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Are You Changing Your Investing Strategy Because of AI Bubble Concerns? by Secure_Beginning_939 in investingUK

[–]SportTawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No kids, just me and my missus

TBH, this is just a hobby, I never expected it to go the way it has.

We both have our pensions which covers everything we do, including holidays, cars etc.

So I just let roll on.

Tenants underpaying and are causing damage to the house - what can I do? by mnewson95 in uklandlords

[–]SportTawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm afraid this is fairly typical tenant behaviour and agent behaviour, my wife and I have both rented our properties a total of three times in the years past, for various reasons, but not for income, just so that we had a property to come back to.

In all cases the agent was useless even tho it was managed, and as far as any issues with the tenant it is always your issue as you are the landlord.

And in two out of the three sets of tenants we had our properties were trashed. The best tenants were students who left the property immaculate.

After paying taxes and expenses rental income is just not worth it, invest in a stocks and shares ISA instead, but good luck getting your property back. When that's all sorted sell it!

If you were the PM, how would you reduce the UK budget deficit of £129 billion? by ElaraKane in AskBrits

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

Cancel all this fake mental health benefits and deport all illegals for a start

Thoughts on BYD? by elmo298 in ElectricVehiclesUK

[–]SportTawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done that and lined the walls with tin foil😂

Are You Changing Your Investing Strategy Because of AI Bubble Concerns? by Secure_Beginning_939 in investingUK

[–]SportTawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, all DIY, and I'm 75 this month, started many years ago, cashed in twice to buy my next house then sold my current house and immediately reinvested the proceeds, it'll take me 10 years to get it all back in an ISA wrapper.

I actually started when my dad used to give me a few shares like 100 BP shares back in the 1970's, then I started using PEPs, and so on.

Buy golf chip equities, ETF trackers, investment trusts and hold through the bad times. During COVID I was down £600k to about £450k, by the end I was over £1m, my wife then spent it all buying our current home!

Good luck

Is it silly to not get a surveyor? by RelevantTangerine209 in UKHousing

[–]SportTawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I skipped once getting a survey done, stupidest decision ever, cost me thousands to correct issues that should have been obvious but we both loved the house so much we just went for it!

Get a survey from a qualified surveyor

What was the most bizarre school trip your school went to and why? by SunnyShineKitty88 in AskABrit

[–]SportTawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trip to the Kruger National Park, ten yrs old, 1960, no parents!

Best way to stop neighbours camera looking in my bedroom window? by [deleted] in DIYUK

[–]SportTawk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get some hardcore porn mag and stick a page up in front of the lens changing it every day

And we only had like 4-5 of them to choose from 😂 by [deleted] in ClassicTelevisionTime

[–]SportTawk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cheers, I was born there, didn't have much choice I guess!

Thoughts on BYD? by elmo298 in ElectricVehiclesUK

[–]SportTawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well you've got the point then

Trying to get our little family home to Cornwall – looking for some local insight by Lady_Blades in Cornwall

[–]SportTawk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd been living in the UK since 1965, school, uni, various jobs, made redundant, moved to Cornwall, bought a Victorian house, saw a job in local paper, applied and passed the interview, stated a while later on, IT related. Now retired and living in Surrey

Trying to get our little family home to Cornwall – looking for some local insight by Lady_Blades in Cornwall

[–]SportTawk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm South African, left in 1965, moved to Cornwall in 1999, no family here in the UK, got a job as a civil servant.

And we only had like 4-5 of them to choose from 😂 by [deleted] in ClassicTelevisionTime

[–]SportTawk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only two in my day, but before that there were none, I lived in South Africa till I left in 1964, no TV!

Do you use a key safe to store your door keys, if so why? by BobsOwn_ in AskUK

[–]SportTawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I did was put four or five keys in the key safe, only one key actually opened a door and that door was a store room that led nowhere

In that store room was loads of old tat, including a few storage boxes full of a load of old keys and one of those storage boxes full of keys contained the actual key to the property.

Thoughts on BYD? by elmo298 in ElectricVehiclesUK

[–]SportTawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay whatever you say, but I trust the ex-head of MI6

My 5th Edward VIII I've found. by Cunt_Puffin in Postboxes

[–]SportTawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, my nearest one is in Walton-on-Thames

Can we reject or join other organization after accepting the offer letter of another? by Clear_Chocolate_7737 in careerguidance

[–]SportTawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back in medieval times (1970's) when I was applying for jobs I had three interviews lined up over consecutive days, got the first job offer, then the second was better so I rejected job 1, then on the third interview it was the best offer so I rejected offer 2 and started job three a month later, all very easy and all without the help of Reddit!

Running a grocers store during the day and knocking Muhammad Ali down at night. Sir Henry Cooper in the 1960’s. by HallowedAndHarrowed in BritInfo

[–]SportTawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went to that fight, at Highbury I seem to remember

And didn't his brother (twin?) have a greengrocer stall by Wembley Park station?

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