Been in our home since May...absolute house of horrors...

Red-Squirrel_2

Crashy_Time wrote: »

The advice I gave, not to get into shedloads of mortgage debt because someone on the internet who bought in 1991 says it`s a great idea, would help people avoid that fate surely?

No, it wouldn't, its not helpful advice at all.

People want home where they feel secure, they always will.

ian1246

Myself and girlfriend (now wife!) brought our house (1975 build) in November 2015. Fortunately we ve not had too many disasters to date. We had to get the gas pipe moved since it ran through the back door to the kitchen hob, whilst the engineer was moving it, the gas pipe promptly fell off the hob - turns out it hadn't even be welded onto the hob, they'd just used sealant.

Done various bits and bobs of superficial DIY(putting photo frames up, building garden gate, fixing the garden fencing etc...) - haven't actually tackled the decorating yet since the house is perfectly livable. Kind of dreading it though - the entire house has textured wallpaper, everywhere.

November 2017 wasn't fun though - had our back-boiler serviced. Turned out it was leaking onto the gas fire. Cost us £3,313 to get a combi boiler fitted with the appropriate pipe-work changes.

Next big DIY challenge will be the drive. Our drive is about 1ft higher than our next door neighbours - there is meant to be a 1ft gap between our drives, filled with either pebbles or grass, so that any water on their drive would drain away. Unfortunately, one of their previous house owners was a lorry driver... who used to park his lorry on the drive. Since he needed a wide drive, he cemented the gap up. Result? For the last 20+years whenever its rained, ours neighbours drive has flooded and gradually eroded away the base of our drive. You can now fit your arm up to its elbow in places under our drive :eek: Fortunately the neighbours have finally recreated the gap along the majority of the drive, so it no longer floods. Next summer I'm going to have to try my DIY "fix" - filling the eroded gaps with compressed pebbles, followed by cementing the side (held in place by wooden boards, drilled into the drive/inserted into the ground!).

Joys of Home Ownership. Wouldn't change it for the world though!

Crashy_Time

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

No, it wouldn't, its not helpful advice at all.

People want home where they feel secure, they always will.

Did the people you mentioned that got repo`d feel secure do you think? Wanting something and borrowing too much to get it are two completely different things.

Davesnave

Seems that those being repossessed has been falling since 2008. Currently somewhere between 1 and 2 per 1000, I believe, depending on local area.

That's a much better success rate for house purchase than, say, marriages.

Do you suggest people don't get into marriage or personal commitment of any kind as well?

What a philosophy it could be: don't buy a property in case you get repossessed, don't have a partner because the relationship may fail, and whatever you do, don't plan too far ahead, because you might die any time!