| Lockdown - Non-Political 20:39 - Oct 31 with 2055 views | BrianMcCarthy |
I see you're all back in lockdown. Sorry to hear it.
Do we know yet if it affects Rangers playing on? |  |
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| Lockdown - Non-Political on 21:08 - Oct 31 with 1941 views | A40Bosh |
Well..........
My take is that if you “cannot work from home” then you should go to work.
Construction sites not shutting down.
I reckon they will leave football alone as it may go a little way to stopping rioting on the streets during Nov if you can stay in and watch the footy.
Apparently golf clubs and ranges are shutting down
Where’s my pitchfork!!! |  |
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| Lockdown - Non-Political on 21:22 - Oct 31 with 1896 views | hantssi |
I’m hoping that golf counts as “outdoor recreation” and the courses stay open even if the clubhouses have to close.
We’ve a halfway house that could stay open doing “take aways”. |  | | |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 21:53 - Oct 31 with 1815 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Great stuff. Thanks WatfordR. | |
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| Lockdown - Non-Political on 21:55 - Oct 31 with 1806 views | derbyhoop |
Similar in France.
Need to have a form with us if we go out specifying the reasons (limited) for not staying in. 135 Euro fine for any breach.
Essential shops only staying open.
As an estate agent, we can't visit properties with clients so having to do virtual visits. November and December are usually quiet, so a chance to catch up with sales on the go and communications. |  |
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| Lockdown - Non-Political on 22:01 - Oct 31 with 1773 views | gazza1 |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 21:22 - Oct 31 by hantssi |
I’m hoping that golf counts as “outdoor recreation” and the courses stay open even if the clubhouses have to close.
We’ve a halfway house that could stay open doing “take aways”. |
interesting, hope u r right | | | |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 22:17 - Oct 31 with 1717 views | Juzzie |
Fookin’ ‘ell. I’m right at the point of exchanging and completing on my home before then exchanging and completing on the place we want to buy (sorry if that offends you Russian_bot, .... actually I’m not) and I’m kind of OK about stuff but bricking it that others may pull out which is out of my hands.
Everyone involved will have gone through weeks and weeks and weeks of viewings, offers, better offers (no, selling a home isn’t like Facebook market place where you offer half the listed price), offer accepted, forms, searches, surveys, solicitor Q&A’s etc and not to mention mortgage offers expiring in a couple of months which would then need re-applying and stamp duty reductions would potentially end before another property could be completed upon so it makes no sense for anyone to get the wobbles and pull out unless they’ve been made redundant but surely if that was going to happen to them it would have been done by now or if they felt their position was tenuous (i know it cant be predicted) then they wouldn’t have decided to move.
From what I’ve heard recently, the biggest area of delay over the last few months has been with the solicitors/conveyancers who were overloaded when there was a surge due to stamp duty changes (we actually started about a month before that was announced).
I just hope they can get through our case in the knowledge there maybe a downturn for the month meaning backlogs can be caught up on, not that they really should have taken on more cases if they couldn’t handle the ones they already have but who’s going to turn work down? Just means we’re all turning into nervous wrecks.
Sheesh, just want this process to end so everyone (chain of 5 families) can just get on with moving.
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| Lockdown - Non-Political on 22:30 - Oct 31 with 1659 views | Boston |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 21:08 - Oct 31 by A40Bosh |
Well..........
My take is that if you “cannot work from home” then you should go to work.
Construction sites not shutting down.
I reckon they will leave football alone as it may go a little way to stopping rioting on the streets during Nov if you can stay in and watch the footy.
