Owning your own home

I think you'll find popular Ely hangout The Cutter was the place to go for those type of ladies back in the day. Folk used to change the C for a Sl when referring to it.

What?

It was a quote I found funny in the article posted in the previous comment

Doesn't look like they've spent more than £5k doing that up.

Nope, and they've got those ubiquitous shit-brown carpets that seem to be in every redeveloped property.

They've done a good job with the garden though to be fair.

Clear out freebies. Free desk + pedestal + wheely office chair

Collect from SE17, desk comes apart and fits in car.

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In addition to desk above. We have a fridge freezer http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/279236/
And chest of drawers and bric a brac
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All free, collect from SE17

Eight months after accepting our offer on their house the vendor has decided that it's worth £25K more. The delay was 100% their fault. Merry fucking Christmas.

What a shower of c**ts.

can you tell them no or is that too big a risk?

We've pulled out, this house has been a shit-storm from start to finish. Such an exercise in futility, I knew I should have bumped her off and gone through probate.

Go back in at 10k under your original bid?

Orly? Like when? I made them big tall ice creams there for a little while, probably about 1997.

Christmas '96 was the last time I worked there. Justin and Losha (RIP) were the two main chefs there when I left.

Go back in at 10k under your original bid?

do this for the lols, if they accept drop by another 10

Really sorry to hear this. People can be so horrible and greedy.

@cake and I can tell you a thing or two about the ladies who frequent Newmarket on a Friday night...

Fuck.
What a kick in the balls.

Firebomb the place and move on.

I still cant understand why the process has not been reformed in the UK, to match that of Scotland or the majority of European countries. It's a dire system.

What is the Scottish system?

The main differences i know of are:

• the seller is responsible for information available evidencing the condition of the property.
  None of this sold as seen, surveys that don't tell the purchaser much, bullshit.
  You're selling a house.
  You get your survey's and reports done and fill out the homeowners questionnaire, as required by law.
  You make the info available to all potential purchasers.

• Everyone puts in sealed bids from the off.
  You want to buy a house.
  Write how much you would pay for it on a piece of paper and seal it.
  Offers are usually conditional.
  You soliciter puts your offer in for you.
  Highest number wins.
  None of this using people to drive each others offers up thing.
  None of this 'putting a whopping great big offer in to bully everyone else out of the deal, then dropping it after surveys and three months tarting about'

• Once an offer is made and accepted, that's it. You're both committed.
  But why is that a problem, you made an unpressured offer in the cold light of day with all of the information available to you.

How long has it been like that in Scotland? Is that a long-standing thing, or a part of the super Salmond post-devolution Revolution?

Aaaaaaaaaaaages

Of course there's absolutely nothing to stop people from structuring house sales and purchases the same way in England and Wales. But it seems that sellers daan saarf prefer the E&W model.

This has happened to me in the past.

The long and the short of it was that despite assuring me (and their agent) that my purchase would be chain free, it wasn't. They had found a house that they couldn't afford and panicked, demanding £20k more for theirs.

My solicitor told me not to worry and to proceed nonetheless at the price they wanted. I obviously informed him that I didn't have £20k and he told me not to worry.

On the day of exchange, my solicitor and I chipped the price by £20k and told them that because it had taken so long to process, values had dipped and that the original price was the only one I was prepared to pay.

They soon found the money, but my solicitor and I were called everything under the sun by the agent.

I bought the property at the price I wanted to pay.

I couldn't care less what the vendors had done but they'd been acting under the advice of the cunty agent.

Obviously I'm not advising you to chip the price on the day of exchange because it is extremely bad practice and morally unacceptable, but I thought it might be nice to out cunt the cunts.