Bradbury Robinson Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Click the link..... http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-23787150.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheBlueCat Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Click the link..... http://www.rightmove...y-23787150.html I love the way that nowhere in the text do they mention the entirely deranged decorative style. They could at least add 'no upward chain, owner currently sectioned'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradbury Robinson Posted September 2, 2012 Author Share Posted September 2, 2012 The first thing that I thought was that this is what Mr Trebus' house would look like if he was middle class! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheBlueCat Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 The first thing that I thought was that this is what Mr Trebus' house would look like if he was middle class! I think you're right that the owners of this one have some kind of OCD. Joking aside, that is not the house of a well person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ungeared Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 (edited) Looks like a house that should have been a caravan, no offence, do as you likey Edit. ffs it's 350k in Liverpool!! Edited September 2, 2012 by Ungeared Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Long live British eccentricity and individualism. I would guess that the seller is an elderly single woman. I'd rather live next to someone like that than next to a chav with 3 pit bulls. The house looks sound and has an attic conversion. The decor will put a lot of buyers off, thus helping the eventual buyer negotiate a bargain. The only risk is that the current owner is under the impression that they have 'added value' with their kitsch. Skip hire: £39.99 for a weekend. No problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveinHope Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Back in the early 90's when I thought briefly that I might buy a house, I viewed a Wimpy construction on a Wimpy cul de sac. The EA had said nothing about what lay the other side of the front door. Anyone remember Mr Ben ? Inside it had been taken back to a 16thC cottage. All internal doors had been lowered so you had to stoop though them, The ceilings had also been lowered and had massive false beams, the walls had all been very heavily textured. The lighting was dim, and in the lounge was a large inglenook fire place which required a false wall to give it depth, etc. I toured in silent awe. The EA never said a word. I drive by this house every day and wonder if going though the door is still a time warp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Edit. ffs it's 350k in Liverpool!! Exactly. I'd expect to own the whole of Liverpool for that, and still have change left over to buy St Helens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britney's Piers Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Long live British eccentricity and individualism. I would guess that the seller is an elderly single woman. Possibly this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEATH Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 My old school is down that road. They made us (boys) wear shorts in the winter and yelled at us if we only pretended to sing in assembly. I remember walking down that road if the park was flooded, it was narrow and weird. Thinking back now I knew it was inhabited by deviants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradbury Robinson Posted September 2, 2012 Author Share Posted September 2, 2012 My old school is down that road. They made us (boys) wear shorts in the winter and yelled at us if we only pretended to sing in assembly. I remember walking down that road if the park was flooded, it was narrow and weird. Thinking back now I knew it was inhabited by deviants. I never went to Forefield myself but did go to Chesterfield up the road. I think this place is just down from the shops at the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEATH Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 I never went to Forefield myself but did go to Chesterfield up the road. I think this place is just down from the shops at the end. Yes, Chesterfield after that. Mould infested pre-fabricated huts etc. Ghastly place! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkman Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Looks like a house that should have been a caravan, no offence, do as you likey Well yes, spot on. A very obvious pikey home. But apart from the clutter aspect, who in their right mind would want to dust that lot every week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveinHope Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 (edited) So you missed the bottom of the market then. I suppose the question for you is will you miss the bottom of the next one? In the 90s I was in and out of the country with work swapping the UK for the US on a 6 monthly basis. I occasionally, looked at properties when in the UK because owning was the 'right thing to do'. In hindsight, I am very glad I didn't buy a property, I was too young to do so. Also, had I bought at the bottom I doubt I would have STR'd my 'home' in 2007, and so I wouldn't have benefited in any financial way from HPI. Instead, I would have been trapped by home ownership, much like many people are trapped by their accumulated possessions. I think that not owning a home has been very liberating, although you can never tell how the alternative path would have looked. Certainly, renting seems to have worked well for me financially. On the flipside, HPI has ruined the country economically, paralysing the UK and affecting its people, and influencing the progress of my work here compared to abroad. Now, twenty years later, I would buy something very small in the location I want to live out my days if the price becomes sensible, just to have free accommodation for retirement while maintaining enough capital for living. It will be a straightforward, unemotional, cost-benefit analysis. Anyway, retirement is a few years off, if I ever do retire. The present plan is to get all my work onto the internet, I'm getting there, and then to quit the UK in two years time and travel for a bit, while keeping the work going. Alternatively, if the UK continues down the road to misery I may travel for longer I am currently exploring this, which seems interesting. I have friends doing workaway and it is working for them. They have now been traveling in a landrover for a year and they have never been out of either work or 'free' accommodation. I think the bottom will be about 2017-ish and, if I miss it, I'll rent happily forever. Edited September 3, 2012 by LiveinHope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Loblaw Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-23787150.html Looks like a travellers house (link courtesy of B3TA) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashmonitor Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 (edited) The back yard looks like a garden centre unless, of course, they are selling the stuff as a business. Grew up with bloody untidy hoarders, my parents, which is why I hate stuff even a couple of plant plots at the front on the block paving. And inside if the girlfriend tries to bring in ornaments I also despair. Definitely the home of a boomer circa 70 years old, only they could want so much stuff. Edited October 5, 2012 by crashmonitor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashmonitor Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Give them some credit for taste, at least they have restricted their Downton Abbey aspirations to a couple of over sized urns on the front. No self respecting chav would have stopped there.... the obligatory Venus statue and the giant stone lions are essentials if you want the complete chav look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfs1959 Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 6 bedrooms, 1 on the ground floor, and only 1 shower room (albeit with 2 wash basins). Not a house for anyone with a washing fetish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RufflesTheGuineaPig Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 How can anyone in Liverpool afford all that crap? If they could afford all that crap, why are the still living in Liverpool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redthunder12 Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 its going to take months to pack up all that stuff , literally acres of bubble wrap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradbury Robinson Posted October 5, 2012 Author Share Posted October 5, 2012 They stole my thread!! http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=182456 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GinAndPlatonic Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 I bet she doesn`t stop talking either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrappycocco Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 i like that the first thing that comes to mind is the clutter, not the extortionately high price for such a abode........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickofRenting Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Any room for twigs in a vase? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I ♥ spreadsheets Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Even the front gate looks cluttered Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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