The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Solicitor £2k.
EA £3200
Stamp Duty £5750

Removals... dunno.

It's not cheap is it.

Photos Thursday afternoon.

You don't pay the stamp duty.

You should negotiate the agent fee to 1% inc vat.

Property owning is much better than working for a living isn't it?

LydiaJ

Pyxis wrote: »

When I exchanged contracts on this house, and took my young sprog to see it, he said he was glad we were moving there because he liked the table that was in the kitchen! :rotfl: :rotfl:

I took my sprogs to view a house where the master bedroom was pink - pink carpet, curtains, headboard, bedlinen and maybe some other things. DS knew the house was inhabited by a couple, and asked, confused, "Where does the male sleep?" Mercifully the couple were downstairs out of earshot, and the EA was great, answering him without hesitation, "If he loves his wife very much, he probably thinks it's worth having a pink bedroom if it makes her happy."

michaels wrote: »

You don't pay the stamp duty.

You should negotiate the stamp duty tom1% inc vat.

Property owning is much better than working for a living isn't it?

She has to pay stamp duty on the property she buys to move into, though, doesn't she?

I don't understand what you mean by negotiating stamp duty?

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

You don't pay the stamp duty.

I pay stamp duty on the one I'm buying

Owning one property .... means there's "no gain" as you have to live somewhere..... so there's no winners.

gt568

PasturesNew wrote: »

I pay stamp duty on the one I'm buying

Owning one property .... means there's "no gain" as you have to live somewhere..... so there's no winners.

I'm curious as to how you can be so certain you won't have people you dislike as you do now at your new homestead? Out of the fryer into the fire so to speak?

PasturesNew

gt568 wrote: »

I'm curious as to how you can be so certain you won't have people you dislike as you do now at your new homestead? Out of the fryer into the fire so to speak?

There are reasons that many other houses are not like this one.... but I won't go into it...

I just want a "normal house, with a little driveway, that's in a road where everybody else has the same" .... and no "round the back car parks"...

New builds all seem to have car spaces and not drives. I want a drive.

PasturesNew

I had my screen and keyboard on a little square side table, placed in front of the sofa "to hand all the time" ... I've had to de-clutter them as they are really visually "odd" and I'd have ended up dismantling it and shoving it under the sofa for each viewing - and the legs were getting a bit ropey, so that'd have just not been sustainable.

It's in the car, to go to the tip on the next tip run.

I've got a little side table with drawers beside the sofa... where all my "handy stuff" gets hidden (hair clips, brush, remotes, bits of paper, receipts) ... so I've popped the monitor on top of that and have opened the top drawer as a keyboard shelf

I'm sitting on a little pouffe.

It's not .... to be fair .... very comfortable. The garden folding chair might get tested out a bit later, see if that's better.

Pyxis

LydiaJ wrote: »

I took my sprogs to view a house where the master bedroom was pink - pink carpet, curtains, headboard, bedlinen and maybe some other things. DS knew the house was inhabited by a couple, and asked, confused, "Where does the male sleep?" Mercifully the couple were downstairs out of earshot, and the EA was great, answering him without hesitation, "If he loves his wife very much, he probably thinks it's worth having a pink bedroom if it makes her happy."

AW!

She has to pay stamp duty on the property she buys to move into, though, doesn't she?

I don't understand what you mean by negotiating stamp duty?

I think that was a typo...... I think Michaels meant negotiate the EA fees.

t568 wrote: »

I'm curious as to how you can be so certain you won't have people you dislike as you do now at your new homestead? Out of the fryer into the fire so to speak?

'Traditional' houses are in a row, each house having a front garden and back garden, backing onto the garden of the house In the next road, and not backing onto a car park. In many cases the front garden is large enough to accommodate a car off the road.

A lot of modern houses have carparking 'areas' around the back, which, although each house has its own designated space, inconsiderate neighbours may block you in/allow their children to use it as a playground thus endangering cars etc.

In addition, modern houses may have much smaller gardens, thus encouraging said inconsiderate neighbours to let their children run riot in what they see as a ready-made playground space, instead of a series of freehold spaces that belong to someone else.

In traditional houses, children tend to play in their own back gardens. You have a definite delineated space that everyone knows is your own, and not to be trespassed upon. If trespass does occur, it is much easier to prove it's trespass, iyswim, plus you can fence it off.

There is no guarantee you won't have bad neighbours, but if where you live at the moment is ruining your well-being, it's a no-brainer risk, really.

Plus, for a fee, you can get an investigator to suss out the neighbours before you commit.

PasturesNew

I can start looking at houses now I guess... hesitant to look/view any until mine's actually "gone live" and people have started to shuffle round and appear interested.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

I think that was a typo...... I think Michaels meant negotiate the EA fees.

Well he needs to concentrate on what he's typing ... and not try to juggle and multitask with all those pr0n sites he spends most of his day surfing.

The EA is "the best", they do sell more here than anybody else... they're also the only ones open on Sundays.... I was expecting 1½%, but they only charge 1%, so it seems daft to "queer your pitch" with the best ones, that should, potentially, stand the best chance of getting it shifted soonest.

PasturesNew

In RM, in the area I think I'd like to be .... there are 9 houses for sale in what might be my budget, which are specifically not new builds.

All have a driveway
Most have a garage

3-4 beds... not bothered about the number of beds, it's about other stuff for me... I'd like a sunny garden and a utility.... a conservatory would be nice.... and no gardening....

One appears to have a ski slope as a back garden! It's only about 30' long, but by heck it's gone one massive slope on it!... that's off the list then.

One's a 1930s house and on a corner ... that's off the list then..

One's ideal and £20k under top budget.... garage and parking for two in the front garden... and a conservatory .... garden's a bit "green and has bushy things and medium trees" .... and it has some naff decking, despise that. But all those are issues that can be sorted with a can of lighter fuel

One's a bit grim .... it'd need a thorough makeover - removing artex ceilings, a new kitchen and the whole house decorating.... it's all a bit "shabby and bashed about and dark/gloomy".