Does anyone have a spare £1.25m they don't really need any more

[StealthPolarBear]

I can make good use of it

And what are your plans for the house, Stealth? Do you have a large family, or will you be hosting big house parties (I feel your invitations would have to be for "Friday to Sunday" rather than using the vulgar term "weekend")?

I thought I'd start sophisticated. Just walking around the house and grounds with my mouth open.

Or even just a million. I can probably raise the rest.

The bathroom has a sort of Arabian-Nights-Discotheque theme going, doesn't it?

I don't know, I don't think it'd be my 1.25m spend.

(thinking also of the hoovering and dusting)

I drove through the village earlier today. Its lovely.

Not sure you'd be good friends with the neighbours mind :)

£1.25m for a semi?! I wouldn't want to hear the neighbours for that price!

It is lovely though.

This is my favourite bit of MN - the posting of "if only I had the money" properties.

I've got about 25p in my penny jar if that would help Stealth? Do you need any 'downstairs' staff to help? I could polish the cutlery and dh could snip a few flowers here and there.

I love it!

Consider yourselves hired. All 25p contributions very welcome

Lot of pictures of underdressed ladies on the landing, I think you may need a new designer.

I hadn't seen it was a semi!

It's not too far from where I live, commutable distance to work.

Would you consider a house share @StealthPolarBear? (I can probably only contribute about £200,000 but I make a mean cheesecake!

I'll have both. The staff can live in the other one. The smaller of the two.

This is actually starting to seem achievable! Where abouts do you work? We might be able to share a commute, sell one car and put the funds raised to the house.

Only £799,999.75 to go by my calculations

Oh gosh, let me just have a rummage down the back of my sofa.....ahem, I mean chaise longue obvs

Are you donating or buying in??

I wouldn't spend that on a semi! Rather a detached for the money.

The Windows of this house look like faces. look again. Completely freaked me out😵

But it's in the most beautiful village I've seen in a long timd

That’s lovely!

My dp over my shoulder: you couldn’t buy it, all those fields around with your hayfeaver.
Aye that’s all thats holding me back not fact I’ve got £118 pounds in my bank

A semi! Also in the middle of the country so you are living right next to your nearest neighbours with noone around to diffuse the proximity. I'd hate that.

But I do love threads like this and wish people would post some alternatives ...

£799,881.75 to go now

The gardens and the driveway seem to be communal, so many ways that can go horribly wrong even with a nice neighbour.