We were all set to move house over 30 years ago, date of removal booked, furniture at the ready, just had one more document to sign ( just before moving) when we received a telephone call from the solicitors telling us that the owner of the house we were buying, had " forgotten" he had a second mortgage and the sale couldn't go ahead. This was during the boom years of housing and we were then pressed hard to keep our seller as houses were ten a penny in those days. What a let down.
I must admit that if I was asked a stupid question like that, I'd probably answer brown cows too. Maybe 19.99999 million Americans have a sense of humour🤔
@KT53, I’d tell your niece to carry on looking at the house range she was looking at before she sold her property. It is noticeable down here that house sales have slowed down, and owners that want to sell are having to reduce their prices. As she is in the enviable position of already having sold her property, she may well be able to get a decent bargain, help offset the rise in mortgage repayments, ( which she could well have been hit with anyway) It’s a horrid situation at the moment.
I was watching Location Location the other night, featuring a young couple househunting in Manchester. Granted, they were perhaps a little fussy and naive, but l had to feel for them losing out so often in a fast moving market. It was bad enough 40 odd years ago buying our first house, these days it's so much worse. I hope your niece finds somewhere soon @KT53.
Maybe he's smoking something dodgy to help with his disappointment @wild edges
Back in the day, when I bought my first property [flat] all the estate agents were in cahoots with the banks and building societies, so you got a mortgage depending on which agent was selling, and what side of the road your potential home was on. Ludicrous. I'm not sure of the reasoning, but I'm sure that doesn't happen now!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I bought one of those light things you hang around your neck for close work. Great idea in principle - if you're a man. I could do with it being a few inches longer so that I can highlight my work rather than my physical attributes. I wish designers would bear in mind the physical differences between men and women. They are only beginning to design car seatbelts with female anatomy in mind. Ditto with some medical research It's about time manufacturers realised that in order to make things suitable for 50% of the population, they need to do more than make them in pink.
I think all seat belts in vehicles should be bright yellow/green/red etc. Then it would be easy to see all the clowns who still don't wear them. They've been mandatory since the early/mid 80s, so anyone my age or under has no excuse. Can't say I've ever had a problem with them though @B3. They usually fit in between mine no problem
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Of course it does as It all comes from these lovely Jersey brown cows.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
It’s a horrid situation at the moment.
It was bad enough 40 odd years ago buying our first house, these days it's so much worse.
I hope your niece finds somewhere soon @KT53.
Back in the day, when I bought my first property [flat] all the estate agents were in cahoots with the banks and building societies, so you got a mortgage depending on which agent was selling, and what side of the road your potential home was on. Ludicrous. I'm not sure of the reasoning, but I'm sure that doesn't happen now!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I wish designers would bear in mind the physical differences between men and women. They are only beginning to design car seatbelts with female anatomy in mind. Ditto with some medical research
It's about time manufacturers realised that in order to make things suitable for 50% of the population, they need to do more than make them in pink.
They've been mandatory since the early/mid 80s, so anyone my age or under has no excuse.
Can't say I've ever had a problem with them though @B3. They usually fit in between mine no problem
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...