cybernoid Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Overpriced newbuild with furniture specifically purchased and stupid liar lens attached to the camera to make it look larger than it is. Because if they trick you into visiting, and you actually see it, and then know it is tiny and completely inadequate for your needs, you're still going to buy it. Problem with EAs is they think everyone else is as thick as they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Democorruptcy Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 When did you come and install that webcam? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigantic Purple Slug Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 This is your house isn't it RK? Nah - I don't see any wall safe for the gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pent Up Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Fish eye lens, and the house in the first window is looking a bit shifty Is that the hitler house? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pl1 Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 (edited) The lengths people will go to, to avoid paying for a TV license. edit and to add: that "apartment" looks like the biggest load of prefabricated shite I've ever clapped my eyes on. I bet I could punch my fist through all those walls. That would wake 'em up. Edited February 19, 2012 by pl1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brickwall Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 is that a council estate i can see through the window Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiremola Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Judging by the architecture, it looks like an ex-hospital, probably a former lunatic asylum. We have a similar develpment here in Haywards Heath: the Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (later called St Francis Hospital). Now they are absurdly overpriced flats - sorry, apartments. The furniture looks like the stuff someone not very intelligent has put in a show flat. I used to know a Mr Rose, who was a professional designer and furnisher of show flats, and he was very good, unlike these no-hopers here. I also have a very creepy anecdote about the perils of doing research and lunatic asylums, but it is a bit long-winded.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HouseDog Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Maybe the estate agent has used quarter-sized furniture to make the box room look bigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payback period Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Truly God's waiting room Alternatively, someone really wanted a veranda on which to sit in comfort and view their garden. Sadly, they ended up on the second floor with one pot plant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Piddle Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Why is it that Cheshire has become so ecpensive, for somewhere up north? I always thought it would have been cheaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 And I still couldn't afford that let alone a house round here. That particular agent is a good one for it's photography that seems to bend time and space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBdamo Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Repo? Left behind furniture arranged in an attempt to make it look occupied? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piece of paper Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 A Parker Knoll showroom? ....in the sky.......or an upside down house. Ercol. p-o-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyMe Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 If you can't see it, does the fourth chair exist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric pebble Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 ed Balls Brain...from the inside. 11/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric pebble Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 (edited) Overpriced newbuild with furniture specifically purchased and stupid liar lens attached to the camera to make it look larger than it is. Because if they trick you into visiting, and you actually see it, and then know it is tiny and completely inadequate for your needs, you're still going to buy it. Problem with EAs is they think everyone else is as thick as they are. "Problem with EAs is they think everyone else is as thick as they are." Like it. Good line. LIAR LENS ? ? Edited February 19, 2012 by eric pebble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiremola Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 The OP asked for armchair psychoanalysts. Right, I would say that the person who furnished this room had big problems: - The room is big, and they only had a small budget to make it look like it could be lived in. Normally big rooms are a selling point, so why does this one seem like it is in an institution? Simple, it was an institution, now converted, and they are trying to gloss over the fact that it was a hospital and/or asylum. Somehow it has all gone wrong because they are dissembling. In short, they are in denial, hoping that no one will notice that this living room was once a place of suffering, a ward in a hospital. You wonder why it feels uneasy? It reminds me a bit of a modern version of the final scene in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (for the film freaks out there.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horridbloke Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Thoughts? Is it a new production of Jean-Paul Satre's "No Exit"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiremola Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I will add that the conversion seems to have resulted in extra floors being inserted to double the number of units they could squeeze in. That's why the ceilings are so low, the windows are strange and half height, and all in all completely the wrong proportions for a Victorian building of the 1860s. It should have high ceilings. Another reason why it looks so wrong and weird. It’s been mezzanined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R K Posted February 20, 2012 Author Share Posted February 20, 2012 Fabulous responses folks. I'd like to award you all your HPC Junior Freud badge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Fabulous responses folks. I'd like to award you all your HPC Junior Freud badge. I still think that if you lower the asking price below £250K you're more likely to get a sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rantnrave Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Layout doesn't work well for musical chairs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libspero Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 (edited) Bit late to the party, but I think the major psychological challenge here is to understand who the developer is aiming this at. Starter home? £260k seems a bit steep for a pre-family young couple needing a two bedroom flat (even if it is in one of the nicer more expensive parts of Manchester. Family home? Only two bedroom.. no use for anyone planning more than one child or having granny to stay. Retirement Home? Perhaps the ground floor would make an ok retirement flat, but I didn't see any mobility assistance to help people get to the upper flats. Holiday home? Not likely some how. Looks like one of those places which looks nice but is completely impractical to 90% of home buyers. I guess I will be proved wrong when it sells for 10% over asking price courtesy of some canny investors.. Edit to add: I would have thought most buyers looking in the area would go for something more like this.. Linky. Not much bigger, but ticks the three bedrooms and a garden boxes plus the price looks negotiable. Edited February 20, 2012 by libspero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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