Estate Agent Quiz!
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Very ill informed in-fill, wouldn't go near that house. It would be worth more if they demolished the wooden barn conversions either side.
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They were built like that originally, with parking below the barn looking bits .
The first time it went on the market a few years ago they bravely called it detached. now they are calling it link-detached.
Total joke, as it is a terraced house. Seems that people in expensive houses don't like call them terraces! Well, the estate agents certainly don't.
The first time it went on the market a few years ago they bravely called it detached. now they are calling it link-detached.
Total joke, as it is a terraced house. Seems that people in expensive houses don't like call them terraces! Well, the estate agents certainly don't.
Link detached normally denotes home connected by garage [uninhabitable space]but they have bedrooms above the garage? so terraced.
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My previous house was marketed as link detached, but was built with 2 bedrooms above the carport, and neighbour's was the same.
Was fine for the first 10 years when we didn't use the rooms, then the neighbours had kids first, but we didn't notice as we never used the rooms (one was a storage room. the other a guest room). When we had kids, they started moaning about all the noise we were making and would bang on the walls and accuse us of deliberately making noise to annoy them and their kids! We pointed out we could now hear them too, but they were having none of it. Things escalated. We moved to a detached house! Some people don't seem to look properly at house layouts when buying. Before finding this one we looked at a few "link detached" houses that had rooms attached to the neighbours house! Bloody estate agents.
Was fine for the first 10 years when we didn't use the rooms, then the neighbours had kids first, but we didn't notice as we never used the rooms (one was a storage room. the other a guest room). When we had kids, they started moaning about all the noise we were making and would bang on the walls and accuse us of deliberately making noise to annoy them and their kids! We pointed out we could now hear them too, but they were having none of it. Things escalated. We moved to a detached house! Some people don't seem to look properly at house layouts when buying. Before finding this one we looked at a few "link detached" houses that had rooms attached to the neighbours house! Bloody estate agents.
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So backwards garage on the cheap?
My holiday home is a classic victorian 2 up/2 down terrace. You can hear next door like a timber frame flat. Everyone is super freindly, so it doesn't matter much.
I always find extensions are a great way to annoy the neighbours. Its 2 things:
1 I have money, you don't
2 That view/light you enjoyed is going.
My holiday home is a classic victorian 2 up/2 down terrace. You can hear next door like a timber frame flat. Everyone is super freindly, so it doesn't matter much.
I always find extensions are a great way to annoy the neighbours. Its 2 things:
1 I have money, you don't
2 That view/light you enjoyed is going.
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I'd say that would be marketed around here as detatched! And I don't get bungalows. I see places listed as bungalows with two floors & a loft. Eh?
We viewed a "detached" house a couple of months ago.
At best, it used to be "link - detached", in my book (via the garage).
I say "used to be", because the current owners had had a bedroom built over the garage, and this butted up to next door.
To our eyes, it was now a semi - detached.
It had sod all garden either.
At best, it used to be "link - detached", in my book (via the garage).
I say "used to be", because the current owners had had a bedroom built over the garage, and this butted up to next door.
To our eyes, it was now a semi - detached.
It had sod all garden either.
My FIL was thinking of selling a plot of land at the bottom of his garden a few months ago. We verbally agreed with the developers what part of the land and gave them a 'fag packet' sketch. When they submitted provisional planning permission they had included an additional L shaped area of land. Arguments developed with them saying he had agreed to add the extra land, (at no increase in price!), because with the smaller plot they could only fit a 1 bed bungalow on it as they also needed space for 2 cars that would not have to reverse out, one of which had to have a charging point and space for 2 wheelie bins. We refused them the extra land so they threatened to take us to court. Luckily we had stated at the start that all communication was to be by letter or email and had proof of what the original agreement was, we also showed in the emails they acknowledged that FIL did appear to be suffering from some form of early dementia/Alzheimer's. They backed out of the deal with no financial loss to FIL.
