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

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

IKEA (free) bags are ideal. The ones they dish out as you start on your marathon journey around the store.

They're not free... they're for instore. You can buy them - and I have 2-3 of those, which I use regularly, including to take laundry to the launderette.

But they're "too good to waste on clippings" - and my clippings were extensive

The nearest Ikea, too, is about a 45 mile round trip or so .... so not on the agenda.

I've done the bulk of it all now... I do despise any form of gardening.

PasturesNew

I've ordered couple of sticky numbers to stick on the back gate (by the parking/where viewers will arrive).

I also ordered a pack of 2 lampshade things - I could go and click/collect locally, but they'd arrive tomorrow and cost £3, so it was cheaper to get them online to arrive "sometime within a week" and turn up in my postbox.

PasturesNew

All done.

Photos will be emailed to me and I have to read/check the details etc ... and it'll be online in bout a week and viewings from about 10 days' time... er, or not.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Agent had emailed me after our meeting the other day.

"I was very impressed with your property & am sure it will prove popular."

I bet that's a template

It's slightly worrying, actually. Are you quite sure they haven't undervalued it? How many agents have you had round?

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's slightly worrying, actually. Are you quite sure they haven't undervalued it? How many agents have you had round?

I am confident they haven't under-valued, or over-valued it.

This was my price guesstimate myself ... there's one on at "Offers over" £50 more that's got the same facilities and is on a "proper/established road" and that's just "stuck" and not selling. If you look £10-20k more you can have 3 bed semis with a garage....

Last one that sold here (1 year ago) was £250k, so add £10k on for the position of my parking space (adjacent) -v- his (middle row, walk 100 yards to it) ... and my side bit and you're at £260k year ago. Things haven't moved that much round here in the last year.

If I asked more ... it'd probably sit unsold until the market caught it up.

The brand new, identical, one sold for £270k last year.

If you think it's too cheap, offer me £300k

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

All done.

Photos will be emailed to me and I have to read/check the details etc ... and it'll be online in bout a week and viewings from about 10 days' time... er, or not.

I think that's slow. I would have expected next day service. It's not like they need to take the film to the processing shop and wait for the photos to arrive.

What are the stamp duty thresholds now? Isn't £260k just sitting on one?

In my area that price will get you a newish 1 bed flat.

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

All done.

Photos will be emailed to me and I have to read/check the details etc ... and it'll be online in bout a week and viewings from about 10 days' time... er, or not.

silvercar wrote: »

I think that's slow. I would have expected next day service. It's not like they need to take the film to the processing shop and wait for the photos to arrive.

What are the stamp duty thresholds now? Isn't £260k just sitting on one?

In my area that price will get you a newish 1 bed flat.

Seems slow to me too.
What are they using to take the pics. Wet plate collodion process camera, with the pictures carried to you by a runner?
I think when my mate recently-ish put his flat on the market it took a couple of days to get the pics taken, OK'd and "up"

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

Seems slow to me too.
What are they using to take the pics. Wet plate collodion process camera, with the pictures carried to you by a runner?
I think when my mate recently-ish put his flat on the market it took a couple of days to get the pics taken, OK'd and "up"

Perhaps staff are still on holiday and they've got a backlog?

ivyleaf

PasturesNew wrote: »

I blame the parents.

If the kids are making a noise, they're up to something they shouldn't be.

If the kids go quiet, they're up to something REALLY naughty!

When our elder DD went quiet, she was always to be found reading a book.
When her younger sister went quiet....then there was mischief afoot

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I think that's slow. I would have expected next day service. It's not like they need to take the film to the processing shop and wait for the photos to arrive.

What are the stamp duty thresholds now? Isn't £260k just sitting on one?

In my area that price will get you a newish 1 bed flat.

I have delayed the start.... as I have something to do that prevents it occurring instantly.

Stamp Duty is £5k up to £250k, then 3% on everything over that much.
0-125
125-250
250+

Not looked at flats here, a quick look shows no new build flats (they're not really built here often) - a modern one with its own entrance is at £155k.

Cheapest is £152k.
Dearest is £650 and is an extension (so nothing above it) and a large garden leading down to the waterside where you can launch your boat and enjoy the private mooring.

£220k is about the midpoint, which gets you a 1970s 2 bed flat.

2 bed terraces start at £260k, for a victorian cottage in the town.