Buying a house (and renting)

RetroCora wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:I was tempted to hire a professional cleaner to come round but the carpets need replacing so there’s not much point, we are going to do the painting and decorating first and then once that’s all been sorted we’ll rip the carpets out and replace them.

Sorry to hear this, Milner. For what it's worth, I complete on Friday and have had to do exactly this(have been given access to the house already). Professional cleaners and a gardener for the jungle that has been left surrounding the house. Cigarette butts and burst footballs all over the front and back garden, gates off the hinges, filthy rooms with books, football tops, Christmas decorations and other personal effects strewn across the place. I'm having to run everything up to the dump just to have it clear for the cleaners coming in.

I bought the house from my dad. His sister has been living in it for the last six or seven years.

Well that isn't VIP treatment is it.

Moggy wrote:

RetroCora wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:I was tempted to hire a professional cleaner to come round but the carpets need replacing so there’s not much point, we are going to do the painting and decorating first and then once that’s all been sorted we’ll rip the carpets out and replace them.

Sorry to hear this, Milner. For what it's worth, I complete on Friday and have had to do exactly this(have been given access to the house already). Professional cleaners and a gardener for the jungle that has been left surrounding the house. Cigarette butts and burst footballs all over the front and back garden, gates off the hinges, filthy rooms with books, football tops, Christmas decorations and other personal effects strewn across the place. I'm having to run everything up to the dump just to have it clear for the cleaners coming in.

I bought the house from my dad. His sister has been living in it for the last six or seven years.

Well that isn't VIP treatment is it.

I did wonder why VIP came up in my notification

Decorated the living room this week, slowly but surely placing own our touch on the house.

Moggy wrote:

RetroCora wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:I was tempted to hire a professional cleaner to come round but the carpets need replacing so there’s not much point, we are going to do the painting and decorating first and then once that’s all been sorted we’ll rip the carpets out and replace them.

Sorry to hear this, Milner. For what it's worth, I complete on Friday and have had to do exactly this(have been given access to the house already). Professional cleaners and a gardener for the jungle that has been left surrounding the house. Cigarette butts and burst footballs all over the front and back garden, gates off the hinges, filthy rooms with books, football tops, Christmas decorations and other personal effects strewn across the place. I'm having to run everything up to the dump just to have it clear for the cleaners coming in.

I bought the house from my dad. His sister has been living in it for the last six or seven years.

Well that isn't VIP treatment is it.

No it isn't, it's caused a lot of stress and it seems to be causing a hell of an issue between my dad and his sister. But, you know, lol VIP.

Clearing my dad's house was a strawberry floating nightmare. He was a serious hoarder, as in you can't even get in to some rooms and they were to the ceiling with stuff. I had a proper breakdown at one point doing one of the rooms, it was awful, wouldn't wish doing that on anyone.

Victor Mildew wrote:Clearing my dad's house was a strawberry floating nightmare. He was a serious hoarder, as in you can't even get in to some rooms and they were to the ceiling with stuff. I had a proper breakdown at one point doing one of the rooms, it was awful, wouldn't wish doing that on anyone.

I remember you posting about this at the time, it sounded like a strawberry floating harrowing experience. Nothing quite as bad as that here, the inside isn't great but a couple of weekends will sort it. The garden and outside of the house are vile though. Four-foot weeds, two gates that have literally rotted off their hinges, cigarette ends everywhere and bizarrely several full four-packs of 2l water bottles strewn across the front garden and side of the house. The original owner would've been spinning in his grave if he hadn't been cremated.

RetroCora wrote:

Moggy wrote:

RetroCora wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:I was tempted to hire a professional cleaner to come round but the carpets need replacing so there’s not much point, we are going to do the painting and decorating first and then once that’s all been sorted we’ll rip the carpets out and replace them.

Sorry to hear this, Milner. For what it's worth, I complete on Friday and have had to do exactly this(have been given access to the house already). Professional cleaners and a gardener for the jungle that has been left surrounding the house. Cigarette butts and burst footballs all over the front and back garden, gates off the hinges, filthy rooms with books, football tops, Christmas decorations and other personal effects strewn across the place. I'm having to run everything up to the dump just to have it clear for the cleaners coming in.

I bought the house from my dad. His sister has been living in it for the last six or seven years.

Well that isn't VIP treatment is it.

No it isn't, it's caused a lot of stress and it seems to be causing a hell of an issue between my dad and his sister. But, you know, lol VIP.

I didn't mean any offence, it was just a joke because you accidentally used an alt account.

Moggy wrote:

RetroCora wrote:

Moggy wrote:

RetroCora wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:I was tempted to hire a professional cleaner to come round but the carpets need replacing so there’s not much point, we are going to do the painting and decorating first and then once that’s all been sorted we’ll rip the carpets out and replace them.

