 Buy through realtor or from owner? |
| Is it better to buy a house through a realtor or from owner directly? Why?... |
|
 Considering leaving and going to a new state...any suggestions? |
| No kids, not really any family and no deep deep relationships. Been in the same place all my life and I feel that I would do much better somewhere else. Maybe like a do over.... |
|
 Roommates? |
| i have a 1 bedroom apartment, and I'm thinking of adding a roommate in here. but I'm a afraid since we will live in same room together, we will not get along. what's your experience?? (... |
|
 If something devastating happens to a person, what rights do they have to ending their apartment lease? |
| If someone has signed a lease but losses a family member and needs to move, what legal rights are there to get out of that lease? Are people seriously forced to stay in a lease without any exceptions?... |
|
 Is it still possible to buy a house for 40,000? |
| hopefully in florida?we are a new family , in search for a home we can afford. i know how to work on homes and i am a profesional chef here in orlando.... |
|
 I want to be a real estate agent but i want to know do they really make good money .? |
| I want to be a real estate agent but i want to know do they really make good money or is it all about commission. And i also would like to know how to get started. Does anyone know?... |
|
 When looking to buy a house, do you find floor plans useful? |
| I am conducting some market research. I would like to know if a floor plan layout would help sell a house. If you have looked through estate agent websites before, did you see any with floor plan ... |
|
 Landlords, reasons for not allowing tenants to have dogs on the property? |
Without being rude, why do you not allow tenants to have dogs?
Is it because of a past bad experience? Are you worried the dog will be destructive? What are some other reasons?... |
|
 Will the council help if iwe are evicted by our new landlord? |
| will the council help me to be rehomed if my new landlord evictes due to rent arrears occured with my ex partner.I have 4 yiung children and am 4 months pregnant with my new ... |
|
 Can landlords go into your rented house without your knowledge or permission? |
| Is it legal? I don't really like the idea of somebody going into where i live when i'm not around and going through my stuff. Or even them THINKING i'm gone and just letting themselves ... |
|
 Why does my daughter have to suffer because my landlord does not want to do anything? Family life is in danger |
| Hello my name is Amira Boyd, I am a mother of a disabled child who, works full-time and goes to school. I have wrote my landlord over 100 complaint emails. Nothing is being done. The problems that ... |
|
 How do I know the proper rent amount to charge my boyfriend & how do I break it to him? |
| I have a great job making decent money and my boyfriend who moved in last year also had a great job. Since July of this year he has not had a job. I pay around 1400 per month for a condo, ... |
|
 What should i sell my home for? |
| it has 4 bedrooms, large kitchen, 3 bathrooms, formal living and dining, 2 car garage, 15 ft deep pool, and a workshop in the back, and a 3rd story loft. it is just 6 years old (i didnt have a ... |
|
 I was thinking to moving to New Jersey from NYC I want to know what places in Jersey shoul I look at and why? |
| I want to stay fairly close to staten Island because my whole family lives there. I want good schools for my three young kids. I don't mind spending some money I would say no more then 700,000. C... |
|
 If two people buy a house together and then split up....? |
| I am considering purchasing a house with my fiance. My father is still very skeptical and I know will think I am "making too big of a financial commitment" (despite the ring on my finger). N... |
|
 I have lost my rental agreement for my apartment and the landlord thinks I signed a 12 month lease not 8 month |
| The landlord before him let me sign an 8 month lease just while I was in school. This new landlord doesnt believe me and wants to see the agreement. I cant find it but they would have to have it in ... |
|
 I am moving into an apartment with another girl. How do we decide who gets the bigger room.? |
| We will both pay exactly the same rate. I am in my junior year at college and she is in her freshman year. Both of us would obviously like to have the larger room. I don't want there to be ... |
|
|  |
janet s | Would anyone else like to see the public house back to how it used to be ? |
The pub was never meant to be an eating place of any sort. If you wanted to eat out and have a glass if wine you went to a restaurant. The old type pub was a community place where the anyone no matter where they had been or how they were dressed popped in for a drink and a chat. They elderly chap with his dog several others sat playing dominoes or cards. It was such a warm and friendly place once upon a time.As a child at Christmas myself and my cousin would go around the pubs and start carol singing at the door where we would be invited in and after a sing-along and lemonade they would throw threepence pieces and sixpences at us (perhaps to shut us up!) and we would go merrily on our way. Would pubs not be able to survive this way now if so why? |
 |
 
Marcus
|
Yes, I would like it the way it was.
The price of a pint is too high and the smoking ban didn't help. Pubs all over the country are closing because they aren't what they are supposed to be; like you say a communal hub. Serving food is scraping the barrel for a business supplement idea.
The notion that kids and alcohol don't mix is an interesting one. Now they aren't in the pub drinking lemonade under watchful eyes they are in the park with 2 litres of 7.5% cider.
If you were to bring some common sense into the equation then the local pub could return. What made it what it was revolved around social circumstances. People can't jump in the car, because of the price of petrol and they have to think about turning the heating on, we have hundreds of channels, but there's nothing to watch on TV. Only trouble with the local pub is, it costs even more.
