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Smart_Statistician23

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  • A house is not for life, you can sell whenever you like. Buy a house, pay a good price, do it up to your taste, enjoy it for a while, then sell it and, move onwards and upwards. Do not get emotionally attached to "the one". So many people think that once they buy a house that's them stuck for 20 years, but it's not true. I've moved house 5 times in about 7 years, each move the house was better than the last and I've made money along the way. by Smart_Statistician23 (Thu 11th Mar 2021 11:27am)
  • Lmao 🤣 by Smart_Statistician23 (Thu 18th Mar 2021 7:06pm)
  • Cheers for the tip! Will check it out by Smart_Statistician23 (Thu 18th Mar 2021 7:05pm)
  • Sorry! This could be your reward for completing your personal challenge, good luck! by Smart_Statistician23 (Fri 19th Mar 2021 10:24am)
  • Not tried that, but will check out. Maybe I'll start a "breads of Glasgow" subreddit 😂 by Smart_Statistician23 (Fri 19th Mar 2021 10:25am)
  • Landlord here. It's total bullshit they sealed them shut because of law. More likely they wanted them sealed shut to stop anti social behavior, risk of breaking in, etc. My recommendation would be to get the landlords details and deal with them, even if it's just an email. Clyde are just the agent, they might fully manage the property but the choices about property changes are not theirs to make. I would recommend you try and find a fair compromise between agent and landlord, but don't expect it to be solved quickly. Especially if they are sash windows, they might have certain regulstions around the locks used, colour, modifications, etc. Worst case scenario you serve notice and find somewhere else. There's no fixed term tenancies in Scotland so you can leave whenever you like. Good luck! by Smart_Statistician23 (Wed 31st Mar 2021 3:52pm)
  • Yes every game will be free to air 👍 by Smart_Statistician23 (Wed 2nd Jun 2021 10:11am)
  • I think there's one in Milngavie tesco car park every Sunday morning that's started back up by Smart_Statistician23 (Thu 29th Jul 2021 6:42pm)
  • Hey, I'm a long term property investor, here's a few pieces of advice from my experience.... 1. As others have said, don't pay over the odds. Be patient 2. The market is always slower in the winter, not many people want to move house before Christmas, and everyone wants to move in the summer. With the stamp duty holiday ended I think the market will cool down in the upcoming months. 3. Don't be fussy. Bottom line is, popular properties will always fly off the shelf, but there are bargains to be had if you're willing to compromise. Maybe it's not the perfect area, or it needs work done, there are tonnes of properties available. 4. View a lot and offer a lot. In a red hot market you really should be viewing at least 10 per week and offering on many of them. Its not easy, but patience and perseverance will get you a property. Good luck! by Smart_Statistician23 (Fri 30th Jul 2021 4:52pm)
  • FanDuel and Skyscanner two big hiring companies in Glasgow. There's then a tonne of banks, Barclays, JPM, Goldman. The there's the odd startup around. Depends what kind of role you're looking for, but as an engineering director I would say the market is red hot. You won't struggle to find work if you're half good 😊 by Smart_Statistician23 (Wed 17th Nov 2021 12:44pm)
  • The way we are all living is changing off the back of covid and technology. If you're able to work from anywhere, why would you choose to live in a small London flat when you could live in a much larger property elsewhere in the country? What you are witnessing is a mass migration of the population from one job to another and from one area to another. Glasgow is still very cheap in comparison to most of the country. To be clear, the kind of property you're looking at in New York would be 10M, London would be 1-2M and in Edinburgh 350k+... Yet Glasgow offers the best schools in Scotland, a rich culture, good nightlife, great restaurants, and a lot of up and coming areas. Glasgow is value, it's no wonder prices are rocketing! by Smart_Statistician23 (Sat 11th Dec 2021 4:05pm)
  • I worked at skyscanner for about 5 years before the pandemic as a software engineer, then engineering manager and senior manager. I worked in London, Edinburgh and Glasgow over my time. I can say hands down it was the best company I've ever worked for. The culture was amazing, the tech is modern, and the product continues to go from strength to strength. The company allowed me to grow and share in their success and I was very sad to leave. I left during the pandemic, I went on furlough when everything went wrong (this was voluntary and I had 2 young kids to care for) then after 4 months away I just decided not to come back. As a company they were hit hard during the pandemic with no-one flying. But now they're doing great, travel opening back up has meant they're not very close to where they were pre pandemic, and in many regards doing very well. Their covid map checker is best in market. I'd highly recommend you go work there. by Smart_Statistician23 (Sat 21st May 2022 1:11pm)
  • I'm afraid this is the downside of the governments strategy to go after landlords. Over the past 10 years or so, it's become harder and harder to be a landlord. The challenges include; - higher taxes (not able to offset mortgage costs) - more regulations (hmo licenses, energy efficiency improvements, etc) - more rights to tenants (eviction bans, rent increase bans, no minimum tenancies, etc) - tighter restrictions on lending (its hard to get a btl mortgage because lending amounts are tied to the rent you can achieve) The result is that landlords are selling their properties in large numbers and have been doing for years. As a result, the stock of rental properties decline. So this is one of supply and demand. There isn't much supply of rental property, and demand is high and increasing. The result, is lots of competition for every property. I'm not trying to get sympathy for landlords, this is just the reality of the situation. Villainising and penalising landlords ultimately makes landlords sell up, which means fewer rental properties left 😔 by Smart_Statistician23 (Fri 25th Nov 2022 3:40pm)
  • If selling to other landlords, then yes technically the supply stays flat. But landlords buying make a small percentage of overall buyers, so odds are they will sell to people to live in. Agree houses for homes is not a bad thing, but the bottom line is there is still demand for rental properties. by Smart_Statistician23 (Fri 25th Nov 2022 5:47pm)
  • As a non-scot living in Glasgow, I can heavily relate to this. Scotland feels very racist, and whereas I've not been subjected to racist abuse directly, I hear and see racism all the time. There's the downright wrong racism. like my friend taking his daughter to school and another parent telling them to go back their own country, and me consoling my friends 7 year old daughter who didn't understand why someone would say that. But there's lots more of what I would call casual racism. Referring to corner shops as the p*ki shop, going to a chinese restaurant and referring to it as a chinky, tarring all Muslims as terrorists... The list is endless and I'd say I hear this sort of thing almost daily and most people don't even realise its racism. Sad but true, we have a long way to go by Smart_Statistician23 (Tue 29th Nov 2022 7:32pm)