Forked from "thinking owning a house is a waste of time, as it just gets takenoff you when you get old/put in ahome by ohnanaWHATSMYNAMEohnana"
Do not know whether owning a house is a waste of time, but wondering if it is a waste of money
My house is a money pit
Insurance, rates, water rates on top of that maintenance
The cost of materials is silly, do B&Q, Homebase and Wicks and all the other places that supply building material do not know about China?
Then the rip of hourly rates of so called trades men, joiners, plumbers and worst of all electricians!
AIBU in demanding that their charges should be halved
Had a new boiler fitted just before winter the installer charged £800 labour for about 15 hours work and the electrician £300 for about 4 hours.
The heating engineer arrived unexpectedly early and banned me from my kitchen. Eventually needed access; tapped on the door no reply, so pushed it open knocking down his fire extinguisher over and I thought he was going to snap my head off
Then had to have him back twice because the heating would not work.
Now the shower went pop, wonder what that will cost
I thinking of buying a big Mercedes and a caravan
Anyone want to buy a house, I guess not these days
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owning a house is a waste of money
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0karen · 18/01/2011 01:23
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