HIPs are dead ?

[John]

Wibble indeed :o)

Potted history: Cable jointer on BT, suffered back injury at work that led to spinal surgery and medical retirement from BT. Went back to college to start learning stuff for a new career. Got 2/3 of way through a degree in physiology and pharmacology but the constant pain from my back (and I really do mean 24/7 pain) got me down and started suffering from depression and couldn't do the work.

Doctors note needed for uni said "To whom it may concern. This is to confirm that Mr. xxx is under my care at the moment suffering from a mental illness......"

So I'm a loony, I've got the paperwork to prove it, and my missus never lets me live it down :o)

[Bruce]

Then why did you choose to use OE? Get yourself a newsreader.

Getting irrationally upset when arbitrary rules are not followed is possibly a sign of mental illness. You should consult your GP.

[Doctor Drivel]

They are at each others throats already!

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[John]

See my reply to Adrian at 13.41

See my reply to Tim Watts at 13.56

[Clive George]

Doesn't even know how to use "Block Sender"...

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Bruce saying something like:

The Scottish system is also (as in England) plagued with time-wasters who spend their entire hobby hours going round houses for sale just so they can gawp at others' dwellings/decor/kitchens/etc, with no intention of actually ever buying a place.

[John]

Who said that I wanted to killfile/block him/her anyway? I didn't.

[Man at B&Q]

So have I, but that's the opposite end of the scale.

MBQ

[Man at B&Q]

I'll decline that offer, thank you.

In my case all parties *wanted* to move. It was other issues which led to late exchange.

MBQ

[Tim Watts]

Only the media (who are bored and/or too lazy to do some proper investigative journalism somewhere else) claim that.

I don't expect the first coalition for decades to be an easy ride, but I will be quite pleased if they can make it work as it will be a new age of politics, possibly for the better.

Although I *do* wonder what Cameron thinks he's doing with the 1922 Committee. he's got enough *real* problems without creating more.

[John Rumm]

Needing a full structural survey is relatively rare. More to the point if you don't commission your own survey then you are never going to be quite sure what parameters were set by the person that did commission it (or for that matter, have the ability to steer it to look at the aspects that you are particularly interested in)

[John Rumm]

I can see a potential problem with their system if used here, in that it tends to encourage over bidding[1]. Good for a seller obviously, but in a climate with rising prices and strong competition for decent ones, it would tend to escalate the inflation rate for housing stock - especially in the south east.

[1] If my understanding is correct, its not uncommon to say "bids in excess of £300K", but actually expect bidders to go 20% over that or more.

[John Rumm]

In most things in life, if you enter into a binding contract, there is no onus on the other party to release you from it arbitrarily just because you have changed your mind (cooling off periods or explicit clauses excepted).

If these things had happened a week after completion, would you expect to backtrack on the deal then?

[Andrew May]

Agreed. But at least under the English system you don't have to pay for the survey until you know whether the seller is going to accept your price.

[John Rumm]

It might be an assumption that scrapping hips is the only planned part of the current "reform". You never know - they may actually fix what is broke as well!

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Bruce saying something like:

Is this a hardware or kitchen goods store? Only that there seem to be a few pots and kettles in here, of a distinctly dark hue.

[Bruce]

I have no doubt it is also plagued with time-wasters who put their house on the market just to get hordes of people around to see it, but never with the slightest intention of selling.

You cannot prohibit human nature and the often bizarre behaviour that goes with it.

[Tim Streater]

But you can stop it going beyond a certain point using the mechanisms we have been discussing.

[Adam Aglionby]

Most offers under Scottish system are now `subject to satisfactory survey` amongst pile of other conditions.

Sealed bid auctions sets the price at what the buyer is prepared to pay, even if thats a lot more than next keenest buyer, but overs in region of is lot more common now....

Cheers Adam

[dennis]

Yes it does (right click, junk mail, add to blocked). Also you should have switched to live mail as OE is not maintained since live mail replaced it.