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

Crashy_Time

Loanranger wrote: »

Not if they have taken advantage of the very low interest rates they have enjoyed for past ten years and paid down large chunks of their mortgage.

How many people do you think have done this? What about the people that bought last year, and last week?

jimbog

Crashy_Time wrote: »

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-house-price-index-summary-september-2018/uk-house-price-index-summary-september-2018

From your link:
the annual price change for a property in the UK was
3.5%

Davesnave

Crashy_Time wrote: »

A 1% rise in rates will see people in difficulty,You hope. the times past that you talk about have absolutely no bearing on todays economic world. I see, the laws of economics are different now. Right.

There have always been people who 'get into difficulties.' Even Michael Jackson managed it.

[Deleted User]

I too have moved into somewhere that's had bodged worked done on it over the past 14 years and as i decorate each room i tackle these jobs and get the room redone and sorted out.


A fair bit i can do myself by way of prep work and decorating - just needing plasterers, electricians, and plumbers to to the stuff i can't.


And as mentioned previously i too, highly, recommend saving a contingency sum for 'unexpecteds' when you've moved into your new place, otherwise the jobs/situations that jump out at you in the next 6-12 months will cripple/haunt/kill you !!!

seven-day-weekend

Whilst replacing the ancient double glazing with new windows in our bungalow, the window fitter fell through the floor :eek:

Said floors all had to be repaired/replaced.

Total rewire

Total replaster.

We knew it was a do-er upper, but did not think the floors were so bad!

Welcome to the world of home ownership!

missprice

Crashy_Time wrote: »

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-house-price-index-summary-september-2018/uk-house-price-index-summary-september-2018


Sales transactions are down about 17% for England, a crap area that attracted buyers when prices were shooting up won`t attract them when they are shooting down, because people do care what is going on outside their front door, especially when the house is not the cash machine they once thought it was. In the real world landlords hold on to good tenants, or else what would be the point of being a landlord? Throwing people out every six months incurs a lot of costs, for the landlord.

I ain't selling, so I don't care what house prices do.
Eta I have almost paid off my house so very soon it will belong solely to me. It's worth a considerable amount more than when I bought it. So even if house prices crash by more than half and I absolutely HAD to sell it, I would be quids in.
And around my crappy area landlords are selling up. It's becoming too onerous to keep going. And a new registration scheme is about to require all LLs to sign up at a cost.

owen_money

'Twas on a Monday morning the gas man came to call.
The gas tap wouldn't turn - I wasn't getting gas at all.
He tore out all the skirting boards to try and find the main
And I had to call a carpenter to put them back again.

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

'Twas on a Tuesday morning the carpenter came round.
He hammered and he chiselled and he said:
"Look what I've found: your joists are full of dry rot
But I'll put them all to rights".
Then he nailed right through a cable and out went all the lights!

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

'Twas on a Wednesday morning the electrician came.
He called me Mr. Sanderson, which isn't quite the name.
He couldn't reach the fuse box without standing on the bin
And his foot went through a window so I called the glazier in.

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

'Twas on a Thursday morning the glazier came round
With his blow torch and his putty and his merry glazier's song.
He put another pane in - it took no time at all
But I had to get a painter in to come and paint the wall.

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

'Twas on a Friday morning the painter made a start.
With undercoats and overcoats he painted every part:
Every nook and every cranny - but I found when he was gone
He'd painted over the gas tap and I couldn't turn it on!

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

On Saturday and Sunday they do no work at all;
So 'twas on a Monday morning that the gasman came to call...

seven-day-weekend

owen_money wrote: »

'Twas on a Monday morning the gas man came to call.
The gas tap wouldn't turn - I wasn't getting gas at all.
He tore out all the skirting boards to try and find the main
And I had to call a carpenter to put them back again.

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

'Twas on a Tuesday morning the carpenter came round.
He hammered and he chiselled and he said:
"Look what I've found: your joists are full of dry rot
But I'll put them all to rights".
Then he nailed right through a cable and out went all the lights!

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

'Twas on a Wednesday morning the electrician came.
He called me Mr. Sanderson, which isn't quite the name.
He couldn't reach the fuse box without standing on the bin
And his foot went through a window so I called the glazier in.

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

'Twas on a Thursday morning the glazier came round
With his blow torch and his putty and his merry glazier's song.
He put another pane in - it took no time at all
But I had to get a painter in to come and paint the wall.

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

'Twas on a Friday morning the painter made a start.
With undercoats and overcoats he painted every part:
Every nook and every cranny - but I found when he was gone
He'd painted over the gas tap and I couldn't turn it on!

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

On Saturday and Sunday they do no work at all;
So 'twas on a Monday morning that the gasman came to call...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyeMFSzPgGc

MaMoneyMaMoney

And that's what's wrong with people and humanity as a whole. Lack of honesty.

It is sad to hear you had to go though that. You should and could have been a better person and show some empathy and honesty but you didn't.

Shame on you as a human. I'm glad and hope you're in a better place now.

MaMoneyMaMoney

My previous comment was in response to the following and related comments prior to that

I never met or spoke a word to the buyers In fact they did 3x visits, one of them 2 hours long with their parents I was told by the etsate agent as we'd moved out months ago.