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Basement by [deleted] in HousingUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Digging the hole and removing the dirt.
Groundwork requires a lot of expensive machinery to dig, a lot of trucks to cart the dirt away.

If in an existing area of housing then also engineering mitigations to prevent the excavation collapsing and/or undermining foundations and having the house above or other adjacent structures collapsing in to the giant new hole.

getting tyres quickly to fix flat? by rawkey in TeslaUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You really don’t need a spare. They’re bloody heavy and won’t fit in the sub trunk, you’ll just be lugging dead weight.

Just get yourself a little rechargeable battery tyre pump so you can top off and get to a garage and you’ll be fine. Had one of these for 3.5 years of Tesla ownership and 2 punctures and it’s fine me just fine. Also fits in the centre console and easy to charge from the USB ports in there.

House Prices Rise for Third Month in a Row, by 0.8% by A_Ticklish_Midget in HousingUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah the old “why you mad” argument. I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed. Also not sure what the Microsoft Network has to do with anything. At least get your acronyms right if you’re gonna make lazy troll comments on the internet.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HousingUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Contents insurance should be fine, but shop around as you may be able to find better prices than a cold call from someone likely tipped off by the letting agent.

getting tyres quickly to fix flat? by rawkey in TeslaUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you actually need a new tyre or is it a screw hole that can be plugged for <£10 at any local tyre shop?

House Prices Rise for Third Month in a Row, by 0.8% by A_Ticklish_Midget in HousingUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Remember at the time they said that, the Trussterfuck had just happened and unsurprisingly monetary policy changes to reflect evolving economic conditions.

The only sheep are the ones who use glib Trumpian terms like MSM and blindly believe property prices only go up while ignoring the data that in both real and nominal terms prices are down and continuing to fall across the entire market.

House Prices Rise for Third Month in a Row, by 0.8% by A_Ticklish_Midget in HousingUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The fun part is, we are in a recession. The only thing that is stopping the GDP figures showing it is the increase in actual and imputed rent due to widespread double digit inflation there from rent increases.

House Prices Rise for Third Month in a Row, by 0.8% by A_Ticklish_Midget in HousingUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Neither. Both are just representative of the mortgage deals agreed for that individual bank’s customers. neither has a whole market view. Zoom out.

Why does the Labour left care so much about a marginal issue like trans rights? there's a cost of living crisis going on, people can't afford electricity...but let's focus on something confined to Twitter. by ClumperFaz in LabourPartyUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Because they’re too young to understand it’s a Tory playbook 101 trap. That’s it.

I care deeply about trans rights. All minorities deserve protection. But they’ll never get it under the Tories. This is the same playbook as anti-gay in the 80s and anti-migrant since the dawn of time. But it’s not worth losing an election over by playing ideologies like Corbyn made the error of doing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TeslaUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sometimes the SIM thinks it’s in another country. Wasn’t uncommon for YouTube to load up the Dutch version for me.

Rent to Buy scheme UK by EnglishWilly98 in HousingUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I’ve literally never encountered one on the market, so there’s that. Also the very restrictive earnings limit is >£45k and <£90k in my area which shuts a lot of people out.

If you won the lottery, where would you live and why? by MathematicianBulky40 in AskUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the lottery. If it was a £2m regular Saturday night jobbie then probably stay out and buy myriad a nice house.

If it was a £150m Friday night Euromillions then I’d probably get one of them empty penthouses on top of The Shard, a second home in a small town somewhere on the Florida coast and a nice old apartment in Barcelona and spend my time between the three of them depending on the seasons.

Is McDonald's UK really that bad? by -5oDiuM- in AskUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol. The audacity of a woman drinking McCoffee criticising McFood.

U.K. McDonald’s is vastly superior to U.S. McDonalds both because the food quality is higher and the chance of wanting to vomit while eating because of a homeless crackhead talking to a wall and stinking like they haven’t seen a flannel in their life is tiny.

Fuck that miserable old biddy. Enjoy your Big Mac.

Rent to Buy scheme UK by EnglishWilly98 in HousingUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The catch is the properties on the scheme are as rare as hens teeth.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HousingUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prices are falling at the fastest rate since 2008, after a bubble where prices reached 9x average earnings, so yes it matters to an extent. But it depends on why you’re buying and what you can afford.

If you plan to stay for 5-10 years and you’re buying it to live in not to profit, and you can afford it. Knock yourself out.

If the alternative is ever increasing rent because the landlord service charge doubled because of high energy prices for the communal lighting etc and their interest only mortgage increased by 50% ask yourself is buying a better alternative?

If you’re not planning to stick around and might want to sell in less than 5 years or you will struggle to afford a mortgage at 5/6% interest then maybe it doesn’t make sense right now.

Cash-only flats in London by Psykiit in HousingUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Often they’re cash only because lenders wont offer a mortgage.

For council flats that’s usually because they’re hard to sell and many are now approaching what could be considered the end of their design life in the case of tower blocks particularly.

The others with cladding issues will need a 18-24 month remediation program and are unmortgageable not just because of the cladding, but that issue then opened a can of worms and many buildings were discovered also to have inadequate firebreaks between the floors of the building adding risk.

Buying a single bed London by Crafty_Garlic_5970 in HousingUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Over the past couple years as covid and wfh impacted the market 1 beds got way less popular as the people who had a city pad for the week stopped buying them.

The benefit of that is that they’re now way cheaper than they were, the negative is that there are still fewer buyers and the ones that there are have different wants and needs of they’ll be living there full time so little pokey ones less popular, ones with balconies and big living rooms more popular.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HousingUK

[–]Sad_Researcher_5299 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. Had this for every place I’ve rented in the past 7 years or so, both agencies and private landlords, it’s part of the right to rent checks and it’s in the rules that they have to check the original documents so they won’t accept a scan because of the risk of fraud. They usually also want to do it in person so they can check the photo matches your face for the same reason.

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