Is This A Good Time To Buy Cheap UK Properties?
At the moment there is a big slowdown in the property market in the UK, and although this may not seem like a good time to buy property, it could actually prove to be an excellent opportunity to pick up a few bargains.
Property prices in the UK have dropped sharply in recent months which is not necessarily a bad thing because prices have increased steadily over a number of years now and so a correction was inevitable at some point.
This drop in prices presents a good opportunity for the long-term investor because if you look at the property that is currently for sale, you are likely to find that prices in some areas of the country have fallen to around about what they were about three or four years ago.
So if you're investing for the long-term, which you should be if you want to make serious money from property, then this is a good time to be picking up some bargains, particularly if you are a cash investor or have some spare cash ready to invest.
It may be the case that prices have further to fall, but in the long run property prices only trend in one direction and that's upwards. Plus you can protect yourself to some degree by renting out your property if it's an investment and using it to earn an income, until prices start to rise again when you may consider selling.
The best thing about the current state of the market is that it's now very much a buyers market which means you can negotiate even better deals for yourself.
One way of doing this is by doing thorough research in your local area, picking out properties which are currently already on the market for a decent price, and put in cheeky offers well below the seller's asking price.
You will likely find that most of your offers will get rejected but you only need one seller to accept and you've got yourself an outstanding bargain.
Another good method of snapping up a cheap property is by visiting property auctions. Here you will find lots of properties selling for well below their true market value in a lot of cases, particularly at the moment when the property market is in a slowdown, because you have a lot less buyers to compete with.
So overall although prices are dropping slightly, in the long term this could turn out to be a good opportunity to negotiate some very good prices at below the true market value, and increase your chances of making good profits in years to come when the market inevitably picks up again.
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Tips on How to Make Your House Sell Quick Besides Selling it For Cheap
Selling something as substantial as a house may sound like something that is easier said than done, let alone selling it quickly, but it is still quite possible, provided you know the proper way to sell the house. Just like most things, people are always on the lookout for good buys, and that includes investments as major as buying a house. A look at the most recent classified ads will confirm this fact, and if this is to be used a gauge for market viability, then real estate would seem to be a sector that is not as hard hit by the recession as the rest, considering how many homes are being put up for sale on the market.
Still, the question that is pertinent for anyone who would want to seize this opportunity to make a sale is: what do you need to do to make your house sell quickly, and maybe make a real profit at the soonest time?
Get a professional – If you are not a seasoned and experienced realtor, then it may be a good idea to contract the services of one. This should be someone whom you deem to be quite trustworthy, since this person will be the one who will be selling your house. It only stands to reason that this person takes the initiative to keep you abreast of just how many potential buyers you have, if your targeted price is being met, just how close to making an actual sales this realtor is.
Do a walk-through of the house – Typically important because any self-respecting realtor will NOT try to sell your property without even trying to look at it personally, and by personally, that means they have actually been to your house to give it a thorough analysis. They will assess the value of your house in terms of salability. Considering the fact that they also stand to make a profit by being able to actually sell your house, this walk-through is as important to them as it is to you, so be on hand for the assessment and take into consideration the estimates they say. You may not be an expert on the field, but you should have an idea of just how much your home stands to fetch in the market. If you feel that your house is being priced at an unbelievably low price, ask the realtor why they think that is the worth of your house. Ask If the realtor for any suggestions to make the value of the house appreciate even more, as they may have some last minute fixes that may jack up the sell price of your house.
Cleanliness is next to salability – This almost needs no explanation at all. Who would want to purchase a property that looks like a garbage dump or a landfill? You should really ensure that both the outside and the inside of your house is clean as a whistle. Just like most things on sale on the market, the front of the house says a lot about the house itself. For one, a clean, well kept front is a terrific way to make a good impression to potentials buyers. A good impression is often a good way to hook them in, just enough for the realtor to throw in the sales pitch and convince them to buy the house.
Bring in the light – One of the first things the realtor may suggest is to give the house being sold a fresh coat of paint, and choice of paint color is a significant part of your efforts to make your house sell quick. Unless you are planning to sell to some shady characters, such as mob bosses looking for a discrete hideaway, someone in the witness protection program, or maybe an undead European aristocrat, painting the house in dark, dreary, and drab house paint colors is not really advised. The walls should be painted in either white, or in case you don't want that antiseptic look, off-white colors that are bright enough to attract prospective buyers without really looking sterile. In case the house is actually quite wanting in space and size, painting the house in bright colors may even give it the impression of being larger than it really is.
