"Mike Mitchell" wrote in message
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God, didn't you just want to push that woman off the top of her
unfinished roof! What was the POINT of this programme?!! I thought it
was supposed to be all about making money from property by spending
enough, but no more, to do up a tired or dilapidated property, then
selling it. Sarah Beeney tried everything to persuade these
know-it-alls to revise their plans, yet they not only didn't listen to
a word she said, they treated her advice with contempt. You could
observe it, most of the time, on the woman's face. And then they had
the nerve to say that whether £5,000 or £50,000 profit, it was still a
profit! Er, excuse me, Mr & Mrs Property Developer, but there is a
£45,000 discrepancy between those two figures, duh!
And then they had to sell their own property to pay for the mismanaged
extra work they thought essential - ha bloody ha! Three weeks with
friends? How could anyone have stood them for three days?
This show tonight was the nadir of Property Ladder. It was not about
making money from property and how to save on costs. It was about a
personal tussle between the presenter and some folks who were just not
prepared to listen to any advice. And we never did get to hear whether
they sold it for half a million or whether, like Colin and Justin
found, they are still waiting for the right idiot to come along.
What these property development programmes clearly demonstrate is that it is
not easy and you can end up loosing your house. This should be emphasised a
lot, as many have naively tried and failed.
If they got the 1/2 million then they did well, but they could have done oh
so much better, with much less effort. The buyer will have a great house
as all is new.
I disagreed with Beanie in keeping the original layout. One of the
selfbuild mags did a slot on a similar terraced house rip-out about 5 years
ago, which was not so severe, which I think was in Kew. They made downstairs
all one room, put a modern open tread staircase half way down the space
parallel to the road. To Maximise bedroom space they put the bathroom in
the roof space using Velux windows and a warm roof. I think they opened up
the bedrooms to any available roof above to create the impression of space
too. They maximised all the available space inside the house, extending out
the back too. This would have cost far less than the one last night and had
greater and more appealing impact.
It all depends on the area, whether it is worth doing all this to a small
terraced house. Last nights e.g., was worth it in the end, as was the Kew
one.
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