Apparently golf clubs and ranges are shutting down
Where’s my pitchfork!!! |
Golf Clubs are shutting down here as well, where's your snow shovel? | |
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| Lockdown - Non-Political on 22:30 - Oct 31 with 1659 views | DavieQPR |
Is it me or are they saying all you white collar people who are quite happy working from home can carry on but the blue collar workers have to stop. Could have and should have shut down older, susceptible people like me but given us better support. |  | | |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 22:41 - Oct 31 with 1626 views | E1Hoop |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 21:53 - Oct 31 by BrianMcCarthy |
Great stuff. Thanks WatfordR. |
It was described as elite level sport is ok to continue. I am not sure if that includes us or not. Perhaps yes this week but no on last week’s performance. | | | |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 23:18 - Oct 31 with 1552 views | Match82 |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 22:41 - Oct 31 by E1Hoop |
It was described as elite level sport is ok to continue. I am not sure if that includes us or not. Perhaps yes this week but no on last week’s performance. |
Perhaps this is a rallying cry? Alright boys remember if you don't play with some level of competence then they won't let you back on the field next week... |  | | |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 23:23 - Oct 31 with 1539 views | stowmarketrange |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 22:30 - Oct 31 by DavieQPR |
Is it me or are they saying all you white collar people who are quite happy working from home can carry on but the blue collar workers have to stop. Could have and should have shut down older, susceptible people like me but given us better support. |
Keep the over 60’s at home.Except for when we go golfing of course. |  | | |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 23:27 - Oct 31 with 1513 views | WatfordR |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 22:41 - Oct 31 by E1Hoop |
It was described as elite level sport is ok to continue. I am not sure if that includes us or not. Perhaps yes this week but no on last week’s performance. |
Listen, if you think there's another football team out there more elite at conceding penalties than us, you need testing and tracing. |  | | |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 23:28 - Oct 31 with 1507 views | essextaxiboy |
We have a tee time booked for 9am Wednesday , maybe the last chance to win a pound this year .. |  | | |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 23:29 - Oct 31 with 1500 views | loftboy |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 22:17 - Oct 31 by Juzzie |
Fookin’ ‘ell. I’m right at the point of exchanging and completing on my home before then exchanging and completing on the place we want to buy (sorry if that offends you Russian_bot, .... actually I’m not) and I’m kind of OK about stuff but bricking it that others may pull out which is out of my hands.
Everyone involved will have gone through weeks and weeks and weeks of viewings, offers, better offers (no, selling a home isn’t like Facebook market place where you offer half the listed price), offer accepted, forms, searches, surveys, solicitor Q&A’s etc and not to mention mortgage offers expiring in a couple of months which would then need re-applying and stamp duty reductions would potentially end before another property could be completed upon so it makes no sense for anyone to get the wobbles and pull out unless they’ve been made redundant but surely if that was going to happen to them it would have been done by now or if they felt their position was tenuous (i know it cant be predicted) then they wouldn’t have decided to move.
From what I’ve heard recently, the biggest area of delay over the last few months has been with the solicitors/conveyancers who were overloaded when there was a surge due to stamp duty changes (we actually started about a month before that was announced).
I just hope they can get through our case in the knowledge there maybe a downturn for the month meaning backlogs can be caught up on, not that they really should have taken on more cases if they couldn’t handle the ones they already have but who’s going to turn work down? Just means we’re all turning into nervous wrecks.
Sheesh, just want this process to end so everyone (chain of 5 families) can just get on with moving.
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Happened to us first time round Juzzie, buyer pulled out week before exchanging, lost the house we were buying as a result, 2grand fees down the pan, have sold it again and the buyers want to be in by December, the house we are now buying is in a small chain, so to make sure it doesn’t happen again we are going to move to the future mother in laws until our new one is vacant. [Post edited 31 Oct 2020 23:30]
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| Lockdown - Non-Political on 23:36 - Oct 31 with 1478 views | stowmarketrange |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 23:28 - Oct 31 by essextaxiboy |
We have a tee time booked for 9am Wednesday , maybe the last chance to win a pound this year .. |
We have a society day booked for Friday at Diss.I guess that’s all finished now then? | | | |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 23:50 - Oct 31 with 1449 views | Juzzie |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 23:29 - Oct 31 by loftboy |
Happened to us first time round Juzzie, buyer pulled out week before exchanging, lost the house we were buying as a result, 2grand fees down the pan, have sold it again and the buyers want to be in by December, the house we are now buying is in a small chain, so to make sure it doesn’t happen again we are going to move to the future mother in laws until our new one is vacant. [Post edited 31 Oct 2020 23:30]
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We don’t have the option to move anywhere temporarily. Our estate agent kindly suggested a couple of months ago we sell our house and move into a short term let until we find somewhere else to buy (this was just as we were putting in an offer on a place that got accepted within 24 hours).
