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Who'd live in a house like this? Part 2

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    #962
    Surreptitious
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    Aglomerado wrote: »
    I think so too, a real feeling of a bygone age. I knew many houses like this in Clare and I'm only slightly north of 40.
    This man was very happy, fit and healthy for almost all his life.

    There is a lot to be said for a simple life :)


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    #963
    jaffa20
    Registered Users Posts: 4,516 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    A done up shed in someones garden for 285k, sure why not

    https://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/sandyford/ticknock-hill-sandyford-dublin-1969696/


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    #964
    retalivity
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    Via broadsheet.ie - 855k for a 2bed cottage in Churchtown

    However, it does come with quarter of a mini

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    #965
    Sardonicat
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    ^^^
    My eyes! I think my retinas are melting.


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    #966
    BandMember
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    jaffa20 wrote: »
    A done up shed in someones garden for 285k, sure why not

    https://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/sandyford/ticknock-hill-sandyford-dublin-1969696/

    A total legal minefield regarding title, deeds, access etc. Anyone who even thinks about this one needs their head examined!

    This thread depresses me at times.... :(


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    #967
    inforfun
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    Come home after a long day at work, fall down in your couch. End up in Galway.


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    #968
    ILikeBoats
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    jaffa20 wrote: »
    A done up shed in someones garden for 285k, sure why not

    https://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/sandyford/ticknock-hill-sandyford-dublin-1969696/

    Where is the 2nd bedroom?!


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    #969
    D3V!L
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    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2548892,-6.2517745,3a,15y,120.17h,95.02t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sSpM3LD01cgAFrs0jJmfh4g!2e0!5s20090401T000000!7i13312!8i6656

    Looks like it started life as a shed.


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    #970
    Graces7
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    Surreptitious wrote: »
    Some of those pictures look like an Art installation or photography project. There's something kind of sparse and beautiful about it all.

    Yes that was my reaction too... So evocative and empty now so long.. Would love to be able to restore it.

    The agent here is Green Valley; they are different from most agents and their write ups are distinctive.

    He has some awesome properties and always mentions anyone living nearby etc as some are seeking isolation, as I do

    Above all he is honest to a fault; as he says they do not call a spade a long handled soil manipulator..

    See

    http://www.gvp.ie/


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    #971
    Thargor
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    Look at the hideous plastic hospital trolley wheels on that mini couch...


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    #972
    Toots
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    BandMember wrote: »
    A total legal minefield regarding title, deeds, access etc. Anyone who even thinks about this one needs their head examined!

    This thread depresses me at times.... :(

    I bet if you ring the estate agent it'll be cash buyers only. I'd say it would be a nightmare to try and get a mortgage on that.


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    #973
    Graces7
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    Aglomerado wrote: »
    I think so too, a real feeling of a bygone age. I knew many houses like this in Clare and I'm only slightly north of 40.
    This man was very happy, fit and healthy for almost all his life.

    I reread all this and only then noticed that he lived to 106.

    The last resident on this small island to die was 104. An old lady.

    Like the man in Clare, most of her life would have been before electricty came to the island and before a modern water/sewage provision. The old water tower still dominates.

    We still most of us rely on turf for heating and then that was the only way. Island turf..

    Does indeed give pause for thought.. at this time of year we are cut off more than we are in contact. Simplifies. Slows us down. Calms and prioritizes.

    And that house typifies old folk of that era. Nothing ever thrown out until it just stays and builds.

    Thank you


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    #974
    mikhail
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    There have always been old people, but the idea that people used to live longer is an infantile fantasy.
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    #975
    Dia1988
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Dia1988


    This house in Wexford house with collapsed ceiling and abandonment look like a repossession.
    Then, in one pic looks like a a squatter left his Guinness/Heineken beside his mattress on the floor and their quality streets with fajitas in the kitchn with the collapsed ceiling. Also, every light bulb is gone from the fittings.

