Owning your own home

Fucking estate agents

I'll pass thanks.

knock em through internally to make a big one?

Separate leases suggest to me that that might have unwelcome complications?

Pembury Tavern?

Ha, yes. Under previous management. I assume board games are less of a thing there now.

They do have a sideboard with some in. It’s really a much better pub now, always had a bit of a student union vibe before.

Only if the freeholders find out....

Don't take legal advice from a structural engineer.

thats been the mantra for all of them, thankfully the mini chain (FTB/us/already moved) are all decent human beings and are in agreement on them pulling their fingers out.

TL/DR @Ben6899 summed it up
“Bunch of cunts.”

You'd better hurry up and start making those doors so you can prove @Airhead wrong then.

#trollface

Sorry, dull question. Any recommendations for Homebuyers surveyors around Woodford/Chingford? Ta muchly.

Keep up, he's underpinning them both first

Yeah it's nice that Five Points are at the five points :)

Zaid at ZFN, was recommended to me by @frankohara
we just had his basic report as there was nothing structural that we didn’t already know about. very thorough report all done on whatsapp with images and voice reports.

@Jameo as @Mr_Smyth said, Zaid is seriously hardworking and a pleasure to deal with (unlike the state agents!). We have now recommended him several times and everyone seemed happy!
Fell free to send him a list of areas you might want him to pay extra attention to or that you are worried about.

P.S: I don't get referral fees, he just saved us from buying a hyped turd in E17 and I can't thank him enough!

Think I got lucky with my estate agent as they were selling both my place and the place I was buying (that was also on with another agent) so they had double incentive to get it through.

I was genuinely sorry to hear about the theft from the other garage as I hate thieves. Having said that I had my concerns about securing carriage doors and I can't see a scenario where they provide the protection you would want for a fully equipped workshop.

Best of luck to Dammit in his garages though, whatever doors he wants. I think the brief has already changed though, understandably.

Don't get me started on Stow Brothers!! Luckily once we steered clear of them we found a small agent that was actually pretty good!

@Jameo

We also just used ZFT after praise on this thread and also nothing but good things to say!

Nice, thanks all.

figured out today my sister in law lives next door to catford - in "lee" (which sounds made up to me). disowned

Keep applying pressure to neighbour until it's fixed. Make it clear what has to happen, be as specific as possible, send a marked up diagram etc. Don't let neighbour fob you off ("Oh, the builder reckons its fixed and I don't want to be difficult..."), he is accountable for sorting it out.

The neighbour is now being an arse. I wish I’d chased the fucking builders off at the outset.

Isn't this someone on here's next-door neighbour? I remember a porch chat?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/120668030#/?channel=RES_BUY

that's horrible.. £900k! world's gone mad etc

Ha! There is some amazing estate agent patter in the video.

Good memory but no.