FAO;Andy. Part 2

[Bush Tucker Man]

Found you a nice house in the countryside, not a 'million miles' from where you are now. I saw it in the 'Yorkshire Post'[/i] yesterday.

Hollin Nook


It's somewhere around here

Go on, dig into your pocket & treat Jayne :D

[Andy.]

Oh yes  :D

Could just see my Discovery parked up on the drive  :D

3 car garage, what else could I have  :?:

And of course I'd invite you round for afternoon tea  

[Xtremeteam]

wheres the price ?  :D

[Bush Tucker Man]

Told you.

Go, dig deep!!
It could be yours!!

[Bush Tucker Man]

wheres the price ?  :D

In Andys bank account

[Andy.]

Somehow I don't think I need the asking price to tell me if we can afford it or not.

Dig deep, yeah to Oz  :lol:

[Xtremeteam]

......You cant afford it ,you n my dad would get on great  :shock:

[Bush Tucker Man]

Somehow I don't think I need the asking price to tell me if we can afford it or not.

Well, stop buying bits for the Discovery :lol:  :lol:


If you have to ask the price...................

[Andy.]

Somehow I don't think I need the asking price to tell me if we can afford it or not.

Well, stop buying bits for the Discovery :lol:  :lol:


If you have to ask the price...................

.................you can't afford it  :(

Stop buying bits, I have  

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Well it fits 2 out my 3 house hunting criteria.

a ) Atleast 2 Bedrooms

b ) Off Street Parking for 2 to 3 Cars

c ) Must be less than 100k

Do you think I should ask about the third??

[Andy.]

I would'nt bother about C, you can haggle about that when your being shown around  :lol:

I reckon it's at least up for half a big one  :shock:

[Bush Tucker Man]

I reckon it's at least up for half a big one  :shock:

My guess from browsing in the Property pages of the 'Yorkshire Post'[/i] every Saturday would be in the region of £900,000

[Andy.]

Just in your price range then  

[Bush Tucker Man]

Well it fits 2 out my 3 house hunting criteria.

a ) At least 2 Bedrooms

b ) Off Street Parking for 2 to 3 Cars

c ) Must be less than 100k

Do you think I should ask about the third??

You could buy ours :lol:, but once more, only 2 of 3 match

a. 5
b. 2 in garage, 2 on drive
c.  :roll:

[drum]

I've been known to blatantly take the p*$$ when barting usually on cars, but I think getting that down below 100k might just be pushing my skills a tad.

[Andy.]

Well it fits 2 out my 3 house hunting criteria.

a ) At least 2 Bedrooms

b ) Off Street Parking for 2 to 3 Cars

c ) Must be less than 100k

Do you think I should ask about the third??

You could buy ours :lol:, but once more, only 2 of 3 match

Or ours  :D

[Bush Tucker Man]

Yeah!, buy Andys.
We've just got ours more or less sorted.

Stained glass repaired in front doors (& some commisions)
Garage & workshop built
Block paving
Grandfather clock
Revamped bathroom
Chalet in the grounds :lol:
Paddock fenced off for a Pony  :lol:
etc......

[drum]

I really envy you guys that are already on the property ladder. I started looking 2 years ago, I wish so much that I'd got something back then. I need to commute to Leeds and York but am fairly easy on area, I'd prefer not to have the cars nicked every week, but other than that I'm only bother about the 3 points I mentioned, I think I'll have to resign myself to just buying Land Rovers instead  :D

[Bush Tucker Man]

I really envy you guys that are already on the property ladder.

It's alright listeing to people say;"Well, we sold our house for £££,£££'s". But you've got to spend far more to go 'upscale'.
I know we certainly did :shock:  

I need to commute to Leeds and York but am fairly easy on area

Presumably, along the A64 corridor? (same as everyone else?)
Sadly the further out you go, the dearer it gets.
One of our Consultants lives in Saxton (situatedroughly within the triangle of Aberford, Sherburn & Tadcaster)
Very picturesque & rather handy for the A1/A64/M1 & M62. I know he paid circa £250,000 over 11years ago!

What about Tadcaster & outlying districts? (Boston Spa is expensive)

I'd prefer not to have the cars nicked every week,

So that rules out Chapeltown, Guisley & Gipton :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[Bush Tucker Man]

Just in your price range then  

Didn't notice this sneaky comment until now.

