House for sale.... Interesting extra in the garden!!

[Elderflower14]

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£350,000 for that! - without the pylon!

Oh God… It looks like I’m stuck with DD, and her boyfriend staying over at weekends, forever! 🥺

How on earth can young people get a deposit together for a two bedroom, modest home these days?! 😩

Well… the current owners bought it. I guess they are banking on —some other idiot— someone else taking it off their hands at a ridiculous cost 🧐

I wonder which came first - the pylon or the house? I’d be terrified of that thing near my house.

The pylons are shown on 1940s maps. The houses aren’t.

It's not the cancer link
It's having a ruddy great pylon in the garden! Presumably the electric companies need 24/7 access as well?

Plus...the hum!

Must be a super expensive area as it's a pretty awful house too

If you go along the road on street view, another house is the same - but they’ve boxed it in with a green fence 😂

It's about the right for the area, I'm not too far away... there will be wayleaves paid for having the pylon on the land

Not a great house for a kite flyer.

@EmmaH2022

It's not the cancer link It's having a ruddy great pylon in the garden! Presumably the electric companies need 24/7 access as well?

Plus...the hum!

Even if there is a cancer risk (and I’ve no idea whether it’s been scientifically proven that there is or not) I’d find it a point of amusement to have a pylon smack bang in my front garden: it’s a talking point.

I suppose my broader point is that you’ll always find somebody to buy anything provided it’s priced correctly and you don’t anticipate needing to sell with great urgency in the future.

No to the pylon and also no to the kitchen lay out. Awful.

Oh my god pylons give me the heebie-jeebies. Absolute hard no. No no no.

Like this!

No lender will grant a mortgage on that property so that limits buyers and thus the price will likely be much lower than an equivalent property 100 mts away.

Why would no lender grant a mortgage @f0stercarer?

I dream of living in a home with a free pylon. Absolutely love them. Or a giant wind turbine.

You couldn't pay me to live there. I dread to think what the insurance premiums are like.

As a child of the 70’s that grew up with this advert, that fills me with real fear

@BamberGascoine that is probably where everyone's fear is coming from

That step out of the shower looks like a death trap too.

@Forshorttheycallmecomp

Don’t forget, if the humming of the pylon gets too much, there’s a motorway at the bottom of the back garden.

🤣

@TheBareTree

Like this!

Oh yes that's much more fetching now. I'd do mine in pink I think.

I grew up on a street with a pylon in the front garden. Looked very similar

@Discontentedpony

Seems like a very optimistic price considering.

I thought pylons were bad for health to live near?!

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/545086.stm

After completing 2,000 experiments near pylons, a team from the University of Bristol has concluded the cables are responsible for trebling the amount of cancer-carrying pollutants in the air.

That bungalow would be £750k here and that's discounted for the pylon.

Seriously op Coul you get your solicitor to make some formal inquiries around cancer risks, potential replacement/removal and you negotiate from there.

Comtesse "I suppose my broader point is that you’ll always find somebody to buy anything provided it’s priced correctly and you don’t anticipate needing to sell with great urgency in the future."

Yes. If I was off my face a lot though, I'd have this weird sense of "am I off my face or is there a pylon on the garden?" And both could be true 😂

Wow! That's one massive clothes airer!