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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:00 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Dog
Be quick on this one ~

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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:14 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Iffy
Two per cent drop in house prices since July, according to the linked story.

There are some on here who will be very, very worried about that.

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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:20 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Dog
>>Two per cent drop in house prices since July, according to the linked story.<<

A generalization really, some areas are doing ok where as some areas are doing not-so ok.
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:23 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - BiggerBadderDave
"There are some on here who will be very, very worried about that."

Zero's son, who will have less cash to spend on modding his Nova when the old man pops it in 18 month's time???
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:57 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Zero
>> "There are some on here who will be very, very worried about that."
>>
>> Zero's son, who will have less cash to spend on modding his Nova when the
>> old man pops it in 18 month's time???

18 months? wow thanks Dave, thats optimistic. :(
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:59 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - BiggerBadderDave
It does mean you'll probably outlive me though.
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 13:43 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - BobbyG
>>18 months? wow thanks Dave, thats optimistic. :

Zero, he meant 18 months till he physically gets his hands on the readies....how long will your Will take to sort out and then count back the way.... :)
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:58 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Zero
>> Two per cent drop in house prices since July, according to the linked story.
>>
>> There are some on here who will be very, very worried about that.

who?
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:21 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - J Bonington Jagworth
"I don't want to spend another winter here" he says.

Perhaps there's a reason why it's not selling...

I suppose he could mean the UK!
Last edited by: J Bonington Jagworth on Fri 27 Aug 10 at 11:22
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:22 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Iffy
...Perhaps there's a reason why it's not selling...

Eight bedrooms would put off more people than it would attract.
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:27 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Dog
>>Eight bedrooms would put off more people than it would attract.<<

Could always convert it into 10 one bedroom flats and let to the DSS merchants :(
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:30 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Iffy
...Could always convert it into 10 one bedroom flats and let to the DSS merchants :(

Dog,

I think you've got something there.

I can raise half a mill, you the same, and we can get Martin on board to put up the rest and do the conversion work.



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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:35 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Dog
>>I can raise half a mill, you the same, and we can get Martin on board to put up the rest<<

Well, that's exactly how its done and has led to the ruination of many a once grand seaside town,
Like St. Leonards on Sea where we lived from 87 til 92.
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:28 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - J Bonington Jagworth
Looks like it would make a good B&B, though. Unless the heating doesn't work (as was sort of implied)...
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:28 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Cliff Pope
>> "I don't want to spend another winter here" he says.
>>
>> >>

It will be slightly warmer if he puts the hood up.
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:42 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - J Bonington Jagworth
If I was him, I'd stick at the farming for another year at least. Wheat prices are about to soar!
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 11:54 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Mike Hannon
>If I was him, I'd stick at the farming for another year at least. Wheat prices are about to soar! <

Not necessarily for farmers, though...
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 12:16 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Robin O'Reliant
If house prices halved and stayed at that level I couldn't see it as being other than great news. Some people would be hurt in the short term, anyone with negative equity who wanted to move or hit the financial skids for example, but that problem would diminish and then disappear with time and everyone would be better off.

Apart from estate agents, and who cares about them?
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 12:19 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Zero
>> If house prices halved and stayed at that level I couldn't see it as being
>> other than great news. Some people would be hurt in the short term, anyone with
>> negative equity who wanted to move or hit the financial skids for example, but that
>> problem would diminish and then disappear with time and everyone would be better off.

You cant take trillions of capital out of the system. YOu think the last crash was bad, if you half house prices EVERYONE will be worse off. Really badly worse off.
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 12:24 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Fenlander
Regarding the house in the OP with the free TR6....

It's trapped between a farm with tatty barns and caravan storage, a couple of modest bungalows and one immediate neighbour is an odd bungalow with a permanent looking mobile home wedged on the front garden. Add to that it's quite near the road and details state on a private drainage system..... you'd want a free TR6 to offset the Sunday mornings with sleeves rolled up and the rods out.

Not good enough at £899,950. No wonder it's not selling.

Edit: Oh and the village sewage works is in the back field!
Last edited by: Fenlander on Fri 27 Aug 10 at 12:28
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 12:31 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Dog
>>you'd want a free TR6 to offset the Sunday mornings with sleeves rolled up and the rods out.
<<

Been there, dung that AND wore the T $hite, I spent a hole year down a sep tank about 4 years ago :(
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 12:35 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Fenlander
Ha... I commented as we're on a shared private system with next door. Why it always blocks Sunday am so you just can't get the smell out of your nostrils over lunchtime I don't know.

Still it saves loads on water rates with no sewage charge.
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 12:34 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Zero
This one you mean

www.estatelogic.co.uk/cesa/PropertyDetails.asp?ID=10001856

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New Fri 27 Aug 10 12:35 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Fenlander
Indeed.
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 13:33 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Dog
About as energy efficient as my garage :(
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 13:54 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Bagpuss
2 of the bedrooms have a floor area of 6 square metres. That's more of a walk-in wardrobe than a bedroom.
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 14:53 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Fenlander
I'd not looked at the layout. I'm all for quirky old places but for the asking price the modernisation has ended up with a rubbish layout.

Having to pass through the sitting room and dining room to get to the kitchen or family parts of the house from the front door.

Stairs rise from sitting room.

Two of the bedrooms downstairs and accessed via the family room.

No en-suite to the main bedroom.

No upstairs bathroom... just a cloakroom.

Utility room off the dining room not kitchen.

Nightmare layout bettered by every 4/5 bed detached estate house built in the last 20yrs.
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 15:18 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Dog
I've just made up a little saying, it goes like this ... There's one born every minute.

I have kept my beedie eye on the property market, mainly in Cornwall of course, for the last 15 years,
and I have noticed that *EVERYTHING* sells eventually.
Don't forget that the seller of that overpriced pile was a buyer once upon a time.
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 16:38 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Zero
well he wont be selling it to anyone on here will he. No-one likes it.

And you have to like your home.
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 16:41 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - madf
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>> and I have noticed that *EVERYTHING* sells eventually.




Of course. The question is the price.

I bought my house in 1982 when no-one else wnated to buy a house.. The seller had to sell as he was working elsewhere.. He had hoped to make 100% on HIS buying price but "only" made 60%...
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New Fri 27 Aug 10 16:50 
 Triumph TR6 - Free to a good home! - Dog
>>And you have to like your home.<<

True, but viewers just don't take it all in when viewing - take it from someone who has bought & sold 8 properties, 1 Hymer, 1 32' static and a Partridge de de de de,
Plus - as madf quite correctly states its all a question of price, eventually.
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