Owning your own home

Pretty normal for an old place, yes. Keep them safe. Even where the title to the house is registered, the old deeds can come in very handy, especially for things like restrictive covenants.

I thought that was whats-his-face?

Yeah.
We do kinda, but the vendors were refusing to understand the amount of work it needed and the spend required to make it structurally safe.
So we got an architects report to outline it all, dropped our offer and left it with them.

This place is just round the corner.
Same housing typology. Nicer street.

It would really put the cat among the pigeons if they came to back to us and accepted!

I just put an offer in on a place.

I have no idea what im doing.

!

The one I told you to buy?

I have no idea what I'm doing

My life story.

Tory election win, all your job security fears vanish eh?

Congrats, fingers crossed for you.

This isn't the same thing as buying a giant watch on eBay while drunk you know?

The way CB does things, it might be?

Let's hope the house is in better condition than the watch.

Has anyone looked at auctions? I bought my place so would do again

https://www.eigroup.co.uk/files/5/22724/6f322046-feac-47b0-baf9-d4c3dce5e3a5.pdf

Ground floor chimney breasts. Can you remove them?
There's one in the kitchen that is taking up precious square footage.

Yes but requires engineering to take the above load. They are normally structural.

Yes but I would recommend removing the rest of the chimney breast. (Or you could removing some of it whilst leaving the remainder poorly propped and perilously hanging as many people seem to decide).

What's the worst that could happen?

Yeah, It seems like a lot of risk if upstairs isn't or hasn't been done.

House fall down.

Creates a pit to the Indian Burial Ground below.

Cthulhu emerges and lays waste to humanity.

All for the sake of a structural lintel.

Bang an acrow under it, use that to hang jackets on, done.

Yes :-)

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-52040147.html

I like this but that's quite far out isn't it?

And sparky, theres nothing wrong with THAT watch

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34500819.html

I like this even more

LFGSS....
Buying dead people's houses since 2007

@Tenderloin Wood Street house is far from Walthamstow Central perhaps, but there's some really nice stuff around Wood St. Wildcard Brewery, good pubs, not miles away from the village.

The Leytonstone place looks really nice, well located for the delights of the High Road, but then again I'm not sure just how delightful that is. The Red Lion is good, as is the dim sum place though.

This isn't that far out. As @tommmmmmm says. Wood Street is nice and you can get into hipsterville easily from Lea Bridge Road as well as out for Epping loops by heading up Forest Road.