Owning your own home

I've not but it's not super easy.

If you can get more than half your leaseholders on side for paying for it, and convince your managing agent it's a good idea, and ensure you don't fuck your freeholders space up, and it comes to less than £250 per leaseholder, you've got a pretty good shot. If any of those things aren't in play, you'll have problems.

I own it, so I'm 1 portion (or 2, inb4 #hippyisfat) of the freeholders.

Any ideas how much a free-standing roofed bike holdy thingie would cost? If I subsidised the costs (reserving the right to kill abandoned bikes in the face) it might make it more appealing to the other freeloaders sorry freeholders.

I'm not too bothered, if it falls flat, I save my money for a deposit on a Spanish villa.

Why not one of those bike parking things? Ealing was usually pretty good with stuff like that

https://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/201173/transport_and_parking/150/cycling/2

So, tumble dryers. The one we have was left by the previous owners when we bought our house, it's a white Knight works well but is noisey as hell! Does anyone have any recommendations for a quiet one, I'm happy to throw money at this as I really want quiet as possible, everything online seems to say miele but what say you?

we have a Bosch heat pump thing which is reasonably quiet and not too outrageous on electricity consumption.

Thank, I tried again but no luck. I presume it only works for current leaseholders. The information is probably confidential.

I went to see this today, it's nice and the grounds are lovely, but the modern part felt too modern, whilst also not feeling modern enough. If you're going to include something from the 18th century within a new building you should either make that a feature, or make it appear homogenous - which is not what was done.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/49345020

Heat pump seems to be the thing and options seem to be miele, bosch or AEG.

Maybe it looked better in person but from the pics it kind of looks like what someone in the states would build in order to recreate the look of an old English country estate. The new bit makes the whole thing look fake.

Exactly- for something that should have a lot of character it actually has very little.

It looks shit

Was it leasehold too?

Hah - that was one of my questions, it's in Sheffield Park which is grade 1 listed, but it's grade 2.

I had thought that it might be share of freehold, but no - it's a lease, held by the management company of Sheffield Park, which is actually the residents rather than the standard bunch of incompetent venal cunts, but still - not what I want.

I looked at a new build house the other day in Kensal rise.

It was leasehold.

I knew it was before I looked but I was curious.

The freehold was fucking Westminster of all entities.

You can buy the freehold in five years the EA said.

How I laughed.

I'd like the following:

• Detached, freehold house in it's own grounds
  
• Which are around an acre
  
• That is on the edge of a village
  
• But you can walk out the back into the forest
  
• Has as a minimum a double garage and a workshop, more points for more outbuildings
  
  

And as close to £650,000 as possible.

With or without Windmill?

Neutral on the Windmill, I can build my own if the place doesn't have one already.

Has sir considered Peterborough?

Need to be near Heathrow, which means South East to South West-ish.

When I say near, I mean "able to get too without it being a nightmare".

Then I think you're going to be pretty limited.

Yep

Friends of mine moved to Haslemere last year (actually Camelsdale). Think their place ticks most of your boxes (depending on how you define village). I don’t know how much it cost, but I’d guess it was around that.

Not that they’re selling it, just to suggest that things are out there.

I grew up in Haslemere. It’s nice. No ‘edge’. Very expensive because of the 50 mins fast train to Waterloo. Detached places with an acre of garden near the station are >£1 mm. They don’t call it the stockbroker belt for nothing.

Ha. Top lols.

Nothing much near me but I might see if I can find a location to suggest to them.

Also, I'm lazy, I don't want to have to walk half a mile down the road to get on a bike, I want it "right here, right now!".