the old family home is up for sale

cena

The brother was on daft.ie and came across our old family home up for sale. I always said I would love to buy it back just cause it has a acre of land with it.

Any here ever find there old family home up for sale?

Freddy Smelly

cena wrote: »

The brother was on daft.ie and came across our old family home. I always said I would love to buy it back just cause it has a acre of land with it.

Any here ever find there old family home up for sale?

house reposessed?

wretcheddomain

cena wrote: »

The brother was on daft.ie and came across our old family home up for sale. I always said I would love to buy it back just cause it has a acre of land with it.

Any here ever find there old family home up for sale?

If you give me the right price, I'll be happy to give it back to you.

At least 500k, agreed?

wil

Ah memories (Actual memories may be slightly rose tinted and entirely fictitious)

Actually is this what you are referring to, with an acre or 80?

cena

Freddy Smelly wrote: »

house reposessed?

Not at all. We sold it due to the parents separation

cena

wil wrote: »

Ah memories (Actual memories may be slightly rose tinted and entirely fictitious)

Actually is this what you are referring to, with an acre or 80?

ONE acre only

Nemeses

Best not to buy old memories back..

Leave them as memories

Cody Pomeray

Plenty of stories like these doing the rounds lately
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/meet-the-farmer-who-sold-his-land-for-15m-seven-years-ago-and-bought-it-back-for-60000-28812351.html

IT IS the ultimate sign of our dramatic transformation from boom to bust.

A Co Meath cattle farmer has bought back an 8.5-acre site from a developer for just €60,000 only seven years after selling it himself for close to €1.5m.

David Gilsenan from Crossakiel near Kells proved that it's an ill wind that blows no good -- at least for farmers.

At an auction in Navan, Mr Gilsenan was one of just two bidders as he snapped up land that he himself had sold for a fortune in the Celtic Tiger years.

During the boom, the site was earmarked for a housing estate with 45 homes on the edge of the village of Crossakiel.

I heard of an even more dramatic example last week, with a farm that was bought for a multi million euro figure in the mid 2000s being bought back for something like €300k

wil

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Plenty of stories like these doing the rounds lately
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/meet-the-farmer-who-sold-his-land-for-15m-seven-years-ago-and-bought-it-back-for-60000-28812351.html



I heard of an even more dramatic example last week, with a farm that was bought for a multi million euro figure in the mid 2000s being bought back for something like €300k

I know someone in Wicklow this happened to. Parents sold house and land to developer for housing estate near town that didn't happen. They bought another house with land and tried to get planning permission for house for kids but blocked. Developer went bust and sold back original house for a fraction. Win win for kids as parents moved back to original house leaving them with new house. Not everyone lost out from the crash.

cena

I was talking to the guy that sold the house for us. He said the house isn't worth what the guy is asking for 190,000. He says it should be around 50,000

Wacker The Attacker

My old pair still live there

cena

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

My old pair still live there

Live where

Dartz

By it back

Redecorate it inside so it looks exactly as it did.

Sedate your parents.

Dump them in their old bed with papers and records and stuff from the 80's all around.

Wacker The Attacker

cena wrote: »

Live where

in their house

Call Me Jimmy

Dartz wrote: »

By it back

Redecorate it inside so it looks exactly as it did.

Sedate your parents.

Dump them in their old bed with papers and records and stuff from the 80's all around.

This is a good suggestion but I don't know why...

cena

Dartz wrote: »

By it back

Redecorate it inside so it looks exactly as it did.

Sedate your parents.

Dump them in their old bed with papers and records and stuff from the 80's all around.

There would only be one parent moving back if I brought it back. Father is in a home. The guy has let down so bad with grass growing about 5 feet all around. It would take some work to bring it nice again.

We would of had the mortgage paid off years ago if we still lived there

flutered

mrs flutered and i are the parents in the old family home, thankfully the youngsters have fecked off and have left us to enjoy a few leisurely years togeather dunno how long am i have serious health problems, i am a fighter so i will last a while, also i have no intention of leaving this life as i have too many to keep dissapointed by staying alive.

FizzleSticks

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jimboy2011

Confused.com

Celly Smunt

FizzleSticks wrote: »

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I don't think i could live in my spouses parents house,it would never feel like your home.

cena

Celly Smunt wrote: »

I don't think i could live in my spouses parents house,it would never feel like your home.

They could always add extra to the house

ronjo

jimboy2011 wrote: »

Confused.com

This isn't the dumb facebook status thread.

Ruudi_Mentari

That's a very possessive old lady thing to look out for cena. Ihs like harking back, to the future and a gender swap too

Raiser

Ignore the above shallow, smalltime, low mileage posting in fairness. If your old family home does not mean something, hold memories, have roots of real sentiment and represent your childhood then what does?

- Curious about your 'current' comments about what house is 'currently' worth - at a guess if ye had banked the money after the initial sale ye could buy it back tomorrow and have money left over for Yachts?

Also an asking price is often a daydreamers whimsy - you could technically ask for 15.9 million for a cowshed......

DEFTLEFTHAND

The family homestead is priceless, in my line of work I've seen people who've gambled with property and lost. It's very sad to see a man or woman have to part with a piece of land which means so much to them.

Ruudi_Mentari

Raiser wrote: »

Ignore the above shallow, smalltime, low mileage posting in fairness. If your old family home does not mean something, hold memories, have roots of real sentiment and represent your childhood then what does?

I bet you're the kind of guy that cycle to said house and raps on the door, all misty eyed asking to see your old room.

Raiser

Ruudi_Mentari wrote: »

I bet you're the kind of guy that cycle to said house and raps on the door, all misty eyed asking to see your old room.

Yes, you're quite close to the truth

- I'd love to visit the house I lived in as a kid (moved age 7), would love to walk the garden, see how big my favorite climbing tree from back then is now and check out the rooms - have so many memories and half-memories that I amn't even sure of...... Cept the one about the Monday morning gale after I had smashed the large kitchen window the evening before swinging a die-cast airplane on a length of knitting wool in the garden - thats best left in the early 80's [shudder]