i bought my house then discovered .....

Head_The_Ball

Spider_In_The_Bath wrote: »

In our previous house they left fish - we found their Koi Carp in the pond and had to get rid of them.

Luckily I knew someone, who knew someone with fish ponds.

Are Koi Carp not valuable and worth quite a lot of money?

Did you give them away, sell them or have to pay someone to take them away?

Clive_Woody

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

Are Koi Carp not valuable and worth quite a lot of money?

Did you give them away, sell them or have to pay someone to take them away?

Some are valuable but some less so. We inherited a load when we got our current house. We knew they were being left and thought it was a good idea at the time but daily cleaning of the filters was too much of a faff and with a young daughter and us having a 10ft x 10ft pond that was 5ft deep did not seem a good idea.

We sold some of the fish and the rest went to a local builder who in return for the fish demolished the pond, which was no small job as it was a significant concrete construction and filled the hole with 3 lorry loads of top soil. No doubt he did well out of the deal but it meant we now have a local friendly builder who has done other jobs for us too at good rates.

trollopscarletwoman

worried_jim wrote: »

My friends just moved to a new house and found a massive stash of porography in the loft, and I mean massive! .

Beat me to it.

Exactly same scenario.

jk0

The next door neighbour had a business repairing motor-bikes in his back garden. I had not seen this at the viewing, as both houses were bungalows.

PasturesNew

There was a rumour that the house was linked to some "great big crime" in the past. I was told the story by somebody who'd done some handyman work for the previous owner about 20 years before. He said he'd been in the garden and the two old ladies next door had spoken to him to ask him if he'd found anything in the loft - and they said they didn't know what, if it were 'treasure' or proceeds of a big crime, or a map showing where they'd buried the loot ... they weren't more forthcoming than that and the handyman never found anything .... but I wonder if there's something hidden there still .... and what it might have been.

DigForVictory

That the back garden had a fleet of snowdrops planted around the trees.
Stunning treat to look out on each spring!

principlecounts

PasturesNew wrote: »

There was a rumour that the house was linked to some "great big crime" in the past. I was told the story by somebody who'd done some handyman work for the previous owner about 20 years before. He said he'd been in the garden and the two old ladies next door had spoken to him to ask him if he'd found anything in the loft - and they said they didn't know what, if it were 'treasure' or proceeds of a big crime, or a map showing where they'd buried the loot ... they weren't more forthcoming than that and the handyman never found anything .... but I wonder if there's something hidden there still .... and what it might have been.

First thing that came to mind reading this was, 25 Cromwell Street. But hey, as they say on Crimewatch, "Don't have nightmares, do sleep well."

What happens to the house of horrors?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3593137.stm

Davesnave

principlecounts wrote: »

First thing that came to mind reading this was, 25 Cromwell Street. But hey, as they say on Crimewatch, "Don't have nightmares, do sleep well."

What happens to the house of horrors?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3593137.stm

Nilsen's house in Muswell Hill wasn't demolished, probably because he only lived in the top flat.

My aunt lived in the same style of house a couple of doors away, and oddly enough, had tenants in the top flat for years whose surname was similar to 'Nilsen.' However, that was years before he came on the scene.

brightontraveller

That the neighbours weren’t to keen on it being turned into a half way house for offenders.....

jenny-wren

A hole in the inner layer of the cavity wall under the stairs that had been stuffed with newspaper and plastered and papered over. It took 5 or 6 house bricks to fill the hole.

Oh, and a few pages from 'magazines of an adult nature' under a floorboard in the bathroom and in the eaves of the garage. Ewwww.