Owning your own home

Sounds like it was written by someone from the Cotswolds.

https://instagram.com/houseofcatford?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

didn’t know @amey had a side hustle.

User Amey is a side hustle.

User @amey is what happens when a side hustle takes control of the host

Makes Possessor look like a best case scenario

Family recently bought a new washing machine to replace 'best washing machine ever' (80's/90's zanussi that would use all the water in the world to make your cloths super clean and nice feeling, modern stuff uses as little water as possible, but in the wilds of Scotland there is so much water its a mute point, it finally died), a new mid level bosch you say, good quality?
No.
Bought through AO, bit extra money to deliver as moderately remote and included install (easy as in an outbuilding right next to road, nothing in the way etc). Day 2 was broken, no signs of life. Took them a few weeks to replace as couldn't get up that way. Installed with machine #2, broke on its first wash, wouldn't drain water, controller dead, no signs of life.

SO I drove out there and checked over obvious things like power supply, voltage, put a load on it, put a decent meter on it and watched it for a few hours whilst running other things and went to next door and got them to switch their heavy loads see if it was somehow sending a spike. Nothing that I could detect without having to buy a grands worth of Fluke gear.

AO refused to come out again, put their local engineer on it. Took basically a month to come around, he opened it up and confirmed logic/controller board was dead, probably some a power surge and it wasn't their problem.

At this point I was fairly sure the supply wasn't the issue, but also respected the engineer as is known locally to be decent. So arranged AO to send out new parts and repair machine #2.

Parts came, engineer came out and fitted parts, he ran it off a bit juicy power bank/surge protection station (looked like it came from an old server room), went on his lunch, came back and boom, new logic board/controller also blown, no signs of life. Dead.

He made some calls to some buddies, and determined it was a bad batch of machines/boards and we had just had 3 for 3 from the same batch (parts were mined from a new stock out of the warehouse instead of 'spares stock' from bosch). So the fault was infact the machine/Bosch and everyone was super apologetic.

now have a Beko or something as thats all there was in stock. But it was ~3 or 4 months where family had zero washing machine, so lots of trips to the launderette and lots of stress dealing with a computer says no type of a company.

On the up side, made a new friend of the folk who run the launderette, went to their engagement part end of last year, so not all bad :P

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/new-homes/details/61243801/?search_identifier=15d0b99f314c637ba938cdbbd82ad6db

Go home London ur drunk

I could've sworn Zoopla used to have a feature where you could look at old sales listings/photos. It seems now you can only see previous prices.

Have they removed it or have I got the wrong website? Rightmove also only shows the previous prices, possibly the last listing before current, but nothing further back.

£1.5m and your living room looks like you're sitting in a shed.

this? maybe they moved the link from the front page.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices/london/

Yeah that's as close as I can get - I swear that page (or its old equivalent) used to have the actual listings on, not just prices.

Basically the house we're buying has had some work done and I wanna see what it looked like before

try rightmove

Ahahahaha ha

Pretty sure that was a few garages a year or two back.

@Dammit there’s an idea for yours

Asked on here last year for advice on selling my nan's house.

We went with the majority of views and decided to sell with no refurbishment - it's gone under offer at £640k which I found surprisingly high but they reckoned they could have eventually got asking for it, but my parents liked the buyers (or the estate agents' description of them) so went with an early offer.

Let's hope they don't get put off by the probate dragging on.

More insanity from the place that must not be named.

This house was 400k odd in 2014. Sure its had work done to it but no more than about 150ks worth I'd say. It's nice. It's not to my taste but it's alright.

But the price ? Surely this insanity has to end soon.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/122491823#/?channel=RES_BUY

I think the market in east London is slowing down a bit. There are 3 or 4 places on the market in the Woodgrange estate that would have sold in minutes last year.

You any closer to buying your new place?

Waiting for the mortgage offer. Nationwide are being glacially slow. Valuation happened last week. Stuff progressing well between solicitors though. Fortunately both are switched on.

If the lawyers are not complete numptys then you are half way there imo.

One thing that personally I'd be checking very carefully about your new place (which I like) is the service charge and the management of the block. There might be service charge fun and games going on. My mate lives in a similar sort of block in Bow (where I used to own a flat- I sold it as the service charge was 3k and climbing and its now over 4k) . He got fed up of it all and managed to wangle his way onto the management committee to sort it all out. I'd personally be going through the accounts with a very fine toothcomb to make sure there isn't any madness going on which will stress you out later.

I do have a little bit of experience of going through these accounts from when I was getting rodded during my leasehold ownership experience, so if you want a second opinion on the accounts when they send them to you as part of the information pack then feel free to dm me and I'll take a look. I know you said you used to live in the block so you might already know its all cool.

I’d need to redo every room in the house and the garden. Pizza oven could stay.

But Wanstead?

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33 mins seems a bit strong. I walked to the tube the other day and it was 25 mins. Also cycling to nursery in e11 for the drop off and collect takes 8 mins.

Apparently they are going to open a little waitrose 4 mins walk from my house.

I think the walk to the tube is fine (and pleasant enough). Just that if the house is 33mins from Gail’s Bakery then can it really be Wanstead dahling?!

not sure about the chopping board on the kitchen ceiling

It's still there.

I always found it a bit awkward to get to from the Zoopla homepage but googling it should find the right page.

Or 20 mins to Manor Park if you don't mind mixing with the common folk.