New Omaze Cornwall House

[ShyMaryEllen]

https://omaze.co.uk/pages/cornwall-iv

What do we think?

It has a faintly Poirot look about it. I think it's gorgeous, but it's another one that would need a live-in window cleaner. Omaze do like a house with a lot of glass😀.

I'd love to eat breakfast on the terrace with that view of the sea, though - even if most of the year I'd be wearing a duffle coat.

It isn't a scam, it's a fundraiser, and the prize is a glamorous house that isn't selling on the open market for good reason. In this case, the house is too open to the prevailing westerly winds that rage across Falmouth Bay, right onto the house and its windows. I lived on the sheltered (lee) side of that view as a child. Lovely in fine weather in summer, but a lot less appealing from November to spring.

omaze have their own building team, so often the work to be done on a house that’s sat on the market for a while isn’t as expensive for them as it should be. The price they quote it being worth is rarely the truth, or anywhere near what they paid + spent. I thought most people assumed you knock at least 20% of their estimates of value, it’s still a great prize!

the London one I think id rent out as a second income. The few before I think I’d have sold asap. This one, head says sell, but would be tempting to find out if it could be a holiday rental and be able to keep it for when I wanted to visit. (You’d want good glazing over winter in there!)

That's just down the road from me, I might swing by for a look.

You'd have to bulk buy windowlene

It doesn’t mean it’s a scam though just because the odds of you winning a small prize on the lottery are lower than a small prize with omaze... that’s not how probability works.

I think this is it here when it was under construction ...not sure what the coastal erosion is like in that area though given how close the sea is to the back door 😂

wow that is close to the cliff edge!

Plus the coastal path runs along the boundary so I guess it's not very private

I've took an educated that's the house - Omaze blurb says it's close to a particular beach and in the gallery photos you can see neighbouring houses very nearby and this photo does look like the roof profile with the the tower detail

I don't like this way of raising money. I'm sure lots see those huge figures and assume all that will go to charity, but don't they say in the small print £100k or suchlike will be paid out? I'd like to see their accounts and salaries etc, seems dodgy, and puts me in mind of the Captain Tom debacle with the daughter paying herself a massive salary and expenses to run that 'charity'.

It's hardly a burden 🙄 They might have to drop the price and sell it for £2m instead of £3m. What a hardship. They get some prize money to pay for running costs while it sells.

I might be wrong, but I think the winner also gets a sum of cash (£100k?) to donate to the charity. I do actually know a winner, so it really does happen.

It says £250k cash this time plus the minimum donation to the charity will be £1m

Definitely cliff edge 😅

The publicity bit troubles me (in my winner fantasy) but I have seen the T&C, and the financial checks don’t. They have to operate within the law and can’t deny a legally won prize without good reason. You have to be a UK citizen (as with the lottery) and if memory serves you can’t have been done for financial skullduggery.

I think the vast majority of people will qualify. Imagine the furore if someone won and missed out for missing a payment or being behind on a bill. It would be all over the media and I’ve never heard anything - has anyone?

This is correct. Those houses are a money pit. Maintenance will be astronomical and the house probably too big for the winners.

What a weird thing to say 😂

It's not like that though. Soliciting donations for the purpose of charity and then using those donations for personal gain is what they did. This is different. Even if the charity 'only' gets £100k each month they are not misappropriating funds. People don't donate money to the charity, they are buying lottery tickets in the full knowledge that they probably won't win and that most of the money isn't actually going to the charity.

Yeah that's why most people sell them.

Cash to donate to the charity? No it's cash for the winner to keep

I'd love this house and would probably keep it (in my winners fantasy) for a couple of years. Spend some time in it at the start of July and let it out over the summer to cover some of the expenses.

Then sell ( probably on a cut price) and use that to pay off my mortgage and buy a much smaller bolt hole in a better location

Someone on a different forum once said there is always something wrong with the Omaze houses - not that I'd turn my nose up at winning one!
The last one in Cornwall - Fowey - overlooked the Boddinick estuary ferry which runs from 7.00 am every day and makes a terrible noise literally every 10 minutes or so, and so not a peaceful location at all!! Whenever they showed the house the shots always avoided showing this.

Wonder how far it is to the actual beach? Walkable?

Yeah, coastal erosion.

If you won it, you'd have to flog it to someone who doesn't read the Packet!
https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/23285212.cornwall-among-areas-risk-losing-coastal-homes-2100/