Owning your own home

Scary Movie 2 I think

If anything that makes it worse - everyone is shafted and all you gain is increased inefficiency in the housing market.

Well.. on actual home ownership news, vendors accepted our ideal completion target date mid july. lets hope the solicitors can keep up.

Yes it's a mess right now.

Another problem is that historically young peeps could buy a bit of a wreck off an oldywonk, sit there is deckchairs for a bit whilst they do the house up bit by bit. That was always a struggle but historically you could pick up a wreck and it's condition was represented by its price so it all came out in the wash.

Now greedy cunts are trying to price wrecks on a par to houses that have already had considerable work and money spent on them.

This for example in my road
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54427044.html

It's about what I would say my house is worth, however, my house has had a huge amount of work done to it and is in nice nick, and has probably had 90k spent on it in the last 5 years. This should be about 150k less than it's current asking to reflect the fact it's essentially the same as it was in the 1970s. But greedy old people won't hear of it, and thus it'll sit there stagnating rather than being sold to a nice young couple who will do it up and and support yet another sour dough pizza company opening up.

we found this massively.

we saw > 20 flats in the sameish area in the same 25k price margin and the only price relative was square footage. Some were barely even liveable as a bit of a 'fixer upper' (rust running down the walls from drippy pipes, mouldy food embedded in kitchen wall, bath tub so stained you'd think itd been left outside).

Made even worse by every single one of the awful places we saw were currently tenanted by some poor souls

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-­sale/property-54427044.html

Holy...It's like a bedroom that's had a 'Day of the Dead' makeover. Almost spat my tea out.

Seems less of a wreck, more of a shambles that could be saved as long as 110% of everything in it was removed and ritually burned.

^ to be fair that does appear to have had a loft extension done.

bit of aesop and a few muji cupboards, 580, tops.

This is the living room of the house we are moving in weekend after next:

Bet that mirror took a bit of grunt to hang

I just realised that there is a mirror ..

When do you “Pull a Tenderloin©️“?

Wait. Is that a TV for ants

Grab adhesive and two people.

I shall not be partaking in the Pulling of said Tenderloins.

Weak hands

Master bedroom ceiling for that honeymoon effect.

It'll take half the wall off when it's removed of that been hung with adhesive

I take it you’re leaving as is?

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yep, just gonna add a bottle of Aesop on the corner somewhere and done!

yep, just gonna add a bottle of Aesop on the corner somewhere and flip it!

Best thing you've ever posted. Correction, only good thing you've ever posted.

Completing today; great to be involved in this thread while it's going so well.

More fun than usual