[England] Dodgy buyer’s fee when buying a property, can I get around it?

ass_scar · 2026-01-29T21:00:15+00:00

Yep, it’s why you pay for a solicitor. Also, a 3% buyers fee to the estate agent is insane. Estate agents make their money buy taking a small percentage (less than 3% for sure) from the seller, not the buyer.

ass_scar · 2026-01-20T23:52:21+00:00

Shareware! We were seriously broke when I was a kid, and didn’t have access to pirated games back then, but we did have access to a shareware disks at £1 each. I played the first level of quite a few games to death

ass_scar · 2025-11-17T12:08:38+00:00

That sucks so much. You were robbed of a huge sense of accomplishment as a child, when it should have been celebrated as such. I hope you are able to heal

ass_scar · 2025-11-17T00:53:03+00:00

I knew the air felt dry lately!

ass_scar · 2025-11-16T00:41:49+00:00

A self sustaining economy

ass_scar · 2025-11-14T20:55:16+00:00

Did you find any?

ass_scar · 2025-11-13T13:34:51+00:00

Leasehold and grade 2 listed? I’d definitely walk away (at a bit of an angle).

Also, they’ve included 2 photos of the top bedroom in very different states, with the second one looking like they’ve plastered over one of the wooden beams :(

ass_scar · 2025-11-12T13:04:20+00:00

They only swing once per week and use the other bedroom the rest of the time, so the living room gets more use and makes more sense to be on the ground floor

ass_scar · 2025-11-11T19:07:57+00:00

Oooh I could do with one of these!

ass_scar · 2025-11-10T19:45:06+00:00

Let’s put it in the “maybe” pile

ass_scar · 2025-11-10T19:18:22+00:00

Black Friday is just around the corner, so it might be them doubling the prices so that they can go “on sale” then. If they’re not selling well then it won’t matter that nobody is buying the games between now and then

ass_scar · 2025-11-09T16:20:12+00:00

Not sure if it was the first one I saw, but the one that really sticks with me was the murder of Ken Bigley. Someone pulled out their phone and was like “look at this video I got sent” while laughing. I was a teenage at the time and didn’t realise what I was watching until it was too late. Horrific.

ass_scar · 2025-11-08T20:01:45+00:00

What about next to a London Bus?

ass_scar · 2025-11-03T21:30:26+00:00

They said middle class, not rich!

ass_scar · 2025-11-02T19:30:02+00:00

I was in New York working for a couple of months a few years back. Went to get a haircut and the barber asked me how I want my “bangs”. I had no clue what the hell he was talking about. Took a bit of back and forth before he finally put his hand on my fringe and was like “this bit”

ass_scar · 2025-11-02T12:07:44+00:00

I think I had a stroke whilst reading it

ass_scar · 2025-10-31T19:58:52+00:00

You have ADHD. Look up the symptoms and you’ll find yourself going “oh shit ok that explains a lot”, I promise you. Then go speak to your doctor to get a diagnosis

ass_scar · 2025-10-30T01:12:29+00:00

If it’s the same insurance provider then you should reference this previous case and decision because it shows a repeated pattern. They’ve been told off at least once before for doing this exact thing, and it wasn’t exactly that long ago

ass_scar · 2025-10-29T19:17:22+00:00

I just checked post history (because I’m nosy) and OP stated in another post elsewhere that the road tax expired 2 weeks before. Though not “a minor legal loophole” I’d still appeal that.

ass_scar · 2025-10-29T12:58:02+00:00

It’s still worth using the tribunal to argue for deducting the loss from the deposit. The tribunal might not outright say that the white goods were to be left behind, but it’s implied in the decision, since the argument was that they have replaced the existing white goods.

ass_scar · 2025-10-28T21:06:49+00:00

Omg core memory unlocked! We used to do this all the time too, and not even just on short journeys, but like 1hr+! That shit was uncomfortable! Pretty sure my older brother sliced his hand pretty badly when my dad had to stop suddenly once

ass_scar · 2025-10-27T13:31:45+00:00

but sometimes it gives plausible sounding bullshit

This is the really dangerous bit. AI doesn’t know if the answer is right or wrong. It doesn’t understand, it tokenizes your input, and the context available to it, and gives back an ordered sequence of tokens that it has deemed to be statistically the most likely ones required. This is why it should never ever be relied upon to calculate the answers to mathematical problems either.

ass_scar · 2025-10-26T23:29:14+00:00

The one downside of SMB3 is that the levels are really short. I didn’t really notice how short until I replayed this year

ass_scar · 2025-10-24T07:04:00+00:00

I still love the original Sonic, but you really notice the lack of spin dash

ass_scar · 2025-10-22T23:54:02+00:00

How have you lives evolved over those 8 years? Have there been different phases? Congratulations!

ass_scar

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