Homes Under The Hammer Selfish Ruiners of EVERYTHING

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AIBU to really hate people on HUTH who buy beautiful Victorian family homes and turn them into scruffy flats set for a life of minging curtains and a million wheelie bins parked outside?

I know it makes financial sense to do this if you buy a big property but ffs ... leave the Victorian shit alone!

I watched one where they bought a gorgeous 5 bedroom Victorian terraced house. Huge original fireplaces, stain glass windows etc etc ... it needed a lot of work doing yes but the building itself was amazing.

“So, what are your plans for this gorgeous property”

“Well I’m gonna turn it into flats innit” fuck off

A lot of youngsters inherit thousands from grandparents etc. Some friends of mine had an 80 k inheritance in the 90s

I am nearly 60 and have gps still alive.
Dps gf when he died in his late 90s was living with a 40 year old and her teenage children.
Courts awarded the 40 year old the house to live in till she died.

Even parents are still going strong but as they are all bar one in care homes I don’t see that we will get any inheritance from them either.

Every penny we have we have earned

My last flat was the basement of a victorian house, the house next door had been empty for years, the damp from it made the entire side of our flat (and the one above) damp, it was also regularly broken into.

Not long before I moved it was bought by a developer who was the on HUTH! It was turned into three really nice flats. If it had been left as a home and renovated it would have been worth around £1.8m, no one is going to spend that when the rest of the street are renters and flatshares. They could get a much nicer property on a nicer street for a very similar price.

@Oliversmumsarmy

How old are your grandparents? I'm 40s and all mine have passed away.

Oh yes Zaphod Our cousin had to put strong netting over her outside balcony, from ceiling to floor to stop her 2 year old climbing over it. You'd have to do that to those 'mezzanines' for years, living with small children, rather spoiling the 'glamour' of those places.

Oh and as you say those GLASS spiral staircases They're lethal even if they're not glass, to all generations!!!! A Terrible waste of money.

DrManhattan

99 and 104. Dgm had aunties who lived till they were 105/106
My mother who I am NC with is in her 80s and my dad is 97 and in a nursing home.

Given the longevity of my family I never expected to inherit anything and if I did I would be very very old

But also no one wants to live in/can afford Victorian houses any more. They would be standing empty and decaying unless they are turned into flats.

I do agree about ripping about the original features though, not good.

I like HUTH for the music.

Martins foot comes through the ceiling kitchen “it’s raining men”

All the windows are smashed and boarded up “ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone”

Landlord tells Martin that his daughter and her child are moving into the property
Michael Buble “home”

@LunchBoxPolice I like 'Come Dine with Me' for exactly this reason. I wonder if the same person chooses the tracks?

The problem I have wth Grand Designs is that they spend all this time wanging on about being carbon neutral and eco friendly and then build a house the size of two football pitches for a family of four.
I watched one and it was two brothers who built houses next door to each other, they must have spent an absolute fortune and both houses looked like industrial units, I've never seen so much breeze block.

DH loves these property programs and he found one called Buying The View, it has the most obnoxious people looking to buy houses for obscene amount of money, nobody ever ends up buying anything on that either. I swear they're all fake.

Once you’ve heard Dion Dublin say. ‘Stairs going up to the bedrooms’ that’s it. Check out how many more times he says it.

It’s like HUTH bingo

Yes I agree MrsDoyles "Yer right yer right yer right" All that green talk means eff all.

All that wonderful "light and open space" everyone seems to want in a house, why don't they move onto a football pitch? The places look like clinics. They gets TOO HOT in the summer and TOO COLD in the winter and needs vast amounts of money spent on air conditioning, plus heating.

Sorry about the typos

I loathe and detest this programme - I can only ever tolerate the people buying for themselves to live in.

The rest are greedy fuckers who inflate house prices.

The worst is when you go back for the big reveal after a year and fuck all has been done! 😡 ugh, wasting my time.

I think people forget that these beautiful Victorian houses were often used by multiple families or generations when originally built.

You wouldn't have only 3 out of six bedrooms being used. You'd have a couple of bedrooms used by lodgers. Or servants or older generations or maybe cousins.

Many were used straight away as split by different family units unrelated to each other.

What's different now is that when different families live together, they expect separate kitchens, bathrooms and lockable doors.

that's right saola
for our last house (3bed victorian terrace) we found a newspaper clipping from when the development was built.

our house had a family of 6 (2 parents, 3 children & a grandparent) plus 2 servants plus 2 lodgers.