Holiday Homes

God I wish I'd never posted this. Its like a pack of wolves seeing who can come up with the worst scenario.

I hope you have a good relationship with your new neighbours Tiley.

Although, a 17 bed-house would solve the problems of Christmas, my 3 DDs’ families would not occupy it other times of the year when the Med or Alpes will have stronger calls, so with that in mind I think I wouldn’t buy, if I had the money.

Helterskelter I am with you !!

Galton

My thoughts like others was 'crumbs all that bedding to service each day. 17 bedrooms are we talking Meghan Markle and Harry moving in, I rather gather that they have 18 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms at the moment in the USA. Not a very nice thing to say but I have heard it said that anyone needing 18 bathrooms must be full of s..t. Sorry hope I have not offended anyone.

😂😂😂

No, but you made me choke on my tea!!

Not many people have huge families nowadays, and if they do they would have to be very well off to buy a place big enough to house them all. Kids are expensive!

NannyC1

Probably bought by Saudis to wash their I'll gotten gains and be left empty for council tax avoidence!

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In 2023, there were around 87,763 empty homes in London, valued at an estimated £50 billion

Probably a brothel, bail hostel, crack den, swingers club, cannabis grow etc.

Or probably a holiday/weekend home for a London based family.

What is wrong with everybody?

You are all catastrophising.

Probably bought by Saudis to wash their I'll gotten gains and be left empty for council tax avoidence!


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In 2023, there were around 87,763 empty homes in London, valued at an estimated £50 billion

The OP said a family was buying it as a holiday home. That doesn’t mean they will necessarily use it just for themselves and their friends and relations use. There’s a lot of money to be made renting out a very large house for parties and big family holidays. There are a lot of holiday homes in my area and I’m very glad I don’t live near one, especially of that size.

Did nobody read the OP.
A family from London are buying it as a second home.
It’s not a crack den, hostel, air b&b, party house.
Thank goodness there are people that are able to take on these huge homes and preserve them.

Par-TAY house! We had one on our street- different people showing up every weekend, car doors banging, smoking in the street, dancing in the garden till 3 am, takeaways arriving all day and night, screaming kids, cackling women, arguing blokes, etc. Five houses went up for sale within a couple of months. Good luck!

It would be ideal for 42 young single males, they could do plenty of exploring in the local area and put tents on the land too

Just found it online. I think it has 10 or 12 bathrooms looking at the plan

There was a big home like this for sale near Ashbourne quite recently.
Think it was early-ish Victorian. It had been a manor house and then a convalescent home for (if I remember correctly) pharmacists(?).

Given the size it wasn't so expensive (!!) and it had a few acres of land and a coach house or maybe a gardeners cottage too.

If you had readily available cash you could live in the cottage (or use ot for weekends) and let the house for £6,000 a weekend probably.
I expect it would at least pay for itself.

Wow, so many people trying to put the fear of God into the OP and if they aren't doing that, picking holes in her post. So what if she has land, and its got a wall round it, she wasn't boasting, it was a post about next door yet has people wanting to take a break from Gransnet.

My thoughts like others was 'crumbs all that bedding to service each day. 17 bedrooms are we talking Meghan Markle and Harry moving in, I rather gather that they have 18 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms at the moment in the USA. Not a very nice thing to say but I have heard it said that anyone needing 18 bathrooms must be full of s..t. Sorry hope I have not offended anyone.

Sorry - that was to NannaTuesday

Greciangirl

Hotel or flats. Too big for anything else really I would think.
Bedsits . Or god forbid a hostel to house immigrants.!

You have a problem with immigrants? Why? Everyone needs a place to live!

My thinking with a house that's got 17 bedrooms is, how many bathrooms does it have? If the answer is 'not enough', I'd take some of those 17 and install bathrooms.

It may be that they own one each and have bought them "separately"?

17 bedroom house....strange
More like a HOTEL

Old Houses like this are difficult to use as care homes inevitably 3 floors, difficult access, poor heating, to be efficient new build better all round.

So if you own a 17 bedroom house that you no longer want, and need to sell, what are you supposed to do?

Frankly, I feel it’s utterly immoral for people to have holiday homes of that size, when so many normal, hard-working people in low paid jobs are living in cramped housing paying exorbitant private rents.

Sorry, just my opinion.

When all of our citizens have suitable and appropriate, safe, warm & affordable housing, then fill your boots

DH has just said it might be a care home. Depends on the need I suppose.

Hmm it depends on who has bought it and why. Could be going to house the homeless or newcomers. Guaranteed rent if you let to the council. I can’t see it as Airbnb somehow and it depends on what area of the country we are talking about.

Crazyh, I never invited my neighbour in. I just don't. It was at times a strain just being in the garden and trying to get away. The lady had, I think issues and her situation was all very unfortunate. My neighbours are lovely, but we don't live our lives in each other's homes. I prefer it that way and so do they. Your neighbour sounds rather lonely, but often, sadly , people are lonely for a reason.