Buying a house (and renting)

PostRe: Buying a house by **jawafour** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:04 pm

Congrats, Phote!
Congrats, Pancake!
Congrats, Glowy!

Three houses, three happy GRcadians :toot:

. Good work, guys.

PostRe: Buying a house by **Glowy69** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:04 pm

Photek wrote:Since you didn't congratulate me I hope your house burns down.

Only kidding man (slightly) congrats

I was jealous and bitter. :shifty:

PostRe: Buying a house by **Photek** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:07 pm

I told you it would get sorted though didn't I?!

Thanks Jawa. :wub:

PostRe: Buying a house by **Drumstick** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 6:35 pm

Well done everyone!

PostRe: Buying a house by KK » Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:26 am

An interesting video about house prices: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_aud ... 2/37657012

BBC News wrote:Who lives here now? Clapham - The 'modest' £1m home
How 30 years of rocketing prices have changed this ordinary London address

In 1986, the BBC followed a young, married couple as they moved into their new home in south London. After 30 years of rocketing house prices, we return to the same property to find a very different residential set-up.

PostRe: Buying a house by **Hexx** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:42 am

Since this is general house thread

Part of my front is a drive, and the other half is pebbled filled with plants growing through. It's horrible overgrown/messy and the membrane has decayed so weeds everywhere.

Got some blokes coming today/tomorrow to rip ip all up, kill everything, remembrance and replace with larger stones. Won't have plants in any more but will get some large pots to put about it.

Quite excited as I hate my front bit - chore to keep up with and if you don't it looks horrible (I'm so ashamed). Hoping they do a good un. (I'm like 50:50 they will)

PostRe: Buying a house by **Moggy** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:47 am

How does a thread called "buying a house" mean "oh that must be a general house thread where I can talk about how lazy I am with my gardening"?

PostRe: Buying a house by **Errkal** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:49 am

Moggy wrote:How does a thread called "buying a house" mean "oh that must be a general house thread where I can talk about how lazy I am with my gardening"?

This, its about buying the house. Once you have it all them issues are yours (unless you make a thread to cover the topic)

PostRe: Buying a house by **Hexx** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:54 am

Moggy wrote:How does a thread called "buying a house" mean "oh that must be a general house thread where I can talk about how lazy I am with my gardening"?

Buying [stuff] for a house?
Improving your house so when you sell you can buy a better house?

You're worse than Hitler

PostRe: Buying a house by **Moggy** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:55 am

Hexx wrote:
Moggy wrote:How does a thread called "buying a house" mean "oh that must be a general house thread where I can talk about how lazy I am with my gardening"?

Buying [stuff] for a house?
Improving your house so when you sell you can buy a better house?

You're worse than Hitler

Hitler wouldn't have let you keep the house.

PostRe: Buying a house by **Hexx** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:57 am

Moggy wrote:
Hexx wrote:
Moggy wrote:How does a thread called "buying a house" mean "oh that must be a general house thread where I can talk about how lazy I am with my gardening"?

Buying [stuff] for a house?
Improving your house so when you sell you can buy a better house?

You're worse than Hitler

Hitler wouldn't have let you keep the house.

You're only slightly better than Hitler!

But fine - I'm improving my drive as there's a chance I may want to move houses. Happy?

PostRe: Buying a house by **Moggy** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:58 am

Hexx wrote:
But fine - I'm improving my drive as there's a chance I may want to move houses. Happy?

We will be happy to hear about it once you put your house on the market and start making offers on new houses.

PostRe: Buying a house by **Frank** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:13 pm

Got any example pictures of the larger rocky moonscape you want it to look like? I've always preferred a garden over a pebblepatch (although pebbles are slightly easier to park on when you've got people over). You might need something colourful in the pots to make the house still look appealing.

I'm trying to do a bit of garden renovation over at my gran's house at the moment. She's got way too much grass to easily manage, so we're paving a bit of it. But the paving needs to be thick enough to park a car on, which actually restricts us a fair bit :dread:

PostRe: Buying a house by **Hexx** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:22 pm

It's only about the size of a parking space - it looks pretty horrid right now. It'd be a lot of donkey work to clear out down to peddles, and the member is shafted so always little weeds everywhere.

Did consider redoing it as it - but like a simple life.

Yeah some big colourful pots with colourful plants I think

PostRe: Buying a house by **Frank** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:33 pm

Yeah, pebble patches are pretty shocking :dread:

I rented a place in Northampton with one which was instantly weeded because the membranes are terrible (and it was apparently on us to keep it clean. It wasn't my choice to pebble the drive

)

I'd be interested in seeing progress pictures even if no-one else is, Hexx :wub:

PostRe: Buying a house by **Hexx** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:45 pm

Don't judge me!

Been a mess like that since I moved in (a;though I've been terrible at weeding the bits at the front for example for a few weeks with this work coming up).

There was also a big bush in the corner (you can see the earth...which the pebbles just transitioned to..really odd) that I've already cut down (and chaps witll be cutting down/out further)

PostRe: Buying a house by **Errkal** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:58 pm

State of that green bin :dread:

PostRe: Buying a house by **Hexx** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:59 pm

That's what you picked to criticise?

They have these strawberry floating stupid tamper proof stickers "I've paid for green waste collection" that are just a nightmare.

PostRe: Buying a house by **Errkal** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:02 pm

Why do you need tamper proof stickers on a bin?

PostRe: Buying a house by **Hexx** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:05 pm

I thought it wasimplied above - you have to pay extra in this area for green/garden waste collection (the green bin. Brown food bin, Green recycling box and black wheelie bin are "free")

You have to have a fresh sticker each year (this years is blue) to show you've paid for the year.

They're tamper proof to stop people stealing your sticker and putting on their own green bin I assume.

Which means nightmare to get off and you just end up with stickers on top of stickers.

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