Owning your own home

It just looked properly close.

Anyway. Anyone got any idea of costs for movers? 2 bed flat. Not much furniture, moving 6 miles in South East London? Used man and van by the hour thing before but would like something more substantial (insured etc) seeing as it's everything we own.

Is the train line proximity really a downside?

It is if you have a cat, surely?

^^ try cooke's carriages, brixton. Nice guys, reasonable and quick.

But I worry for you're sanity if you got this stressed at the offer stage. You've seen nothing yet...

^^ try cooke's carriages, brixton. Nice guys, reasonable and quick.

But I worry for you're sanity if you got this stressed at the offer stage. You've seen nothing yet...

Will do, cheers.

Yeah, I see many ups and downs in my future and not equal measures of either. Not celebrating until the keys are in my hand and I am sure they work.

Picking my keys up was one of the most annoying parts, as it meant I had to meet them again after all the grrrrrrrrrrr they put me through.

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a train line at the end of the garden.

I have a train line at the end of my garden (the line from London Bridge to Dartford via Greenwich). We sleep in the back of the house and it is no issue. With the windows closed it is barely there. And what you do notice becomes white noise. On days of engineering works I don't often recognise that there aren't any trains.

It just looked properly close.

Anyway. Anyone got any idea of costs for movers? 2 bed flat. Not much furniture, moving 6 miles in South East London? Used man and van by the hour thing before but would like something more substantial (insured etc) seeing as it's everything we own.

Give Casey's Removals a bell for a no obligation quote. They have done five moves for us now and more for family members. They do a simple move service and they also do a pack and move. The latter is more expensive but takes so much hassle out of moving house.

Cheers. mrs_com is dead set on packing it all herself. I can't stand packing. Moving heavy shit from A to B I can do all day, and there will be no stairs involved so I may go for one of the 'accredited' companies but with just one dude. Leave 'er indoors to do the packing and if/when moving day comes, send her off to the new place while I load the van with the dude and meet her there.

If you're packing yourself Casey's are still worth a quote. They're the nuts.

I have used Mortimers removals in Blackheath and would recommend them. Talk to George there.

There is only one way to settle this.

Its the Casey's vs Mortimers death match. Winner takes all (of Stevo's stuff)

Glad that has been resolved. Can we go back to moaning about house prices now?

i had to wait 5 days. Then that particular estate agent went on holiday and his colleague took over me upping my offer, vendor coming down etc: 1.5 hours average between calls. So what i thought was an unreliable vendor who wasn't sure they wanted to sell was actually an estate agent, later described by a friend who also bought through him as 'clumsy and incompetent'
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We used Eco Movers;

http://www.ecomovers.co.uk/man-and-van/moving-home

They moved us from Beckenham to Bexley (actually into Storage)

Stangely enough the girl that lived in the flat above us was the daughter of the chap that owns Caseys...small world

Doree Bonner moved us from Storage to house 9m later...

Yep. I think our house is increasing by 17K a week at present.
It has to all end in tears. Doesn't it?

Hang on, so in 6 months it would've gone up by £440k?

I call bollocks!

^^ near Enfield Lock (yes, miles out). Hopefully my solicitor can get them to take it off the market. They're not keen to, having apparently had someone fail to raise a mortgage once already.

This was via Laura Trott's shiny-suited friend.

Nice, well played

We're looking around Winchmore Hill/Palmers Green up towards Enfield Lock, Enfield Chase, Enfield Town, Gordon Hill etc...

guy at work paid just under 350 for his house in peckham in Q4 2010 (which was market value back then) and has spent 50k all told on it putting in a new boiler, a loft conversion, and a new kitchen.

he has sold it this week for just shy of 650k.

My brother paid £350k for his house 5yrs ago, spent £100k on his refurb over that period and has just it valued at £800k but will listen to offers over £750k...

The "most gentrified" street was in Kensington somewhere, a couple paid £2000 in 1967, houses there go for £30m now.

Yeah, well I've got 104 friends...

In 1984 I bought a Mars Bar for 15p, now it is worth 60p.

But I ate it.

I wouldn't pay 60p for it now

Not after it's been through someone already.

I bought a flat for £170k in October and now it's worth about £170k.