• Couple’s fury after the garage at their new £200,000 home is too narrow for their cars
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Oh goodee, the Daily Mail ''bot'' is back. Though, with matt.ant around, it feels like it never left.
Real Estate is about location, location, location. That's what they're paying for. The bit I can't understand is how you don't park your car in the garage before you buy? Don't say it's because the people living there have too much stuff in there, since that means you can't look the garage over and should not be buying that house anyways. It's like checking the bathrooms and closet space and kitchen, if these things are important to you then you must examine them.
I love that compensation/sympathy face that nearly everyone in the Daily Mail seems to do.
[QUOTE=That Poster;40714080]...how does anyone justify paying ~$260k for [I]that[/I]?[/QUOTE] maybe it was in good area near a bunch of other good stuff
Why the fuck would you even consider giving the house a garage if most normal cars won't even fit inside of it. Do it properly or not at all.
Guess thats why my parents 5 bed/4 bath house was $255k, and it had already had its price dropped twice earlier. Its in the middle of the woods. Err, well, it was, now it has one of the largest botanical gardens in the world literally through the trees in the backyard. They can see the parking lot from the back deck.
[QUOTE=Scot;40714055]What's the average price for a house in the US?[/QUOTE] I live about a half hour drive from a big city in Florida and it's about $200,000 (give or take 50 grand) for a two story house house with three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, a pool (with a pool cage), and a three car garage. Used to be higher, but then the housing market imploded.
...that house was 200k?
[QUOTE=Adamhully;40715321]Why the fuck would you even consider giving the house a garage if most normal cars won't even fit inside of it. Do it properly or not at all.[/QUOTE] It's probably for people would ride a motorcycle. I don't think any kind of modern car would work in a garage like that - maybe if you pressed a Smart Fortwo all the way up against one wall you could open one of the doors, but anything else would be nigh-impossible. The S40 is hardly a large car - I don't think my Toyota would even fit through the door in a garage like that.
[QUOTE=millan;40714552]$250000 is price of a tiny condo flat in my city, not even in the center. You drive 20km from the city and you can get a whole house with a big garage and everything for the same price. It's all about the location.[/QUOTE] Yup, that house where i lived would cost over twice the price.
thats a £200,000 house? damn
People who aren't from England seem quite surprised but the houses here are very highly priced for the amount of square footage you get. New British homes are supposedly the smallest in Europe.
[QUOTE=Adamhully;40715321]Why the fuck would you even consider giving the house a garage if most normal cars won't even fit inside of it. Do it properly or not at all.[/QUOTE] From what it says in the article it's some kind of scam you can run where as long as you don't advertise it as having a garage when you know that garage is useless, you're not in violation of the law. So you can build it without the 'garage' but then you'll get less money for it. Or you can build it with this kind of fake garage and let the buyers assume, without you saying it, that it's a full size garage. Of course only an idiot would buy a house without making sure everything was how they wanted, but there's no shortage of idiots in the world. Another possibility in this case is these people want out for whatever reason. Maybe they found a better house or something. Except they know they won't get their money back from selling this house, so they decide to claim fraud as a way out.
Is it in a residential area? Yes? Who the fuck parks their cars in residential areas? Not me. It's all storage at my house.
I like how whenever daily mail is the source everyone starts shitting up the thread with sarcastic jokes about muslims and immigrants. Also, this is common sense, make sure the house fits your needs before you buy.
[QUOTE=JayFeather1337;40717015]I like how whenever daily mail is the source everyone starts shitting up the thread with sarcastic jokes about muslims and immigrants.[/QUOTE] Maybe if the Daily Mail wasn't a garbage rag for xenophobes and racists it wouldn't happen.
Mocking where mock is due.
[QUOTE=Scot;40714055]What's the average price for a house in the US?[/QUOTE] Around here something like that in a good neighborhood will run you about $90,000-150,000 depending mostly on how close to the nearest school it is, but I've seen similar houses go for $20,000 or less in places like Detroit or Atlanta.
