A sold sign has gone up on my neighbours' house already. It's only been on the market a week. New year, new neighbours by the looks of things.
I'll have to chop the branch off their sycamore tree that overhangs my garden this weekend before it changes hands and I have to ask for permission again.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Wild edges, a sold sign means nothing, I always say you havent "sold" your house, until you move out, so many things can go wrong, the house, opposite, has said "under offer", sold, subject to contact, and something else, I forget now. Unless your "rules" are different in Wales, you can cut off neighbouring overhanging branches, but you have to give them back, because they dont belong to you.
A sold sign has gone up on my neighbours' house already. It's only been on the market a week. New year, new neighbours by the looks of things.
I'll have to chop the branch off their sycamore tree that overhangs my garden this weekend before it changes hands and I have to ask for permission again.
Unless you live in Scotland the 'Sold' sign actually reads 'Sold subject to contract' and anything can happen up to the time that contracts are exchanged. Our neighbour died in July, 'For Sale' sign appeared in early September and changed to 'Sold' within a week. The new neighbours only moved in last weekend.
You don't have to ask permission to cut back overhanging branches unless there is TPO on the tree. You don't have to give branches back but you do have to offer them back. The neighbour can decline to take them back.
The TPO things is a grey area here. When our estate was built the developers 'accidently' chopped down a load of mature beech and oak trees and were slapped with a woodland TPO order over the whole unbuilt site area. I think we're outside the zone but the TPO map is pretty vague. Either way I prefer to have a friendly agreement to do it. I'm not sure what's been happening with the neighbours as the house has been very quiet. We're getting concerned that one of them is very ill or has died.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I think there's nothing sadder than seeing a house with an elderly person in it, then seeing it a few months later - obviously empty. Then the inevitable sequence of a bit of tidying and clearing, then the For Sale sign going up. I used to pass a house like that on the way to my parents' house. It always gave me a lump in my throat when I realised I hadn't seen the little man who lived there for a while....
We have a different system in Scotland altogether when selling houses. Things can go Pete Tong either way, but hopefully all will be well with yours w.edges
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think there's nothing sadder than seeing a house with an elderly person in it, then seeing it a few months later - obviously empty. Then the inevitable sequence of a bit of tidying and clearing, then the For Sale sign going up. I used to pass a house like that on the way to my parents' house. It always gave me a lump in my throat when I realised I hadn't seen the little man who lived there for a while....
There is one thing sadder. Try being the person living next door and being the one to find that elderly person dead in the house. Thankfully the house now has a new lease of life with a new family with 2 young children. I spoke briefly with the husband on the day they were moving in and almost the first thing he said was that the house had obviously been loved. He was absolutely right about that. There is a block of 3 pairs of 'semis' and the new family are the first new arrivals in nearly 30 years! People simply don't move out unless they absolutely have to. Hopefully they will be as happy as the rest of us have been.
I think there's nothing sadder than seeing a house with an elderly person in it, then seeing it a few months later - obviously empty. Then the inevitable sequence of a bit of tidying and clearing, then the For Sale sign going up. I used to pass a house like that on the way to my parents' house. It always gave me a lump in my throat when I realised I hadn't seen the little man who lived there for a while....
There is one thing sadder. Try being the person living next door and being the one to find that elderly person dead in the house. Thankfully the house now has a new lease of life with a new family with 2 young children. I spoke briefly with the husband on the day they were moving in and almost the first thing he said was that the house had obviously been loved. He was absolutely right about that. There is a block of 3 pairs of 'semis' and the new family are the first new arrivals in nearly 30 years! People simply don't move out unless they absolutely have to. Hopefully they will be as happy as the rest of us have been.
Can't agree with KT53. Most people die in hospital, surrounded by strangers. Most people, asked where they'd prefer to die, say "at home, with my loved ones round me". One out of two ain't bad. Most people hope to remain independent to the last, which the person who dies at home alone has succeeded in doing. Better that than mouldering away in a nursing home, crippled, demented, incontinent. I've worked in three care homes, and the best of them wouldn't have satisfied me for a beloved relative. Personally, where I die concerns me a lot less than where I go afterwards.
@josusa47 ,Dying at home with one's family around is one thing. It's hardly the same as dying alone in a house and lying there for days/ weeks/ months until your neighbours/ police/ council find you there is it? I remember a case a few years back, at this time of year, when the council broke into a flat to find a fully dressed skeleton sitting in the armchair by the christmas tree. They only took action when the old boy's money ran out and the direct debits stopped being paid for his council tax. It was reckoned he's been there for 4 years. The council had blamed the smell on the drains when his neighbours had complained.
What I am feeling really curmudgeonly about today, is education. How come more pupils from 8 Public schools go to Oxbridge, than all the students from every state school in the UK.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
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We have a different system in Scotland altogether when selling houses. Things can go Pete Tong either way, but hopefully all will be well with yours w.edges
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I remember a case a few years back, at this time of year, when the council broke into a flat to find a fully dressed skeleton sitting in the armchair by the christmas tree. They only took action when the old boy's money ran out and the direct debits stopped being paid for his council tax.
It was reckoned he's been there for 4 years. The council had blamed the smell on the drains when his neighbours had complained.
How come more pupils from 8 Public schools go to Oxbridge, than all the students from every state school in the UK.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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