God, didn't you just want to push that woman off the top of her unfinished roof! What was the POINT of this programme?!! I thought it was supposed to be all about making money from property by spending enough, but no more, to do up a tired or dilapidated property, then selling it. Sarah Beeney tried everything to persuade these know-it-alls to revise their plans, yet they not only didn't listen to a word she said, they treated her advice with contempt. You could observe it, most of the time, on the woman's face. And then they had the nerve to say that whether £5,000 or £50,000 profit, it was still a profit! Er, excuse me, Mr & Mrs Property Developer, but there is a £45,000 discrepancy between those two figures, duh!
And then they had to sell their own property to pay for the mismanaged extra work they thought essential - ha bloody ha! Three weeks with friends? How could anyone have stood them for three days?
This show tonight was the nadir of Property Ladder. It was not about making money from property and how to save on costs. It was about a personal tussle between the presenter and some folks who were just not prepared to listen to any advice. And we never did get to hear whether they sold it for half a million or whether, like Colin and Justin found, they are still waiting for the right idiot to come along.
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