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  • NewShadow
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    Fosterdog said:

    and it basically the next street over this for £146k https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67974495.html again needs some TLC but a bigger property with more potential and doesn't need over £20k of work. 
    Okay, I give up... 

    How do you get from the snug to the rest of the house... and is there a teleport to the basement? 


    That sounds like a classic case of premature extrapolation.

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  • BrOz
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    You have me looking now, I've just realised that the house does have enclosed `front and rear' garden. But it's on the same side with a little bit of house in the middle! Possibly the 'snug' 
  • Smodlet
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    Sorry, I don't know the area or the market at all and mean no offence but, mid-terraced?  No-no.  Non-standard construction?  NO-NO!  For that kind of money it is easy to find brick houses... Maybe not where you are?  I'd rather commute.

    I wish you luck with your sale, OP.  It is a nice house, otherwise.
  • BrOz
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    My house Smodlet said:
    Non-standard construction?  NO-NO!  For that kind of money it is easy to find brick houses... 
     My house is a brick house
  • Smodlet
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    edited 11 February 2020 at 9:41PM
    BrOz said:
    My house Smodlet said:
    Non-standard construction?  NO-NO!  For that kind of money it is easy to find brick houses... 
     My house is a brick house
    BrOz said:
    My house Smodlet said:
    Non-standard construction?  NO-NO!  For that kind of money it is easy to find brick houses... 
     My house is a brick house
    Then please accept my apologies; it is not obviously so and, apparently, non-standard properties are perhaps more common in Wales than in other parts of the UK, from what I have read on here.  I am sorry if I caused any offence.  It might be an idea to make that clear in the listing if it is not already so.  If I can make that mistake, perhaps others could, too.
  • I'm now even more confused, I hadn't looked that closely at the plans. You definately need to get the floor plans sorted and properly labelled. For many people "basement" bedrooms would be a real turn-off, and the "snug" looks like a corridor on the plan. 
    Do you mean you enter the house at the front by the "snug" on "middle" level with stairs down to the ground floor bedrooms and garden at rear, and the first floor lounge?
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  • BrOz
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    I am sorry if I caused any offence.  It might be an idea to make that clear in the listing if it is not already so.  If I can make that mistake
    No offence caused at all, unfortunately I can't change the description unless the property is taken off the market. 

    These two houses are of non standard construction, up the road from me and in the same street. 

    https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/52678629?search_identifier=69cf2a6d38bf12cc716b86cf648720f1

    https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/51032957?search_identifier=40296e0c40c607133cd719b93646c3e0
  • BrOz
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    I'm now even more confused, I hadn't looked that closely at the plans. You definately need to get the floor plans sorted and properly labelled. For many people "basement" bedrooms would be a real turn-off, and the "snug" looks like a corridor on the plan. 
    Do you mean you enter the house at the front by the "snug" on "middle" level with stairs down to the ground floor bedrooms and garden at rear, and the first floor lounge?
    I think your mixing two houses together, mine is split level, so when you walk in the house the kitchen and living room and on this floor and 1 bedroom, then you go downstairs instead of upstairs and there's 2 bedrooms and the access to the garden. Ive always called these upside down house!

    The other house mentions snug, but im not sure if that's just another term for hallway?? Not sure. 
  • Smodlet
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    BrOz said:
    I am sorry if I caused any offence.  It might be an idea to make that clear in the listing if it is not already so.  If I can make that mistake
    No offence caused at all, unfortunately I can't change the description unless the property is taken off the market. 

    These two houses are of non standard construction, up the road from me and in the same street. 

    https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/52678629?search_identifier=69cf2a6d38bf12cc716b86cf648720f1

    https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/51032957?search_identifier=40296e0c40c607133cd719b93646c3e0
    With the first one you list, I think you can see how some could make that mistake, I hope.  I see render and assume the worst; quite a bit of the time, I am correct in my assumptions.
  • Honestly?  Stuck on balconies are tacky as anything.  In a normal street you’ll just look like weird lifeguard wannabes peering over into your neighbours’ space. 
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