The filth won't want to work in the cold so it will be called off, soft bastard, bullied at school ****s the lot of them
My grandson asjust asked me to write about the building industry any ideas please Matt should know all about this
No Matt is an estate agent. Olof and Eire work in construction. Well they do as long as it is not wet, cold, windy or snowy... soft feckers.
No he won't know go to RIBA, IStructE or CIOB, unless your grandson wants to know abour shady practices
Breakfast debates have evolved from the old morning all threads from the old BBC site. It's how we all got to know each other and the catalyst for real life meet ups etc. I don't think this should ever change. To please the masses let's keep it this way and keep the match day threads on topic so those who don't want to Wade through non lufc stuff won't have too. I think that's fair enough, and secures the banter going forward which i personally think makes this site
Agreed I think the confusion started( I wasn’t the first to fall foul of it) was the naming convention. Machday thread/ breakfast thread. Once one person posts a general point the thread title is forgotten . That’s my excuses and I am sticking to them.
Mike, you have come to the right person... New build property are getting smaller and smaller whilst prices continue to go up. If you buy a new build you could be paying up to 25percent more just for the privilege of owning a new build. There is Nowhere near the amount of support for first time buyers to get onto the housing ladder that there should be. These new build companies make 10's of millions of pounds for large developments
If they sold via estate agents you wouldn’t be saying that. As a Tory you should be advocating letting the market set the price, no help for first time buyers would drive down prices. But that would reduce your commission!
It's nit right tho pal. It's a false market. Too many investors snapping up house after house. They can't build them fast enough meaning there are never enough. Because there are not enough property, it's drives the market up higher.
But the private landlord is allowing people to live in a house they could never afford to live in. Not only that they are ensuring they themselves don’t burden the state by effectively funding their pensions and future health care.
There were far more new build properties being bought by investors on a buy to let basis 20 years back than there are now - the future growth margins aren't there in a stagnant market but basically agree wth that comment. Had my own M&E subcontracting company and worked in the new build housing market (amongst other things) for over 25 years. The "high volume, low margin" game was ****ed when 2008 came along and it all went tits up generally. The developers had the sub contractors (all trades not just mine) by the bollocks and squeezed so hard a lot of us threw in the towel and walked. Still retained my retail business but the writing was on the wall and that was enough for me. Decided to run down my business over 3 years and jumped right out of the bloody lot at age 55. BTW, it's harder to run down a business and get out without costing yourself a fortune than it is to start one. Had sufficient dosh stacked away in my company pension funds and SIPPs (made sure of that) to enjoy myself without the constant bowing and scraping to the building and costing managers of the major developers. I know not everyone can do it, but it was the best decision I've taken financially and lifestyle-wise in my life. I was 60 last year and my wife and I bought a brand new X5 for my birthday (don't mention it to the Wurzels though ). Now I just spend my time enjoying myself with my wife and our dogs,, following my team, and talking to other arseholes like me on the forums.
Ditto. I am in the process of winding my operation down ( 3 years been at it now) having sold the primary business off a year or so ago, just sold our last b2l property and bought a new build to live in for 6 months of the year. In the process of having a villa built in Spain. Kids are both set up, basically we gave them the places they both lived in at uni and they are both now renting them out in the student market having both graduated and found employment. Both should be mortgage free before they are 30. Next car I get here will be green and leased I am content to run my current tatty ford into the ground until then..
Three kids for me Glory, all doing OK and don't need - nor will they get - any money from me. Eldest son is a freelance electronic systems designer (used to be called a draughtsman in my time) and works with a computer now rather than the draughting board and set squares I used. He spends a lot of his time at Aldermaston and has indicated that if he told me what he was working on he'd have to kill me. My daughter got a a degree in German at, believe it or not, Leed's University - how cool is that . Went to work in Ingolstadt for Audi for a few years but then joined a large German insurance company and is now back over here heading up a team for them in Cheshire. The youngest boy had no brains but enjoyed himself. Went to Australia and married a nurse over there and is now into interior design and hanging curtains for a living - whatever floats your boat I say. Incidentally, he wrote to me some time back (when people still wrote letters) and asked me for some money to buy a house - I told him to **** off and earn it himself. Ah well, that's a little insight into my life - good job this isn't a football thread or I'd have been complaining again.......
