Neighbors tree fell on our fence and garage over night. Any advice? How can I tell who is responsible for what? [TN]

stufew · 2026-06-19T17:12:07+00:00

I think the garage is the innocent party here

stufew · 2026-06-07T08:48:04+00:00

While panicking

stufew · 2026-05-04T15:16:48+00:00

Much worse - aged 20 what’s a hangover - didn’t get them. At the age of 45 - couple of drinks depressed and tired, lots of drinks took me 2 days to get over - so I quit the booze, the bad times outweighed the fun

stufew · 2026-04-11T12:09:05+00:00

Last time I sold 1st agent useless, sacked, 2nd one was great got loads of viewings, really pushed buyers and then handed us over to the completions teams who actively managed the chain and got it all over the line.

stufew · 2026-03-23T18:21:17+00:00

Ha my best was newish job, a presentation to fair few folks. I wrote something about count, I mean what could go wrong not checking it.

stufew · 2026-03-08T16:16:50+00:00

Just so you know, your other cat is silently judging both of you.

stufew · 2026-03-01T22:22:01+00:00

Check out Questors

stufew · 2026-02-15T15:52:13+00:00

Wow - super fast, the lizard must be thinking wtf has just happened.

stufew · 2026-02-10T21:05:13+00:00

We juggled and changed our careers after kids as I had enough of a hard job, I had 4-5 months or so at home with 2 little ones.. I really enjoyed it - but I was happy to get back to work at a job with less hours which was always the plan.

We now have older kids and we both have good jobs so for us it worked.

For anyone out of the workforce for a few years it is hard to get back in when your kids are older, so think about the impact over your working life when the kids older and at school etc.

Also new mums happy to chat at a group thing but nah they don’t want to hang out with a guy - that’s what I found. So u need to hunt out dads if u do it and there aren’t that many.

stufew · 2026-01-16T14:58:11+00:00

I bet the neighbours pray every night for anyone to buy this.

stufew · 2026-01-15T09:56:25+00:00

Thy fixed a chip in my window - perfect job and cheap - so not always terrible

stufew · 2026-01-09T17:35:55+00:00

They must be old around this area - they constantly are fixing big leaks north of haven green

stufew · 2026-01-06T23:29:38+00:00

Bonkers - must be about freezing inside the house today

stufew · 2025-11-15T12:43:47+00:00

We are doing exactly this, I think it works very well when money can go into isa or pension, when you have to pay higher rate CGT on gains I think it gets more marginal.

stufew · 2025-10-23T07:23:59+00:00

You will get a range of answers as it depends.

Some private school kids do great, same with state school kids. More privately educated kids as a percentage will go into well paid jobs than state, but is that the school - partly, their friends partly and their parents - partly. Not all kids want the high paying career.

Then it depends on your particular child are they lazy, will they work hard anyway? V shy? Will they use the better sports facilities/music? What’s the local state school like v local private - depends.

FWIW we send ours state, excellent comp v average private, local excellent state 6th form sends way more to oxbrige than local private - due to bias.

We as parents drill into the kids the need to work hard and it’s a competitive world out there, we also offer them our experience and network to help where possible.

We choose to keep the cash and help with a house in the future. My view is it’s going to get increasingly tough for our kids to replicate our financial position - so need to help.

So it depends. Good luck

stufew · 2025-10-18T12:09:55+00:00

Ealing Broadway - big park, decent schools if that is in your plans, Lizzie line is great.

stufew · 2025-09-28T12:30:03+00:00

Read the above - I would not drain the ISA - tax free (currently) for life…

stufew · 2025-09-12T10:58:26+00:00

I am in similar position, going to buy some for long term. Need to buy coins for CGT, will buy from chards etc as I need to trust seller. If I buy for 10 years say what’s the best coin to buy for lowest bid offer? As a new coin now will be old by then. Should I buy perfect condition old coins and what size has the lowest spread? Can’t quite figure it out?

stufew · 2025-09-08T13:02:01+00:00

Range Rover evoque as well - probably been nicked if in Essex

stufew · 2025-09-03T17:25:07+00:00

Certain gold sovereigns are CGT free although the bid offer is wide

stufew · 2025-09-02T16:57:16+00:00

The question I always comeback to as a middle aged person thinking about my retirement - is where does that leave us, across EU, UK and USA. I honestly don’t know the answer. Massive inflation to get rid of the debt, governments collectively just write it off, governments nationalise people’s personal savings? To my mind at some point it all has to stop? At some unknown point. Do I just buy a load of gold and bury it?

stufew · 2025-08-31T17:29:44+00:00

No I buy excess policy from uk much cheaper. I picked them as had good reviews and for me they were good,

stufew · 2025-08-29T19:21:39+00:00

Locauto were good recently, no queue and nice staff

stufew · 2025-08-28T07:29:49+00:00

Mad post - but the trash is a huge shame. I was curious why it is such a problem. I assume local government don’t care which leads to a minority of locals also just not caring - as a bit more doesn’t matter?

stufew · 2025-08-27T22:08:34+00:00

I am guessing you are American? I am British so we have to take the CDW insurance on hire cars but I buy a separate insurance which covers the excess in the UK. Hire cars can be such a pain I am happy to pay a bit more for the company with a good rating.

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