moving my life, help me pick a place :D

[Beaux]

I like #2 (clawfoot bath) and #3 (ground floor), however I think #3 is the better choice of the two because of the ground floor. I spent a great deal of my adult life in NYC and moved SEVERAL times and have discovered the ground floor appartments are worth the effort of locating, jmo.

[zeon]

Hello There,
Many congratulations on being able to get a transpher to brighton from your showroom your based in.... I thought i would fill in the blanks the estate agents dont want you to know...

Flat 1,

West street is one of the busiest areas within the Brighton and Hove district however nothing about the area is gay because it is the hetrosexual stretch... This would mean that if you lived in this street you may encounter the street lined with police officers and riot vans every friday and saturday night as the party goers come to town for the weekend.. One of brightons most popular clubs tru is based just down from where that flat is.. You will find from time to time that the noise may drive you nuts but if your able to cope with that and people possibly urinating up the side of where you live then you should be alright... If you were planning on being all holding hands moments with your new fella i wouldn t recommend this flat purely for the fact you get locals and non locals in this street which they class as theirs more than anyone elses purely because of the level of moments that occur.. If you have people to visit the road outside is like a red route due to the numerous loading ban restrictions in place from the Clock tower right down to the seafront so if any guests wish to drive to visit yourselves you will need to either compound them inside OR use the 24 hour car park oppisite (churchill square((CHSQ)) )

Flat 2,

Sydney street is located right at the back of the North Laines Brighton.. During the day it is a easy kind of street with occassional traffic flowing through a one way street (north to south) which is ment to not have any traffic driving down it (I ignore this rule everyday and use this road to drive to work).. It is located within the control parking zone and guests coming to visit who drive would either use Pay and display bays in the area, Blackman street car park or if after six the single yellow lines however these are NOT free on sundays... Failing this you always have the hanover ward otherside of the A23/27 where it is free parking... Good luck finding a space.. During the evening this street is massively quieter than west street and noise wise i would imagen from doing top gun at work on fri and saturday nights not much happens... Tourists mainly stick to the south laines... Some shops in the area sell alot of shit whereas others it can be just plain wierd... Only downfall is that you have city college at the end of your road... Dominoes pizza is also just around the corner at the end of trafalgar street...

Flat 3,

Leopold road is a very very quiet residential area near the former childrens hospital.. Walkwise into town its not too bad and if you drive and willing to buy a permit your be alright otherwise it would be a massive walk up a hill (regardless where you choose to park) to get home.. Most of the houses if not all are converted into 3 or 4 flats and furthermore at night this area is very very quiet.... Not completely silent but very quiet...

Flat 4,

Properties on the seafront are and always have been expensive... Did you know that to paint one of those buildings every year costs the owners £3,500 minimum??? This is due to the fact that the salt air from the sea is causing the paint to corrode at excess rate... Or its because they got more money than sense and can charge stupid prices.... Only downfall with the seafront... If you drive in a city like this which attracts a minimum of 8 MILLION visitors (Yes 8 million visitors) a year your feel like london in the summer as you drive endlessly looking for a space... Take it from me as a traffic warden in brighton and Hove... Your either A, Not move your car or B, Make sure your done and dusted by 9.30am 10am LATEST! With regards to the price some landlords charge maintainance on the property and living in well to do areas such as the seafront you may find council tax alot higher as well

Flat 5,

Fourth avenue in hove is a nice little quiet area... Very wide road built in the days of obeese horses so i would imagen thats why... It is within walking reach of many shops the beach and the king alfred lesiure centre.. In the next avenue or two to the east of fourth avenue you have the council offices for hove locarted so any issues can go directly to Kings house.. It is an ideal place for quietness

And on a final note.... Hope you love living here in Brighton and Hove.... As a true brightonian to this town ill let you have the title Brighton boy Just not brightonian lol Thats my title!!! lol.. If you need to sort stuff out and not got alot of cash... Why not visit yahoo groups and search for a group called Freecycle or try greencyclesussex.. Its easy all you do is put a wanted/offered advert for example

Re: Wanted: Tv Hove

I am after a 90 inch television from the 1930's and would be willing to collect from anyone who has one.. If you can help please call me on 01273 tinkey winkey la la dipshit and ho!

