Daydream fund challenge part 4

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Flip I was thinking the same Alfie, pheobe is your place that big??? I would love a place with big barns and more land re fields etc..

phoebe1989seb

alfie_1 wrote: »

did the PO win the lottery ? he obviously didn't have 41 cars at your house ! quite a leap of difference to 20 acres... :rotfl:

Not that I'm aware of

Actually he did have the forty one cars - when we viewed the EA told us that was why he sold as he was previously storing them off-site. He's a Scandinavian businessman who collects vintage racing cars etc (Caterham type) and afaik he's owned them for years......

He bought the new place - a Victorian Gentleman's residence - a couple of years before we came along and purchased this place....1.7m I think he paid - although darn sarth you'd have been looking at several million - not bad for something intended as a garage facility :eek:

No, CTC, no barns here unfortunately.....thought you had loads of land at *the ranch* lol :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Our land is wooded, no fields, BUT the farmer who land backs onto ours has lovely fields with his horses in..would love to be able to afford to buy the huge field one day...

So our land is ideal for our pigs...

And you can never have too much land....lol

phoebe1989seb

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Our land is wooded, no fields, BUT the farmer who land backs onto ours has lovely fields with his horses in..would love to be able to afford to buy the huge field one day...

Hopefully your business/eBay sales will roll in enabling you to do so

COOLTRIKERCHICK

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Hopefully your business/eBay sales will roll in enabling you to do so

Even though I would love to be able to buy the field ( wouldn't get much change out of a 100k ) but also about knowing where the point of contentment is... And for us.. Its more or less what we got... Learning to live with what we have achieved through hard work, and knowing when not to push your luck...

alfie_1

oh CTC and OH are the hardest working, honest people I know.. they got the "ranch" through B,S and T's ...they will get what they go out for.. look out wales !!

phoebe1989seb

alfie_1 wrote: »

oh CTC and OH are the hardest working, honest people I know.. they got the "ranch" through B,S and T's ...they will get what they go out for.. look out wales !!

However - as I know to my cost and one previous house project in particular stands as testament to this - blood, sweat and tears don't always pay off :(:(

My grandma always maintained that "honesty is the best policy", something DH and I have always strived to live by......but once again it's very often the dishonest people that appear to do best in life. Fortunately there's always karma though

Anyway, am royally pooped now having just spent what felt like hours attempting to manhandle a very large beast of an antique fireplace up the widest of our sets of stairs We finally got there, having had to dismantle part of it first, but now it's in situ and rebuilt (good job DH is skilled at carpentry) you can see it's going to look fab once we fit it The seller couldn't fit it in their house so reluctantly stuck it on the bay, as a result of which it was bargain of the month too :T

Managed to get a little weeding and dead-heading done between showers too, but really need to get the lawns mowed so hope it'll be drier later in the week!

alfie_1

glad you got the fireplace in phoebe.. good job it came apart.
you sound rather jaded from your recent experiences... perhaps a bottle of plonk and a two finger salute may work , does for me

alfie_1

LIR... where are yoooooooooooo come out come out wherever you are .....

phoebe1989seb

alfie_1 wrote: »

glad you got the fireplace in phoebe.. good job it came apart.
you sound rather jaded from your recent experiences... perhaps a bottle of plonk and a two finger salute may work , does for me

Jaded, moi? Nah Think it's more a case of the feeling that you've restored another house for someone else to enjoy/reap the benefit of, as we always seem to sell before having the opportunity to chillax and enjoy the fruits of our not inconsiderable labours

The vino sounds a good idea though.....in fact I've just poured a *large* glass, lol :rotfl: