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  • PasturesNew
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    edited 30 January 2019 at 9:53AM
    In mentioning peculiarities found when house hunting....

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6640305/50ft-mountain-scrapped-cars-tower-gardens.html



    EDIT: The transporters don't show up on streetview ... and those houses have north gardens.
  • LydiaJ
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    In mentioning peculiarities found when house hunting.... I never saw this at all! Must be a posh road, where houses cost a lot more than my budget, else I'd have thought I'd have noticed it!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6640305/50ft-mountain-scrapped-cars-tower-gardens.html

    Gonna look up that road now, see prices.

    EDIT: The transporters don't show up on streetview ... and those houses have north gardens.

    While of course the racks of cars aren't pretty, the Mail is exaggerating to say that they're 50ft high. A rack of 4 cars would only be 50ft high if each layer was 12'6" per car.
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  • Pyxis
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    Didja see it? Didja? Didja?

    I did! :D
    First time in weeks and weeks due to being ill.

    Roll on tomorrow! :)
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  • Pyxis
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    While of course the racks of cars aren't pretty, the Mail is exaggerating to say that they're 50ft high. A rack of 4 cars would only be 50ft high if each layer was 12'6" per car.

    Perhaps they meant 50ft high from the horizontal perspective. :D:D



    I agree, though. The cars are higher than the bungalows, but not a couple of storeys higher.

    Even so, I wouldn't like that at the bottom of my short garden. :(
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  • PasturesNew
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    Didja see it? Didja? Didja?
    No, I only just remembered, as I happened to be outside in the garden and looked up ... so I'm only here to see if I missed it :)

    And I missed it by ... 2 hours.
  • PasturesNew
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    Here's another cheeky little "trick" I sometimes see EAs getting up to.

    I had a house on my list which had gone onto the market on 14 Aug. I wasn't interested in it, but I did note that it'd sold at some point between 12 December and 11 January ..... today, a brand new RM listing appeared for it, same estate agent, "Added today" and SOLD. So they're creating an illusion that a house has just come onto the market and that anybody interested in it has already missed the boat.

    They are crafty farquers.
  • chris_m
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Here's another cheeky little "trick" I sometimes see EAs getting up to.

    I had a house on my list which had gone onto the market on 14 Aug. I wasn't interested in it, but I did note that it'd sold at some point between 12 December and 11 January ..... today, a brand new RM listing appeared for it, same estate agent, "Added today" and SOLD. So they're creating an illusion that a house has just come onto the market and that anybody interested in it has already missed the boat.

    They are crafty farquers.

    Q - How do you know when an EA is lying?
    A - Their lips are moving.

    :rotfl:
  • Pyxis
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    Could you ask the EA to mention the cause of the rush-hour and its usual duration?
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  • PasturesNew
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    Could you ask the EA to mention the cause of the rush-hour and its usual duration?

    EAs don't do the job they used to do ... these days they seem to see their function as just unlocking the door and following people round.

    When I bought this house I asked the agent who owned the frontage - and he said "it's communal". It's not, nothing's communal... he just made it up.

    Trying to micro-manage viewings would just end up stressing me out - and peeing off the agents :)

    It is what it is.... and providing 1000 answers/suggestions for this, that and the other would be counter-productive (and ignored if it were a different person showing somebody round next time).

    Viewings do seem to occur when there's "something unusual occurring" though, like the time a neighbour was moving in, right that minute.... 2-3 hours to move in ... doesn't happen daily, or weekly, or monthly ... just when there's a viewing :)

    To be honest, there's also a high chance of "kids gathering" at that time too ....
  • PasturesNew
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    Blimey it's wet out there - and cold! Local roads are surface flooding ... you can barely see to drive because it's so pitch black and car lights are so bright and the rain is falling incessantly.

    Glad to be home!
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