Sorry for the delay in the reply. I needed a social media break because my pain levels have been going through the roof.
@KievLoverTwo your stress with your current living arrangements is hard to hear, CLEARLY you need to move for the sake of your happiness & I'm genuinely sorry you are under so much stress.
Thank you. I genuinely respect you, and your concern is touching. There's no sarcasm here. It gives me a warm feeling inside.
However, I felt attacked on the other thread by yourself and others for voicing my opinion. You don't like me voicing my opinion about Charlie but guess what? I don't like lots of opinions being voiced on Mumsnet but it's a public forum.
If you feel attacked it's because you are being attacked; we're not wolves, we don't come in a pack, if you're being attacked it's because a minority object. I've only ever conversed twice in PMs with @XVGN and that was to get the names of economists. If you feel that three people are 'attacking' you and none of of us know one another, who is statistically likely to be in the wrong?
Speaking personally, it's your repeated measures to put people off watching Charlie's videos. It's the way in which you say it: 'don't watch him, he's a Charlaton (sp?) who is only out for clicks/to make money.' You know how I feel about that.
He doesn't need 3 people rushing to his defence every time I make a post against him to balance the recommendations coming from you @XVGN and Rainingsnoring.
Perhaps if you didn't word things the way you do, he wouldn't have an imaginary mumsnet posse? I think the key is in the language you use. We don't have group messages to attack you. I have never conversed with any Charlie followers other than @XVGN for purposes mentioned above.
You 3 seem to come as a pack, you don't live together do you??
That would be dreamy. The most exciting thing that's happened to me this week is the other half spilling sugar all over his wet feet, not cleaning it off, putting his socks on, and being uncomfortable all day. That's our new 'in joke', because that's how exciting our life is.
I would welcome paid guests, or maybe even free ones. Come: save me from the madness of an ADHD/autistic fiance and absolutely piss boring countryside in a house that I hate so much that I fantasise it being blown away by a tornado (we had one last month, sadly not strong enough).
I've now explained my negativity towards Charlie in terms of ways in which he has already been proved wrong (interest rates) why I feel his message was deliberately over dramatic (to grab attention and grow his business) and why I feel he won't revise in his extreme predictions despite new evidence (because he can shrug off being wrong whereas for his followers it could lead to them making poor financial decisions). I'm cynical about his motivations, you aren't, we don't need to convince each other or feel the other shouldn't post their opinion on Mumsnet.
You've stated a few times that you can't bear more than five minutes of him (which I completely understand); in not doing so, you fail to see the number of times in which he admits he doesn't care if he is wrong. The only thing he seems to care about is keeping transaction levels flowing (which helps the software he flogs to EAs) and people not overpaying for houses, which seems to be his massive bugbear. I suspect some homelessness of some sort touched him or his family in the past, and it's an absolute mission for him.
You say you've seen 25% reductions but have you seen amazing bargains, that was my question?
Nope.
I know Charlie likes to post the occasional property massively reduced as if that somehow proves him correct about the property collapse he predicted, but those properties aren't bargains. They clearly have something majorly wrong with them or were massively ridiculously overpriced because any normal property would be snapped up at a 25% reduction.
Can't disagree with you here without seeing them.
The houses you are seeing with 25k or 50k still not selling that is because no one likes them, they aren't a bargain and were just overpriced to begin with.
I look at every one of them individually, approximately 40% of them are unrealistically overpriced.
Taking the market as a whole, prices aren't crashing at anything like 25%, most buyers are lucky if they can get about 10% reduction on the asking price.
That's a different conversation for another thread. I'll post a link.