You should know the dimensions of your car. Besides, they'll end up storing shit in the garage and parking the car outside anyway.
holy shit that makes me not want to live in the U.K. house prices here are fucking low, that amount of money would get you a middle-upper class house
[quote]Claire Walker, 37, fears it knocks £8,000 off value of Huddersfield home[/quote] Homeowners Rule #1: [b]NEVER[/b] consider your home as an investment. Consider it the alternative to sleeping in a cardboard box. Why the fuck do so many people these days try and thing they can make loads of cash on the only roof over their head?
Houses in the uk are so small.
[QUOTE=pentium;40717191]Homeowners Rule #1: [b]NEVER[/b] consider your home as an investment. Consider it the alternative to sleeping in a cardboard box. Why the fuck do so many people these days try and thing they can make loads of cash on the only roof over their head?[/QUOTE] Well you know if they move maybe they want to sell it for just as much as they bought it for?
[QUOTE=pentium;40717191]Homeowners Rule #1: [b]NEVER[/b] consider your home as an investment. Consider it the alternative to sleeping in a cardboard box. Why the fuck do so many people these days try and thing they can make loads of cash on the only roof over their head?[/QUOTE] If the value of the house decreases, moving will away will be more expensive. A loss of £8,000 is relatively big and is something that has to come out of their pockets when they sell the house.
[QUOTE=Scot;40714055]What's the average price for a house in the US?[/QUOTE] The size of the U.S. makes this completely dependent on location. I've seen homes that look like they are worth millions go for... millions. I have then seen homes that look modest go for millions. [editline]21st May 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=pentium;40717191]Homeowners Rule #1: [b]NEVER[/b] consider your home as an investment. Consider it the alternative to sleeping in a cardboard box. Why the fuck do so many people these days try and thing they can make loads of cash on the only roof over their head?[/QUOTE] Because homes used to be an investment. People bought homes for $50,000-$60,000 and watched as the price of their home soared past the $200,000 mark. It was drilled into so many peoples heads that their house will always go up in value.
[QUOTE=Daily Mail;40713858][b] -Claire Walker, 37, fears it knocks £8,000 off value of Huddersfield home [/QUOTE] fuck that, a some shit like that and I wouldn't buy that house for half the asking price until it got fixed
[QUOTE=pentium;40717191]Homeowners Rule #1: [b]NEVER[/b] consider your home as an investment. Consider it the alternative to sleeping in a cardboard box. Why the fuck do so many people these days try and thing they can make loads of cash on the only roof over their head?[/QUOTE] In theory the main value of that home is the location. So, in theory, if you buy a home in a certain town then you have bought a limited resource. There are only so many homes in that town after all. However, the population, and therefore the amount of people buying homes, is always increasing. So if you chose wisely you'll own a home that is more in demand every year. Higher demand increases the price, which increases your profit. There are many ways this can go wrong though. For one thing, you might buy a home with a tool shed for a garage.
This one is interesting to me. I work in real estate and one of the first questions about any apartment or house is in regards to the location and size of the car park. We have certain standards that dictate what size a parking space must be, and if it is any LESS (not more) than that standard, you're required to disclose that. It's not something everyone does and the law is a bit lax about it, but it's just general etiquette to say "This car park is a 6x2.5 and not a standard 6x3 FYI. If these were low cost build projects, they may have intentionally skipped some details like that because they know a lot of people fail to give it proper consideration, and it may have seriously hurt their bottom line with getting these things sold. Yes, the people should have probably asked, but when you think about it - they have normal sized cars and have been parking in normal sized garages probably for all their life, and likely had no reason to assume anything would be different there. Also, on a whim of an inspection, a garage may not strike you as being any different to the thousands of others you've seen already. I think this is a matter of a lack of communication on BOTH parties. I drive large vehicles myself, so if I were purchasing a property, garage size is always going to be a high priority on my list and something I would give special consideration to. If I drove little cars, I probably wouldn't give it a second though.
daily mail, quite literally
Houses smaller than that go for about $500,000 where I live. The cheapest I have seen a house anywhere in the past years was $400,000. Damn Perth and their insanely expensive anything. At least we get proper sizes garages (If you get one with the house)
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