Homes Under the Hammer

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

There is no way my Dad is a celebrity, though, he's not on TV because of being in Big Brother / shagging some bimbo / falling out of clubs drunk. He's more the Newsnight / Law in Action kinda chap!

So long as it's not on Crimewatch or he's not "the accused" in video footage from outside the Courts

zippygeorgeandben

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My Dad is on the TV and radio from time to time, giving his expert opinion on something or other, and I find it really odd!

Women's Hour? :rotfl:

Bogof_Babe

Here he is - not a great pic though, he usually smiles more...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series11/images/week7/bid203.jpg

I am far too old for this sort of thing .

All excited now as I've just heard from my solicitor that the contract will be sent out on Monday for us to sign, so our little flat purchase is all systems go :j .

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Sorry PN, much as I love you, with your STR fund I'm not buying the "I'm poor" thang!

Yeah, OK, right now I'm doing fine, but once that cash is spent on buying a house it's back to earning a low household income again.

At the moment I get the illusion of non-poorness due to the interest, even though I don't touch that. But it's an illusion.

Take that away and my household income is half to two-thirds of the UK average salary for one person.

PasturesNew

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Here he is - not a great pic though, he usually smiles more...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series11/images/week7/bid203.jpg

I am far too old for this sort of thing .

Ah, him.
LOL/too old.
You're never too old to look ... perve ... and even get his home phone number and ring him up 10x a day, get his home address and sit outside on the wall 24/7.

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

All excited now as I've just heard from my solicitor that the contract will be sent out on Monday for us to sign, so our little flat purchase is all systems go :j .

Good luck with that. So that will be signing for exchange?

Doozergirl

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Here he is - not a great pic though, he usually smiles more...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series11/images/week7/bid203.jpg

I am far too old for this sort of thing .

All excited now as I've just heard from my solicitor that the contract will be sent out on Monday for us to sign, so our little flat purchase is all systems go :j .

I knew it would be him, LOL!

Has nobody else noticed that they blatantly film the 'look at this house' before they go to auction and the look 'who bought it' bits together?

And then they film the buyer 'doing some work' where they make them hold a wallpaper scraper in one hand and halfarsedly flail at the wall holding a drill in the other hand. Or they make them measure the kitchen units they're about to rip out.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

So long as it's not on Crimewatch or he's not "the accused" in video footage from outside the Courts

H used to be an actor and was asked to do a crimewatch reconstruction, which he declined :rolleyes: I watch it avidly and it was so obvious when it came on which crime he'd been asked to reconstruct!! I don't know whether he looked like the criminal but the guy that did it in the end looked just like H!

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Has nobody else noticed that they blatantly film the 'look at this house' before they go to auction and the look 'who bought it' bits together?

I think they go to the auction first, then approach every buyer to see who would be prepared to be in the programme.

With that list they then ask the auctioneer which properties are different/diverse and they arrange to go out and see those and the agents come round and give their opinion.

They'd not film the houses first in case they didn't sell, or the new buyers told them to s0d 0ff.

Bogof_Babe

Oh yes and another thing, the way they pull fireplaces out and chunks of plaster off the walls on the initial recce - I don't know how they get away with it!

Also they seem quite arbitrary in their judgement of what is good and what is bad - some days the kitchen units will "just have to go" (which always makes me :mad: ) and other days very similar units are seen in the "after" pics.

And why do they always knock down outside loos even when there is only one other in the house and that is in the bathroom?

Bogof_Babe

PasturesNew wrote: »

They'd not film the houses first in case they didn't sell, or the new buyers told them to s0d 0ff.

I have always wondered about that, and thought how obliging everyone seems to be. I wonder if they get paid for letting the Beeb trample all over their lives in public.