Owning your own home

congrats @well_is_it and @laner

@well_is_it you know i'm going to ask you to send the link now....otherwise tell me some more details come on!

Cheers. Its a ground floor warner, 1 bed and the kitchen needs re-doing. Badly. Otherwise its pretty nice but it does need about 10k spent on it to make it just right.

if its the one i'm thinking of it's a lot better than the others you have been looking at believe me. and a better location. 10k would be a lot to spend on that kitchen i think, up there with @princeperch. does it have a microwave above the oven? have i hit the nail on the head or am i talking absolute nonsense?

Congrats on moving to Coppermill, there's a good local on Coppermill lane :) This area is the lung of London, all west and south is open space. easy to get around without using roads.

I've been nosying around as well to try and find it, some of those Warner flats are really lovely and I do like that Coppermill Lane/St James Street area where most of them seem to be.

Walthamstow is lovely in parts, but I'm happy to be 10 minutes away by Overground and in a house for the same money as a 1 bed Warner.

Estate agent posts a comment on someone's blog:

7 thoughts on “My Experience With Attic Property Services”

You disgust me the filth you both lived in and coudld actuallay find the time to post this? u dirty filthy people that are in rent arrears!!!! the poor Landlord you make me sick!!!!!

POSTED BY LISA BANE | APRIL 16, 2015, 11:21 PM

https://knoxee.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/my-experience-with-attic-property-services/

^ shocking read, thanks for sharing.

found it on B3ta, so her comment is a hyperlink to her facetube page, which the b3tans discovered showed pictures of her getting pissed right up when she said she was ill in bed- they've emailed the blogger to tell her.

Tell them that you're going to switch provider unless they fix it for free.

Woot, as of this morning we own a house! On our way back from Wales now, swap keys when we arrive then I'm off to Bristol for the weekend.

Nice one!

I'm guessing the next thing I need to do is call a solicitor. Shall I use the one foxtons recommended or does anyone here have connections?

The guy I mentioned from Walthamstow is very good: Bob Bentley.

According to history of this thread, the forum solicitor is
Martin Browne @ Gisby Harrison
gisbyharrison.co.uk/martin-br­owne.php

I told him the forum recommended and he was like...er what?

^ this.

I used Martin Browne and i'd say 5 or 6 others have also. He was excellent.

Can anyone recommend a builder / construction team in Bristol who specialise in loft conversions?

I was too embarrassed to mention i'd heard about him from a bike forum.

julie wilde @ DP Cameron Solicitors in Crouch End. Very good and professional and left no stone unturned. Handled my purchase very well and was surprisingly cheap.

http://www.dpcameron.co.uk

Just emailed martin.

Tell him "laner" send you.... ;)

Shall I finish my emails with >>>>>>>>?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/mortgages/11545150/Five-year-fixed-rates-drop-below-2pc-for-the-first-time.html

Any recommendations for surveyors in E17?

I got a guy, he got it done quick. Not sure if he does E17 but maybe

Bruce Spenser MSc MCIOB
Building Surveyor & Chartered Builder
http://www.buildingsurveyor.london
London - 020 8806 2400
Orkney - 01856 851957
Mobile - 07927 123469

Nice one Mands!

That's quite a patch he covers. London to Orkney?