Moved from a discussion on DIY house selling
Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) 4 hours ago
by printing hundreds of flyers and posting through the doors in neighbouring streets !!!
So we're to be drowned in junk mail to transfer to our Green Crates so you can sell your flat on the cheapo?
Give me Hane's lovely yellow boards any day. At least they're not in my hallway.
Reply by Paul Martin 3 hours ago
What's your address OAE? I'll make sure you get plenty!!
Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) 27 minutes ago
Paul, time we introduced a local litter licence for flyer-tippers like you. Licence fee: about 2% of your flat's asking price seems about right, no?
Reply by Hugh 17 minutes ago
You working for Paul Simon, OAE?
Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) 5 minutes ago
Indeed, Hugh, I have a high respect for Richard, Reuben and their colleague in the new PS (Sales). If they want to put me on a retainer, OK. Why not?
Reply by matt 3 hours ago
OAE, this will really wind you up. Bet you don't last the 10 mins! :)
Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) 9 minutes ago
Matt, you into cruel and unusual punishment or something? I watched the first minute and the last, so I see it's to be continued. What a lightweight ear-irritant!
No, it's nothing to do with pessimism. Just to do with the sort of consistency this website's members tend to espouse and encourage in their better moments: on topics ranging from deterring litter louts, to respecting one's neighbours and their property & privacy, to supporting our local traders so they in turn can support us and our schools, to expecting to live in a community where people pay their way even when they may be about to leave it - and, of course, to help provide Paul with some of the views he has asked for.
Reply by Hugh 6 minutes ago
"consistency (of) this website's members"
You don't truly expect a disparate group of folk to be consistent, do you Eddie. You're just goading us, right?
Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) 1 minute ago
No, Hugh, no goading. Just trying to raise the bar a notch or two - however disparate the folk or desperate the property sellers!
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Eddie, I'm trying to give Paul a chance to have the discussion he wants. In a pub, he could move to another table. Here he can't. So I'm helping out. S'good manners innit.
Oops, sorry, clicked in the wrong place on latest activity. Didn't mean to disappear this discussion.
Blimey, I wasn't expecting my post to start such an interesting discussion..!
Unsurprisingly I'm not into litter louts, fly-tipping, or disrespecting one's neighbours either, so thanks for pointing out that my idea could be considered thus, OAE. Alternatively, I'd have thought that a DIY approach would be quite in keeping with this website's ethic. As for supporting local traders .. I certainly do that on a daily basis and 'pay my way' (I'd like to think), it's just that estate agents are a bit on the expensive side, aren't they? And do they really support our schools that much? You make them sound so wonderful!
And do they really support our schools that much? You make them sound so wonderful!
Lots of HOL folk have convinced me that without our estate agents our kids' education would be back in the Dark Ages, Paul. Naturally I'm a very persuadable sort of guy.
it's just that estate agents are a bit on the expensive side, aren't they?
I thought so too, until I completed my move last week. Then I reflected upon all of the work that had gone into marketing my flat since February and the million-and-one little hitches that our agent kept on top of on our behalf. Our chain nearly collapsed a few weeks back and I sat for an hour with our sellers' agents while we all tried to find acceptable solutions for an unacceptable complication. I was seriously stressed and am well used to stress (I'm a teacher so am used to responding quickly to crises and thinking on my feet) - however, I got a glimpse of what an estate agent's lot is when things are going wrong. I would not fancy having to have the conversations with solicitors I witnessed!
Currently, I am shelling out maddening sums to all kinds of tradespeople for bits and pieces on my new house... I can't help but think that the estate agent who kept the minute details of our house sale in his head for almost half a year and who called us frequently outside of office hours when he needed to update us on something was *really* earning his money in comparison.
Wow. I never thought I would write something like that!
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