New "Have a Look at This" thread

Maka344

Thoughts? 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/123975773

Martico

No floor plans - those are the first things I look at, everything else is changeable

user1977

Martico said:

No floor plans - those are the first things I look at, everything else is changeable

You can click through to the brochure if you want the floor plans:

https://media.rightmove.co.uk/246k/245054/123975773/245054_The_Barnham_DOC_00_0000.pdf

Ditzy_Mitzy

Maka344 said:

Thoughts? 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/123975773

The bloke who designed the garage must be a top geezer.  Other than that it's nothing but a load of drawings and composite photographs made of bits of other houses.  A house similar to the one in the advert will, no doubt, be built at some point in the near future.  It won't be great quality and will be priced over the odds, but someone will buy it.  The value will probably fall in a year or two and the first buyer will lose money.  The house will be sold at something of a discount to someone else, because 'second hand' new builds are comparatively cheap.  One lot of grey furniture will be replaced by another lot of grey furniture.  The neighbours will be of the sort to give funny looks to those wearing supermarket clothes or driving cheap cars.  There might be an estate What's App? group, where they discuss last night's telly and the price of a bag of lumpwood charcoal at the local Homebase.  If you are lucky you might get invited to a barbecue and have the chance to discuss lumpwood charcoal, telly and shifty strangers in cheap clothes over a glass of fizz/tin of lager.  If there, beware: someone who earns twice as much as you will spend all night trying to cadge fags with lines such as 'I don't really smoke but I really fancy one...'.  

If this sort of thing appeals to you, why not read the late and much missed Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black?  It combines meditations on the new estates of the late 1990s, when it was written, with a rollicking good supernatural story, the odd naughty bit, weird Catholic symbolism and a journey into the darkest parts of the psyche.  Totally mad and, at the same time, totally sane.  

Gers

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129962531#/?channel=RES_BUY

I shudder to think what the Factor fees are for the maintenance of the building and grounds.

BikingBud

joho said:

I can't decide whether the hob or the running tap is my favourite photo.

Photos of Mill Street, Bromley Cross, Bolton BL7 - 63503280 | PrimeLocation

I thought hairy cows, pic 8, were only mandatory in Scotland, England requires large clocks.

BikingBud

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

joho said:

I can't decide whether the hob or the running tap is my favourite photo.

Photos of Mill Street, Bromley Cross, Bolton BL7 - 63503280 | PrimeLocation

The photos are lovely and of a style consistent with a glossy hotel brochure or similar.  They do, however, go quite a long way to disguise the fact that the house is nowhere near as 'beautifully presented' as the description claims.  The hob, shown in baffling closeup, is rather dirty but that's the least of the problems.  If one looks in the corners and at the walls, one will see that the decoration is tired throughout and, far more seriously, upstairs appears damper than the average riverbed.  The bathroom mirror's frame is rusty - not good, the bathroom tiles appear to be coming off - bad, and the bedroom ceilings have obviously had severe mould growth which has been painted over - even worse.  I'd also be a bit concerned about the kitchen wall behind the kettle; it appears to be the location of a brick pier or similar holding up the end of the extension and there seems to be something nasty happening behind the plaster.  

Yes but in all fairness they have "decluttered" and got the scented candles in. You can't expect mould free and good plaster as well!😳

BikingBud

Gers said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129962531#/?channel=RES_BUY

I shudder to think what the Factor fees are for the maintenance of the building and grounds.

Yeah, I win, picture 4 = hairy cow🥳

But picture 6 has a big clock🤨

BikingBud

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129676433#/?channel=RES_BUY

Might consider £750k if complete but 😱

Ditzy_Mitzy

BikingBud said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129676433#/?channel=RES_BUY

Might consider £750k if complete but 😱

Passable that, very passable.  You know, young lass, you won't believe me but back in my day, back in t'twenty t'twenties, we had it right tough.  We didn't have house to live in, seventeen of us lived in t'hole in t'ground and we couldn't even afford a tarpaulin t'cover ourselves.  Had t'get up at three in t'morning t'take five diff'rent trains t'Town so we cud work for eighteen hours a day moving figures round spreadsheets for a pound over t'minimum wage.  And when we got home we'd fall straight to sleep on a load of crumpled up Pret a Manger bags cos we didn't have furniture.  You know why?  Cos back in't them days yu'd pay three quarters of a million Pounds Sterling for an hole in t'ground.  You heard me.  I can see you don't believe 't...