Jester
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Now it's getting more interesting!
Yes yes I thought that there was bound to be someone on here who might enjoy that comment.
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Characterisation was a bit thin but I enjoyed the Camus'esque ending.
Yes I think you're very right.
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He said.
She said.
He said...
And your point is?
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What I liked about the story is that you can really sense how down the sales person is, probably about the whole housing market.
She was very down.
In fact she was a very nice lady.
We did talk about whether Wimpey are building any other houses locally. She said that she hoped that they were otherwise she's going to be out of a job. But they aren't building any at the moment.
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It was ok - is there anymore?
Or is that it?
At this moment in time I'm afraid that's it
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I went and looked round some Barret boxes the other week (I posted about it at the time).
New developement, mix of house sizes.
Sales slimeball asks: what I'm looking for: Mimimum two beds, decent garden.
My max budget: *being coy* more than 200, less than 300. (in reality about 250 max)
He replies: Our cheapest two bed starts at 330.
I laugh all the way back to the car.
You sound like you're having a similar problem to myself ie unable to find a sensibly priced property to buy. The trouble is noting is selling and no one seems willing to negotiate on price. It's very frustrating.
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And me, made me think of this lol-
Lol great video.
I feel a bit like the people in the video.....you know the ones moving the table. Only I've sold my house but can't find anything to buy yet.
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Errr... This is a Wimpey Home. I think you mean't they should pay you 40% of the asking price to take it off their hands. Wimpey quality is shocking.
Yes I would agree with you but, not only that, she took me into the bedroom and I doubted that a bed would fit in it.
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Good story, but that is just the start of the game, you say that is too much, and offer 40% off the asking.....
I didn't want to do that for this particular rabbit hutch but I have done that for a second hand house here. I've not even had a reply to my offer. I'm going to wait a month and offer the same again. It's a a 3d's house so it's empty.
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I quiote enjoyed it,
Peter.
Thanks
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Thanks for the contribution, but don't give up your day job to become a story teller...
OK
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..........and the reply that I got was why are you buying?
Interesting I thought (enjoying the game).
Well, I said, what reasons are there for buying a house?
Investment was the reply.
I said nooooooooooooooooo I don't see a house as an investment.
She said Ohhhh (in a disappointed voice) you want it as a home.
I said yes.
She told me the price.
That's too much I replied.
She shrugged her shoulders.
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Oh god, I remember many a time being put on a coach to see a pantomime in London thanks to ICL. It didn't help that we were put on the wrong coach either once. We managed to rendezvous with the correct coach thankfully.
The local industries also made floats for Stevenage day raising monies for charity. It wasn't all about money in them days.
Yeah it used to be great. It was the only time that we ever got to go out. I used to love it. And we used to find out which of our school friends parents worked at the same place.
But the point is that mum probably earned less money that she would today but money was paid to her in other ways. One thing is certain that my mum was not good with money and whatever she earned was always spent. So paternalistic it might have been but we did benefit I think.
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Prices of properties that are selling are down significantly from the peak.
EAs have said on Radio that vendors are coming out of denial.
I have stated several times this week that as prices fall, transactions will increase. This is pretty basic stuff.
Yet to counter this, thee Bulls are churning out their usually tired argument that as transactions increase prices will rise and rise and rise.........This is clearly not the case. Transactions have been dead at high prices. Transactions have increased at lower prices.
This embeds the new lower prices and the lower price becomes the market value. Anyone asking more will be seen to be greedy.
It seems that we have the only 'in denial' Bulls left still posting on this forum.
I sold my house in February.
I wanted to sell it.
I wanted to put it on the market for less than the EA said. I put it on at her price.
It sold in 2 weeks.
Everyone said that I sold it too cheaply. I don't think so. But I am watching because I need to buy/rent a new house now.
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Happy are they? Looked after are they?
FFS.....
Spoken like a true, no-holds-barred, free-marketeer.
You sound like one of those industrialists from the nineteenth century who, when asked why they were unwilling to pay the miners an extra penny a week, replied "they would only spend it on more beer".
Sadly this is true.
There was more to work than the pay at one time. There was a time when employers provided so much to their staff. I can remember as a child going to pantomimes and parties etc all provided free of charge by my mum's employer. Things like that don't happen any more. And yes sadly it is true some people do only spend it on more beer. Patronising as that might sound.
