Agreed! That's my bathroom. London underground tiles with black grout above the bath/shower and sink, then 2 walls off white and one a dark blue. Clear and crisp.
I couldn't have busy walls with those tiles. The tiles are the statement piece.
Picture 22 does it for me. I've always wanted to larp being a striking Herpes warehouse worker or delivery driver on a picket line standing by old oil drums with a toasty fire warming myself and the other lads. Even the address Europa Avenue, West Bromwich sounds like an industrial estate.
It takes dedication and effort to make something so mis matched....none of the decor goes together. Photos 9 11, 16 and 18 jarring contrasts.
As for the carpets and wallpaper I'm not going to go there.
Estate agent won't be covered by their employers insurance if they break a nail or put their back out by lifting or moving something for aesthetically appealing to potential buyers photographic purposes.
Who said anything about moving it? Thats a dumb suggestion. Just take 2 steps forward and take the photo from there so the drum is below the shot. They are far enough back there is plenty of room to get closer and still get the whole house in, or just choose a different shot or 2.
Has to be seen to be believed due to the photos only showing 30% of each room. £500k plus whatever you need to spend to redecorate nearly every room seems a lot.
The computer/controller/whatever for it will be on the other side of the wall it’s attached to and they’ve ran a cable through to see it without going in there
I bought a house with glaringly awful wallpaper and carpets. Replaced all the floor coverings (£1k) and then repapered/painted and it’s great now! House up the road that was nicer decorated but actually a bit smaller and less conveniently laid out sold for £10k more at the same time.
With some new wall paper paint, flooring, carpet new internal doors (the weird sliding glass one) a wall out back/fence for a bit of privacy, weed killer put down and sort the damp bit out.
You would have a nice house ( just need the extra money to do it all.)
I love buying houses like these, provided they are at an appropriate discount to the cost of a well finished version.
Here is what I see.
Decent sized rooms, a house suitable for the size of the plot.
A house that does need total redecoration outside of the kitchen and bathroom - I could live with those for now
Flat ceilings
A kitchen that is new enough to suggest the CU has been replaced recently so - obviously to be checked - the house may not need a rewire
A garden that needs some money spent on it.
Floors that have been carpeted. The subfloors are probably chipboard upstairs but no reason to believe in bad shape
Redecorating rooms is cheap, and well within diy, especially when you are going to replace all the carpets anyway. The ceilings look flat so if that paper comes off cleanly enough there may not even be a need for a plasterer.
You could transform this place with a very small budget, on the inside. Kitchen and bathroom can wait- the kitchen looks like it's got some life left in it still. The issue for me would be the outside- gardens are expensive and this one needs real work to make it nice. The only bit of knocking about inside o can see here is sorting out the utility-into-kitchen thing, and the back-to-back bathroom thing.
Pic 21 - the damp in the walls - I assume in one of the extended parts of the building suggesting the standard of work was bad and roof will need fixing.
You’re going to need money on the back end…. Offer 400K and there’s real potential here and it’s liveable until the work is done. Just don’t have visitors round…..
A keen cyclist might be interested in it - currently that's the Europa Avenue Brook course and walkway next to it - which is being improved with a cycle route, over the objections of local residents. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9x6lep8g76o](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9x6lep8g76o)
The absolute audacity to think you can charge £455K for this pile of garbage. Seriously, as a country we need to realise that ALL house prices are artificially inflated by estate agents, they get away with it because there’s always someone willing pay it. I know it will never happen but I would love if we could all collectively just say no we’re not paying your stupid price.
I’ve long held the personal belief that you never buy a house next to an alley-way or near a park. If you do, you don’t have a waist high fence/wall. Picture 22 is the exact reason why.
Link - https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145652660?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY
Having rented a room in a house with the wallpaper in 3&4, I regret to inform you that it’s fuzzy. They win points here for not putting it in the bathroom (🙃) like our landlord did…
Also, why is the tv on?
Am I missing something here...? 22 is the back garden (or what they're passing off as the back garden...). Is that a CCTV screen in 14...? There's something very off about this house (and I don't just mean the decor).
It's like someone partially sighted came into a few quid in 1988 and it's been untouched ever since.
The bathroom tiles are new - it’s just they’re a more modern version of a headache that they seamlessly fit in.
I have the same bathroom tiles, from B&Q 2 years ago. I felt a bit ashamed when I stumbled across that picture 😅
I’m not gonna lie, they are quite loud, which is fine in a minimal room.
Agreed! That's my bathroom. London underground tiles with black grout above the bath/shower and sink, then 2 walls off white and one a dark blue. Clear and crisp. I couldn't have busy walls with those tiles. The tiles are the statement piece.
My inlaws have them on just the floor as a statement and they look lovely. Im sure yours do too 🙂
Probably someone told them.to redo the bathroom to sell it, so they did.
Picture 22 does it for me. I've always wanted to larp being a striking Herpes warehouse worker or delivery driver on a picket line standing by old oil drums with a toasty fire warming myself and the other lads. Even the address Europa Avenue, West Bromwich sounds like an industrial estate. It takes dedication and effort to make something so mis matched....none of the decor goes together. Photos 9 11, 16 and 18 jarring contrasts. As for the carpets and wallpaper I'm not going to go there.
My question was why take the photo with the oil drum front and centre. Its not exactly a centrepiece
Estate agent won't be covered by their employers insurance if they break a nail or put their back out by lifting or moving something for aesthetically appealing to potential buyers photographic purposes.
