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Can you put me off this house?

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Tobermory · 27/08/2014 17:53

I'm a closet RightMove addict, there I've said it. Every so often I'll look at the places I want to live, just in case.
I've found a fab house.
Every so often I check and it's still there. It's been there for months. No one else has bought it ( and no one else wants it....Hmm) I love it.

We're planning to move but not for ayear or two, not really in a position to right now. So I need your help..... Put me off this house!!

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41476742.html

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Tobermory · 27/08/2014 21:59

Amis, wow I can certainly see why you loved it. Some fab spaces, lovely!shame I don't want to live there :(

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aliciagardner · 27/08/2014 22:06

It's crazily overpriced. You could buy the same house in Slaithwaite for less than £200k! It's just decorated nicely.

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Tobermory · 27/08/2014 22:09

As in, live in Halifax !

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amistillsexy · 27/08/2014 22:11

Have you been to look at it, Flossy?

It's truly amazing!

Tobermory I regularly have a look at Holmfirth when I mooch on Right Move, but I do love it over this side Wink

BonaDea · 27/08/2014 22:14

It's a lovely house

But the downstairs flooring looks cheap and that kitchen isn't big enough to hold an island that size.

winkywinkola · 27/08/2014 22:17

I like it. Sorry.

Unless that is an island not a wee table in the kitchen.

Maybe negotiate on price. You never know.. .. ..

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Tobermory · 27/08/2014 22:18

It's kind of working, though I do almost feel defensive about 'my' house!

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ChazzerChaser · 27/08/2014 22:21

Having lived in an old house, I never would again. Cold, dark, draughty, dusty things. I can just see the energy bills and yet never quite being snug.

culturemulcher · 27/08/2014 22:24

Oh it's in lovely, lovely Holmfirth. What's stopping you? Grab it!

I guess Huddersfield Road is quite a busy road... but I think I'd put up with that for the chance to live in that village drifts off on childhood memories of climbing up the crazily steep hill to Under Bank smelling all the wonderful smoke from all the house fires

NerfHerder · 27/08/2014 22:28

This is really odd... but I seem to remember someone else linking to this house, some years ago, before the kitchen was like that. The garden is identical.

I bet the vendor is a MNer...

There must be a reason they're selling. (though I'd have thought the price was too high for that area)

teacherwith2kids · 27/08/2014 22:30

It is VERY close to the flood zione area (go to [[http://maps.environment-agency.gov.uk/wiyby/wiybyController?value=Holmfirth%2C+Kirklees&submit.x=18&submit.y=14&lang=_e&ep=map&topic=floodmap&layerGroups=default&scale=9&textonly=off this map). I'd want to look into the flooding history of that area. Also right next to a hospital marked on the detailed map?

teacherwith2kids · 27/08/2014 22:31

Opps, better link

It is VERY close to the flood zione area (go to this map). I'd want to look into the flooding history of that area. Also right next to a hospital marked on the detailed map?

unrealhousewife · 27/08/2014 22:38

I want to live in Netherthong! What a name Grin

Pipbin · 27/08/2014 22:46

Looking at it from street view it seems that the garden is all at the front, very little at the back. I wouldn't feel very secure with DC in a garden that it so exposed.

The flooding is interesting, however, when I look at my house on that it looks like the flooding will come to my door (I live close to a very large river, I saw a seal in it today!). However, I live up at the top of a hill. If the river comes that high then we all have problems.

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Tobermory · 27/08/2014 23:04

That's strange Nerf but if you're right and the vendor is an MNer, I hope she doesn't feel Sad about people finding fault with her home.

I want to live in Holmfirth...it's top of my list!

Pip, I've stared glanced at garden photos and have been a bit disappointed with the garden at the back or how it appears to be. Maybe the photographer was rubbish?! [hopeful]

Flood zone map, never seen one of those before. The river is the other side of the pink road from the house, and lower down hill towards the valley bottom so wouldn't think there'd be much risk. Does flood information make up part of a general search or would it be investigated separately.

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BeCool · 27/08/2014 23:08

It's lovely and on the market for less than my tiny one bed flat in London. I would love to live there.

But what would you do for a job in those parts?

Perhaps they are fracking the hell out of the area? Or it's next to a Nuclear Power Station?

Pipbin · 27/08/2014 23:15

But what would you do for a job in those parts?

There are jobs outside London Wink

BeCool · 27/08/2014 23:17

seriously? Grin

let me rephrase "what could I do for a job in those parts?" (links into my massive life dilemma ATM - I usually keep this all in my mind, it's starting to leak out)

Pipbin · 27/08/2014 23:27

You could be a Last of the Summer Wine tour guide.

unrealhousewife · 27/08/2014 23:30

Pipbin, even if the river is beneath you it can have an effect by causing the land to slip. My guess is that the flood maps take that into account.

BeCool · 27/08/2014 23:37

I never liked that programme so I'd be rubbish at that.

Lots of bar jobs in the area - not great for a single parent. Guess I'm not buying it either.

MoonlightandRoses · 27/08/2014 23:41

Hmm, well - the door into the sitting room may be a tiny bit warped? Also, doesn't appear to have off-street parking and seems to be close to a pub as well as the aforementioned hospital (might not be a negative, that). Unfortunately, not sure the garden is shady going on this. Mind you, it's all at the front.

Still looks pretty good from the pictures - sorry.

4boysxhappy · 27/08/2014 23:44

There is something not right about the flooring in living room, dinning room and hallway. It looks cheap and horrid.

The garden is also to small and on the ugly side.

BeyoncesCat · 28/08/2014 01:43

It has pink in the kitchen. You should buy it!

mysteryfairy · 28/08/2014 09:15

I think it's quite overpriced and you would be able to get a period 4 bed in the area for that budget. I was actually expecting it to be in with a different local agent well known for overpricing. I'd be tempted to chat to the agent concerned to find out if any realistic offers have been rejected.

For those who are asking it's within 1 hour commute of Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester so not in an employment wasteland.

The hospital is a very old fashioned cottage hospital type thing. No A and E, no parking issues around about and not much coming and going. I don't think that should put you off.