Wise words for the HPC fans...

caronoel

Some very sage words from the UK's favourite property expert:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05ml5hb


Crashy Time, brit1234 and others who have spent their 30s and 40s waiting for the crash that never came should pay particular attention to the advice from 1:30.

HPC_Ghuol_Hunter

Salient advice for the crashy crew.

Blacklight

I was just having a look at HPC, I'm surprised it's still going tbh.

Same old bitter people who missed the boat. The Count has now spent the last TEN YEARS complaining. TEN F**KING YEARS! 30,000 posts on the subject ...that honestly can't be good for your mental wellbeing can it.

The 2007 posters ( trolls they were ) were actually right. I'm off soon

I feel really sorry for these people now, spending a decade of your life being a victim must be soul destroying.

westernpromise

I've no sympathy because it's just the consequences of his own staggering personal greed.

What he's been waiting for is the chance to snap up a bargain at someone else's expense. Then he'd be the one sitting on the inflation. That's what he wants. That's what he's been prepared to wait TEN YEARS for and he'd still like that outcome now, especially because everyone else these last 10 years just knuckled down, paid up and addressed the mortgage.

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn

westernpromise wrote: »

I've no sympathy because it's just the consequences of his own staggering personal greed.

What he's been waiting for is the chance to snap up a bargain at someone else's expense. Then he'd be the one sitting on the inflation. That's what he wants. That's what he's been prepared to wait TEN YEARS for and he'd still like that outcome now, especially because everyone else these last 10 years just knuckled down, paid up and addressed the mortgage.

That thread was hilarious. The "Count" character sounds like he has well and truly lost it.

I feel like the most evil man on the planet for buying a home for my family. :rotfl:

chucknorris

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn wrote: »

That thread was hilarious. The "Count" character sounds like he has well and truly lost it.

I feel like the most evil man on the planet for buying a home for my family. :rotfl:

He even states that pensions are worthless, which I find really bizarre, a pension is simply a tax free wrapper, why is it better to pay the full tax on investments outside of pensions (does he feel the same way about ISA’s)? I would love to hear an explanation of why pensions are worthless.

Arklight

The denizens of the forum hpc.co.uk may be figures of fun to some of the posters on this forum, but they exist because the basic right of stable, affordable housing is denied to millions in the UK.


The Count may never have had the chance to buy. There are many people on mid to low incomes or even with special educational needs, who can't save a deposit. Those who pay high rents can't.


Most of the people I know who got on the ladder did so with BOMAD help.

economic

Its a bit ironic but even though the crash trolls have been wrong all these years and continue to be delusional, they are just trolls after all yet people like Jack Johnson continue to waste their times replying back in an equally if not more hateful manner. you gotto wonder if people like him have some insecurities and anger within themselves and so i feel sorry for them at least as much as the crash trolls, if not more.

Cakeguts

I bought my first home because there was a shortage of good quality rental properties. That was in about 1984. The reason why there was shortage of rental property was because of the rent acts and controlled rents. So if you wanted somewhere to live you had the choice between a bedsit or a council property (if you could get one) or if you were lucky a one bed flat that had very high rent because of the shortage of private rentals. I remember someone in the early 80s getting a one bed flat that cost more to rent than my later mortgage on a 2 bed house. The rent on the 1 bed flat was £25 per week. My mortgage cost under £200 per month even with an interest rate of 11%. I managed to save for a deposit on my house because I stayed in a bedsit and didn't move to an expensive 1 bed flat. If I had moved to the one bed flat which I am sure would have been much nicer than my bedsit I would not have been able to afford to save for a deposit for the house.

Before anyone asks this was not London it was north west.

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn

economic wrote: »

Its a bit ironic but even though the crash trolls have been wrong all these years and continue to be delusional, they are just trolls after all yet people like Jack Johnson continue to waste their times replying back in an equally if not more hateful manner. you gotto wonder if people like him have some insecurities and anger within themselves and so i feel sorry for them at least as much as the crash trolls, if not more.

Not once have I posted on the Hpc website. So it would be difficult for me to have wasted my time replying to them.

But replying to you is a guaranteed waste of anyone's time. Your posts are largely incomprehensible. At the very least you could use a capital letter after a full stop.

economic

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn wrote: »

Not once have I posted on the Hpc website. So it would be difficult for me to have wasted my time replying to them.

But replying to you is a guaranteed waste of anyone's time. Your posts are largely incomprehensible. At the very least you could use a capital letter after a full stop.

if you find my posts incomprehensible and a guaranteed waste of time why bother replying to it?

this is a forum, i can write however i please to write, but feel free to block me if you really dont like my posts.

as for wasting your time replying to crash trolls, a simple search reveals all. i took the liberty to do this for you, just click the below and you shall see how much time you have wasted. so much anger in those posts

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search.php?searchid=174801414