Slumpmonkey Returns Posted April 9, 2008 Author Share Posted April 9, 2008 http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=520361Whilst I am genuinely sorry that his wife got ill, and I don't mean to gloat, but I do hate the way these people are so quick to leave the UK to start their new life in Spain, only to come crawling back to 'good old blighty' when something goes wrong. Yes, yes by all means Mr. Fred Jones, swan off and pay your tax money elsewhere for a while, and then leave the British taxpayer to pick up the pieces when your dreams dissolve, and reality sets in. Spain's not quite the land of milk and honey A Place in the Sun made out, eh? What a surprise! I should know, I lived there for 6 months (Work put me there), and it's no better than the UK overall (and in many ways worse) if you take away the weather. I agree these property porn shows have got a lot to answer for! In a way I feel sorry for the British Expat Sheeple as they have been brainwashed by Beeney and co into thinking property is a one way bet.......... Er, hang on a moment - no I'm not sorry - these people are just morons! Reduce your prices you bozos you're semi in Watford is not really "worth" £500,000!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venger Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 This post yesterday at britishexpats must have shaken the other suffering wannabee expats up a bit - from one of their own. A little taste of what's to come. (Although from what I can gather she has 2 other places? Hard to focus.. their posts melt your brain.) Well, I think my OH may have a few words for me....EA just phoned to say the 2 developers weren't interested.:thumbdown::thumbdown: But the one who came a few weeks back is, but can't proceed for another 3 months.... So I asked her advice and she said a significant reduction and offersover would be the way to go. So I reduced the price by..... £100K yes one hundred thousand pounds... I feel sick. It is offers over and that was the auction reserve price, so haven't lost anything really, but it is real money we put in as deposit and work we have done to the house. (We only bought 3 years ago for more than it is on the market for now...) I also reduced the flat by another £10k and she is going to advertise it as bargain of the week, must be sold etc.... F word, I feel sick, £110K in one phone call, that would buy a house in Adelaide.... It's sickening - even more sickening when you think it was valued at £195K more this time last year and we had an offer for 65K more than it is on for now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tbatst2000 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Think you'll find you have to have a degree or be in a required field to be accepted in the first place Hairdressers are required in Australia and New Zealand right now I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bes Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 This post yesterday at britishexpats must have shaken the other suffering wannabee expats up a bit - from one of their own. A little taste of what's to come.(Although from what I can gather she has 2 other places? Hard to focus.. their posts melt your brain.) Yes she has other places as well... carry on reading the thread... it's incredible- the woman is a walking, talking credit timebomb! Looks like she has 3.5K of debt per month to service, and both her and her husband are out of work in July! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHERWICK Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 It's sickening - even more sickening when you think it was valued at £195K more this time last year and we had an offer for 65K more than it is on for now... Oh dear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordofcolchester Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 What I find incredible is that none of these people appear to have done any research of have jobs lined up when they move. They just believe it will all be better when they get there!! It took us months of research etc to decide to move to Hong Kong and even then it was only for a couple of years with the option of extending, staying full time or going back to the UK. These people do not realise what is involved in moving countries most of them will be back within a couple of years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosh Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Our friends brother shipped off to NZ last year for the good life, was earning £500 a week in the uk as a plumber, nice house, kids settled at schools (x3) Followed the dream, now....Ficking hates it over there, he earns about £500 a month ( With a trade ) kids hate it but the wife, oh she hates it and now hates him He has to travel friggin miles for contracts and spends weeks away from his unsettled family He says silly things like buying a tin of emulsion is the equivalent to £30. can`t go out as booze is so expensive, he says you can only do so many BBQ`s on the beach in one week. When his friends visited they had all the booze they bought over confiscated by NZ customs who claim to not recognise the duty paid on the booze from uk. He wants to come back but is waiting for the house prices to drop. poor sod..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAnotherProle Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 On the good side, a house nearby was up as reduced for a couple of weeks and is now sold. Hoping this reduction business works. Do you hear that...its a penny..and its dropping...much like the "value" of your house.. Rocket Science Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Converted Lurker Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 What I find incredible is that none of these people appear to have done any research of have jobs lined up when they move. They just believe it will all be better when they get there!!It took us months of research etc to decide to move to Hong Kong and even then it was only for a couple of years with the option of extending, staying full time or going back to the UK. These people do not realise what is involved in moving countries most of them will be back within a couple of years. 