Work starts on the eagerly awaited new Foxtons office on Brixton Road
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leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Pinggoombah
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Manter
Lunch Mob
It should probably read deluded... That is a nice little cottage, but 3/4 of a million??!!!!These words make me want to barf.......
cuppa tee
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Possibly but someone probably will have the wherewithal, didn't estate agents used to just describe properties rather than making snobbish predictions about the potential buyers....Err applicants FFS
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Not necessarily deluded ... someone will probably buy it for £750k and put it on the market next week for £950k
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Conversation with tradesperson earlier:
Me: Do you cover Brixton?
TP: Yes. Was there on Saturday night for first time in a long time. I can't believe how much it's changed.
Me: How so?
TP: It's now so ... white. I'm black and I'd never felt a minority there before. It's much, much better though than it was ... safer, better shops, cafés. Great place to live now.
Me: Do you cover Brixton?
TP: Yes. Was there on Saturday night for first time in a long time. I can't believe how much it's changed.
Me: How so?
TP: It's now so ... white. I'm black and I'd never felt a minority there before. It's much, much better though than it was ... safer, better shops, cafés. Great place to live now.
ChrisSouth
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While I feel your pain, one board isn't an infestation. However, what it represents may herald an impending infestation.
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hiraethified
Hang on, that sign looks like it's been affixed on to the public side of the street. And it's conveniently close to the recycling bins too.
I've lost count of the number of wrongly affixed estate agents signs which I have destroyed.
I remember one time a flat I was living in and there was another place upstairs to let. The flat was let and then a sign went up "Let By". I thought I'd do the decent thing, phoned the agency and told them that they had 24 hours to remove it. They said that a separate company puts them up so it would be Wednesday before they could get it down. I told her she knew what was going to happen next.
God, I love being a curmudgeon.
I remember one time a flat I was living in and there was another place upstairs to let. The flat was let and then a sign went up "Let By". I thought I'd do the decent thing, phoned the agency and told them that they had 24 hours to remove it. They said that a separate company puts them up so it would be Wednesday before they could get it down. I told her she knew what was going to happen next.
God, I love being a curmudgeon.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
I routinely remove them from this road.
They claim they are allowed to keep them up for a time, even after a sale or a lease has been completed.
They claim they are allowed to keep them up for a time, even after a sale or a lease has been completed.
gaijingirl
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so is it 24 hours? because the place next to us had one up for about 4 months. I don't know why it pissed me off so much.. but it did.
SarfLondoner
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Even where I live, in the arse end of East London, I get a couple of stock letters a week from Foxtons, telling me that they have tenants for my property. It properly does my head in - this is my home, not some wanky 'investment opportunity'. And the building society still owns it, or at least part of it (and possibly they have dibs on my soul too) for the next 12 years anyway.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Only 12 years! Well played
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Not due to anything clever that I've done, other than I've been here for 13 years - so on a 25 year mortgage, I have 12 years to go 'til I'm paid off in full. Half way there!
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
people buying now might be forced into 30 years - interest only - so they won't even be paying off the debt
shakespearegirl
just worked out taglines
I just got a letter from an estate agent who has just opened a branch in Oval.
They will sell my house for £500*
*subject to conditions of course no details of what those conditions are..
How do we get these people to stop, I'm registered with TPS but it doesn't seem to make any difference to them
They will sell my house for £500*
*subject to conditions of course no details of what those conditions are..
How do we get these people to stop, I'm registered with TPS but it doesn't seem to make any difference to them
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
gaijingirl
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Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
It's two weeks. After the sale/letting has been completed, they're allowed to keep the sign up for two weeks.
Of course, they never remove them because they rely on people's inertia to give them free advertising. So after two weeks you have a free supply of firewood…..
cuppa tee
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afaik the TPS only deals with telephones, the MPS does a similar thing for junk mail.
shakespearegirl
just worked out taglines
Doh at me..
I was did register with MPS a few years ago but have just done it again. Along with TPS again, after deleting yet another PPI message from my answerphone
cuppa tee
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Tbh when I worked in the call centre the number of angry people who told me they were on the tps made me wonder if those type of schemes were any good at all.....
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
I think estate agents get round the TPS thing by sending the mail to the 'legal owner' rather than to a named individual.
Here you go: http://www.stopjunkmail.org.uk/faq/#q_02
The TPS can't stop phone calls originating from outside the UK afaik.
Here you go: http://www.stopjunkmail.org.uk/faq/#q_02
The TPS can't stop phone calls originating from outside the UK afaik.
Snap. An alliterative name.
It's two weeks. After the sale/letting has been completed, they're allowed to keep the sign up for two weeks.
Of course, they never remove them because they rely on people's inertia to give them free advertising. So after two weeks you have a free supply of firewood…..
My issue is in a shared freehold building with an absent landlord and the sign only goes up after Rightmove says the place is let. They can say goodbye to ever seeing it again.
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