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  • Bloke has arrived to help remove alarm unit. Knocks on door, open up, stands there - "hi! I need yer bathroom"

    I think it's a number one. Please be a number one.

  • Run, don’t walk

  • Our sellers solicitor is so bad, looks like we've missed exchange today despite 4(?) different people chasing them.

  • The seller has estimated repairs/remedial work between £200k to £300k.

    Presumably this is the money required to turn it in to a baller house rather than just fix the shit that's broken because of some dumbass leak?

  • The seller has estimated repairs/remedial work between £200k to £300k.

    Ask them to drop the price by this. For the lols.

  • I really like the look of this house, does anyone have any experience of the area?

  • No, but Caterham is nice.

  • Riddlesdown is beautiful, i love it there, been on a lot of walks there recently as a friend lives right by it

  • So after over a month, the new solicitor of the freeholder sent a letter to my solicitor's office (because everyone's in the office these days so why the fuck not....) that basically said nothing more than we already told her. It was also clear that she didn't have a fucking clue about her new clients and didn't have a copy of the lease.

    We sent her a copy and tried as nicely as possible to say "chop fucking chop". Crickets. Left her a VM yesterday, our solicitor has been emailing and calling daily.

    Wrote a teary "please, my child, she very sick" type letter which has been sent to both the freeholders directly, special delivery, today.

  • its all so painful, I want it to be over

  • Fucking infuriating. I know there's magic voodoo shit that they can probably do that I can't, and I'm glad I have a solicitor to do all the other shit for me. But this person, has exactly one, piss easy job to do to make another human being's life less stressful. Can she be fucked? No. If I was half as slap dash, negligent and disrespectful in ANY of the jobs I've had since I was 14, I'd have been out on my ear. There are zero penalties for her just ignoring me and not giving a shit, getting around to sorting out my form when she can be arsed. She owns her firm, no one is going to sack her. The freeholders are unlikely to threaten with taking their business elsewhere as they are even further removed from any ill effects.

    I need them to complete the LPE1 form to progress the sale, but they don't have to do it. I'll be glad to see the back of leasehold life and would urge anyone else to avoid it like the plague. I know there can be simple arrangements. Ours was simple, until the solicitors representing the freeholder closed suddenly. So, anything can happen. And when it does, you have ZERO back up.

  • How's that job going & where did you order your bits from? A few of ours are going to need some attention at some point.

  • It’s not clear where they got this figure from and what finish it relates to. EA said it was their and the seller’s estimate but gave no other reasoning.
    The layout needs a major change too.
    Seller not budging on price so doubt we’ll get it.
    Wants £900k+ but houses in the area are worth £1.2m max - and prices are dropping a bit here now. Numbers don’t add up.

  • No but I like that. I'm a sucker for anything modern with Flintstones fireplaces and wood though.

  • Can it be both!?

    Well mine is! It just sounded like you were considering moving for primarily financial reasons which would be a bad reason to move IMO, but now you've expanded it sounds a bit like you're already checked out a bit :)

  • Haven't started yet. It's my weekend plan, going to try and do the first half this weekend and finish it next weekend.

    All the bits are from pearstairs.co.uk

    Depending on the type of staircase you have, you might need to access the stairs from underneath. This means taking off ceilings etc.

  • You should definitely make an offer for this place. You’d be a fool not to!

  • Don’t know the area but the house looks excellent

  • Not much to see. But it’s nice and green in some places. Served by southern rail. Whyteleafe next to it purely the other way and caterham further on

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  • Kenley is nice, little aerodrome, some private roads with really nice houses on and some quiet little estates. Caterham in one direction is ok for shopping for Caterham Cars of course. They do have other shops. Purley in the other direction, stretching for miles, really suburban. Big shops and lots of traffic.

    In some ways just outside of the M25 is a lot nicer for an extra 15mins journey into London. Also closer to Gatwick if that's any use.

  • I think it's mostly driven by financial concerns, we've resigned to probably stay put for the moment, might not be the most financially beneficial, but then again it could be, because it's damn cheap to live here, and if we were to have a kid and I lost my job we could probably struggle by, both not out of the question in the next couple of years from where I stand.

  • Also I have no idea where I would like to live at the moment. The countryside calls but if everything goes back to normal in a year that wouldn't be ideal.

    @Señor_Bear cheers, I have access to the underside so hopefully not too much trouble

  • But what should the offer be?

    I do really like the look of the place, needs a new (well, mix-century modern) kitchen, and some tidying up, but it is pretty good otherwise.

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