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Desperate to sell house
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It's all a bit 1980's footballers wives. If I was buying it I would want to redo the kitchen and bathrooms, replace the fitted wardrobes, change the carpets and repaint every room. Although it's only redecoration it's still a lot of work and the asking price doesn't seem to take that into consideration at all.
On the plus side, the rooms all look huge, but without a floor plan it's difficult to gauge how much space you get.0 -
Gingernutty wrote: »The furnishings are very 1980's suggesting to the viewer that nothing has been done to the house since then - that's 30 years without updates or repairs.
It's overpriced.
Sorry.
As no redecoration or updating has been done to this house since the '80s, it probably also requires additional wall and roof insulation to bring it up to today's standards, and who knows whether there are more serious maintenance issues which haven't been addressed in that time.
£450K would be a more competitive starting price, so maybe OP should look at it that their accommodation has cost them £50K over the interest-only mortgage payments to live in for the last 30ish years. Frankly, that's not bad - it's a very spacious house.
A lot of people who took out interest-only mortgages are in a similar position, unfortunately.0
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