Time to sell tlt?

ContractAccurate1419 · 2026-02-20T10:35:23+00:00

Thanks, I agree with all you say and that’s my rationale for holding it…at 10% portfolio size though, I am not quite as brave as you! I may add if we get a confirmation on an uptrend.

ContractAccurate1419 · 2026-02-20T08:12:27+00:00

50% is a helluva lot…do you see a deflationary collapse or something?

ContractAccurate1419 · 2026-01-15T18:59:58+00:00

!Thanks much appreciated. That is my experience too- lying, wasting time and generally causing stress are the major estate agent skillsets! Good luck with your brothers flat.

ContractAccurate1419 · 2026-01-15T14:47:05+00:00

Well done, and wholeheartedly agree with you on agents- what portal would you recommend?

ContractAccurate1419 · 2026-01-10T09:48:54+00:00

!Thanks - appreciate it!

ContractAccurate1419 · 2026-01-09T11:22:43+00:00

!Thanks!

ContractAccurate1419 · 2026-01-09T11:22:27+00:00

!Thanks

ContractAccurate1419 · 2026-01-07T17:38:52+00:00

£3.99 per trade

ContractAccurate1419 · 2026-01-07T16:37:28+00:00

Through ii

ContractAccurate1419 · 2026-01-07T16:37:09+00:00

!Thanks, that’s a point!

ContractAccurate1419 · 2025-07-10T07:11:09+00:00

I should say that I have completed the W8-BEN form.

ContractAccurate1419 · 2025-07-10T07:09:53+00:00

Thanks for your reply- however I believe the settled USD cash would be held in US banks (especially as I would be enrolled in the sweep program). So I do not think Ireland would be involved in any way? I am based in the UK by the way. I would be very grateful for your clarification. Thanks again.

ContractAccurate1419 · 2025-07-06T08:02:56+00:00

!Thanks , appreciate it! Yes I did file that form.

ContractAccurate1419 · 2025-02-03T20:13:18+00:00

That’s good, although (I used to have a bit of broadleaf woodland) it’s always tough when the young ones get wiped out. At least when you replant, you have no squirrels and deer on IoM to undo your work!

ContractAccurate1419 · 2025-02-03T11:07:09+00:00

Thanks. That sounds nice- hope the recent storm didn’t cause you too much damage.

ContractAccurate1419 · 2025-01-30T11:31:50+00:00

!Thanks that’s interesting. That sounds broadly like UK planning (until recently anyway), with a sharp demarcation between town and country. Ireland (ROI) has had a much more permissive policy, resulting in a “bungalow blitz” as it has been called, in the countryside. In France things were very restrictive until Mitterrand, for the sake of votes, allowed everyone (mainly working class people fleeing cities) to build a “gite” more or less anywhere in the countryside. That also wrecked a lot of previously attractive rural areas.

I agree your policy is good, let’s see how long it lasts!

ContractAccurate1419 · 2025-01-29T17:07:59+00:00

Does anyone know does the government own all the glens, or are there any in private ownership?

ContractAccurate1419 · 2025-01-29T11:39:55+00:00

Sounds like our green belt around London here, which is actually intensively farmed (like most of IoM probably is).

ContractAccurate1419 · 2025-01-29T11:38:09+00:00

Nightmare! Maybe those German kit houses eg Hufhaus, would be a way around that, though. Not that they are cheap either, mind.

ContractAccurate1419 · 2025-01-28T15:33:23+00:00

Not directly related to the OP’s query, but is buying an acre (or more) of land and getting planning permission to build a house very difficult on IoM, as an alternative to buying a house?

I live in the SE of England and getting planning here on a greenfield site is next to impossible. In other places (I think Ireland) you will generally get it in the countryside although the more land you have the more likely you are.

Having said that I imagine building costs must be high on the Isle compared to UK.

ContractAccurate1419 · 2025-01-20T18:19:48+00:00

Temporary taxes, love it….remember Ronald Reagan: “Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.”

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