'tis because they've never really made a dollar in their lives, they see (potentially) circa 100K profit from selling up and they get all giddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mik_m666 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Now someone's on about selling their house and renting it back... looks like a few people haven't really thought this whole emmigration thing out just yet... http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=528136 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Now someone's on about selling their house and renting it back... looks like a few people haven't really thought this whole emmigration thing out just yet...http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=528136 It appears companies that do buy houses in this way ask about 80% or below of the average price. This gives a good mark that anyone buying now should be asking 20% off the average house in that specific area (not the asking price as this is hugely inflated anyway) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Converted Lurker Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 It appears companies that do buy houses in this way ask about 80% or below of the average price. This gives a good mark that anyone buying now should be asking 20% off the average house in that specific area (not the asking price as this is hugely inflated anyway) nope, they're trying it on with 30-40% below low-balls atm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 I must be getting mellow in my HPC old age but I read this thread: http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread....6748&page=5 And I felt quite sorry for them. They all want to live their dream and the house price crash is really screwing them up big time. I read the original thread on house prices on that forum months ago and they werent accepting the house prices were dropping, or prepared to drop their prices, but they seem to ahve changed their tune now and just want out to start a new life. Good luck to anyone trying to live their dream. I'm living mine...my dream is a 50% HPC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slumpmonkey Returns Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 (edited) Another classic (there are obviously still some on the Ex Pats website who are in the denial stage!) I drove past a house for sale near us today and rang the agent to find out what price it was on at as I couldn't find it on their website. He told me it was on with another agent at £475K. They had dropped the price to £450K with them and would accept about £420K. I was stunned - fancy saying that - I hadn't even asked how low they would go - only the price. then he proceeded to tell me all the other houses in the area and how low they would go. I am so angry for those people - they are paying the EA (A big national chain) to sell their house for the best price - not the cheapest. I will get someone to ring our EA and find out what they say. Er, no love it's called a falling market and the EA doesn't give a sh@t about the seller he's just trying to stay in business! http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread....78&page=888 It would be nice to go on there and explain to them that we are in a credit crunch and after booms we have busts etc. Unfortunately, they won't let me post now as I've been banned for "trolling." Edited April 17, 2008 by SlumpmonkeyII Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dissident junk Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 What I find incredible is that none of these people appear to have done any research of have jobs lined up when they move. They just believe it will all be better when they get there!!It took us months of research etc to decide to move to Hong Kong and even then it was only for a couple of years with the option of extending, staying full time or going back to the UK. These people do not realise what is involved in moving countries most of them will be back within a couple of years. I agree, but I do feel for these people. My husband and I decided to try somewhere else back in 2004, but we put so many safety nets in place and only initially went out for a few months to 'see how it would go'. We made our decision to move country at that time because we didn't have to sell or buy a house, and we had no children, so if it went wrong, we could up sticks quickly and fairly painlessly. I did so much research, it was silly. But, after the experience, I now realise that no matter how much research you do, no matter how long a trial run is (three months etc), nothing really prepares you for what it can be like. You can never really know until you live in a country for a year whether or it it is going to work for you. It's the little things that the locals all know and you don't, and you'd never think to ask -- like seasonal ant infestations in buildings, or dust problems, or the fact that everything is shut on NYE. The UK is horrible, but at least I know how it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claireinspain Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 If you think some of the ones wanting to emigrate are thick you should see some of the ones out here One family we had the pleasure of meeting has a Mercedes and a Porsche. Daughters not cars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajay Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 If you think some of the ones wanting to emigrate are thick you should