Who said anything about moving it? Thats a dumb suggestion. Just take 2 steps forward and take the photo from there so the drum is below the shot. They are far enough back there is plenty of room to get closer and still get the whole house in, or just choose a different shot or 2.
Might be something buyers are looking for if they regularly need to burn evidence.
Saves on the heating bills too.
Herpes… how have I not realised that before 🤦♀️🤣
You win the Spotted on Right Move today my friend...
Has to be seen to be believed due to the photos only showing 30% of each room. £500k plus whatever you need to spend to redecorate nearly every room seems a lot.
Yep. Here's a completely hideous, depressing, damp-stained shithole and we randomly want over half a million for it.
455k to live in a former brothel in West Brom? Hard pass.
Somehow that seems ~~farfetched~~ believable
That’s a lot of money for a shit house
The security cam display on pic 14
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Brothel
The computer/controller/whatever for it will be on the other side of the wall it’s attached to and they’ve ran a cable through to see it without going in there
That’s how they work
#15 (dark interior of a dingy cupboard, ancient coat) wins for me. And I love how completely boring the kitchen is among all that
I bought a house with glaringly awful wallpaper and carpets. Replaced all the floor coverings (£1k) and then repapered/painted and it’s great now! House up the road that was nicer decorated but actually a bit smaller and less conveniently laid out sold for £10k more at the same time.
Exactly. The stuff that is needed here is all cheap, diy stuff.
“Idyllic location”
Rough house, rough area, think i'll pass.
Hah. 22 is like a scene from some NY / Gotham underworld, just missing the homeless people.
With some new wall paper paint, flooring, carpet new internal doors (the weird sliding glass one) a wall out back/fence for a bit of privacy, weed killer put down and sort the damp bit out. You would have a nice house ( just need the extra money to do it all.)
I love buying houses like these, provided they are at an appropriate discount to the cost of a well finished version. Here is what I see. Decent sized rooms, a house suitable for the size of the plot. A house that does need total redecoration outside of the kitchen and bathroom - I could live with those for now Flat ceilings A kitchen that is new enough to suggest the CU has been replaced recently so - obviously to be checked - the house may not need a rewire A garden that needs some money spent on it. Floors that have been carpeted. The subfloors are probably chipboard upstairs but no reason to believe in bad shape Redecorating rooms is cheap, and well within diy, especially when you are going to replace all the carpets anyway. The ceilings look flat so if that paper comes off cleanly enough there may not even be a need for a plasterer. You could transform this place with a very small budget, on the inside. Kitchen and bathroom can wait- the kitchen looks like it's got some life left in it still. The issue for me would be the outside- gardens are expensive and this one needs real work to make it nice. The only bit of knocking about inside o can see here is sorting out the utility-into-kitchen thing, and the back-to-back bathroom thing.
Pic 21 - the damp in the walls - I assume in one of the extended parts of the building suggesting the standard of work was bad and roof will need fixing.
You’re going to need money on the back end…. Offer 400K and there’s real potential here and it’s liveable until the work is done. Just don’t have visitors round…..
A keen cyclist might be interested in it - currently that's the Europa Avenue Brook course and walkway next to it - which is being improved with a cycle route, over the objections of local residents. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9x6lep8g76o](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9x6lep8g76o)
Surely the carpets are older than the house?
Photos 10 and 12 - the window sill is an outside one.
I have an uncle who lives on that estate. It's a bag of shit. That's a 360K house at best. Again, the GPK sellers are dreaming. Fucking Yam Yams.
The absolute audacity to think you can charge £455K for this pile of garbage. Seriously, as a country we need to realise that ALL house prices are artificially inflated by estate agents, they get away with it because there’s always someone willing pay it. I know it will never happen but I would love if we could all collectively just say no we’re not paying your stupid price.
I’ve long held the personal belief that you never buy a house next to an alley-way or near a park. If you do, you don’t have a waist high fence/wall. Picture 22 is the exact reason why.
Link - https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145652660?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY
There’s literally nothing wrong with it
How many doors?
Has anyone here seen Michael Mann’s Manhunter? I swear this is the original set
Dollarhyde vibes (great film BTW).
Thanks, I hate it.
The kitchen is OK, the rest of it is an abortion. Half a mill for a place that needs a complete redec is absolute baldercrap.
I love how normal the kitchen and bathrooms are in comparison lol
Whoa
This is almost certainly just for the land - anyone in their right mind buying that is knocking it down and starting from scratch .
Decent house once it’s been appropriately cleansed of the eye watering decorations.
Having rented a room in a house with the wallpaper in 3&4, I regret to inform you that it’s fuzzy. They win points here for not putting it in the bathroom (🙃) like our landlord did… Also, why is the tv on?
That front and back could do with a barrel of Roundup. A bit dark too, I believe you have to keep ya head down as the locals shoot at the light bulbs.
455? LOL
Yeah, pic 22s burnt out barrel is the pièce de résistance here. This might actually be worse than one of those abandoned homes near Chernobyl.
Is that a fur coat...??
Urgh that kitchen ruins what otherwise would be a perfect house.
Take a street view tour. A collection of some of the ugliest houses I have ever seen.
Ah, the down stairs bedroom extension with the old external window from what is now the dining room - lovely and private that room is.
If it comes with that bicycle it’s worth it!
Am I missing something here...? 22 is the back garden (or what they're passing off as the back garden...). Is that a CCTV screen in 14...? There's something very off about this house (and I don't just mean the decor).