To be furious at Barratts Homes.. we thought we had bought our dream home

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in a quiet location with working families and young kids. Is lovely, mid terrace, overlooking woodland, nice neighbours.. well in the houses sold that is.

Have now found out that the remaining properties including the 2 next to us (we are mid terrace) are sold to Housing Association as Barratts have been unable to sell them at the ridiculous prices they were asking.

THis means that the back garden is directly overlooked by housing association, with waist high fences. We already have so social housing here and have had some issues in terms out of control dogs, very loud parties, shouting and fighting etc. TO have that right next door as a possibilty is a real worry.

We paid a lot of money for our home and regardless of economic condition the value of the property will be affected by the fact that we are mid terrace with social housing.

I know i am likely to be flamed by some for not being politically correct but the fact is with socail housing there are often social issues and i didnt want to live next door to that. We saved for a long time to afford our home and now we are dreading the tenants moving in.

I have also been told that one of the women who will be going for one of the house is a well known drug user and that dealers will visit her...

and Barratts have really put us in the poo.

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My old house up north was on a road like that icod and it was not a barrats home and also had no drafts. DD had lots of friends to play with, people called all the time. I would like to recreate that but not sure I could do Barrats estate.

The only problem with my choice is that it is near a secondary school, although that would not bother me as I teachin one so I would be out when they are in and it is on a main road.

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There is middle ground between a place with sash windows and wooden floorboards and a Barratts house though pointydog.

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Yeah I have all of those things in my council flat pointydog.I chose it for the features.

Must get the council round to sort them out

Well, my son does like the wooden floorboards actually, because it means there is nobody moaning constantly at him about muddy footprints and spillages, like in our old beige-carpeted flat . Fucking beige carpets. Stupid idea. I bet all the Barrrats Homes have them!

Ours has a new kitchen in and no over bed storage. She has had it recently decorated so it is very light. We do ahve those seventies bannisters though. There is loads of storage though. This house is not cheaper though becuase if the view and location. I think she has overpriced it tbh.

I grew up in a council flat. I tell you summat - 1970s council kitchens were super resistant. They never fell apart! The lino on our kitchen floor was like teflon.

Yes we have beige carpets, also a life time supply of vanish mousse.

Some pictures of ours on my profile, will try and find an exterior picture, it is not pretty.

Your son doesn;t like wooden floorboards. H elikes not being moaned at.

Children do not have opinions on floorboards. Unless their parents talk about them an awfullot

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lol at children having opinions on floorboards

p.s. I am only jesting to be horrible to the OP . I don't really care where people live. I've lived in some real humdingers. Even now, when we are lucky enough to have a fairly decent house, I still make it look shite by having no taste or sense of style. I lack that interior design gene that so many women seem to have.

Well...we have spent a (God awful) year doing up our house and obsessing about it, so he probably does have an opinion on Amtico versus natural Oak, the poor, put upon kid@pointydog!

I am making myself sound like a right frigging Linda Barker-esque bore. LOL. Sorry. I actually don't give a shit about these things. It's only on MN that I ever ponder them.

The thing I've noticed about estate newbuilds - as well as the lack of floorboards - is the internal walls. They are all paper thin, not solid proper walls. Do they fall down if people sneeze? can you hear other people on the loo?

mn makes us do all sorts of terrible things. I hates it

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yes, they fall down. I am sitting here with a gale blowing around me.

In Canada everyone has beige carpets, doesn't matter who's house you are in shoes come off at the door. I used to hate being asked in when I collected on my newspaper round (you pay the newspaper deliverer for your papers) cause shoes going on and off makes the job longer.

nice views tsap. who care what the house is like if it has views like that?

LOL at Azerbaijan.

Did you sneeze Pointy? Did they fall down like dominoes or did you sneeze in different rooms?

Growing up in a house with really disgusting dark brown 70s carpets I always longed for beige or cream carpets. It just seemed to be the epitome of style and luxury. I still love it in hotels or in the houses of people with no kids / cleaning disorders, I just couldn't live with them myself . Had them in our old gaff and they just made me want to cry. I was incapable of looking after them. Have you ever seen what calpol does to a beige carpet?

I didn't even sneeze. I stood up too quickly.