This is Saline,the wee village I was brought up in, taken from the golf course looking towards the Ochil Hills. Beautiful wee place, though it's grown a lot since I left.
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My home village.
Campbell Brodie-
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Mcqueen-
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How come your not there now 
Campbell Brodie-
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No houses for rent when we got married... 
Mcqueen-
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When i got married there wernt no houses full stop just mud huts and park benches 
Campbell Brodie-
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Mcqueen-
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£1100 my first house, seemed like a £million it was that far away, my gaffer stood guarantor and threatened to kill me if i let him down, I payed it off in 10 months, 
great bloke he was 
great bloke he was
Campbell Brodie-
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Mcqueen wrote:£1100 my first house, seemed like a £million it was that far away, my gaffer stood guarantor and threatened to kill me if i let him down, I payed it off in 10 months,
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Jeez Peeps pay rent that much a month now. Wangled my way into a council house in Englands Lane, Loughton, Essex and bought it soon as I could with mortgage. Early 80s it was. Cost 13.800 quid. Sold it 3 years later for 53K. Those were the days.... Thanks Maggie! It was a 3 bed semi and I made an upstairs bathroom utilising part of the main front bedroom which went the whole width of the house and the stairwell. Only problem was I plumbed the soil waste into the roof gutter system which was very wrong. Think I knew at the time but hey, it was handy and there ffs. Found out new owners had to do system properly but I never had any comebacks. I dont feel in the least bit guilty. Should have designed them to have upstairs bathroom anyway. I just proved it could be done.......
Wangled my way into a council house in Englands Lane, Loughton, Essex and bought it soon as I could with mortgage. Early 80s it was. Cost 13.800 quid. Sold it 3 years later for 53K. Those were the days.... Thanks Maggie! It was a 3 bed semi and I made an upstairs bathroom utilising part of the main front bedroom which went the whole width of the house and the stairwell. Only problem was I plumbed the soil waste into the roof gutter system which was very wrong. Think I knew at the time but hey, it was handy and there ffs. Found out new owners had to do system properly but I never had any comebacks. I dont feel in the least bit guilty. Should have designed them to have upstairs bathroom anyway. I just proved it could be done.......
Campbell Brodie-
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Mcqueen-
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Mcqueen wrote:£1100 my first house, seemed like a £million it was that far away, my gaffer stood guarantor and threatened to kill me if i let him down, I payed it off in 10 months,
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We paid 71,000 pounds at the time for our first one in 1996/7/ . we had plastic garden table and chairs in the kitchen. sold it in July 1999 for 157000. Used the profit and some savings to buy a house done to a builders finish in the arse end of nowhere other side of Athenry. We were 4 mile from nearest shop! we were there for less than 12 month when we decided to build. We had a mortgage of 70000, when finished but I borrowed again against the house into a business that went sideways. We cleared the original 70000 last August and have 3 years left on the rest ( about 460 a month). I was talking to my brother ( financial advisor) about clearing it but he said I would never get the money again so cheap and , instead of clearing it, I should invest the same amount which will give me a bigger return on the money rather than none ( if that makes sense)
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Student rentals near to university good return usually, but who would have thought about recent events
last June for some strange reason my letting agent put private so called professionals in
so when they got layed off work and the pubs shut they decided to to hold raves in my newly refurbished house that i just spent £30k on, normally i would get a possy up and batter the lot of them
but now days they are so well protected it would be foolish and the agent reminded me that his wife was a Magistrate, so he came here for a meeting with his side kick taking notes,
I said i have taken legal advice and i am going to give you the opportunity to put things and to make sure it has not cost me a penny, you have helped yourself to my house and let private tenant's in without even asking me so get busy, he is behind with the payments and will use the recent events to his benefit, Students always pay and always leave on time, so not my problem
so long story short letting is a good return for outlay and would be my first investment,
consider your property as a money box with a slot in the roof that you shove money in monthly
one day it will be full and it will all be yours, so dont be scared of raising money to earn money, as long as you dont fall into the private letting, if they dont pay your in the shite, students pay end of
Cars are ok for a living but i am rich because of property
Sit on the fence and hum and ahh will get you nowhere,
With hindsight when i had bought my first house in 1974 i would have bought another and another etc
so dont feck about get busy
good return usually, but who would have thought about recent events last June for some strange reason my letting agent put private so called professionals in
so when they got layed off work and the pubs shut they decided to to hold raves in my newly refurbished house that i just spent £30k on, normally i would get a possy up and batter the lot of them
but now days they are so well protected it would be foolish and the agent reminded me that his wife was a Magistrate, so he came here for a meeting with his side kick taking notes,
I said i have taken legal advice and i am going to give you the opportunity to put things and to make sure it has not cost me a penny, you have helped yourself to my house and let private tenant's in without even asking me so get busy, he is behind with the payments and will use the recent events to his benefit, Students always pay and always leave on time, so not my problem
so long story short letting is a good return for outlay and would be my first investment,
consider your property as a money box with a slot in the roof that you shove money in monthly
one day it will be full and it will all be yours, so dont be scared of raising money to earn money, as long as you dont fall into the private letting, if they dont pay your in the shite, students pay end of
Cars are ok for a living but i am rich because of property
Sit on the fence and hum and ahh will get you nowhere,
With hindsight when i had bought my first house in 1974 i would have bought another and another etc
so dont feck about get busy