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• Lake District hotel recommendation?

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 years, 8 months

  

  The Hillthwaite is great! Walking distance to both Bowness and Windermere, nice rooms, good breakfast, pool & sauna and very dog-friendly.

• Cycle to work scheme

  in General • 5 years, 8 months

  

  Thanks! That's what I thought. Fingers crossed!

• Cycle to work scheme

  in General • 5 years, 8 months

  

  Hi, apologies if it's been asked a million times before but which one's the best option at the end of the ride to work scheme, the extended hire agreement or taking ownership of the bike? I got a bike through the scheme a couple of years ago but never got any emails after the first year, so a bit surprised with the email from Evans yesterday regarding the second bike. Are there any risks with just extending the hire agreement? What happens if/when Evans goes bust?

• Wanted Rapha men's crew neck merino jumper

  in Wanted Adverts • 5 years, 8 months

  

  Hello,
  If anyone's got a spare men's Rapha crew knit in size M, please PM me, I'd be happy to buy it off you.

  Thanks!

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• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 years, 4 months

  

  That's the lump sum for all the repairs, roof, wall, gutters, lowering floor and paving in the garden, etc.

  Buying a house in the UK is not for the impatient or for the faint-hearted..

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 years, 4 months

  

  Good point. We're currently renting with a couple of months left on the contract so could do the work before moving in.

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 years, 4 months

  

  Found a house, got offer accepted, had a survey done (the medium one), which indicated damp in various places. We knew we had to get a damp specialist contractor to check out the place but the lender was being really slow with processing mortgage application, so we didn't book the expensive damp survey until we got the mortgage offer. Finally had the damp survey done yesterday, the damage is worse than we expected and they estimated 17-20k to repair it as they have to put up scaffolding, take down parts of roof and wall, etc. We're going to make a lower offer to cover the renovation but I'm so scared the vendor will say no.

  The damp is due to poor roofing and guttering, i.e. current owner's negligence in maintaining the property (they live abroad and the house has been rented for years), none of which was mentioned in the advert or by the estate agent.

  Anyone been in a similar situation? We were thinking of offering 15k less than the offer we had accepted, is that ok or too high/low?

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 years, 5 months

  

  Thanks everyone for your advice!
  Fingers crossed all goes well.

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 years, 6 months

  

  Thanks, makes sense.