jonsfedup

My local store is very poor empty shelves, staff who literally couldn't care less and look like they just don't want to be there. I'm a Manager and half of them I wouldn't employ. Its that bad the customer service online is truly dreadful. I went in one Monday to ask if they had a CD single the woman who looked like a superviser couldn't even be bothered to look in their relase list to see if they had it in. I had to ask and guess what they didn't they only stock the top 20 or 50 or something. So I went online to HMV and ordered it and also some other goods as well. he could of at least pointed me to their online store or made some sort of effort to see if they could get it in for me. With staff as useless as that your going to end up going under. That is a prime exmaple of why they are losing sales.

I have no sympathy for any of them. I'm sure they can afford it as their homes have surely rocketed in value. Why not take some of that lovely fat inflation busting increse out and spend it.

A very good article which, says it all really, but rather depressing at the same time. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Colum...1780879,00.html

The reason the market hasn’t tanked is because of the rampant lie to buy and lets do anything we can to buy a roof over ours heads mentality. It’s simply not true there is no average 26k salary as much as the propaganda machine would wish you to believe. The first rumblings of creeping interest rates are coming and the chickens will come home to roost soon enough. Don't buy!

I agree it really annoys me when I keep hearing this so called 26k average salary. As you say correctly many people are well below this. I know from my own salary and it’s certainly not even half of that. Its yet again people trying to justify the inflation in house prices as affordable. They are grossly unaffordable.

I personally feel from my years of reading this site that priced out first time buyers are in the minority here...... (I’m a priced out first time buyer) I look here because there is more news. It’s a shame the pricedout website is so quiet……..I think the way this topic has kind of gone off topic says it all.....Brad Pitt? I'll get my coat......

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Just don't try to stretch your legs...........I can't think what else to say I'm lost for words.

I agree and one wonders with the house price boom we have how many people will never be able to afford to stop working. Many have enslaved themselves for the rest of their lives. My granddad died the following day after he retired of a heart attack. I currently work enough hours to pay my rent, council tax ect. I don’t run a car although I can drive. There are many things I do without and its not always easy. I’m very careful and because of that I can still save a little. I see people every day chasing their living rushing around. There now seems to be no time for life itself. Life isn’t just about work its about a balance. We have all been given the gift of life and we need to use every day wisely. This rotten government knows exactly what they are doing with this house price inflation. They have secured tax revenue for decades to come as so many will have to now work until they drop. The irony if many will never actually spend that much time in their beloved homes. I’ve been visiting this site almost since its launch and although I would still prefer to buy than rent I have all but given up on the possibility for now. I have no choice but to rent and will continue to make the best of it. As long as rents don’t go the same way as house prices I can hopefully continue to live a balanced work/life system. I had a wonderful summer last year whilst many probably missed it stuck in an office chasing their mortgage…….

This is amazing!

My Landlord has usually made a moderate increase every two years. This year would usually have been the increase and I was expecting it and was planning to l@@k else where to see if I could get a better deal. Well he told me the rent would stay the same no increase. This tells alot as he is a professional landlord and not any of the recent BTL brigade.

This is indeed a very sad story. I read about it in the paper today.

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I understand your feelings completely as never having owed property myself. I fear that we maybe entering a new era and I fear prices may stagnate for years....... It angers me though as with yesterdays headline by the Daily Express about prices rising by £2000 in week. It’s as though they were doing a dance to it. I wonder just how wonderful society will be in another year’s time if prices do reach further and debt levels higher again. I sometimes feel like I’m one of only a small percentage of sane people surrounded by an utterly mad government and society as a whole. All I can offer is as I do try and save what you can and rent sensibly and hopefully prices will at some point return to a more realistic level.

He’s entirely the product of his parents. They allowed him to become what he is. I have no sympathy for any of them. Did someone mention he needed the computer to look for a job? I’m sure in the programme they mentioned that the PC cost either £1200 or £1500

Just 10% of the UK is owned by homes owners ect…. the rest well toffs, the MOD, Church and a few others farmers, the Forestry commission . Most of London for example is mostly owned by just four different toff familes. Me I don't own a bean.....lol

Imagine going to work to try and struggle to pay a mortgage of for that along with the service/maintenance charge, ground rent. I find certain examples of this madness quite offensive and that is one example. Priced at three different offensive price points.

How can anyone with a shred of common sense or intelligence be surprised by any of this? We all know this has and still goes on and is just the very fine tip of this giant pyramid scam we call the UK Housing Market.

I was recently talking to a friend and she remembers when her daughter worked for one of the major building societies and was employed during the time of the last house price crash. The consequences were so traumatic on her from the daily stress during that time pushed into having a nervous breakdown. This wasn’t the only trigger but wasa major trigger. Having people breaking down in front of you whilst handing over their keys on a daily basis can be no easy thing for anyone. The human misery caused by the consequences of this massive house price inflation will be incalculable. Oh and 31 and hopefully a Ftb one day...............

I don’t actually know where all the money is coming to repay all of this fun and games. I 've seen studio flats in Bournemouth and Poole starting at 100K the entire area is aloft with this type of grossly over priced crap. Even areas such as Boscombe renowned as the lower side of Bournemouth hasn't escaped this madness. Check it out below courtesy of rightmove. Somebody just can’t seem to make up his or her mind on the price for this lovely ditty below - > looks like the backend of a greasy take a way or something. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-982...pa_n=5&tr_t=buy £86,950 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-979...pa_n=5&tr_t=buy £87,000 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-793...pa_n=7&tr_t=buy £92,000 I think the cappuccino culture is starting to wear thin. I just feel the gloss is starting to come off and over the next couple of years Bournemouth may see some of the biggest falls.

31 and I remember the crash the last time round my father lost a lot of money on a self build.

Those mug shots are really smug!

Very Sad Indeed. From todays TV listings - 9:15 AM To Buy or Not to Buy - 45 minutes Kristian Digby and Dominic Littlewood are on the trail of a property with office space in rural Staffordshire. 10:00 AM Homes Under the Hammer – 60 minutes Martin Roberts and Lucy Alexander cast their expert eyes over three properties before they go to auction. They view places in Liverpool, Derby and Norfolk. (One investor in the above programme Homes Under the Hammer made an astonishing £40,000 profit from doing absolutely nothing to the property brought at auction) Utter madness! It actually made me feel sick to my stomach. 11:00 AM Trading Up – 30 minutes Louise Lear and Kevin Allan help an Evesham family sell their house. A GRAND TOTAL of 11 hours and 15 minutes of this property crap over five days. I really take offence at my TV license payment being used/wasted in this way. I find this outrageous with the current uncertain state of the UK housing market. I’m unsure how old each programme is as far as repeats perhaps others will have more knowledge as far as the date/period of the original broadcasts. 11:30 AM Bargain Hunt – more money spinning crap 12:15 PM Cash in the Attic – more money spinning crap :angry:

[quote name=' the public will wake up and hopefully the opposition will ask the awkward questions that the public needs answering. Its amazing that as an issue the opposition parties never seem to mention the current housing market nightmare and the current BOOM we have? I feel its because there are so many vested interests they dare not to mention it. I also agree that it amazes me just how tunnel visioned those that believe unaffordable housing and high house prices is a good thing. A good thing only for them and they don’t look past the weight of their wallets. The longer this situation continues the worse the state of this country will be in.

We have had massive house price infaltion over the last five years and the complete erosion of the traditional earnings to borrowing ratio. Most who take a mortgage have a debt for a substantial period of their lives, but what we are talking about now is house prices at such a level that they are unaffordable. We are talking about affordability.