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Good morning Persie <3

What are you 'up to' today ?

Dea x

Hi Persie...hope all is well with you. Lovely brekkie isn't it?


DEA! You've just snuck back to that table......I saw you!



Just peering around for MC and LK......where have they disappeared to?


~~~~~~~~~~waving madly to attract their attention.


It's safe to visit..........Fans is away at the mo so all is peaceful and quiet for a short while..............


make the most of it.


Anyone seen Gins either??

House prices.

My parents bought their first house, a small 3 bedroom terraced property in 1955 as sitting tenants for £750. They had been renting it since 1935.

We bought our first home, a 2 bedroom ground floor maisonette for £3,300 in 1968. We sold it in 1973 for £6,250. We bought it back again in 1991 (For our daughter, son in law and our first granddaughter to live in) for £45,000. As their family grew their need for an extra bedroom meant that it was sold in 1994 for exactly the same sum. It has recently changed hands again, selling this time for £139,000.

I feel very sorry for young people today. Their chances of getting on the property ladder have become remote because of the high property prices and the large deposits now being required by mortgage lenders.

Did someone say croissants? :D :D :D

I am off work today but back tomorrow.

I am finding it very tiring,

I am making a little more progress on arm movement though.
I can raise both arms up in front of me to just over eye level ang side ways about 80 degrees so not quite straight.

We lived in converted barn(not very well converted either as it was very cold)on my Paternal, grandparents farm in England for the first years of my life ,my brother was born there as well then Parents got a mortgage(£3000) in 1964 and bought a small hill farm in Pembrokeshire of 30 Acres and the house was like a dolls house to look at,2 up 2 down and you had to walk through the first bedroom (parents)to get to our bedroom and cold water only in the house .
No bathroom but a "Ty Bach" on the side of the house.
My baby brother was born in that house when I was 8 and when we heard him crying when being born we asked what it was boy?girl? and dad replied from their room that we still had to wait a minute as only his head was out so far..!
My ,that baby could cry.... :D

Hope his great niece arriving today does not take after him in that way at all.......
Off to do some more clearing up and await the call that I am Grannyviv again.
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I couldn't agree more Jonesey, my younger daughter and son-in-law managed to get a little two bedroom place in Wellington NZ but not without assistance from family plus a hefty mortgage.

My older daughter and her husband with three children wanted to expand their house. It is so small here in Auckland and despite him having good mortgage rate working for the bank, there would need to be a lot more borrowing to be done. As luck would have it he after 36 years with the bank he was told the writing was on the wall and best that he resign. I say luck because he had put into a superannuation fund and with that and what they had to pay out plus leave etc he ended up with a nice little nest egg plus the morgage paid off. They did not want to move and their house will be sold off cheaply and they will be building a much bigger place on the section.
We asked him when he knew he would be finishing (you have to be a sales rep at the bank nowadays not just a banking adviser etc) what did he want to do and he wanted to work as a Funeral Director. He finished work on a Friday got two interviews and started with a funeral company two weeks later. My daughter was so worried before Christmas and so he stayed at work till mid January before the change... a real negative turned into a positive.

Our property is worth over 4.5 times what we paid for it end of 1987. We are moving further south late next year to where the places are cheaper, you get better value for your $ and we consider ourselves a lot better off than some.

Persie :-)

Cor ..... what brought Fans back again? Peeping she is!



Is that why your brother never closes a door Fans? Because he was born in a barn????


hahahaha.......oops. fell over.

The house where I was brought up is at calhame.com go to pictures and then house. The site is dedicated to the memories from there.

R

Is it just my warped mind ..... every time I see a post with a heading as in this one

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/ancestors/thread/1269707

I have a great urge to reply "You should try here"

http://www.friendsreuniteddating.co.uk/

R

Hi LK....glad to hear you're making progress with your arm movements.....can you lift a coffee mug.....that's the important bit :D How long has it been now?



R. I know just what you mean....there have been some hilarious headings in the past - I just can't remember what they were :-)

Poor person just wanted to check out that they were official.

Think of those in the future doing this genalogy lark - they will have to set up cohabiting records or I play here this week and there next week records. It will all be deperate housewives and office affairs etc... They will probably set up a new search engine called the de facto engine.

It would be awful not being able to lift your coffee mug - sipping coffee through a straw doesn't do it for me....

Night - it's after 1am here and himself is catching up on the HDD recordings this week.

Persie :O

Cynthia

I learnt to be ambidexterous with my coffe cup straight.

I did have trouble with a knife and fork at first.

Now I am finding tasks close to the body are easier each day.




I think genealogy is going to be nigh on impossible in years to come.
What test tubes etc. I know of one person who is in same sex marriage relationship but has just given birh. The marriage has since broken up. I just wonder what will go through the childs mind in years to come?

OMG....youve covered quite a number of topics while I have busy working!

House prices....bought my first in 1997, got a bargain as it was a real dump.....cant tell you what its worth now ;-)

So like the nationwide still own a small part of my house....but when I have to have repairs done, guttering, wall ties etc.....they dont contribute pro rata :-(

LK....so glad you are getting better and starting to see light at the end of the tunnel...its been a very long haul for you and I still get cross at the idiot who mugged you

Grrrrrrrrrrrr....I hope he gets his Karma good style

Night Persie....sleep well.


Oh yes Gins....we can cover a lot of ground on here whilst you're doing whatever it is you do!

I dont know half of what I do either Cyns!

Today I was cleaning a training room from top to bottom as the cleaner is orf sick and a programme starts on Tuesday :-(

Hi all
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rain and sun today



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re house prices


grandfather died in 1963, two sons were still alive. My mother had died 2 years earlier.

The youngest was what was called a slow learner, and had lived at home all his life, he was then about 40.

The other older one was married, no children, and lived about 2 streets away.

The house was a larger Victorian terrace house .................... front door opened on to a long hall that led to the kitchen, with the door to the large front room being at the kitchen end. Upstairs there were 2 bedrooms and a full bathroom that grandfather had installed himself. House was in good condition ........ grandfather was a builder and repairer.

The older brother came to my brother and I and said that he thought it best if the younger one remained in the house, his wife would cook a hot meal a day and take it up there. To do this, he would buy the shares in the house that should have gone to my mother and the brother.

He figured the house was worth £300 .......... so my brother and I got £50 each



I've sometimes wondered what the house sold for after the younger brother died in 1990



s
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Young folk have problems buying houses here as well.


We bought this house in 1972, all on one floor, with a full basement. Two bedrooms, one bathroom. Detached (as are most houses over here). Lot size 33' by 116'

It cost $27,000

5 years later, we did a major renovation .............. made an ensuite full bathroom, added another bathroom, a large family room, and extended the basement under the new addition. Still only 2 bedrooms. That cost $25,000


In my eyes, the house now cost a total of $52,000



We get an annual assessment of the value of our property, used by the city to determine how much taxes we have to pay.


The latest value of our property is $873,300


The house itself is valued at $26,700, down $2,900 from 2009

So the increase in value is all in the land that the house and garden are sitting on ..... and that has increased $153,000 since 2009


But it does no good for us to sell and buy ........ because every other property has also increased in value!



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LK


glad to hear that your arm movement is improving slowly but surely.



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