see some of the ones out here One family we had the pleasure of meeting has a Mercedes and a Porsche. Daughters not cars! and when they have a son they will call him ford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve99 Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Hairdressers are required in Australia and New Zealand right now I see. Only if they can do a mullet cut!! Still the fashion in the far flung suburbs. Also when they get there, they will still find it hard on account of 'not having experience in cutting AUSTRALIAN hair'' in plain English, we don't like poms around here. My other half was in accounting and it took her 6 months to get a job , failed many applications on account of ''you will have trouble working in $$$ after working in £££'s all your life'' in other words 'fuk off pom'', You see, all their 'Standards' and 'Systems' and 'Qualifications' and 'Education' is far superior as they are wont to inform you on a daily basis and being a pom, you will not have the intelligence to keep up. This is why a lot of poms come back, they basically aren't allowed to 'Fit in'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slumpmonkey Returns Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 but I do feel for these people. I don't they are scum bags who believe that it is their god given right to sell their outrageously over-inflated asset to someone so we can fund their lavish lifestyle out there whilst the person who has purchased the house will be a debt slave for the rest of their lives! Even if they have to cut 50 per cent they have still made a huge killing. IMO they should stop whining, accept a reduced offer and then p1ss of to convict land. It would be bad news for the city however as if they all went at once shares in the Sun newspaper and the makers of the Jeremy Kyle show and Big Brother would plunge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
council dweller Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 If you think some of the ones wanting to emigrate are thick you should see some of the ones out here One family we had the pleasure of meeting has a Mercedes and a Porsche. Daughters not cars! ....me dogs called Rover...but I'm not fick ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartimandua51 Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 If you think some of the ones wanting to emigrate are thick you should see some of the ones out here One family we had the pleasure of meeting has a Mercedes and a Porsche. Daughters not cars! Unless my memory plays me false, the Mercedes brand was named after the daughter of the auto-enthusiast Jellineck, so they have a good precedent (though I doubt they know it!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 I agree, but I do feel for these people. My husband and I decided to try somewhere else back in 2004, but we put so many safety nets in place and only initially went out for a few months to 'see how it would go'. We made our decision to move country at that time because we didn't have to sell or buy a house, and we had no children, so if it went wrong, we could up sticks quickly and fairly painlessly.I did so much research, it was silly. But, after the experience, I now realise that no matter how much research you do, no matter how long a trial run is (three months etc), nothing really prepares you for what it can be like. You can never really know until you live in a country for a year whether or it it is going to work for you. It's the little things that the locals all know and you don't, and you'd never think to ask -- like seasonal ant infestations in buildings, or dust problems, or the fact that everything is shut on NYE. The UK is horrible, but at least I know how it works. DJ - where did you go, what did you not like about it, what did you miss and why did you come back - if you don't mind me asking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slumpmonkey Returns Posted May 25, 2008 Author Share Posted May 25, 2008 Nothing changes on this website! They are still in major denial mode! No way is that too much to ask - houses like yours dont come along very often and somebody is going to get a bargain - the way we are looking at it with ours is that houses dont come for sale in our village very often - one every 10 years or so!!!!!! Whoever buys ours will be laughing in another few years!!! Your house is stunning - I suppose people are just trying to screw every last cent out of us poor sellers - they know that once the market sorts itself out they will be quids in. Its just so hard isnt it - I feel like we have lost £50K already - god knows what - if at all - we get an offer on ours. Yep, definately still in denial mode over there!!!! :angry: :angry: http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread....8&page=1044 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLDFTB Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 Nothing changes on this website! They are still in major denial mode! Yep, definately still in denial mode over there!!!! :angry: :angry: http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread....8&page=1044 I hear this attitude nearly everyday at work from people trying to sell. "I'm not dropping the price, that's my effing money" one said after a phone call from her EA. "Ok, don't sell it then" is my reply, and "I bet thats the best offer you get!" They just can't see how stupid they are being. Fools. But it's nice getting the last laugh though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 Well if you only want to put onto the market at 10% more than the last house sold in the street, my advise is don't bother, and stop wasting everyone elses time....10% less and you have at least a better chance in selling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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