Two almost identical houses I plan to offer on - thoughts?

getmore4less

StumpyPumpy wrote: »

*because of a bug in vBulletin with long links the ones in my original reply won't work - use my edited ones :-)

SP

long links work fine if you use insert link rather than just pasting a URL.

getmore4less

Mardle wrote: »

The Northwood is bigger. It has a dining room behind the garage.

smartfirecheesecake wrote: »

Ah I missed that!

Your title seem a bit premature how on earth can you be anywhere near ready to make offers.

Cakeguts

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50996262.html This house is round the corner from the one you are looking at and is much cheaper and bigger. Which makes the terraced houses that you are looking at overpriced which probably explains why they haven't sold.

teddysmum

Cakeguts wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50996262.html This house is round the corner from the one you are looking at and is much cheaper and bigger. Which makes the terraced houses that you are looking at overpriced which probably explains why they haven't sold.

It's not very attractive if you have residents or visitors who have problems with stairs.

smartfirecheesecake

getmore4less wrote: »

Your title seem a bit premature how on earth can you be anywhere near ready to make offers.

I really mean viewing with a good chance of putting an offer in. I've driven around the area and I love it.

Cakeguts

smartfirecheesecake wrote: »

I really mean viewing with a good chance of putting an offer in. I've driven around the area and I love it.

When you drove round the area what did you think of Lincombe Drive?

I have to say that it would devalue anything near it which is why I think both of the houses you are looking at are very overpriced. That is why they haven't sold. It seems that over 200k is too expensive for a terraced house in that area.

StumpyPumpy

getmore4less wrote: »

long links work fine if you use insert link rather than just pasting a URL.

Going off topic for a second, but no, they don't. I know exactly what the bug is in vBulletin, indeed, I've reported it several times to MSE, it is trivial to fix but they ignore me: their website, their choice.

The fault is not technically in the URL parser it is in the break handling of long "words". This handler adds a space after the 50th character in any word (try it: Create a post with 60 x's in a row and preview it, posting is not necessary) It is only URLs that tend to trigger the bug and are broken by it though. To make it slightly more complex this handler regards both a space and a hyphen as word delimiters but no other punctuation. So if you take your line of 60 x's and add a hyphen 30 characters in - no extra space appears; add another 30 chars before or after the hyphen and the space will reappear when previewed.

If you create a link with insert URL you will still get the problem, unless you create link text and wrap the URL around that - as I did to make my links work, this is because the break handler only acts on visible text. The irony is that you can use your original URL string as the link text, highlight it and then use insert link and recopy the URL into the box. When you preview the text will still have the space and look identical to the broken example but the link will work, but when people try and copy it and paste it into a browser it will fail.

Sorry to OP for hijacking his thread and getting all techie - normal service will now resume.

SP

Lolly88

Cakeguts wrote: »

I think both of the houses you are looking at are very overpriced. That is why they haven't sold.

Cakeguts wrote: »

Which makes the terraced houses that you are looking at overpriced which probably explains why they haven't sold.

They might be overpriced but the first property has only been on the market for 3 days and was listed on a day where most estate agents are closing up shop for the christmas holidays. It's barely had a chance yet. And they're link detached not terraced.

Cakeguts

Lolly88 wrote: »

They might be overpriced but the first property has only been on the market for 3 days and was listed on a day where most estate agents are closing up shop for the christmas holidays. It's barely had a chance yet. And they're link detached not terraced.

Link detached is a terraced house with a more expensive price tag than a terraced with a house next door. The point is that you can't get from the front to the back of the house without going through some part of the building. Detached means space all round the house. There is no way that these houses are detached. They are not semis either as there is no space between them and next door on either side. So therefore they are a row of terraced houses.

Working on the basis that they are terraced.(It only takes one neighbour to convert their garage to living space) they are very expensive for what they are.

getmore4less

StumpyPumpy wrote: »

Going off topic for a second, but no, they don't. I know exactly what the bug is in vBulletin, indeed, I've reported it several times to MSE, it is trivial to fix but they ignore me: their website, their choice.

The fault is not technically in the URL parser it is in the break handling of long "words". This handler adds a space after the 50th character in any word (try it: Create a post with 60 x's in a row and preview it, posting is not necessary) It is only URLs that tend to trigger the bug and are broken by it though. To make it slightly more complex this handler regards both a space and a hyphen as word delimiters but no other punctuation. So if you take your line of 60 x's and add a hyphen 30 characters in - no extra space appears; add another 30 chars before or after the hyphen and the space will reappear when previewed.

If you create a link with insert URL you will still get the problem, unless you create link text and wrap the URL around that - as I did to make my links work, this is because the break handler only acts on visible text. The irony is that you can use your original URL string as the link text, highlight it and then use insert link and recopy the URL into the box. When you preview the text will still have the space and look identical to the broken example but the link will work, but when people try and copy it and paste it into a browser it will fail.

Sorry to OP for hijacking his thread and getting all techie - normal service will now resume.

SP

Never had a long link break using insert link(Between font color and insert image on the edit bar looks like this ).

this is the insert link for No26 with no editing(the text break is in the link text not the URL that still works.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=10249182&sale=53878041&country=england