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    https://www.daft.ie/wexford/houses-for-auction/murrintown/kildavin-lower-murrintown-wexford-1967705/


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    #976
    Ted_YNWA
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    Is there a need to leave the toilet seats up when taking the photos too?


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    #977
    Pretzill
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    I reread all this and only then noticed that he lived to 106.

    The last resident on this small island to die was 104. An old lady.

    Like the man in Clare, most of her life would have been before electricty came to the island and before a modern water/sewage provision. The old water tower still dominates.

    We still most of us rely on turf for heating and then that was the only way. Island turf..

    Does indeed give pause for thought.. at this time of year we are cut off more than we are in contact. Simplifies. Slows us down. Calms and prioritizes.

    And that house typifies old folk of that era. Nothing ever thrown out until it just stays and builds.

    Thank you

    Graces do you write? Because I'd read your island memoirs :)


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    #978
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Pretzill wrote: »
    Graces do you write? Because I'd read your island memoirs :)

    Embarrassing me!

    Yes I do. There are 4 books, pod, "Island Hermitage" theme.... sold to fund the work my extended family and colleagues do rescuing babies... Have a plan also for "Looking over my shoulder; a lancashire childhood"


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    #979
    Graces7
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    Not sure if this one qualifies, but hey! It is Sunday..

    I am abed a lot just now and love pottering on daft.... among all the wrecks etc this gave such delight..

    https://www.daft.ie/kerry/houses-for-sale/ardfert/calla-breena-banemore-ardfert-kerry-1558642/

    The sheer flower glory and the soft toys atop the dog pens.... and yes, rather charmingly eccentric inside

    Wondering what befell the owner... oh that flower garden!


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    #980
    Sheeps
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    Not sure if this one qualifies, but hey! It is Sunday..

    I am abed a lot just now and love pottering on daft.... among all the wrecks etc this gave such delight..

    https://www.daft.ie/kerry/houses-for-sale/ardfert/calla-breena-banemore-ardfert-kerry-1558642/

    The sheer flower glory and the soft toys atop the dog pens.... and yes, rather charmingly eccentric inside

    Wondering what befell the owner... oh that flower garden!


    In fairness, that's not too bad.


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    #981
    Dia1988
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Dia1988


    Dia1988 wrote: »
    This house in Wexford house with collapsed ceiling and abandonment look like a repossession.
    Then, in one pic looks like a a squatter left his Guinness/Heineken beside his mattress on the floor and their quality streets with fajitas in the kitchn with the collapsed ceiling. Also, every light bulb is gone from the fittings.

    #img=7

    #img=13

    https://www.daft.ie/wexford/houses-for-auction/murrintown/kildavin-lower-murrintown-wexford-1967705/

    What do people think?


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    #982
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Dia1988 wrote: »
    What do people think?

    I would live in that in a minute if I had a job in Wexford. Yes cosmetically its rough but everything else is there and only a short commute on the train to Dublin.


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    #983
    Dia1988
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Dia1988


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    I would live in that in a minute if I had a job in Wexford. Yes cosmetically its rough but everything else is there and only a short commute on the train to Dublin.

    Okay, I wouldn't be keen to live in Wexford because I find Wexford people very clannish. But that's neither here nor there.

    I was just asking what people thought the situation of the house? Could there be a squatter?

    Also how much effort would it take to actually pick up the ceiling debris or at least hide the guinness/Heineken bottles and the squatter mattress before taking the pictures?


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    #984
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Dia1988 wrote: »
    Okay, I wouldn't be keen to live in Wexford because I find Wexford people very clannish. But that's neither here nor there.

    I was just asking what people thought the situation of the house? Could there be a squatter?

    Also how much effort would it take to actually pick up the ceiling debris or at least hide the guinness/Heineken bottles and the squatter mattress before taking the pictures?

