I follow a Facebook page called hunbelieveable, which rips the piss out of people who have fake grass,live laugh love signs on their walls and mirrored furniture. One post was a screenshot from Mrs Hinch fanpage about whether a Dyson or a Shark was best for vacuuming the fake grass. 😅😅😅
I absolutely hate fake grass. It reminds me of those rolls of the stuff the undertaker puts over an open grave following a burial.
"I'd better vacuum the grass before it rains."
*checks appearance in the furniture*
😁
I love fake grass I own a large field of 20 acres behind the house and I covered the lot in fake grass. I had to buy a really long extension lead when i go out and hoover it.
Have you considered some fake trees?
I would find that terrifying.
The hostel website is here
I'm probably wrong (again), but €150,000 seems like a great price for that. Considering the 3 overpriced containers in Donegal for €350k anyway..
It's a decent price but it is on a small island off the coast of Ireland so would bound to be cheaper. Looks amazing on the day they took the drone shots. But the reality is it would be very dark and dreary the majority of the year.
But that would be the same anywhere in Ireland, can't do much about the weather 😁
Yea but your not stuck on a small island. I often if having a bad day or what not, might go for a drive or go to a city or even cinema just to clear the head.
You can still go for a drive, it just may be in smallish circles.. 😅
I wonder where the 'extensive renovations' are needed.
I'd say it has feckall insulation.
Looks like damp on the wall to the right of the emergency exit sign over the doorway on pic 5/16. Damp in the windows too. Tiles on floor in same pic don't look good.
Kitchen looks in very bad nick in pic 7/16. The door looks like it's falling apart.
There's a few flat roof sections on part of it, pic 15/16. They are bad news.
So, for starters, roof work, insulation, doors, heating, electrical, new kitchen, flooring, damp proof work etc. They only showed two of the seven guest bedrooms and none of the private section with two bedrooms and living room. I wonder what condition they are in. You could have a mountain of work on your hands.
I could be wildly wrong but I'd imagine there wouldn't be a huge market for a hostel on the island either. Plus you'd be sure to be more or less empty for more than 6 months of the year. It's more a day trip type of place.
https://www.dng.ie/residential/brochure/seatown-place-dundalk-co-louth/4635789.
I wouldn't say it's a day trip kind of place myself. You really need to stay on an Island like this to get a proper sense of how nice it is. Providing you get the weather. I spent a few days there and the weather was incredible. I had a mate though, who spent 4 days there in the rain, with his two kids. Hated the place.
But for this building, you also need to factor in how much more difficult it is building on an island. More expensive and takes a lot more time. Hard to say how popular a hostel would be these days too. There's also a glamping place on the other side of that bay, and it's supposed to be really nice.
You start off going ok, normal enough, then it just veers off into wtf! 😝
I’d knock the house and start again with the tower as the centre piece. Expensive pipe dream though.
I have been to that hostel (didnt stay the night) a few years ago and it didn't look terrible. If its going for 150k it must need serious work to be turned into a hostel again. There's a fairly ordinary house for sale on the island for 400k. The glamping place on the island that is only a field with an outhouse sold for a similar amount earlier on in the year so I am really wondering is the hostel about to collapse or are you buying a business that's saddled with debt.
Though if you were able to run it as a hostel it should be a good money maker. All accomodation of all forms is booked up these days, the island will always have people wanting to visit.
Damn site I clicked the image and it downloads. WTF!
You have to click the 32.
The tower looks mad and is probably the only thing I like about it.
It's a building rather than a business being sold so you wouldn't be taking on any debt unless you had to borrow to purchase the hostel.
Found out it got flooded during a storm and thats why its going for the price it is
Nice bit of investigative work there.
Mad the building is there years and only recently starts flooding. The sea is rising and Ireland is becoming a hot country. Ireland in 50 years could be a paradise with lovely temperatures while those poor f**kers in current hot countries will be turning to deserts.
That's something we wouldn't;t have had to consider in previous years. I'm looking for something along the coast... but not too close!!!
My worries about rising sea levels would rule this one out for me
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-bunnacurry-achill-co-mayo/4043834
I think it was 2014, after Ubbquittious posted it I found this from Jan 2015
Cape Clear bore the brunt of last February’s storms and suffered extensive structural damage.
February’s huge storm surge sent giant waves crashing in to the North Harbour, causing extensive damage to already weakened quay walls.
The island’s lesser used South Harbour was also damaged, with waves crashing in to the harbour, smashing through a ditch, and flooding the island’s hostel.
Locals in their 80s described it as the worst storm in living memory — the battered island was ranked as one of the worst storm-hit areas in Cork.
But the storm gate project had already been commissioned by the department and site work was due to start within weeks of the storms hitting.
Mr Ó Drisceoil said that, once finished, it will make a huge difference to the island.
Have they got a fireplace filled in with drawers???
And it's on the south harbour, so facing the open ocean, which means it will bet the full brunt of the winter storms.
Bracing, magnificent, but not to everyone's taste.
As a hostel it may require extensive work to bring it up to officially required standards.
Edit: I see the storms have already been mentioned!☺️
It doesn't really face the open sea there. It's close to the end of a bay.
I know what you mean, but I was judging from photo no 2.
I was thinking a big sea coming in that inlet during a storm could be interesting 😅
I wonder would it act like a wind tunnel seeing as the inlet has pretty high sides in parts?
It depends on the direction of the wind. North or west are usually the worst so the hills would protect against those.
