Not even for €15,000?....

L.Jenkins

http://www.daft.ie/sales/124-meadowbrook-athlone-westmeath/960008/

A house nearby is even selling for €10,000. At those knock prices, would you live in or near Willow Park?

The other house (http://www.daft.ie/sales/127-meadowbrook-athlone-westmeath/990121/)

Lenin Skynard

Wouldn't walk down Meadowbrooke, let alone live in it. Those houses all need to be gutted and practically rebuilt. And that still doesn't solve the problem that you'd probably have some of the worst neighbours in the midlands. You may as well throw the fifteen grand in the bin.

TheJackAttack

Meadowbrook should be flattened!

L.Jenkins

Well if someone had a few hundred grand behind them, they could buy them out of the place if the houses are that cheap. You might not get a return on investment, but the area would have one less family of trouble makers to worry about. And yes, they'd end up somewhere else, terrorizing another area of the town.

Sure look at Saint Mels. There were dispersed and trouble in the area dropped ever so slightly.

BoB_BoT

I would love to own my own house for that cheap. It may only be a 10k/15k house, but it's still in a hole. I'd have to spend another 80k fortifying it :P

Have you any idea how expensive sentry guns are?!?!

L.Jenkins

BoB_BoT wrote: »

I would love to own my own house for that cheap. It may only be a 10k/15k house, but it's still in a hole. I'd have to spend another 80k fortifying it :P

Have you any idea how expensive sentry guns are?!?!

You only need to shoot the first one. Everyone else will get the point and stay away. I'd prefer Claymores instead, but that's just me.

SilverScreen

Itzy wrote: »

http://www.daft.ie/sales/124-meadowbrook-athlone-westmeath/960008/

A house nearby is even selling for €10,000. At those knock prices, would you live in or near Willow Park?

The other house (http://www.daft.ie/sales/127-meadowbrook-athlone-westmeath/990121/)

If houses in Willow Park get any cheaper I'd be tempted to buy the entire estate and flatten it

By the way, anyone fancy moving to Limerick?

http://www.daft.ie/sales/114-hyde-road-limerick-city-limerick/954762/
http://www.daft.ie/sales/111-hyde-road-limerick-city-limerick/965166/

L.Jenkins

I'd actually be half tempted to buy the houses and leave them boarded up. I would actually do them up at a later date.

Long Gone

Itzy wrote: »

I'd actually be half tempted to buy the houses and leave them boarded up. I would actually do them up at a later date.

Why do you think the situation down there will be any better at a later date ?

Wrong location, wrong location, wrong location.....

L.Jenkins

Long Gone wrote: »

Why do you think the situation down there will be any better at a later date ?

Wrong location, wrong location, wrong location.....

Because it take me a while to source ill tempered penguins with lasers attached to them.

Tzardine

I love to read the crap on these ads from the estate agent.

Who are they trying to fool.

Long Gone

Indeed - One of the worst problems that we have in Ireland but as decent law abiding hard working tax payers we're not even allowed to mention it - Undesirables in our midst. God knows Athlone has far more than it's fair share......

Long Gone

Itzy wrote: »

Because it take me a while to source ill tempered penguins with lasers attached to them.

I think you'll need more than penguins and more than lasers.....

Honey Badgers (Google them - "Honey badgers don't give a s***") armed with Uzis are more like what is required to exterminate that infestation of vermin.....

tubos

Just taking a trip down Meadowbrook on Google Maps is an eye opener!! I wouldn't live there or anywhere near it if you paid me 10K

Tzardine

tubos wrote: »

Just taking a trip down Meadowbrook on Google Maps is an eye opener!! I wouldn't live there or anywhere near it if you paid me 10K

Looks ok to me.

http://s21.postimg.org/vre1wuh53/Capture.jpg

But seriously, how did this area get so bad. It looks like it was probably nice when first completed.

tayto lover

Tzardine wrote: »

Looks ok to me.

http://s21.postimg.org/vre1wuh53/Capture.jpg

But seriously, how did this area get so bad. It looks like it was probably nice when first completed.

Far too many of the same kind of people. Bad mistake.

L.Jenkins

That place is the septic tank of Athlone.

Itzy

Itzy wrote: »

That place is the septic tank of Athlone.

I wouldn't say that, septic tanks are useful as they do bio-degrade the waste as it passes through, cesspit is probably a better analogy!