Watching the protery ladder on ch4 and wondered has anyone ever done an old house and sold it on is it worth it and did you enjoy it?

Karen

watching it too...why do they NEVER listen to the experts!!!
Archer

But they always end up making money anyway even though they don't listen Is it just me being evil, but don't you just wish one of them would take a loss one week?! No, that's mean of me, but then I spent my childhood wishing that the Coyote would catch the Roadrunner and that Tom would get the better of Jerry :D

Lesley

I bought my last house as an investment property. Bought it for 135k and sold it at 210K :) Took a year, but I lived in it so I wasn't restricted on time. Cost me about 20K to do it up - it was a wreck :)

Well done Chloe! Our house needs doing up before we can move, but we spend more time thinking about doing it than we do doing anything :( So I'm full of admiration for you!! Plus, you're a nice Champdogs person and not one of those people on Property Ladder so you deserve every last penny you made on it :D

Lesley

But I think this bloke tonight has made a BIG mistake the only good thing he's done is make the livingroom/kitchen open plan.
But the other rooms are tiny

Karen

Edited to say if the renters don't fall out of the window

I love the one with the 2 Glasgow boys designing and Nigel the QS trying to keep order. Lastnight I wet my kniickers laughing as the coupling under the sink popped, and the 2 boys danced around squealing while Nigel got wet fixing it! :) Cant wait to see next week as it looks like Nigel has had enough of Project Managing for Prima Donnas and theyre on their own!

Other half has considered this as he has his own QS practise but the main problem seems to be finding the right property. Prices here in Solihull/Warickshire have gone silly so good places with potential are very few and far between and even then go for stupid money. He nearly bought a canal side 2up 2 down 3 years ago for £180,000 on a fair size plot in a pretty Warwickshire village. The timing wasn't right though so passed on it. It was bought and extended and refurbed and is now on the market for £575,000 and it must only have 4 bedrooms at the very most in fact thinks it's only 3. The key is buying at the right time and price in the right location. Oh if only we knew where the next up and coming place to live was.

Lisa,

The key is also not hiring the two Scottish designer boys to "lifestyle" the property. They are thick as can be and not only always overspend their budget - but whatever the property is seem to keep designing it for the trendy set, regardless of the good advice they get.

In my neck of the woods I could have bought anything during the past six years, done nothing but keep it empty for a year, and still make a healthy profit. I can't count as high as the number of times my husband has said, " I should have bought a ... " Woulda, shoulda, coulda :-)

Someone should tell the Scottish boys to watch House Doctor - "neutralise"!

Stacey

Its not even good design is it? That hob on the worktop without a back was horrendous, and no storage space!. I enjoyed Grand Designs though. If I want a real development horror I just read the papers about the Scottish Parliament building then rip the paper to bits in a frenzy of " IM PAYING FOR THIS DEBACLE!" The Millenium Dome was efficient compared to this. :D

Oh, I love these programmes. It is a dream of mine to rennovate properties for a living. I must admit, I did find an excellent property, but unfortunately, my partner is not as interested as me and I had to pass it up. I am still constantly looking for properties though. Strangely enough, I got in the internet just now intending to do a property search and just thought I'd check Champdogs first (as I always do) and now take this as an omen that I really should go for it. The only experience I have (besides watching thousands of DIY programmes and so on) is doing up the two houses I have lived in over the years. Both were total wrecks however. Really, the only thing stopping me is the lack of a suitable partner and the money - I can't afford to just buy a second property.

As for Justin and Colin on the Million Pound Experiment, well I can't believe they have their own programme. Justin ignored all the QS advice, was proved wrong and couldn't bring himself to admit it until right at the end! They are like a comedy double act.

Fiona and Saffy

Edit: by the way Ashford in Kent is supposed to be the next up and coming place (If it hasn't already)

Seen it done bought all the t shirts. It can be profitable but can also be very stressfull.

Mick

Hello stranger :)

I have the pleasure of being home in the mornings and watch a pogramme on bbc1 where they follow property wrecks frm auction to completion,much more interesting than those guys trying to sell someone a lifestyle rather than a home
cheryl