Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > the seller pays the estate agent to get the best > price on a sale the buyer has no contract with the > agent. Sellers choose foxtons despite their > selling commission being one of the highest. And > yes brendan you may pay more if you buy through > foxtons. But thats difficult to confirm. Well if estate agent Z will sell your house for more than estate agent X then the buyer will pay more through estate agent Z than if they went through estate agent X. So why should a buyer go through estate agent Z then? Moreover if sell through estate agent Z you then go and buy your next gaff through them you will be paying an inflated price (coz that?s what they are so good at doing) effectively negating anything that you think you ?made? from having some spiky haired fukstick sell your old house in the first place. So you aren?t better off at all. The banks are because higher mortgages mean more interest and the agents and conveyancers are because they skim off the top. You however have benefited sweet f-all except for being able to have that same conversation about house prices that everyone has over and over and over again ad nauseum across the land. But you know. Who am I to question how the backbone of the great British economy works.
Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There is a lot of Foxtons hatred about and I don't > understand it - if you were selling a house they > are probably the best at getting a good price, > thats why they have been successful. On that reasoning if you buy a house through them you are more likely to pay over the odds. Which shouldn?t really attract customers should it? But does the general slurry ever reason things out through more than one step? Do they fuck?..
mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Brendan, dis you ever work out who the 1970s Jesus > & Mary Chain were? Yeah I did. I was confusing them with Sonic Youth. Who aren?t what you?d call 70s but I think they were formed late 70s early 80s. Although Jesus and Mary Chain were formed around then too I think.
HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You take drugs and drinking seriously, innit B? > Your former bandmates sound wack to me. Verbage canine!
Nah, I would drink quite a lot, spend a lot of time skateboarding, go on regular holidays to Africa and sleep with a beautiful woman. Actually that?s what I do anyway, you can keep your half a million quid.
I once played in a band called Ceasefire. It was all very poignant and all as we were trying to carve out lives for ourselves (and just survive) in the cesspit of violence that was Johannesburg in the late nineties. I wanted to call it Crack Whore though and write songs about drugs and drinking. Apparently I don?t take things seriously enough.
You don't accidentally break into someone's house. It is still premeditated even if the idiot doing it isn't able to plan his life more than 60 minutes in advance. So the person who thinks it is ok to break into a house should also spend the rest of their lives in gaol. Maybe. depends.
I will happily act as manservant so long as the good master is habitually immoral often gambling and promises to drink away vast fortunes whilst liaising with women of ill-repute. I am highly skilled and creative in the sartorial arts, drunkenness and habitual opiate use all of which are compulsory attributes for manservanting. He?ll have to polish his own helmet mind.