar
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    michaels wrote: »
    Day off today (and tomorrow) finding it very confusing to be home on a day that isn't a weekend. Trying to sort out house tenant transfer.

    DW went to town and got parking ticket so that is £35 that could have been spent on doing something fun if she had bothered to check :mad:

    Try pepipoo forums to get off the ticket.
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  • michaels
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    silvercar wrote: »
    Try pepipoo forums to get off the ticket.

    Thanks, if there were any 'grey' then I would, however she was 100% guilty - there are a few free bays in St Albans close to town but clearly signed only free between 10 and 4, she didn't check and got back to the car at 20 past 4. Traffic warden had waited the requisite 7 minutes from 4 to 4.07. Perhaps the sign-age is in some way non-compliant but it has been there a few years so I suspect not and anyway I don't really see why we should try and get off on a technicality when the intent of the restriction is pretty clear.
    I think....
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,685 Ambassador
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    michaels wrote: »
    Thanks, if there were any 'grey' then I would, however she was 100% guilty - there are a few free bays in St Albans close to town but clearly signed only free between 10 and 4, she didn't check and got back to the car at 20 past 4. Traffic warden had waited the requisite 7 minutes from 4 to 4.07. Perhaps the sign-age is in some way non-compliant but it has been there a few years so I suspect not and anyway I don't really see why we should try and get off on a technicality when the intent of the restriction is pretty clear.

    If the signage is non compliant there is no way you should be forced to pay IMHO.

    I won twice on non compliant signs. :) ( I should add family members tickets not mine.)
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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    michaels wrote: »
    ... I don't really see why we should try and get off on a technicality when ....
    I can think of several ways to finish that sentence, but I am learning that I should sometimes stay quiet and not try to inject my warped style of humour into everything I encounter .....
    :)
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,142 Forumite
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    silvercar wrote: »
    If the signage is non compliant there is no way you should be forced to pay IMHO.

    That is an interesting perspective - agreed the council should not get it wrong, however if I look at a sign and understand the meaning and then later because I have disregarded the sign I go looking for reasons why I can ignore what I understood in the first place (wrong font or whatever) that seems a bit immoral to me. If on the other hand I knew the sign was wrong and thus unenforceable when I parked that would be a different matter.

    PN don't hold back on my behalf, we are all consenting adults on the NPT ;)
    I think....
  • PasturesNew
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    michaels wrote: »
    PN don't hold back on my behalf, we are all consenting adults on the NPT ;)

    OK, I had two outline answers ..... which would have gone a bit like this:

    a] I'm more worried about how much she spent while she was out, I'm sure £35 is a drop in the Ocean.
    b] .... and all because she went to that shop to make sure we got the extra 20 points on the XYZ card.

    There you go :)

    That's how you offend without knowing you'd do it :)
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