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What could be 'wrong' with this house?

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MrsSnape · 05/02/2008 11:41

I've noticed that a house keeps coming up for "long term let" in a very desirable area (next to the best schools in the city) and at a VERY reasonable price.

I first noticed it last year, it came up...3 bedroomed house, lovely 'well sought after area', catchment to excellent schools, long term let...£320 a month...DSS and Pets considered.

Now, DSS and Pets considered suggests to me that they want rid of it pretty urgently (no offense, I'm on DSS myself and not many landlords will have us unless they're desperate).

£320 a month is cheaper than the houses in the worst areas but this letting agency is extremely well known (Larards).

Anyway, the house disapeared off the listings fairly quickly as I expected it would so someone must have moved it but within months it was empty again.

Again it went very quickly but now, around 4 months later its back up for rent AGAIN even cheaper than it was last time!

So...what could be wrong with this house?? I can't see it being bad neighbours as its an expensive and pretty 'posh' area...

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sagacious · 05/02/2008 11:42

Ghosts

scorpio1 · 05/02/2008 11:43

smells? neighbours? traffic?

lulalullabye · 05/02/2008 11:43

someone died there ?? Spooky

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MrsSnape · 05/02/2008 11:44

It's funny....my first thought was ghosts too!

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ChristmasShinySnowflakes · 05/02/2008 11:44

Do you have a link?

WiiMii · 05/02/2008 11:45

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guggie · 05/02/2008 11:45

just phone lanards and ask...

discoverlife · 05/02/2008 11:45

Right next to the school? Probably yobs at night, noisy kids all hours of the day and night using the school fields etc.

BettySpaghetti · 05/02/2008 11:46

nightmare owner/landlord?
damp? cold?
bad neighbours (you get these in good areas too)?

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MrsSnape · 05/02/2008 11:48

"Just because people have money and live in a 'posh' area doesn't necessarily make them reasonable people or good neighbours! "

I know but after living in a complete sh*t hole for the past 7 years I have to assume that "Nicer" areas house "nicer" neighbours....I have to believe that or I'd sink into a deep depression!

here is a link:

www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-19314032.rsp?pa_n=3&tr_t=rent

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NotQuiteCockney · 05/02/2008 11:48

Places can be hard to rent out for complicated reasons. We once toured a place that was really alarmingly decorated, I mean, OMG why on earth would anyone want all this crap all over the place?

You think, fine, whatever, just dump all the crap in a closet when you move in.

Only the landlord kept a car in the garage, and would come by to maintain it, apparently. The house had been his daughter's house until recently.

Daisymoo · 05/02/2008 11:50

Haunted?

discoverlife · 05/02/2008 11:54

If you want it go for it.

expatinscotland · 05/02/2008 12:01

haunted, would be my guess.

or the scene of a crime at one point.

there's a house like this on the street opposite my folks.

back in the 1970s, however, a man murdered his three children and wife, then killed himself in there.

NO ONE ever lasts long in that house.

WestCountryLass · 05/02/2008 12:04

Ring the agents and ask them. If there is an innocent explanation they will tell you.

ChristmasShinySnowflakes · 05/02/2008 12:04

I Just called the agent

She said nothing sinister has happened there, the reason for so many short term lets have been that its been used as temporary accomodation for people who lost their homes in the floods. Since many of them have been rehoused it's vacant again.

After further probing as to the rental price, she said that 'the price reflected the condition of the property' and that it was in dire need of some TLC!

expatinscotland · 05/02/2008 12:04

tour it first.

if you get a bad vibe, forget it.

let's face it, moving is a huge PITA, a person would only do that after 4 months if they had to.

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MrsSnape · 05/02/2008 12:09

PMSL! thanks ChristmasShinySnowflakes I was too much of a wimp to ask!

I did phone though and they apparantly have 2 sets of people going to view it today so I doubt it will be available for long. I don't have a months rent in advance saved up yet so I suppose I'll have to let it go

It's reasuring though to see houses coming up like this.

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sagacious · 05/02/2008 12:09

After viewing the link I'd say haunted
Surely that stuff on the window is some sort of aura ?

Gulp

ChristmasShinySnowflakes · 05/02/2008 12:11

She said they had viewings booked for the rest of the week.....

expatinscotland · 05/02/2008 13:06

of course the letting agent isn't going to tell you what's wrong with it!

i mean, duh!

i'd go see it and if i felt even an iota of anything off i'd be out of there.

you won't save anything on the rent because you'll have to move quick and get something else.

bollocks it needs TLC and that's why it's so cheap!

like a trashed out house was enough to put a BTL landlord off trying to get full whack.

Tutter · 05/02/2008 13:08

at how far ones money would go in hull

expatinscotland · 05/02/2008 13:11

that house doesn't need 'TLC'

look in better shape than most BTL holes i've lived in.

there's something off about it if people don't stay put.

and you noticed it kept coming and going before the floods.

take a dog with you.

if it doesn't want to go in or into certain rooms, neither do you.

ChristmasShinySnowflakes · 05/02/2008 13:36

A little shiver went down my spine Expat!

At that price one could afford to do it up and make it really lovely

I reckon something is very strange about it..... else why would it not have been snapped up before?!

Gameboy · 05/02/2008 13:43

Go and knock on the neighbours doors - I bet they know!