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It always amazes me that that map is significantly more blue than red and yet the labour majority is so huge.
Gerrymandering?????
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The answer to question 3 is the prisoner's dilemma:
It is in each EA's interest that every EA should value low.
However the first one to do so will not get any business, and will lose existing business if he tries to persuade existing clients to drop 30%.
None wants to be the first to do so.
Also a solution where every EA did value low is what game theory calls an "unstable solution": It would only take one agent to start valuing higher again and he would win all the business.
Yeah but the houses aren't selling!
This means do the buyers actually want to sell or do they just want to sell at that price?
Surely the sellers who want to sell or who have to sell have to price their properties realistically.
I've just sold my house. When the (mortgage) surveyor came round he said to me that everything was ok including the price. The way he said that to me suggested that he'd been having to say to others that the price wasn't realistic.
As for the remortgaging scenario what a can of worms that is! That would really worry me as an owner.
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You've missed mine really, only two left in education so I'd only be prepared to pay about £30k pa.
I hate to see people locked into drudgery when they want to do somethings worthwhile. We only live once, it's not right to waste it. Why not check your credentials to take kids through, at least to 16, and if you have it then try to find such a job?
Location is an issue of course - got to live close to the kids - as is the fact you have to find new kids every so often, but what's that in comparison to unhappiness?
Maybe professional homeschooling is a thing of the future?
OK ..........you're on.......when do I start?
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Ok, here's a challenge to all wonderful teachers (and I mean really good!) who want freedom and independence and great pay;
I have 4 children who are all going through private education. Costs a fortune, and I don't think it's all that brilliant anyway.
If I had them again I'd be really into the idea of hiring one private tutor who would take them all through fact-based learning. I would pay that person at least £50k a year plus benefits, and I would make a profit on the current deal.
You would have no more than 5 hours a day to achieve your work with them, after which I want them out playing games and learning other stuff. There is a significant age range but you'd have to cope.
Now I'm not unique; would any of you want such a job? If so, why not advertise for it. All you need to have is knowledge across many subjects to reasonable depth. You'd have no class size problems, no behaviour issues, no forms to fill. Just loads of brilliant educating in broadening their minds on academic subjects, plus you'd need to get a new job every so often as the kids grow up.
Ohhhhh ......you're tempting me now........sounds just like being a parent which is exactly what I did for my own beautiful children who are all very successful adults.
I'd love to do something like this.
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No, things are easy to fix, you just have to stop being so squeamish.
Unruly children - let them do something else other than the lessons they don't want to do.
Lazy teachers - replace them with others.
See - easy!
Oh my gosh....this is getting worrying............something else that I agree with.
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I have no issue with teachers getting paid more. Or nurses, policemen, etc.
Pay for it by sacking all the 5-a-day coordinators, diversity monitors, special advisors, PR hacks, etc, and making everyone else in government work as hard as those in the private sector have to.....
If they stopped wasting so much of our money, they wouldn't need to employ so many PR consultants to sell it to us, as we wouldn't be so bl00dy annoyed in the first place.
Simples.
Yep.........at last ...........something that I agree with.
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I take it you work in a secondary school?
I don't know the situation now but I know around 6 years ago when my wife was looking for her first post (primary school) there were over 100 applicants for every single job she applied for. Dunno if it's still the same now.
Oh, and her "gold plated pension" yearly advice came in the other day. Apparently her pension is on course just now to pay her 700 quid a year. Fantastic stuff, I'm sure that will bring her a life of luxury in retirement.
Yes you got it - inner city secondary.
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You don't work in Hull do you? Always lots of teacher vacancies in Hull......
no not Hull.
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there is a queue of people waiting to bring down your wages.the problem is that the Unions and the govt are too happy picking your votes up come election time.
I agree it's a good job,the market should be freed up though and made more transparent.some of the young techers here are annoyed as they do more hours than more time served people for less money..........????
Not round here there isn't. The jobs vacancies in my school end up with no one applying for them. In fact I was promoted because no one applied for the job - I didn't want it either.
I Went To Look At A Brand New Wimpey Home.
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I thought that I ought to include a bedroom scene to spice the story up a bit
Yes I am steering away - I don't like cheap and nasty when it comes to my housing requirements.