This is an example by the way.. Your then get a reply from them if anyone has opne and you just go and take it away for free... I got loads of old crap off that site and its what i did to start in my flat.. Recently i gave a £100 dining table away as it was too big for this flat

Kindest regards

Zeon x

[zeon]

the first one i agree with you it is clinical but i do love modern styling, however the last one is my favourite but i also like flat 3 cause its fairly cheap and its the location i want.
i have already got my boss a nice bottle of wine, i've had some pretty shitty jobs with even shittier bosses but he was always amazing. and i have thought about getting on the property ladder and i have some savings but the way the property market is i get abit put off

Now my dear friend is the time to go for the property market.. The older you get the higher the savings have to be and the more you pay back... I recently got on one and at 25 I was able to get a 30 year mortgage.. I only moving once more in life and then im residing there for the rest of my life...

[Genersis]

3.
I like 3.
I deffinatly like 3.

[ninja]

wow zeon the brightonian (totally should introduce yourself to people like that lol) you really know your stuff, thank you so much for your advice, i never even thought about how close flat 1 was to bars and stuff like that. but i used to live in vauxhall in london so im loving the quiet at night, so i think id like to keep that lol, and thank you for telling me that paint thing on the sea fronts, thats too much for me. im happy that flat 5 sounds best, that was the one i liked the most :biggrin: i still got no idea if i should hope on the property ladder, im 100% a novice when it comes to property's lol

[ninja]

3.
I like 3.
I deffinatly like 3.

it does look homely doesnt it

[Genersis]

it does look homely doesnt it

Indeed.
2 Is nice aswell. But something draws me to 3.mile:

[fredv3b]

im 100% a novice when it comes to property's lol

So is every first-time buyer. I'd suggest you do sone reading around about how the property market works, mortages, etc. In fact the guy you are dating is an estate agent, get him to explain things to you.

I'm not suggesting you should be buying right now, I'm suggesting that you be thinking about whether and when you should.

[marshlander]

.... I thought i would fill in the blanks the estate agents dont want you to know...

First class response, ze. Brilliant!

[zeon]

wow zeon the brightonian (totally should introduce yourself to people like that lol) you really know your stuff, thank you so much for your advice, i never even thought about how close flat 1 was to bars and stuff like that. but i used to live in vauxhall in london so im loving the quiet at night, so i think id like to keep that lol, and thank you for telling me that paint thing on the sea fronts, thats too much for me. im happy that flat 5 sounds best, that was the one i liked the most :biggrin: i still got no idea if i should hope on the property ladder, im 100% a novice when it comes to property's lol

Ok i am a first time property owner been in my one for six months so i will put it to you...

When you rent your giving money to someone else to pay their own mortgage with therefore your paying for their mortgage plus interest... Now when you get a mortgage your investing money... I got my one bedroom flat for £103,000 haggled from £110,000 so before i moved in id already pocketed £7,000... Now for the boring bits... You fork out £1200 for solicitor fees and land searches etc which drag on and on and on or they do if you go with Blakemores solicitors because they are utterly... Crap.. It may take ten weeks like mine did to process through but once you move into a place then you have got it as your own... Your find that as you pay off your mortgage and then sell it you could pocket thousands of pounds in moments... I have discussed with my ex boyfriend that I wish to move to a 3 bedroom house where i grew up and then rake in the £££££ by getting lodgers in.. l am very money orientated and dont spend if i dont need to lol... hence why i dont drink when i go out lime and soda water does me 80p a pint!!!!

Yes cheap date lol (heard this loads of times from the scene in vbrighton where alot of people know me)