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[Anglevan]

in other news I've just committed to go look at a mk3 Marina - I must be mad or it's me that wants committing !! oh well it's a one owner from new low mileage motor and it's local so what the eck !!! cost me nowt to look and theres a decent chippy near where it is so at least supper is sorted...

[vulgalour]

Money and ID and stuff sent for the flat Mikeknight and I wanted to move into.  Estate agent tells us just before we actually give them the money "oh, it's not on the market now".  Hunt for another place to live ¬.¬

 

At least we've found a nicer property as soon as we got the turn-down for the flat that we'll try and snag that only came on the market YESTERDAY so we're sorting that tomorrow early-doors.  It's nicer, cheaper and a house rather than a flat so it's more dog friendly.  Being both grump and grin it goes here as news.

[garbaldy]

sounds like good news to me the flat wasn't meant to be,    out of curiosity  what does rent cost these days ?

[vulgalour]

We're struggling to find a two bed property that's less than £400 pcm and isn't miserable as fuck, but they do exist.

[garbaldy]

I have a tied cottage so I am well out of touch with rents,  /\ that is a lot more than I have been charging my tenants for the past 6 years so sounds like rent review time

[vulgalour]

I just want to live in a nice affordable modest house with a nice friendly landlord neither of which are utter fuckballs of shittitude.  It's not a lot to ask, not really.  That price is unfurnished with the only white good in the kitchen being a cooker too, btw.

[Angrydicky]

£400 pcm for a house! That wouldn't rent a cardboard box down here.

[vulgalour]

Yeah but you live at the stupid/expensive end of the country.  Wouldn't catch me doing that apart from that time I used to live in the hell hole that is New Addington.

[Sigmund Fraud]

£400 pcm for a house! That wouldn't rent a cardboard box down here.

 

Cardboard box ? Luxury ! You would pay that to sleep under a torn bit of tarpaulin around here !

 

(etc. etc. as the whole thing turns into the four yorkshiremen sketch...)

[garbaldy]

I just want to live in a nice affordable modest house with a nice friendly landlord neither of which are utter fuckballs of shittitude.  It's not a lot to ask, not really.  That price is unfurnished with the only white good in the kitchen being a cooker too, btw.

 

I want tenants that are not always moaning about the slightest thing going wrong even though the house was fully refurbed with new kitchen bathroom and central heating when they moved in, I also would like them to at least cut the bloody grass its like a field and all the gravel has disappeared under a carpet of weeds   ( in fairness to them the garden is quite big.)

I cant complain though as they pay the rent without an issue although that might be down to the fact its a two bed house for £250pcm

[rml2345]

Least active Autoshiter in actual action SHOCK.

The reason for a lack of news is that, apart from driving it and filling it with (lots of) petrol I've done very little with the Volvo. It still makes me smile when the turbo spools at the base of a hill and it charges up the other side with vigour. Two of those things might* be related.

 

After visiting cms206 the other week who G101'd the ruddy fuck out of it I felt it was time to do something about the rusty bits. With me being tight and it being scruffy anyway I popped up to Halfords and bought some fancy mixed paint in a rattle can and all the other essentials for ruining your own car,

 

 

There's always nervous bit where you apply sand paper to your own car but it wasn't too bad and soon it was looking pretty decent;

 

 

Not a bad colour match either. Unfortunately that photo rather flatters it as I'm actually awful at doing spray paint and it's very orange peely. It also reacted with the lacquer so will need flattened back and sorted out. On the plus side, it's not hiding any horrors and looks miles better than the nasty looking rusty bits.
Will hopefully get it all sorted out tomorrow if it stays dry.

[vulgalour]

I only complain when things are properly broken, tend to fix stuff myself because it's usually less hassle.  Sounds like your tenants have a pretty good thing if they're only paying £250pcm for a 2 bed place... you wouldn't happen to have anything similar in TS17 or environs?

[garbaldy]

I only complain when things are properly broken, tend to fix stuff myself because it's usually less hassle.  Sounds like your tenants have a pretty good thing if they're only paying £250pcm for a 2 bed place... you wouldn't happen to have anything similar in TS17 or environs?

 

You sound like the perfect tenant so you shouldn't have trouble once you get a house, 

 I only have the one house as a safety net due to being in a tied cottage plus I don't think I could be bothered with the hassle of owning more, if you fancy Livingstone my bro has 28 he rents out.    

[vulgalour]

Not sure a 3 hour commute to what will be my workplace is something I'm after...  I begin to wonder if the reason things are more expensive the further south you go is because money is heavy and rolls downhill.

[320touring]

Not sure a 3 hour commute to what will be my workplace is something I'm after...  I begin to wonder if the reason things are more expensive the further south you go is because shit is heavy and rolls downhill.

 

EFA;)

 

Tbh, we were paying £450 pcm for a 3 bed flat is a shit area, the same £450 rented a 1 bed in a posh place (still with cunty neighbours). Now we've got a mortgage for a fair bit more, but have a great hoose in a great street in a no bad area.