Sorry to hear this, Milner. For what it's worth, I complete on Friday and have had to do exactly this(have been given access to the house already). Professional cleaners and a gardener for the jungle that has been left surrounding the house. Cigarette butts and burst footballs all over the front and back garden, gates off the hinges, filthy rooms with books, football tops, Christmas decorations and other personal effects strewn across the place. I'm having to run everything up to the dump just to have it clear for the cleaners coming in.

I bought the house from my dad. His sister has been living in it for the last six or seven years.

Well that isn't VIP treatment is it.

No it isn't, it's caused a lot of stress and it seems to be causing a hell of an issue between my dad and his sister. But, you know, lol VIP.

I didn't mean any offence, it was just a joke because you accidentally used an alt account.

I think you should be more grateful for what he's done. Let's leave it at that.

Grumpy David wrote:Place your bets on what you think a 4 bedroom house in Walthamstow might have as an asking price.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138776471#/?channel=RES_BUY

How far off were you?

"Only" 100k more and you can get this 5 bed mansion with 4.5 acres, and you get to tell everyone you live in the Sex Education house

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

Jenuall wrote:

Grumpy David wrote:Place your bets on what you think a 4 bedroom house in Walthamstow might have as an asking price.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138776471#/?channel=RES_BUY

How far off were you?

"Only" 100k more and you can get this 5 bed mansion with 4.5 acres, and you get to tell everyone you live in the Sex Education house

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

Will Gillian Anderson visit?

Moggy wrote:

Jenuall wrote:

Grumpy David wrote:Place your bets on what you think a 4 bedroom house in Walthamstow might have as an asking price.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138776471#/?channel=RES_BUY

How far off were you?

"Only" 100k more and you can get this 5 bed mansion with 4.5 acres, and you get to tell everyone you live in the Sex Education house

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

Will Gillian Anderson visit?

You just try and stop her from coming

Jenuall wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Jenuall wrote:

Grumpy David wrote:Place your bets on what you think a 4 bedroom house in Walthamstow might have as an asking price.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138776471#/?channel=RES_BUY

How far off were you?

"Only" 100k more and you can get this 5 bed mansion with 4.5 acres, and you get to tell everyone you live in the Sex Education house

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

Will Gillian Anderson visit?

You just try and stop her from coming

If Moggy is involved I think it's safe to say coming is not on the agenda amirite

Victor Mildew wrote:

Jenuall wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Jenuall wrote:

Grumpy David wrote:Place your bets on what you think a 4 bedroom house in Walthamstow might have as an asking price.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138776471#/?channel=RES_BUY

How far off were you?

"Only" 100k more and you can get this 5 bed mansion with 4.5 acres, and you get to tell everyone you live in the Sex Education house

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

Will Gillian Anderson visit?

You just try and stop her from coming

If Moggy is involved I think it's safe to say coming is not on the agenda amirite

Your wife's never complained.

Moggy wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:

Jenuall wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Jenuall wrote:

Grumpy David wrote:Place your bets on what you think a 4 bedroom house in Walthamstow might have as an asking price.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138776471#/?channel=RES_BUY

How far off were you?

"Only" 100k more and you can get this 5 bed mansion with 4.5 acres, and you get to tell everyone you live in the Sex Education house

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

Will Gillian Anderson visit?

You just try and stop her from coming

If Moggy is involved I think it's safe to say coming is not on the agenda amirite

Your wife's never complained.

Jenuall wrote:

Grumpy David wrote:Place your bets on what you think a 4 bedroom house in Walthamstow might have as an asking price.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138776471#/?channel=RES_BUY

How far off were you?

"Only" 100k more and you can get this 5 bed mansion with 4.5 acres, and you get to tell everyone you live in the Sex Education house

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

Great show and great house!

Been living in my new house for over three weeks now. Moving-in day was an absolute nightmare. Rubbish everywhere. The place hadn't been cleaned since we first viewed it a year ago.

We then discover the previous owner lying motionless on the bedroom floor. Wife shook her and no response. We thought she was dead. Then on a second shake she woke up. She was just drunk and sleeping. We then spent about an hour trying to get sense from her, as we tried to find out how she was going to leave (she had a dog and no car). The whole time she was arguing and upset that we had bought her house. Suddenly a man with a van turned up out of nowhere and they both left.

Changed the locks straight away.

Spent the first week just cleaning and it made a huge difference. Three weeks on and most of the major annoyances are now fixed and it's starting to feel like home.

strawberry floating hell I wasn't expecting that satriales!

Wtf. Is that when you first went in, or has she gone in there when you've been in there all this time??

I think I'd prefer to find a dead body.

"Now remember, when it comes to property it's location, location, location! If you've got a house in a wonderful neighbourhood in catchment for the best schools then don't worry about the odd drunk or two that you might have passed out on the floor!"

Victor Mildew wrote:Wtf. Is that when you first went in, or has she gone in there when you've been in there all this time??

It was when we first went in. We changed the locks as soon as she was gone.