Maybe next time, I fancy a house with a bit of land.
Need somewhere to park a 'Little Grey Fergie'

[drum]

I'd love along the A64 corridor, but I recognised a long time ago that was completely unrealistic. Tadcaster is cheaper than Boston Spa, but not to the extent that I can afford anywhere.

My point about being already on the ladder, is that although the high prices do affect, the affect is cushioned by the increased value of your house.

Where as I have to find in one form or another 100% of any house I buy.

My current think is building a house, but it appears I'm too late for that aswell, as plots of land are starting reach silly levels. And ofcourse the whole thing is one big minefield.

I do think the problem is also exagerated by a change in living style, I like a lot of my friends am single. This means we occupy twice as many houses, but we also have half the income to spend on the houses, hence getting a mortgage is nigh on impossible. Actually the banks are prepared to lend me far more than I'm prepared to comit to paying every month, but then maybe I'm too sensible.

[Bush Tucker Man]

I think you've got in a nut-shell there.

I know what you mean about fashionable locations.
I saw one with approximately the same accomodation as ours, but less garden & on-street parking when I was in Oakwood (Roundhay, Leeds) the other week.
That was in the agents window at about £550,000!!! :shock:  (well over twice what we paid)

I'll admit I'd prefer to live somewhere like Sherburn in Elmet, Hillam, Aberford than where we do, but as you say the prices :shock:  :shock:

(that's let alone wanting to live up near Hawes, or Richmond)

I wish ours still had its original Victorian gardens :D
It was (& the neighbours, according to the deeds) built by the owners of the local Brickworks as, basically, a Showhouse for his bricks & builders.
The gardens originally ran for over 300yards :shock:  down to a farm (as it was at the time)

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Oakwood is just down the road from me now, I'm currently back with the parents just up the A58 outside the ring road, while I invest in some more Land Rovers, sorry I mean save a larger deposit :D

Just down the road from us, (corner of A58 and Coal Road), there is the old telephone exchange, which has been bought and converted into some ramshackle stables, for a long time it went unused, and I thought it could be extended into a resonable 2 bedroom house if you could get a little land from the farmer. They sold it Auction and I never heard about it  :x

[Bush Tucker Man]

Oakwood is just down the road from me now, I'm currently back with the parents just up the A58 outside the ring road, while I invest in some more Land Rovers, sorry I mean save a larger deposit :D

I know the area to a point, used to have a friend who lived on Red Hall Avenue

Just down the road from us, (corner of A58 and Coal Road), there is the old telephone exchange, which has been bought and converted into some ramshackle stables, for a long time it went unused, and I thought it could be extended into a resonable 2 bedroom house if you could get a little land from the farmer. They sold it Auction and I never heard about it  :x

I know the one.

Last week I photographed a house just around the corner from you (on the ring-road)
I suppose you'll know the building in the previous photo as well then?

[Bush Tucker Man]

Whilst on th subject of Leeds, I've often thought that this would make an impressive entrance for a house

[Andy.]

There are some awesome houses in Shadwell, just up from Roundhay. There is one particular main road which has large mansions both sides of the road, some really nice houses down there.

[drum]

Last week I photographed a house just around the corner from you (on the ring-road)
I suppose you'll know the building in the previous photo as well then?

Terry Yorath's house or atleast it used to be, his son was a couple of years younger than me when I was growing up. Died of a heart attack, that brings things home!!

And ofcourse the local chippy, although the Shadwell one is better and cheaper  :D

[Bush Tucker Man]

Now this is more like it!!

An absolutely beautiful 17th century Jacobean house. Although I like Victorian, & 'Art-Deco' houses, I also have a soft-spot' for this era.

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That's a real 'Saturday Night Luck' house.

It's been on the market for quite a while, every so often it's had a full-page spread & write-up in the'Yorkshire Post[/i]

[Bush Tucker Man]

Terry Yorath's house or atleast it used to be, his son was a couple of years younger than me when I was growing up. Died of a heart attack, that brings things home!!

I've heard of the name, but that's about it. (can't stand f**tball)

And ofcourse the local chippy, although the Shadwell one is better and cheaper  :D

It does look a bit out of place in that parade of shops, but it's actually an original 1930's facade.

[drum]

It does look a bit out of place in that parade of shops, but its' actually an original 1930's facade.

It's the chips that matter to me  :D