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

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

Also - agents don't like to tell you which house it is ... so you hit streetview and start looking, but some are tricky as images are 5-6 years out of date and one postcode does a long twisting road all round Will's aunts... and if you find it you can't get the house number, but there's a nifty site for this county. What I can do is type in the postcode and it shows a dot for every house - and shows them in-situ, so the shapes on the map match the house shapes in the road - so I can nail the door number 99% of the time.

With the door number and that map I can then double check its sales history and know I'm streetviewing the right house.

Then it's a quick fly into the sky to look around at the paths, roads, gardens of others around, looking for oddities and what's where.

Thing is you're never going to find "perfect" (but you know that)
Perfect for me would be moated, with crocodiles and a drawbridge, in about 1000 acres of parkland, surrounded by a 20 foot high round topped un-climbable wall, with double chainlink topped with razor wire inside that.
Nothing too extreme. :rotfl:
Oh and by the sea as well.
This place is the closest we were (or are) ever going to get, although it lacks most of the ideal attributes!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Things that grate when you're looking for houses:

Why do agents have to tell me who a house is for? "ideal FTB", or "summer bolthole". So annoying.... especially if/when they're touting stuff well above my budget as "suitable FTB".... "ideal family home".

These phrases can turn one off a property when the terms used grate.

Family bathroom - so I can't buy it? Only families can use this house?
Where do single people wash?

"Popular area", "sought after area" - they're not though are they; they're just adding stock phrases. Popular could just be with police cars at dusk/after dark....

Agents just fill space with buzz-words, not real actual information. I once saw a studio room advertised as ideal for the local primary school ... makes you wonder who that was aimed at then!

You should open a truth agency!

I think someone did that once. Dunno how well they did!

Jackmydad wrote: »

Thing is you're never going to find "perfect" (but you know that)
Perfect for me would be moated, with crocodiles and a drawbridge, in about 1000 acres of parkland, surrounded by a 20 foot high round topped un-climbable wall, with double chainlink topped with razor wire inside that.
Nothing too extreme. :rotfl:
Oh and by the sea as well.
This place is the closest we were (or are) ever going to get, although it lacks most of the ideal attributes!

By the sea is a pain....... you can't fence off the sea, so you'll get the sailing, wind-surfing and jet-skiing ferals invading you from the water!
:rotfl:

I suppose you could put a shark net down, and then fill the inside of the net with sharks.

Jackmydad

Pyxis wrote: »

You should open a truth agency!

I think someone did that once. Dunno how well they did!


By the sea is a pain....... you can't fence off the sea, so you'll get the sailing, wind-surfing and jet-skiing ferals invading you from the water!
:rotfl:

I suppose you could put a shark net down, and then fill the inside of the net with sharks.

Private beach with enough private land either side to make it inaccessible!
Although the shark idea has a certain appeal. . .:rotfl:

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

By the sea is a pain....... you can't fence off the sea, so you'll get the sailing, wind-surfing and jet-skiing ferals invading you from the water!
.

This is true. You can't stop kayakers etc landing.

Jackmydad

I'm not mean. I'd let reasonable people use the beach reasonably. I'd let 'em walk in the parkland and picnic as well if they behaved reasonably, and weren't annoying.
Ferals could go somewhere else. . .

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

Private beach with enough private land either side to make it inaccessible!

Only at high tide - unless one can persuade the Crown to prohibit entry to the bit between the high and low tide marks.
Without that, there's nothing to stop anyone walking along from elsewhere provided they remain below the high water mark.

PasturesNew

Jackmydad wrote: »

I'm not mean. I'd let reasonable people use the beach reasonably. I'd let 'em walk in the parkland and picnic as well if they behaved reasonably, and weren't annoying.
Ferals could go somewhere else. . .

Funny you should say that .... a man bought a castle....

“When I first got it,” he explains, “a dozen times a day people would just be traipsing through the grounds. Kids would ride their bikes through. There were people turning up having picnics, teenagers drinking in the evening and lots of people walking their dogs. People wouldn’t like it if I let my dog cr*p in their front garden.

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/property/robins-nightmare-i-bought-caverswall-931075

The trouble with people is they think that if there's no sign, it's OK for them to help themselves to spaces. They assume land is public, or shared.... and if you dare try to give it "Get Orf Moi Land...." they make out you're the wrong-doer and/or miserable s0d.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

I suppose you could put a shark net down, and then fill the inside of the net with sharks.

You'd have to put up warning signs, something like this would do;;
"Trespassers may be eaten, survivors will be prosecuted"

:rotfl:

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Only at high tide - unless one can persuade the Crown to prohibit entry to the bit between the high and low tide marks.
Without that, there's nothing to stop anyone walking along from elsewhere provided they remain below the high water mark.

This one is only accessible through the security gate or from the sea. There is a slim chance you can survive a scramble down the falling cliffs off the coastal footpath, but that's life-endangering, and there's a rumour that you might be able to scramble at super-low-tide from the adjoining private beach through a small/rocky cave... but, you can't just wander off a path to it.

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

You'd have to put up warning signs, something like this would do;;
"Trespassers may be eaten, survivors will be prosecuted"

:rotfl:

Or even better:

"Trespassers will be eaten; survivors will have the rest of them thrown back in to be eaten".