Buying a house (and renting)

Stugene wrote:N1FFF, I work as a Minor Offences in Residence Ordinance and Noise officer for my local council, and have performed this job for over a decade for several councils around the country. If you want this sort of anti-social behaviour dealt with then I suggest you start taking the time to do the following:

Place pieces of tape (or "Blu Tac" - you can get this at most stationary stores) around the foot of your furniture on the flooring and against any adjacent walls. This will allow you to measure the distance these objects move after the disturbance
Hang a plumbob from the ceiling in the room of the disturbance. This will allow you to exactly pinpoint that it is the wardrobe making the vibration.
Pin pieces of paper (again these can be purchased from most stationary stores) against the wall NEAREST to the disturbance in a vertical line from ceiling to floor (or floor to ceiling depending on what is easiest). This will again provide further evidence that the vibration is coming from the wardrobe.
Purchase an OMNI-DIRECTIONAL microphone (these can be purchased from most Music stores) and place it in the exact centre of the room. It is vitally important that this is placed correctly, so please use a measuring tape (this can be purchased from most DIY stores). Hook this up to your laptop (you may require an interface - these can be purchased from most computer stores) and set it to constantly record. This will again give you exact direction for the disturbance

To verify that the disturbance is in fact coming from where you say it is, the officer will need to verify VISUALLY and AURALLY that the disturbance has taken place. For this reason I recommend setting up a webcam and recording the room, or failing that make sure the officer comes round when the lady upstairs is getting dressed. The recording (which should be VISUAL - the video, and AURAL - the microphone) should show the officer the plumbob and paper moving, along with the microphone providing directional audio for the accurate location of the disturbance and it's dB (decibel) level. You can also point to the movement of the furniture (the tape, "Blu Tac") as evidence of the disturbance but only in conjunction with the other evidence.

This process of investigation can take time, so if you are able to present recordings it can help. Also note that this process is not usually done free-of-charge (although some councils will provide this) so expect to pay in the realm of around £200 for the investigation. You can usually recoup this from the resident making the disturbance once the investigation is found in your favour.

Wow thanks for informing me of all this specialist info. Much appreciated. My local council is Greenwich by the way.For now I hope it'll be fine if she keeps ensuring the wardrobe door is opened slowly or get it fixed.

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Jenuall** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 9:28 pm

Moggy wrote:I don't know if anyone remembers but a few weeks ago the lady selling the house I want to by gave me a deadline of 30 November.

Today I found out that my buyer has (finally!!) had his mortgage approved, so I emailed her with an update and to say things are moving along.

She wrote back with a nice email, saying her plans have changed etc and finished off wishing me a merry Christmas. She's obviously not expecting it to complete before Christmas then!

So yeah, Gecko was right.

Green Gecko wrote:Sounds like bluster to force a sale to me.

That's great news Moggy, hopefully things start moving move smoothly from here for you!

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Moggy** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:04 pm

twitter.com/teleproperty/status/1465704341818339331

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Only £375k? Thanks Telegraph!

:slol:

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Frank** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:12 pm

Let's all move to Redcar :datass:

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Moggy** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:14 pm

Frank wrote:Let's all move to Redcar

I think that's where Lagamorph lives.

I'll pass.

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Frank** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:18 pm

They're all so cheap because his mum pays for the other half of the house :toot:

Literally a bank?

What are the qualifying criteria?

My dad is supposed to help with a house, seeing as I had a £3k a year ISA in my name that when my grandad died (I only learnt about this 3 weeks ago), disappeared, lied to about inheritance (half a million to 2 living children and one widow ie my aunt yet nothing passed down) and I won't have any help until my dad dies. Thanks dad, I'd rather you not do that.

What the strawberry float is it with wealthy people obsessed with growing wealth rather than just strawberry floating putting it to work - especially when by the time house prices have risen to even more insane levels, mortgages are even more gooseberry fool and near impossible to qualify for, and inflation does what it does, the net result would be the bloody same. The difference is, I have to be broke for up to and around 20 sodding years. What qualify of life. I'm worried about paying my energy bills for strawberry floats sake.

