Gouging cunce.
You could wash the dishes in bed.
"Preferably an Asian tenant" - is that not illegal?
I wonder is it so small that only a "small person" 😉 could get into it ?
This is 9 year old second hand knowledge so take it with a massive grain of salt. In 2014 I interviewed for a job a bit outside longford town and was checking out apartments to rent in advance of it. When I got a taxi at the train station to the job I asked the taxi man about that building in particular and he told me to avoid like the plague as it had brothels and drug dens inside. Looking at that price, if something is too good to be true there is a reason.
And it "comes with a town facing balcony".
....except its on the ground floor.
I was wondering about that. I'd say your plant boxes would be well watered anyway.
And the town it's facing is Longford.
No, thanks for the message, you're probably right, it has to be such a low price for a reason.
Apartments struggle to sell in most mid sized or even larger Urban centres. You will buy apartments in Limerick city for sub 150k in fairly ok blocks.
The reality of apartments are you have a management fees and , which are noe starting to substantially increase a good few seem to have increased by 20-30% this year. You have the chance of a major issue that will require a levy on all owners. There is a good chance a substantial number are rented and there may be problem tenants
You really need to go have a look, checkout the management company, find out from them if there is any structural or fire issues at present and how well funded is the OMC. Find out from the auctioneer what the OMC charges are he should have put them on the add. They are probably in the 1-1.5k/year bracket. Basically an apartment takes a bit more legwork than a house. You would probably buy a small two bed in Longford for 150k and if it was empty for two years you can draw the refurbishment grant.
Do you plan to live there long-term or is it an option instead of renting and holding as a long-term investment.
Apartments are poor sellers in Ireland at present outside of Dublin, Cork and Galway maybe. In smaller Urban centres they complete against small town houses requiring refurbishment. You could buy a small townhouse and you get the bones if 100k in grants to refurbish from the LA and the SEAI. That is a serious option for small townhouses.
Apartment blocks can tend to have a substantial number of units rented. However being cheap is not an exact reason to be put off them. If it a choice between renting for 6-8 years and living in an Apartment I think I be taking the apartment
These are good points, but I was just passing along along something I had heard about this block in particular. Might not be true anymore, if it was ever true in the first place, but doesn't hurt to be wary.
Cheung is a Cantonese name so he is bringing some Hong Kong inspired living solutions
@Bass Reeves
There is a lot of stuff auctioneers should do which from personal experience they don't do. Came to the point I would pay the €5 or so to get the MC accounts rather than bother asking.
Good feedback thank you, I would be planning to live in it long term in my retirement.
Ah well, I really.couldn't recommend Longford town as somewhere to retire to, I don't want to put the place down, but it's not retirement dreams stuff.
Whatever about the town, ground floor flat in the centre of any town won’t be the best, noise constantly from people on foot and cars passing, taxi doors being slammed. You’d have no peace, day or night.
You’d struggle to resell it if you needed to. Better off with a terraced house in a town if town centre is what you are after.
Serious photoshop skills going on here:
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-11-kribensis-manor-clonee-dublin-15/5377886
To be fair, that's actually very useful, and not particularly OTT.
The chequerboard paving around the house is awful, they could have done with photoshopping that out!
I actually like the paving around the house. I can safely say I remember when all that land was just fields!!!! :-)
The Ilike the fact that they show the empty room vs the photoshop versions. Its not trying to hide anything.
So is the furniture photoshopped in or out? It's very well done.
I couldn't figure that out either.
Though I'm thinking furniture is Photoshopped out as the hall picture has the dining room table in the background....so if the furniture is Photoshopped in the person definitely takes pride in their work keeping the continuity going.
It's photoshopped in - the shadows aren't always consistent with the direction light is coming from.
The kitchen table and chairs look real - and there's no photo of the kitchen without them taken. Those are the ones that are in the background of the hall photo.
Also - in the sitting room photos, the pictures "without" show the curtain badly arranged and dirt on the floor. No way somebody is going to photoshop in stains on the floor!
I'm half surprised they haven't photoshopped a Mercedes into the driveway
You can see looking at it that the furniture is cgi, it doesn't look 'real', though its perfectly fine as a representation of what a room would look like furnished.
I have come across people who haven't really though about it and are somehow under the impression that if you take something out of a picture the background will still be there. I had someone ask me to take two figures out of a garden picture because she wanted to see the garden behind.
It's easy. just keep repeating enhance.
Strange upside down house but i kinda like it. The master suite is an impressive space and it's a surprisingly spacious and yet private site considering it's location. Not sure it's worth what they're looking for it though.
Yeah, the furniture is definitely virtual. You could easily do this in the Ikea app on any phone - it allows you to view an augmented reality view of any space and add furniture from their catalog to it, complete with shadows and perspective as you move around, then export to your phone's camera roll.
That said, the latest Beta version of Photoshop has some pretty impressive AI object remove and creation tools ("generative fill") that basically require no effort. All you do is select the area and hit a button to remove it, and PS generates a convincing background in its place. If you want to add something, you select the area and type the name of the thing you want to add, and PS generates it.
I like it, but I always think you would have a pain in your hole bringing fuel for the stove etc upstairs.
Not to mention the dirt you would be spreading around the house while you were doing it.
Impressive, that level of photoshop sophistication was only coming in when I retired.
The house I am in had a kitchen and sitting room upstairs when I bought it, the kitchen was swapped with a downstairs bedroom immediately! The sitting room is lovely, great views, but I could not contemplate hauling groceries and rubbish up and down the stairs.
Anyone know the history of this place ?