In the middle of a pandemic with two small children and they want us to try and find a short term let with all the added hassle, stress, admin etc that brings. No chance. We’ve had lots of problems with them..... amongst others they bragged how much they thought they could get for our house then promptly encouraged us to drop the price by £75k just two weeks later to well below what we and others had thought its worth and just as the viewings had started to roll in, were trying to get us to accept silly offers, potentially lying about interested parties “oh yes, we have a dozen people on our books already that are looking for a house in your street”. Funny how none of them materialised and found out recently they pulled all the same stunts on someone we knew just around the corner so quite frankly don’t trust anything they say or recommend (even if actually turns out to be worthwhile) as its clear they only have their commission at heart and they were quite abrupt and rude to begin with so the whole relationship has been tainted from the start but we just has to see it through. Won’t use them again nor recommend them.
The people we’re buying from are committed (they’re moving into a vacant property so thats where the chain ends) and we’re committed. It’s the two people behind us that worry me. I have no idea who they are other than their names so nothing to gauge on in terms of commitment.
Good luck with yours. House moving is a ‘mare at the best of times but has been amplified due to this horrible time we’re going through.
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| Lockdown - Non-Political on 02:02 - Nov 1 with 1364 views | DannyPaddox |
Lockdown - Non-Political ... errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ... if you say so |  | | |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 09:14 - Nov 1 with 1194 views | QPR_Jim |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 23:50 - Oct 31 by Juzzie |
We don’t have the option to move anywhere temporarily. Our estate agent kindly suggested a couple of months ago we sell our house and move into a short term let until we find somewhere else to buy (this was just as we were putting in an offer on a place that got accepted within 24 hours).
In the middle of a pandemic with two small children and they want us to try and find a short term let with all the added hassle, stress, admin etc that brings. No chance. We’ve had lots of problems with them..... amongst others they bragged how much they thought they could get for our house then promptly encouraged us to drop the price by £75k just two weeks later to well below what we and others had thought its worth and just as the viewings had started to roll in, were trying to get us to accept silly offers, potentially lying about interested parties “oh yes, we have a dozen people on our books already that are looking for a house in your street”. Funny how none of them materialised and found out recently they pulled all the same stunts on someone we knew just around the corner so quite frankly don’t trust anything they say or recommend (even if actually turns out to be worthwhile) as its clear they only have their commission at heart and they were quite abrupt and rude to begin with so the whole relationship has been tainted from the start but we just has to see it through. Won’t use them again nor recommend them.
The people we’re buying from are committed (they’re moving into a vacant property so thats where the chain ends) and we’re committed. It’s the two people behind us that worry me. I have no idea who they are other than their names so nothing to gauge on in terms of commitment.
Good luck with yours. House moving is a ‘mare at the best of times but has been amplified due to this horrible time we’re going through.
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My parents had a similar issue, eventually ended up having to stay with me for 3 weeks to get their house sold while waiting for their house to be ready.
You shouldn't have to worry about how committed your buyers are, the system should be set up so that everyone is tied in once offers are made and accepted.
Hope it all goes well, fingers crossed everyone will be motivated to get it done while the stamp duty break is in effect. |  | | |
| Lockdown - Non-Political on 09:26 - Nov 1 with 1143 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
I love it when someone does not use the enter key and just keep tapping the other keys |  |
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