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  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    ognum wrote: »
    link! Link Link please


    Gwan. Just s.eparat.e the link with a couple of ...
    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    <grin> You are all very bad people, and will get me into all sorts of trouble.

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40835880.html

    As you can see, a 35ft living room and 2/3 acre makes it an ideal retirement property for a 77yo woman living with her dog! It's the front-left corner that's sagging badly, the dressing room/bathroom on Bed1 on the map, but there are cracks throughout that whole end.
  • MobileSaver
    MobileSaver Posts: 4,349 Forumite
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    oystercatcher wrote: »
    However as it was a rarely available property in a prime location they paid up.

    They still complain about " Greedy Mrs X" though !

    This is why I would have done what AdrianC's mum did and walk away... it would forever niggle me that I had been done over. I guess I'm not as forgiving as some people. :)
    Every generation blames the one before...
    Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years
  • jimbog
    jimbog Posts: 2,265 Forumite
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    I think it looks ugly - a lucky escape!
    Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
  • Pete9501
    Pete9501 Posts: 427 Forumite
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    So for the benefit of Google this is a:

    4 bedroom detached bungalow for sale in Titley Herefordshire

    with an asking price of "Offers in Excess of £465,000"
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    ...and she's completed...

    But, of course, I can't leave this thread without another little gem, can I?

    We bumped into the agent for That Bungalow t'other day. Turns out the vendor "fired" them. Much mutterings of "good riddance"... including a mention of rumoured underhand dealings in other realms. A good googling reveals that he was featured on Watchdog in 2006, something to do with taking VERY substantial deposits for conservatories that were never built...
  • DaftyDuck
    DaftyDuck Posts: 4,609 Forumite
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    Given how !!!!!! the conservatory on the back of that one is, losing the money was probably a lucky escape for them!
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    DaftyDuck wrote: »
    Given how !!!!!! the conservatory on the back of that one is, losing the money was probably a lucky escape for them!
    The quality of the workmanship suited the cosmetic appeal.
  • Katgrit
    Katgrit Posts: 555 Forumite
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    What did the letter from Nephew's Wife to your Mum say? Did you pick it up from the EA?
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    Another update, prompted by linking here from another thread. Tomorrow's September. That bungalow is still on the market, now with two agents, and at a price lower than my mother was days from exchanging on, back in February...

    Meanwhile, she's been in her new home since late May.
    <happy sigh>
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