 

I can earn whats needed here, and live somewhere near to great driving roads, view out over parks/playing fields with a sky that shows plenty of stars at night. The number of folks I know who pay fortunes for places in the south east boggles me- effectively becoming a slave to the job to pay for the roof. Life is the good shit that happens outside work (IMO)

 

Anyway, hope you get the hoose renting sorted- I have to say that houses are much better than flats.

[coalnotdole]

On paper I earn ok money but I would struggle to rent or buy anything in the SE area (where I live) Thanks to vastly over inflated prices. Hence here I am in my 20's still living with my parents.

 

In car related news A free tax disc arrived for the Crossflow rebel today which means that it can finally be used on the road!

[stuboy]

We're struggling to find a two bed property that's less than £400 pcm and isn't miserable as fuck, but they do exist.

in my town average is 600 pcm

 

im paying 550pcm for 1 bed

[beko1987]

Fuck me our 2 bed terrace is £795 a month and its cheap! We are still poor though...

[Richard]

Even the most humble abodes are costing lottery winner money now. I paid £43k for a 3 bedroom ex-council house in 1998. Since then my income has increased by about 20% and the price of the house has increased by more like 200%.

[Ratdat]

My mate in France rents a huge old farm house that has an acre or so of land with an orchard, a workshop and garage ....for a hundred euros a month.

 

Just thought I'd mention it 

[RobT]

 

 

After visiting cms206 the other week who G101'd the ruddy fuck out of it I felt it was time to do something about the rusty bits. With me being tight and it being scruffy anyway I popped up to Halfords and bought some fancy mixed paint in a rattle can and all the other essentials for ruining your own car,

 

 

X-rated 2014 calendar shot, with the sub-title 'Volvo fanciers empty their load'!

[saucedoctor]

Saw this today. I didn't even know they existed. Guaranteed future obscure shite. Good colour too.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

They stopped making( or at least selling here) Mondeo saloons a couple of years ago , making them even more obscure.

I quite like saloon versions of hatchbacks, maybe I'm Chinese .

[Luckythirteen]

My rent for one room in a 3 bed flat is £300 per month, but that's student rates. The three of us have decided to stick together, so we've been looking about.

There's plenty about for £6-700 per month here, which would be big enough, with space to spare. Might even get an actual house; hello garage, you're my garage now Dave.

We did toy with going to the likes of Arbroath or Forfar, as it's not too far, and there are some absolute bargains out there!

[phil_lihp]

My mate in France rents a huge old farm house that has an acre or so of land with an orchard, a workshop and garage ....for a hundred euros a month.

 

Just thought I'd mention it 

 

I was looking at houses in France and in the rural areas it's quite staggering how much cheaper they are - a 'project' home with a bit of land can easily come in under £25,000.  The disadvantage being that a lot of rural areas are very isolated and a long way from anywhere I would guess.

[cms206]

My rent for one room in a 3 bed flat is £300 per month, but that's student rates. The three of us have decided to stick together, so we've been looking about.

There's plenty about for £6-700 per month here, which would be big enough, with space to spare. Might even get an actual house; hello garage, you're my garage now Dave.

We did toy with going to the likes of Arbroath or Forfar, as it's not too far, and there are some absolute bargains out there!

 

My brother in law is about £450pcm for a single room in Exeter. SWMBO and I are £350pcm for a two bed mid terrace house about a two minute walk from the centre of town, with driveway, back and front doors and own garden.

 

You lot should all move up here. That's why we can afford to attend events in the far south 'cos we're not spunking £ALL on rent.

[Luckythirteen]

Ouch! To be fair, the uni's halls are £4-500 per month; I was just lucky to find an ad for a spare room. If I'd had to be in halls, the car would've been in storage. Parking at the halls is over and above rent, and it isn't cheap either. My street comes as part of the deal!

Apparently Canada is a lot like Scotland that way: dearer in cities, cheap or cheaper in rural areas. The other flatmate's parents are in Essex, and it is crazy expensive, I know.

I thought it might be the 'London Pull', where everything gets dearer the closer you get to the capital. But the insane cost of bits of the west/southwest of England maybe say otherwise. Granted they suffer some holiday home syndrome, like some pockets up here, it's still mental.

[Ratdat]

The disadvantage being that a lot of rural areas are very isolated and a long way from anywhere I would guess.

 

EFA

[vulgalour]

Saw this today. I didn't even know they existed. Guaranteed future obscure shite. Good colour too.

 

I saw one of these on the M1 but had convinced myself at the time that what I'd actually seen was a hatchback with the sun on it in a funny way and that my eyes were in fact lying about having seen a saloon mundano.  I should believe my eyes more often, clearly.

[EssDeeWon]

Had the battery and alternator tested on the Granny today, all good! So if the damn battery goes flat over the next couple of days it must have a drain somewhere  Where would you start looking for a drain on these? (If it has got one that is).

 

It now has another battery which has been tested as 'Good' but I have the spare one on trickle charge just in case.