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Previously on "The Present and Ex-House Owners Thread"

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  • bogeyman
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    I am a first time buyer. Checking out properties that I will buy on the auction. btw I am a real estate owner too
    A grubby bath mat is not 'real estate' Atw.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    Who let this riff-raff in? I thought this was a gated complex for the property-owning classes past or present.
    No security, can't get the staff nowadays ...
    I am a first time buyer. Checking out properties that I will buy on the auction. btw I am a real estate owner too

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  • tay
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    ATW -Get out of our thread you renting scum. If we want to hear from you we will raise your rent and wait for you to start squealing..

    Begone peasant.

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by Sockpuppet View Post
    Is this like monaco? Can you buy your way in?

    Don't own a house but then I neither have a mortgage or pay any rent. I do however have a truck load of cash in the bank.

    A fall for me would be a good thing
    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    You gotto give some credit to Al Faed - he is providing a lot of amusement with his crazy theories - newspapers must have loved it
    Who let this riff-raff in? I thought this was a gated complex for the property-owning classes past or present.
    No security, can't get the staff nowadays ...

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  • Marina
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    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
    Well for me, SP, having a truckload of (I presume) Sterling in a UK bank would be a BIG worry for me, in light of recent developments.

    Some say 'Cash is King!', others say 'Sterling is Monopoly Money'.

    q.v. commodities, esp Gold and other metals.
    I'd sooner have money in a UK bank than this poor sod who kept his notes in an Indian bank

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
    You are BBC MI6 - you bloody idiot, with your crocodile wife.
    You gotto give some credit to Al Faed - he is providing a lot of amusement with his crazy theories - newspapers must have loved it

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Originally posted by moorfield View Post
    Al-Fayed was right all along. Phil the Greek did it.
    You are BBC MI6 - you bloody idiot, with your crocodile wife.

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  • moorfield
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    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
    I'm not talking about house prices falling. There are other factors at work.
    Al-Fayed was right all along. Phil the Greek did it.

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  • bogeyman
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    Even if houses fell by 50% - would there really be a run on the banks?
    I'm not talking about house prices falling. There are other factors at work.

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
    Well for me, SP, having a truckload of (I presume) Sterling in a UK bank would be a BIG worry for me, in light of recent developments.

    Some say 'Cash is King!', others say 'Sterling is Monopoly Money'.

    q.v. commodities, esp Gold and other metals.
    Even if houses fell by 50% - would there really be a run on the banks?

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  • bogeyman
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    Originally posted by Sockpuppet View Post
    I do however have a truck load of cash in the bank.
    Well for me, SP, having a truckload of (I presume) Sterling in a UK bank would be a BIG worry for me, in light of recent developments.

    Some say 'Cash is King!', others say 'Sterling is Monopoly Money'.

    q.v. commodities, esp Gold and other metals.

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  • Sockpuppet
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    Is this like monaco? Can you buy your way in?

    Don't own a house but then I neither have a mortgage or pay any rent. I do however have a truck load of cash in the bank.

    A fall for me would be a good thing

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  • HRH
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    Im slightly different I pay a mortgage on my current propery but made over 30g's in 2003/4 by developing two ld terraced houses in Northwich-one of cheshires poorest areas.

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  • expat
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    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
    I'm not ready to go yet - futurewife won't countenance emigrating until her folks are dead.
    My situation too. Unusual on this board by the sound of it: you don't often see people admit to taking anybody else into account.

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
    So you're renting then?

    Why not look abroad if you have the cash in hand?
    I'm not ready to go yet - futurewife won't countenance emigrating until her folks are dead.

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