This Business and Moment...

Andybtsn said:
It turns out they didn't put me forward due to the fact they wouldn't be able to replace me quick enough. Which is what I alluded to above. I'm not sure if there is any point responding, it's left a distinct sour taste in my mouth and truth be told I think I'm never going to move on in this company due to the fact of the role I occupy.
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That's really unfair and sure there is something you can do about it. You can't stop someone internally applying due to internal logistics, that is utter BS. No wonder it left a sour taste. You should say, you think that helped you but when I leave you'll still have to replace me. How crap!!

@Phate yea, we rent our current place and it's a brand new white box house (standard modern style of new builds here) which is attached to one other, but is really rather big. We were the first to move in and I think it's about 190m2 and 4 bed with a big office and 2 HUGE garages. We like the house, but it's in an area that's getting a lot of stuff built around us now. An MOT place has literally popped up next door and is massive, that's about to open, and they're kicking off another build nextdoor the other side now which we think is a hotel... joy. With rent like 2050 a month we could just use that and build a really nice place.
The house is habitable at the moment in that link, but it's clearly ******. We could live in it though and rebuild the barn side first and then move our way through the rest. I mocked up some rough plans and we'd get a 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, office, wine cellar, utility, pantry, gym (or garage, depending what I opt for! :P ) and maaaaybe even a nice TV room (wouldn't quite call it cinema room but sorta). Need to go see it again and get some plans drawn up and see what we can do anyway. I wanted to be an architect when I was a kid, so this sort of thing really excites me. I just keep getting told by the wife that it's not just my project :P
 
Marvt74 said:
That house loooks like it could be excellent. Get yourself in the Home and Garden forum if you do go for it!. Love that a wine cellar is high up on the list of requirements!
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We have a list of things to try and make sure before we can do anything, but the mayor has told us so far it's not protected, so we can renovate as we like (we thought being from 1750 it might be!) and the plot is actually much bigger but goes right back behind, but that is woodland and those trees are protected and needs mayor sign off to change anything there (we'd love a pool and garden!)
Going back Thursday, then need to get a structural engineer to give us a report.

I will post in home and garden if we manage to move forward, but of course I got carried away...

Not to scale but you get the idea...

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Anyway, back to business stuff... still hate my contract but spent all morning looking at house stuff so you know. Waiting on people to come back from holiday before pushing out some last changes on VolAir but have everyone itching to release it now. Actually really excited about that one.
 
Might have found an architect to do the project for us. We're going back to the house tomorrow to take as many pics and vids as possible, then mortgage broker Friday. We want to borrow against our existing apartment which we've found out is worth about 110k and we have 87% equity in that, so hoping we can use that.
We mocked up a 400k build budget without sale price and the architect thinks we can do it for that... All kicking off...

I got scope creep :eek:
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I know it's not business and moment, but I find my home in here :p:p
 
Phate said:
lol ah the fun and joys of house purchasing!
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Tell me about it. Yours sounds super easy though!

Maccy said:
@randomshenans started your book Unthunk this morning, I think it's going to be quite useful for me :)
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:D shouldn't take you long! Ha it's not quantity but content that's important... or something like that? Appreciate you reading!
 
Kreeeee said:
I can't get over how cheap that is!
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You would if you saw it lol

Went there last night and there is an absolute ton of work to be done, but at the same time, a boat load of potential as well. We took a lot of videos and pics and have sent them to the architect to see if it's possible to do what we want with the money we hope to have. Will see what they say... biggest thing would be to start excavating some of the earth at the back to make some more space. If we can do that, we know we can physically fit what we want, just then whether we can for the money lol
 
Phate said:
I know this isn't work business but its some kind of bidniz :D
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I class it as "worky" :D

Great stuff, all going OK then. We kicked things off mortgage broker wise, so have to get some savings behind us in the next couple of months for things like notaire fees which is 8% and that can't come out of a mortgage. We have most, but need to chuck in some more, and clear off a payment to make us look like good boys and girls to get the best rates. See what happens next...
 
Can be it seems. I won't lie, I am really disappointed, but know it can't change things and if that's the way it is, can't do anything about it so no use dwelling. Nothing on the market we like at the moment like it, so we just stock pile some savings, get ourselves ready and sort it.
 
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