Anyway, that's my bank, except the bank closes until some unknowable time, collapses and you walk in and collect your investment that's effectively worth the same it was when you initially approached the bank, which is... strawberry floating pointless.

Might talk about it today :slol:

I love how the East Midlands location on that map is significantly north and slightly west of the West Midlands

Well when we refer to the South East what we actually mean is the South East Coast i.e. Brighton. Or Dover if you are pleb enough to still get a ferry to your holiday home in France, when you can't stand the idea of driving through Newhaven, which is pretty much a graveyard for everyone who can't afford a home in the Historic Cities of Proper Decent England but with a slur to cover up how posh you actually are.

YouTube · PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Stugene** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:31 pm

Frank wrote:Let's all move to Redcar

lets murder private landlords by draining their blood and selling it to foreign hospitals in order to finance all of GR moving to [checks map] Bromley?

I'm doing a transfer of equity with my girlfriend now that she has sold her house and everything that I'm getting from the bank and conveyancer is written as if I am buying a new house and getting a new mortgage. The whole thing is designed to be as complicated and difficult to follow as possible. I don't know how some people can move around so much as it's such a ballache.

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **jawa_** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:47 pm

Bromley is kind of nearby to my area; in my neck of the woods most folk tend to think of Bromley as being pretty upmarket and expensive. To think of that area being highlighted as a "go to" spot for first-time buyers seems incredible.

I guess it's all relative. Much of London is, of course, stupidly expensive but my part of London (one of the cheapest places) is merely expensive. Just to aid clarity, this is not a boast as most of the houses near my very modest flat are very tired and scrappy, even though they can be expensive (for your average low-paid workers).

Yeah my dad used to do that, in the same town which was basically pointless. Never moved in my childhood (house he dumped us in) and I can't imagine how much money he spent simply on conveyancing and surveys and such. Not that it mattered as we weren't going to get support instead, in the end my home almost strawberry floating fell down and my mum remortgaged to cover rebuilding the outer wall. I never understood this and only "got it" viewing the house on historic Google maps and comparing the difference in the brickwork! If I have to do it it's not going to be multiple times in the span of a couple of years.

andretmzt wrote:I'm doing a transfer of equity with my girlfriend now that she has sold her house and everything that I'm getting from the bank and conveyancer is written as if I am buying a new house and getting a new mortgage. The whole thing is designed to be as complicated and difficult to follow as possible. I don't know how some people can move around so much as it's such a ballache.

I think an excess of money and/or ignorance goes a long way towards making life easier. Your mistake is not being rich enough to pay better solicitors to handle everything for you and thinking too much about the implications to not just sign and forget without ever understanding how it all works.

I'm sure some people who move around a lot get familiar with the process which makes it easier, but I'm sure others just don't think about it too much and assume everything will be fine. Unfortunately I think I might be incapable of doing either :lol:

I'm pretty sure wealthy people just don't mind getting gouged for an expendable resource that means less thinking and less stress which is too much work.

On the other hand, they can be the tightest, most entitled strawberry floats around.

YouTube · PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Stugene** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:53 pm

Green Gecko wrote:I'm pretty sure wealthy people just don't mind getting gouged for an expendable resource that means less thinking and less stress which is too much work.

On the other hand, they can be the tightest, most entitled strawberry floats around.

they should give their money to me - as an act of honest christian charity - so that I may buy Casa Stugene and grow beans for the rest of my life

Going to chase my survey today. Hopefully they've just been delayed getting it to me, rather than it being an issue. Getting closer now :dread:

My nan has moved out of her house and in to sheltered accommodation, which is brilliant as the area she lived in was getting rough (redhill in Sunderland :dread:

), plus the stairs in there were lethal, almost vertical. She'll be much better off now, plus she can socialise there too.

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Moggy** » Tue Dec 14, 2021 3:50 pm

Good news:

My solicitor has confirmed that my house purchase is ready to be completed. :toot:

Bad news:

strawberry float knows what's going on with my sale. I've sent some chasers out today and am hoping to speed things up a bit. I've no idea how much work is left to do by my buyer or his solicitor. Grrr, hurry the strawberry float up!

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