Clean out the inside – Unless you are still living inside the house when it is being sold, and unless you also plan on throwing in your furniture. Completely clean out the house of any and all indications of occupancy. Try to make it appear as brand new as possible, as this actually adds to the sale value of the house. This will also give a spacious area to move around and allow potential buyers to visualize where they can put in their stuff. A lot of people are like this, and a lot of sales were actually closed thanks to the buyer seeing a viable house for their personal items.
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Stealing an image of a kid
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About a year ago I was surprised when I saw an image of my son in an ad for a shop called "Vinderen Elektriske", selling electronics.
I immediately contacted the editor of the magazine in question, "Vinderen Magasinet". She directed me to the advertiser and the designer behind the ad. I contacted the designer. She had found the image "on the internet" and reacted like I was rude and angry without any reason when I told her that she couldn't use the image without my permission. I was obviously talking to a professional designer with absolutely no knowledge of intellectual property laws.
The use of my image is a very clear violation of several paragraphs in those laws. Both because I own the rights to the image and because they need permission from the easily recognizable person in the image.
So I called the manager of the shop responsible for the ad. He was not very friendly either and simply directed me to their lawyer. Probably in hope of me simply forgetting about it because I didn't want to fight their lawyer.
Unfortunately for them this simply pissed me off. Seriously. I am not too difficult when it comes to people wanting to use my images. An apology and a suggestion for some kind of compensation would have been okay. But now I just went from a minor irritation to pure anger.
Fortunately I am pretty well connected and a couple of emails later I am in contact with the utterly talented Mr. Halvor Manshaus. You know, Jon Lech Johansen aka DVD-Jon's lawyer. A lawyer you don't want on your neck when discussing digital rights.
But he's not cheap. Not even after a couple of beer and a very interesting discussion about technology and new media… And with this incident I don't know if I'll get any kind of economic compensation in the end, so I have to put aside thousands of dollars and prepare to cover the expenses if I loose.
Most people would probably just give up. That's why this story is important.
Some weeks later I am fortunate enough to meet Mr. Jon Bing at a conference where we both where speaking. Jon Bing is a Norwegian writer and law professor at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law. I tell him about the case. He tells me that the economic compensations people get in cases like these very often are pretty low. But he also says that the case is somewhat important and that I should go through with it to state an example. I should do my duty.
Okay. This would cost me time and money, but I'm pissed, the professor tells me I should do it and Halvor Manshaus is at my service.
I instruct Mr. Manshaus to go on and send a proposal to the lawyer that Vinderen Elektriske was using. He proposes a compensation of about 00 and make it clear that they have violated Norwegian law of intellectual property. He also asks for documentation on exactly where they used the image.
After a while they reply that this is out of proportions and that they won't pay more than something like 00,- No apology and no documentation on the usage.
I don't accept this. Mr. Manshaus sends another letter. This time with even more references to Norwegian law and a statement about the fact that I am willing to go on and charge them for violation of intellectual property law.
They fail to answer on time and we need to send a reminder with yet another letter. In the next letter they propose something close to 00,- as long as I prove that it's my son in the image(!) That's not very difficult to prove. Because I don't have the time and money to push this further I accept the 00,- It's enough to cover my expenses and leave some dollars that I will put away for my son.
Still, Vinderen Elektriske never gave me proper documentation on where they used the image. They never gave me any form of apology.
But at least it states an example. And I hope the designer now have learned that she can't just use whatever she finds through Google Images and I hope Vinderen Elektriske are more careful the next time they put together an ad.
And there is another important lesson to be learned here. The one about communication and marketing. In about 20 seconds the owner of Vinderen Elektriske could have avoided:
- 00,- in compensation to me
- Expenses for his own lawyer
- Bad publicity
How? Instead of answering
"We found the image on the internet. Talk to our lawyer"
He could have said something like
"Oh. I'm so sorry. Our designer must have made a mistake. We really liked your image. How can we fix this? Of course you should have some kind of compensation. Maybe you would give our shop a visit and pick a Nintendo Wii and some games for your son?"
Unfortunately they selected the other option. Pissing me off. Making sure I now hate Vinderen Elektriske. Making sure my family, most of my readers and huge amounts of people around the different forums where this story has been shared also hate them.
Fools.
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Slovenskofant Demonstrates Health and Safety in Slovenia
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Shortly after dawn, I spotted this one opposite Super Li as I was walking home, after another gruelling (part train, part walk, part hitch-hike) three-hour overnight journey from Maribor to Ptuj (22km).
Congratulations for not drunk driving, mate, although I can't believe there isn't a tax on this in Slovenia. Strictly speaking he has built a hotel.
