Owning your own home

Here's a far away one. I'm sure I've got a close-up one somewhere, will have a rummage.

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Thanks, that'd be great.

Found these from when they were fitted

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Unless you can get a legal agreement to extend the lease into the contract, then the first is worth roughly what you'd rent it for? But would also be really hard to sell on if/when you did want to move on with that lease.

A limited picture here of mine https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15831093/ . You can see the pipework has been chased into the wall which makes it neat but is probably a ballache if you're not refurbing everything.

cheers both. I am getting everything redone around there, so chasing in to the wall does seem like the neatest solution, although it looks like I'll still need to be conservative with the widths. Will have another measure up tonight

@aggi do you know if yours run in series or parallel off a common feed and return - if that makes sense?

Yeah maybe, dont imagine the discount will be high on them but anything for the running about and stuff on the top of the job is good.

Novel way to chain them all together although would have been better to have thermostats on them all imo.

Well - that was unexpected.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3695-Primrose-Rd-South-Lake-Tahoe-CA-96150/195374618_zpid/?

Mine was £2300, that was for

Chrome flex tap
Pro3 boiling water
Cube
Scale control plus

Looks about £200 under list...so not much discount

Property to be sold as-is

I assume because the owner turned out to be a serial killer.

Better how? Would be good to know for next time. I didn’t notice anything sub-par with them and the cat was always happy sitting on them. Someone else’s problem now anyhow.

bikepacking bag?! WHO ARE YOU

Not my bike m8

Means you can control them all individually, thats what I would do if it was me.

Hive mind question, curiosity rather than advice.

• Mate has just had an offer rejected. 1st time buyer.
  
• Seller is son selling on behalf of a mum who has moved into a care home.
  
• Seller accepted a lower offer from a cash buyer.
  
  

Is a cash buyer really that much faster over a FTB? I think we're probably talking £10-25k difference.

The accepted offerer apparently took a builder round a couple of times. Which combined with the cash and property type, makes me think a developer. Which in turn makes me think backhanders to the son and EA.

Fewer parties involved. Won’t do / care about surveys. Doesn’t have to please a mortgage provider and neither does the buyer’s solicitors. Faster. Might be worth paying £10k for especially if there are care home bills coming

Yeah as Howard said, no issues compared to the mortgage provider your friend might occur.

Sold as seen and cash is king.

Makes sense. Probably overly cynical and making judgements about all developers based on the couple I know/dealt with.

Taking the builder round did make me think that that would negate a survey.

I guess our experience of buying was that the solicitors were so fucking painful that the survey seemed like the quickest part.

On a feely level it's a bit of shame as you know exactly what a developer is going to do, and with so little stock I doubt they'll find a place that ticks all these boxes.

At some point I’ll have to sell my parents’ house and it will only sell to a developer. There’s too much wrong with it - not through neglect but it’s just not at all modern - that nobody will buy it to live in. After you’ve costed up what it will cost to modernise you might as well knock it down.

In the circumstance where it came to a developer / buyer like you describe it would go to the developer because I know it wouldn’t make it through a sale at the offer price if the offer was made by someone looking for a home.

Saw a house exactly like this in Hastings at the weekend, same people in it for nearly 40 years. It clearly was a lovely family home at some point, but the work needing doing now would cost us more than the house is worth, which is probably why they aren't doing it either.

So - log burners. Recently moved to a place with one (deepest Yorkshire) - happily burning wood for a few weeks until the Guardian starts piping up, now we have decorative logs but not so much burning. What about smokeless fuels?

Amey: Sees picture, scans it for weakness/trollability, immediately comments.

Yeah. I know what you mean.

I don't think this place is that bad. Would be transformed by a decent size extension, but in terms of "need" it's just redecoration, then a kitchen and maybe bathroom.

It's near us so I probably got a bit more emotionally invested than normal. Plus I'd love it.

Which log burner is it?