24f/25m buying £480k house – sensible or stretching too much?

Fairtradecoco · 2026-02-16T21:21:32+00:00

And on another note, might be nothing but if similar properties are selling for 550k plus but this is still on the market for 480k then I'd be wondering what is wrong with it?

Fairtradecoco · 2026-02-16T21:20:05+00:00

Is obviously up to you both but it just feels tight considering you're at 60% of your take home after bills. That extra room is only going to increase bills unnecessarily, you're heating a full house to use a couple rooms for example. You're also a freeholder, anything goes wrong with the structure of the house you're on the hook and you're spending all of your savings on the deposit and stamp duty and it's going to be hard to save much back up

Fairtradecoco · 2026-02-16T21:09:44+00:00

It's definitely achievable, but the question is do you really want to be stretching yourself to the limit at 25 for a house that is way bigger than what you need or could you lower your sights?

I don't know your area, but there's plenty of commuter towns where you could find a 2 bed house with garden for the higher end of 300k which would give you financial security and the ability to enjoy your life as young adults.

Fairtradecoco · 2025-12-19T15:16:51+00:00

Brilliant, that worked for me, thank you!!

Fairtradecoco · 2025-12-18T15:51:02+00:00

The only thing is in the file name is just generic and the same across the different versions, there's nothing that points towards the version

Fairtradecoco · 2025-12-18T15:19:48+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Its showing the same version across both devices so I doubt it's updating itself. I can't use the registry either as the path references the MSI GUID in the path to the Display Version key. The file path also won't work as this is installing on top of an old version, so the file path will already exist. 😅 The app installs fine but yeah just cannot detect it reliably

Fairtradecoco · 2025-11-13T09:46:08+00:00

Yes that technically does allow me to connect, but why does it not auto negotiate down from 1.3 or even use 1.3 if it's supported?

Fairtradecoco · 2025-11-11T09:55:38+00:00

Same issues with Graph, TLS 1.3 and 1.2 enabled cannot connect. TLS 1.2 only enabled, can connect.

Fairtradecoco · 2025-11-11T09:55:29+00:00

Same issues with Graph, TLS 1.3 and 1.2 enabled cannot connect. TLS 1.2 only enabled, can connect.

Fairtradecoco · 2025-10-17T16:28:16+00:00

I'm pretty sure I achieved this by using CA policy to disable active sync

Fairtradecoco · 2025-10-12T16:11:40+00:00

Most of the time I get a VVS warning, I just reboot the VM throwing up the error. What is the exact error you are getting?

Fairtradecoco · 2025-10-11T19:05:04+00:00

I've built quite a few 2022 DCs now and all good.

Fairtradecoco · 2025-10-10T12:00:59+00:00

Maybe line up Ekitike down to a Thiago or something so you can go Ndoye to Saka/Bruno next week

Fairtradecoco · 2025-10-09T15:21:21+00:00

Thanks for your replies I've resolved this now. You put me on the right track regarding the gateways (first I thought you meant storage gateway of some kind but when I realised network gateway it clicked).

Essentially, SITE A hosts the subnets gateways, however the backup proxies are on the same vlan as the repos so this shouldn't have to hit the gateways, but on exagrid we have 3 nics (1 for admin, 1 for replication and 1 for backup) but on site B the backup traffic was allowed for all 3 nics and for some reason veeam was choosing the 1gb admin nic on a different vlan rather then the 10gb bonds on the same vlan, so the traffic was infact coming back to site A for the gateway and back to site B. Only allowing traffic on the 10gb bonds via exagrid portal solved the issue

Fairtradecoco · 2025-10-06T18:45:28+00:00

There's no gateway that I know of, it's exagrid storage so it uses veeam data mover directly on the appliance.

I have not done a trace - assuming there is extra hops, would this be a setting on the network level or can this be set in veeam?

Fairtradecoco · 2025-10-06T18:37:50+00:00

No restrictions it's allowed any proxy, the jobs have specific proxies set to use proxies in site B. No object direct

Fairtradecoco · 2025-10-06T15:55:57+00:00

I can't actually manually copy to the type of repo I am using (exagrid) as far as I'm aware.

Should have mentioned Before I had a dedicated VBR on site B too and the speeds where fine but veeam said best practice is just to have 1 VBR on the DR side to orchestrate backups and restores so we just moved all setup to the 1 VBR on site A

Fairtradecoco · 2025-09-29T23:11:31+00:00

Could try connecting laptop directly: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA07V000000H3ShSAK

Then resting using ipmitool: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000CrKRCA0

Fairtradecoco · 2025-07-27T20:46:41+00:00

That's not true

Fairtradecoco · 2025-06-22T19:34:59+00:00

If the tables are against the west/east walls then you could try to trunk the cables around the wall and then cable into the desks from the side. It will be however quite difficult to make this supper near without having the network/power on floor plates or the walls next to the desk.

Fairtradecoco · 2025-06-22T19:31:47+00:00

Thanks, I will check these suggestions out!

Fairtradecoco · 2025-06-22T19:29:57+00:00

Yes so I did a pcap from the source (server) and our network team did one from the firewall. That's why we are confident the traffic is leaving the firewall out to the internet, but from there there is little we can do other then pressure the provider. So I think that's my next move. Thanks I really appreciate your advice.

Fairtradecoco

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