mackem 26,803 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 50k its mine Thanks mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caravan Monster 323 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 due to the economic crisis, propertys are harder to buy and money has become tighter, so what do people think of buying an acre or so and plonking a static home on it. how easy would it be to so etc, cheers No one really knows how the economic situation will play out, but mortgage interest rates have been kept artificially low by the Bank Of England since the economic crash. If/when interest rates start to rise, the price of houses might start to return to being a little more realistic. So far as living in caravans goes, getting on with an accommodating farmer would be a good place to start. Don't expect to live somewhere scenic and peaceful. Don't forget that you will never really have anything like tenant's rights, and can only ever regard such arrangements as temporary. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fcuktheban 140 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 due to the economic crisis, propertys are harder to buy and money has become tighter, so what do people think of buying an acre or so and plonking a static home on it. how easy would it be to so etc, cheers No one really knows how the economic situation will play out, but mortgage interest rates have been kept artificially low by the Bank Of England since the economic crash. If/when interest rates start to rise, the price of houses might start to return to being a little more realistic. So far as living in caravans goes, getting on with an accommodating farmer would be a good place to start. Don't expect to live somewhere scenic and peaceful. Don't forget that you will never really have anything like tenant's rights, and can only ever regard such arrangements as temporary. I don't see how he wouldn't have any rights when gypsy's can squat on farmland for a few years and claim the land as their own? My link Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ideation 8,216 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Look into log cabins, like has been said, i lived in one for a bit that my old man built, ordered it flat pack (think it came from sweden, not sure) and put it together himself, worked out fairly cheap and they are comfy, and look very nice. Just tell em it's a summer house / play house. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,803 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Don't expect to live somewhere scenic and peaceful. When I was a kid 3 of us put a tenner in the kitty each and bought a derelict caravan,the rivets were popping out of the walls,door was almost dropping off etc We took it to London and parked up on grenade street in Limehouse,right opposite the cop-shop and under the DLR if anyone knows the area,we stayed there for 18 months,built a dog run on the side of the caravan(true story)for the three lurchers,one of us being not as honest as the other two wired the caravan up to the street lights for electricity,once we tired of the street so moved a hundred yards away to rich street,didnt have a happorth of bother in a year and a half except once a van-full of coppers came over to look us over after a sort of fight with a drunken guy,I put an irish accent on and they thought we were a tarmacing gang apart from that no problems We even expanded slightly and got a second caravan for guests,Coney Clucky from this forum used to pop down regular to lamp. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ideation 8,216 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Don't expect to live somewhere scenic and peaceful. When I was a kid 3 of us put a tenner in the kitty each and bought a derelict caravan,the rivets were popping out of the walls,door was almost dropping off etc We took it to London and parked up on grenade street in Limehouse,right opposite the cop-shop and under the DLR if anyone knows the area,we stayed there for 18 months,built a dog run on the side of the caravan(true story)for the three lurchers,one of us being not as honest as the other two wired the caravan up to the street lights for electricity,once we tired of the street so moved a hundred yards away to rich street,didnt have a happorth of bother in a year and a half except once a van-full of coppers came over to look us over after a sort of fight with a drunken guy,I put an irish accent on and they thought we were a tarmacing gang apart from that no problems We even expanded slightly and got a second caravan for guests,Coney Clucky from this forum used to pop down regular to lamp. f*****g brilliant mate, would love to hear more stories about that time, sounds like a laugh! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,803 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 f*****g brilliant mate, would love to hear more stories about that time, sounds like a laugh! I better not tell you how that little scenario ended and why I left the UK for a short while,maybe that should go in the regrets thread Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ideation 8,216 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Maybe you should . . . . . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fcuktheban 140 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Why not just get a yurt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
windyhill 30 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Don't expect to live somewhere scenic and peaceful. When I was a kid 3 of us put a tenner in the kitty each and bought a derelict caravan,the rivets were popping out of the walls,door was almost dropping off etc We took it to London and parked up on grenade street in Limehouse,right opposite the cop-shop and under the DLR if anyone knows the area,we stayed there for 18 months,built a dog run on the side of the caravan(true story)for the three lurchers,one of us being not as honest as the other two wired the caravan up to the street lights for electricity,once we tired of the street so moved a hundred yards away to rich street,didnt have a happorth of bother in a year and a half except once a van-full of coppers came over to look us over after a sort of fight with a drunken guy,I put an irish accent on and they thought we were a tarmacing gang apart from that no problems We even expanded slightly and got a second caravan for guests,Coney Clucky from this forum used to pop down regular to lamp. i liked reading that mate,can we here a few more please back to the caravan situation done a bit of research into this for a school asignment last yr, easiest way to go about it is go into the council or to the land registry and look around mining areas many area which was highly mined the mines owned all the land the tracks the railway the lot, just find an old track do a search on it and bobs your uncle it will more then likely come back unregistered as the mining companyy now wont exist, i know what the authorities will say,every peice of land in the uk is owned,well that could be correct but if the land isnt registered and the owner doesnt even know they owbn it as it was a great great grandads.theres your free peice of land, now to the easy bit the caravan lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,803 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 yurt. Stayed in them in Mongolia and Xinjiang with uigurs,I stayed in one for a month in Xinjiang just outside kashgar on the edge of the taklamakan,much rather have a mobile home in this country if I was looking to go down that route. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Boss-Hog 270 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 thats where i met jeff and friendship of dogs still going nearly 20 yrs grew up their Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,803 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 thats where i met jeff and friendship of dogs still going nearly 20 yrs grew up their Strange times huh Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Boss-Hog 270 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 some good nights lamping shep helped get punch going thanks 2 jeff Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,803 Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Clucky came down and raped the fox population,he was out each and every single night,racking up decent numbers,he must have had a human sat-nav inside his head as he knew all of the waste ground and parkland for several square miles,I was in spain a few months ago chatting to someone who was a guest with us for a while,he remembered when the local papers were calling us a gang of gypsies after we were pulled over several times for lamping the mud-chute fox,their numbers took a serious nosedive once Clucky had found them All pre-ban of course Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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