When a listing just sit there with no reduction and no sale

NeilCr

Diocletian_II wrote: »

As a doctor who has done thousands of domiciliary visits. There will always be exceptions, but in general dead and dying people tend to be old, and they tend to have old fashioned furniture.

Two of my friends are GPs

They would, definitely, disagree with your assertions, if you are talking about people, say, in their 70s.

Again, what age are you describing as elderly. That might help us with the discussion.

System

NeilCr wrote: »

Two of my friends are GPs

They would, definitely, disagree with your assertions, if you are talking about people, say, in their 70s.

Again, what age are you describing as elderly. That might help us with the discussion.

I'm sorry that you cannot accept that dead or dying people tend to be old, but it's just a fact of life. Women's life expectancy is 82.9 years and for men it is 79.2.

NeilCr

Diocletian_II wrote: »

I'm sorry that you cannot accept that dead or dying people tend to be old, but it's just a fact of life. Women's life expectancy is 82.9 years and for men it is 79.2.

So your definition of elderly is people in their 70s?

If so, then, as I say, my GP friends would disagree with your comments about the "elderly" and their furniture. Just goes to show that people with similar work backgrounds can have different experiences.

System

NeilCr wrote: »

So your definition of elderly is people in their 70s?

If so, then, as I say, my GP friends would disagree with your comments about the "elderly" and their furniture. Just goes to show that people with similar work backgrounds can have different experiences.

Average age of mortality for men is 79.2 years and for women it is 82.9 years. Yes, I would definitely assert that people tend to die when they get old. In my experience as a doctor visiting lots of old and dying patients, they tend to have old fashioned furniture. You may know of some old people who are down with the latest fashions, and there are a few, but not the overwhelming majority.

NeilCr

Diocletian_II wrote: »

Average age of mortality for men is 79.2 years and for women it is 82.9 years. Yes, I would definitely assert that people tend to die when they are old. In my experience as a doctor visiting lots of old patients, they tend to have old fashioned furniture. You may know of some old people who are down with the latest fashions, and there are a few, but not the overwhelming majority.

I don't doubt your experiences.

I am just contrasting them with my GP friends who visit elderly people, as you do/did, and have a different view on their furniture and life style. This isn't only about me and my partner/other friends - although as a volunteer I spent time helping older folk (and others) with benefit claim forms for some while - which often meant going to their homes.

For sure, there are those who live in older style homes with aged furniture. My very dear 85 year old friend, who died recently, hadn't updated in any way since moving in with his mum many moons ago.

Perhaps, it's because we live in different parts of the country but, I don't believe this is as necessarily clear cut as you appear to be making it.

NeilCr

Diocletian_II wrote: »

Your GP friends' elderly and dying patients are obviously an overwhelmingly modern and trendy group of people. My elderly patients tend to be more conservative, and tend to hold on to the same furniture for many many years.

Glad you agree there are different experiences and situations.

As I say I do wonder about geographical location having some impact on this. I remember a marked difference (many years ago I know!) between how my two grans lived. One on the outskirts of London and one in a small country town. My country grans niece with whom she ended up living had a house full of old furniture - and she was late 50s. I guess it had been her parents house. My city gran had lived in the same house for years and it was up to date with newish (for the time) furniture.

ETA. You amended your post while I was replying. In fact you keep on amending and deleting.

Nope not in Shoreditch - nor hipsters although that would be cool! Down on the Kent coast but we do have quite a lot of people moving/retiring down here from London

newsgroup_monkey

MobileSaver wrote: »

Your mistake here is assuming that Diocletian actually has any interest in what's really going on in the housing market!

He is a committed HPCer and sold to rent years ago. Official house price statistics don't support the HPC mantra so the only way he can convince himself and others that he was right after all is to pick out individual properties with significant asking price drops.

Even though you, me and most sane, rational people can see the absurdity in his approach it's the only thing left for him and his ilk to cling to after making such a flawed financial decision when they sold to rent. It's all a bit sad but to be fair no-one likes to admit they got it so wrong so it's not entirely surprising.

Cheers I thought it was me!

System

NeilCr wrote: »

Glad you agree there are different experiences and situations.

As I say I do wonder about geographical location having some impact on this. I remember a marked difference (many years ago I know!) between how my two grans lived. One on the outskirts of London and one in a small country town. My country grans niece with whom she ended up living had a house full of old furniture - and she was late 50s. I guess it had been her parents house. My city gran had lived in the same house for years and it was up to date with newish (for the time) furniture.

ETA. You amended your post while I was replying. In fact you keep on amending and deleting.

Nope not in Shoreditch - nor hipsters although that would be cool! Down on the Kent coast but we do have quite a lot of people moving/retiring down here from London

My elderly and dying patients tend to be a more conservative lot, keeping their furniture for many years and until death, as is traditional with old people who were brought up during the war and rationing.

Crashy_Time

Diocletian_II wrote: »

That's exactly what I do, and what other potential buyers are doing too. I just find it interesting to speculate what is going on inside the heads of these eternal (non)-sellers.

They may alternatively just enjoy having their houses advertised for sale and having strangers look round. Maybe it makes some feel like local celebrities, and they do not want that to stop.

Must be something like that, they obviously don`t need the money that they think is "tied up" in their house...?

System

Crashy_Time wrote: »

Must be something like that, they obviously don`t need the money that they think is "tied up" in their house...?

Perhaps some eternal listers/non-sellers just like having their pixel-wealth displayed permanently on RM (a bit like Hello! magazine), since it may make them feel good even if they cannot get their hands on it.