Now the local economic strategy is based on creating as many alcoholics with lung cancer as we can. 286 years after smoking was banned in Berlin, 69 years after Roffo showed a heavy smoker could inhale four kilograms of tar in 10 years, and 56 years on from Sir Richard Doll's epidemiological nailing of the tobacco coffin, what is the situation in Ptuj?
The situation is that drinkers, among them medical workers, economists, sporty types and teachers, bitter at the EU's indoor ban, can't wait for the pub's lock-in to begin so they can light up their torches of freedom* and show their powerful addiction to individualism.
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Meanwhile, Years Per Life Lost (YPLL) per death resulting from the acute effects of alcohol accounted for relatively more mortality in younger persons, an average of 30 years of life lost for each death associated with excessive blood alcohol levels, in contrast with a YPLL of merely 12 for each death from alcoholic cirrhosis.
We hope this trend in favour of the sudden-splat type of death continues. A police car, ambulance and breakdown truck is much healthier for the economy than years of underperformance and months of long, slow, lingering expiry in hospital.
Statistically, you can see that alcohol is, in this way, helping to reduce the smoking deaths which take decades.
And deaths from house fires caused by unconscious, smoking drunks mean that smoking is cutting the alcoholism statistic.
So it's a win win. All we need now is something to cut the number of statisticians.
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With an average 72.6 road traffic accidents per 100,000 inhabitants from 1994 to 2001, Slovenia was among the countries with the highest in the WHO European Region. In 2000 Slovenia ranked second only to Greece (216.1 per 100,000) with 77.4 traffic accidents per 100,000, narrowly beating Croatia (75.7). You beat Croatia! Yay!
RTA deaths appear to have peaked in 2007 with a 27% drop in 2008. The number will probably now rise again unless better ways of counting can be found.
Otherwise those 2008 victims who are currently 27% less dead will experience increasingly less afterlife than under previous, more religious, governments.
With young people you can always rely on unquestioning herd behaviour – actually all people. Luckily any party poopers and physical wrecks over 25 who might spoil the fun are at home, in eerily quiet villages, in bed with the lights out by 9 o'clock.
So we're all going to die. And waste everybody's money doing it. Hurry up then, so we foreign devils can buy some more of your nice cheap houses!
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But while you're encouraging one another to stay out all night in pursuit of this premature/cancelled ageing (and there are other things to do) how about some fucking public transport when we've had enough of it?
Probably then we'd get a drunk bus driver. Or maybe anyone old enough and sober enough to drive weekend nights – when everyone needs it the most – just loves their family too much.
But typically creative, Slovenes have already hit on a solution to this dilemma.
The only time I accidentally entered the driver's compartment of a Slovenian train, I was surprised to find an entire family crammed into the tiny space.
Next to the wife and younger son was a boy about 7, sat on daddy's knee, helping him to drive the train, his hand on the dead man's handle as we sped through the tar-black night.
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Roffo, Z Krebsforsch 49, 588 (1940).
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Buy A Cheap Repossessed House At Government Auctions
Want a good deal for your money? Then why not attend a government repossessed house auction. It is the best way of getting a house and there are a lot of choices. All you have to do is to make a study and research for possible ways to buy a cheap house, and there you have it; your dream house in reality.
Houses sold in auctions advertised by governments are repossessed, which means that previous home owners were not able to pay for the house and so the government repossessed the property. Your goal is to save money in purchasing a repossessed house, so you have to look into the house' pros/cons to get the best transaction.
First deals are usually low priced, but during the day of the auction, the price can discourage you since it will eventually rise up. The secret is to join the game. Make a research online since sites have a compilation of these houses. You can look into their pictures (though pictures are deceiving), visit the actual house, and bid low. By using these strategies, you may be able to get the house you want. Remember that you're not alone in the game. There are plenty of others who want the same thing.
How will you buy a repossessed house? Finding a repo house is not that difficult if you're searching in the right place. This is considered a real estate sale and it's happening all year round. Many people can't afford to pay for their home mortgages, and so the lender (the government) has to repossess the house. This will ensure the government of a bounce back from the loss of non-payment.
Government repossessed house auction works just like repo boats, cars, bikes, etc. The repossessed house is set up for a government auction and the person having the highest bid will get the house. The bid amount however, should be more than the actual loan amount.
Many investors are attracted to this event, and unlike you, they know how the game works. They know the right stuff in order to win the bid. So the best way is to seek a real estate agent who can help you in purchasing a repossessed house. They have plenty of contacts that inform them whenever a government auction is coming up.
You have to open your eyes, as well as your ears to know when an auction is coming up. Not all people are lucky to attend a government auction because most of them learn about the offer quite late.
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