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Crazy things that put you off buying a house

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    #51
    Must have an outside loo for visitors use...
    Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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      #52
      Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
      Must have an outside loo for visitors use...
      they can use the one in the North wing as usual.

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        #53
        Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View Post
        Oh shoot. I'm looking at a property tomorrow whose address is School Lane.

        Yappy mums in 4x4s blocking the road twice a day and the cacophony from the school yard the rest of the time.

        At least I'm a single female so nobody will look at me as though I'm a predatory paedophile

        Better have a longer look on street view.
        Won't you be at work during school hours? Out before the school run in the morning, back home after the afternoon one.

        Maybe live somewhere where all the parents don't own 4x4s...

        Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
        Must have an outside loo for visitors use...
        Place we're looking at has an outside loo, apparently still functional. I grew up in houses which had them, kind of fun.
        Originally posted by MaryPoppins
        I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
        Originally posted by vetran
        Urine is quite nourishing

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          #54
          Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
          Can't stand north facing gardens. Cold, damp and horrible for almost the whole year.
          We have a North facing garden. However, it is 20m long, so the first 3-4m of garden is indeed in shade all the time, but the rest of the garden basks in glorious sunshine (on sunny days, of course) all day long.
          The trees at the back of the garden ensure the back neighbour's south facing garden is in shade all day long
          Taking a break from contracting

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            #55
            Originally posted by d000hg View Post
            Won't you be at work during school hours? Out before the school run in the morning, back home after the afternoon one.

            Maybe live somewhere where all the parents don't own 4x4s...
            People have days off you know.
            "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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              #56
              Another fruitless day of viewings.
              Property no 1: the best on paper and it was was a nice location bit it absolutely stank to high heaven. Single lady with a lot of dogs. She was obviously feeding them that disgusting fish meal stuff because I nearly lost my breakfast on entering the property.

              Didn't like the conservatory either; the roof wasn't glazed but had that horrible opaque corrugated plastic that's supposed to keep the heat out.

              Property no 2: cancelled - next to a school.

              Property no 3: backed on to a cemetary. Didn't clock that on Street View. Only Goths need apply!
              Last edited by Pip in a Poke; 7 January 2017, 21:35.

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                #57
                Landing pads that aren't perfectly horizontal. How difficult is it to get a theodolite out and get the bloomin' thing correct?

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                  #58
                  Originally posted by GB9 View Post
                  Landing pads that aren't perfectly horizontal. How difficult is it to get a theodolite out and get the bloomin' thing correct?
                  Football pitches too....

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                    #59
                    Looking through a neighbour's window and seeing this on their computer screen:

                    Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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                      #60
                      Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View Post
                      ...

                      Property no 3: backed on to a cemetary. Didn't clock that on Street View. Only Goths need apply!
                      Quiet neighbours. What's not to like. Or are you scared of ghosts?
                      Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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