    Every rural place is clannish, ever read the Valley of the Squinting windows? All auld Biddies gossiping and dying men rethoric in half whiskey glasses. My father and mother moved into one of those communities in the 1970's, built a house, raised a family and carried on. In those communities they have old grudges, grippes and cliques. You wont get into them so just carry on and take time out for tea. I find not living up against my cousins and having a "family history in de toon" is very liberating.

    Squatters dont have rights. I would love if someone properly qualified could comment on this. I think they have to be paying bills and making improvements to the property. What ever you do, dont recognoise them. If necessary run them off the property and move someone else in immediately. Vacant buildings are asking for trouble.


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    #985
    Graces7
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    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    Every rural place is clannish, ever read the Valley of the Squinting windows? All auld Biddies gossiping and dying men rethoric in half whiskey glasses. My father and mother moved into one of those communities in the 1970's, built a house, raised a family and carried on. In those communities they have old grudges, grippes and cliques. You wont get into them so just carry on and take time out for tea. I find not living up against my cousins and having a "family history in de toon" is very liberating.

    What ever you do, dont recognoise them. If necessary run them off the property and move someone else in immediately. Vacant buildings are asking for trouble.[/QUOTE]

    Having... er facilitated the expulsion of a squatter.... they have to be in sole possession of a property for 12 years, more if it is council property.. ie the owner not setting foot thereon or on land. One case when a sqautter applied to the court for adverse possession was dismissed when the owner proved he had walked the boundary of the land once in that time.

    Getting them out can be a tricky process indeed; ususally court then legal eviction.a. Keep an eye on any vacant houses..

    Many squatters try to persuade fol k the law is different eg that they need only be there 12 weeks..12 years or 20... and only then if there have been significant improvements made


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    #986
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Graces7 wrote: »

    Having... er facilitated the expulsion of a squatter.... they have to be in sole possession of a property for 12 years, more if it is council property.. ie the owner not setting foot thereon or on land. One case when a sqautter applied to the court for adverse possession was dismissed when the owner proved he had walked the boundary of the land once in that time.

    Getting them out can be a tricky process indeed; ususally court then legal eviction.a. Keep an eye on any vacant houses..

    Many squatters try to persuade fol k the law is different eg that they need only be there 12 weeks..12 years or 20... and only then if there have been significant improvements made
    The time and effort you put into to sneaking into a property and holding and renovating that same property. You would have honestly bought, refurbished and retained your own property without any stress. I know a scumbag neighbour who tried to do this to a widow, not sure how far they got. Really it is a bad show when this happens. If you cant find a tenant then move your own kin onto the property.


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    #987
    zell12
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    RTB going to monitor Boards.ie (and other social media) by ministerial order!
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    #988
    BattleCorp
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    Dia1988 wrote: »

    I was just asking what people thought the situation of the house? Could there be a squatter?

    Also how much effort would it take to actually pick up the ceiling debris or at least hide the guinness/Heineken bottles and the squatter mattress before taking the pictures?

    The property will sell easily enough and the auctioneer knows this so that's why they didn't bother cleaning up and trying to make the place look good.

    I'd say there was a squatter at one stage but they probably have been cleared out. Looks like a wino rather than a long term squatter too.


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    #989
    Grayson
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    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    I would live in that in a minute if I had a job in Wexford. Yes cosmetically its rough but everything else is there and only a short commute on the train to Dublin.

    I did a quick search this morning. Wouldn't describe the wexford - Dublin train as a short commute. Maybe that shows what we're like now. A long commute is Kerry - Donegal :)


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    #990
    Deebles McBeebles
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    For 170k I'd be willing to clean up after a squatter. Nice gaff with lovely outside space.


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    #991
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Grayson wrote: »
    I did a quick search this morning. Wouldn't describe the wexford - Dublin train as a short commute. Maybe that shows what we're like now. A long commute is Kerry - Donegal :)

    With laptops and trains its not so bad. its not the distance its the time lost travelling. Plus you would have country rates with city privileges


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