Always remember how the original Heartbeat with Nick Berry came across as the architectural village pub with the policeman drinking with the rogue and the crime rate being next to zero.
|
|
deadloud
|
Yeah bring 'em back. Anybody who didn't like them didn't have to go in them. Sod europe, the british pub should never have been sacrificed just 'cos the government wanted us to be like them. We're british ... leave our way of life alone. |
|
Motörhead Fan
 |
Pubs are not really pubs any more, they are now just restaurants posing as pubs! |
|
jeanimus
 |
Yeah. As kids on a saturday luchtime after swimming, my pa would sit us outside in the car with crisps and pop whilst he had a pint. And we would just have to go in and get him and get cash of all the old guys! All of our local pubs do food in the daytime whereas once they could manage on just the beer. Most of the ones in the town centre do as well. I loved pubs when I was younger, I guess being female blokes would just look after you and it was nice and friendly. Wouldnt go in one on my own now though. |
|
kaitwo
|
OH I WISH. For twelve years l ran a fabulous, traditional "all English" pub. Every characteristic, you could think of ,was incorporated to make it very sucessful, and it was! Had it not have been, l would not have been there for so long. The problem today, is the worst kept secret in the world. DRUGS! If you indulge, then most people recognise it instantly for sure, A proportion of public trade, be it established, or casual, are under the influence of "other substances" before they have even consumed ONE drink! Most are good, and just want to be "happy", but then you`ve got to handle the smackhead who can`t handle himself! The days of a concept of an ancient, beautiful pub, are l`m sorry to say, gone. |
|
bud
|
I would love to see them back the way they were but unfortunately that will never happen |
|
David H
 |
There are a number of reasons, for the demise of the pub. Drink driving laws and the no smoking rule have had some effect. But the main reason I seldom go in them now is that the friendliness has gone. In the old days the staff and customers would have a friendly chat with you. In some pubs now the barman is likely to be a surly moron with pink hair and a ring in his nose. To some bar staff a customer is a bloody nuisance, interfering with them watching the sport on the massive TV, which dominates the bar. Also too much emphasis on food, bad food at that. It is all produced in a factory, frozen, then shipped out to the pubs, who stick it on a plate, along with a great big pile of lettuce leaves, which no-one eats, dandelion leaves, I got once! Wetherspoons started off well a few years back, but they`ve lost the plot as well now. Tim Martin, the founder of Wetherspoons, should come out of semi-retirement and sort them out. It could be done, if they got the right sort of staff, and made a few changes, people would be running back to their pubs! |
|
alta
|
My parents were publicans, so I grew up in pubs. They worked long hours, as they do today. Most of the pubs we had did food, if not by a separate restaurant, then bar food, which all profits went to the landlord. It was not fancy stuff like now, but ploughman's, sandwiches, chips.
We knew most of the people that were there, as they were locals. The pub would be the centre of the village or area, all the news and gossip was passed about in the pub.
There was always a darts match or a pool match and the pub had its own cricket and football team. I think the first nail in the coffin was in the mid 60's when the first drink drive law came in. We were in a huge pub that had a site for weddings, it was on a main country road right out in the country in Warwick's. There was a particular nasty village copper, who caught loads of people at the beginning, and these were farmers, tradesman, who could not afford to loose there transport, and with in 9 months we had moved into the East End.
I think there are good and bad things about pubs now, and unfortunately or fortunately, nothing stays the same. |
|
UK Dad
|
I think you have it exactly right!
Every time I go for a drive I see more boarded or turned in to foreign restaurants.
We use to go to the pub for a social gathering. To meet people and keep up with the community.
Publicans are blaming supermarkets for selling cheap booze and undercutting their prices.
They are wrong. I remember buying supermarket beer at good prices in the 60s and the pubs survived alongside them.
Now communities are crumbling as pubs (and Post Offices) close.
I doubt if we can ever go back.
|
|
ukok
|
Simple:
Since women gained more power and respect (not a bad thing) they no longer allow their men as much freedom to visit the pub.
If i had my way I would go regularly, as it is I have to share the chores and keep the kids happy of an evening. The working man of yesteryear had no such worries! |
|
David B
|
The typical person has changed. Everyone is mistrustful of others, and not so sociable until they get to know each other. If people want to drink, they'll just go to a bar where they can be by themselves or pick up people. Not many people would want to go to a place to chat with strangers or be bothered by the antics of someone. People now-a-days are very direct and hurried...they want to get in, get their drink, and get out.
It's like how in the old days, people would dress according to their stature, etc. Now, people dress up to impress potential mates, etc. |
|
mark90_2k2
|
Times change, thats the past... were changing into a new future. Always been the same way... you could argue that we should keep writing in hieroglyphics and bury people in pyramids because those were better times but its not neccesarily true. Just like the pub how it used to be was not neccesarily the best way a pub could be |
|
katy
|
fortunately we learned that children and alcohol did not mix |
|
| |
|
| | |
| Questions List |
Answers | Last Post
| | | |
13 | 14 minutes(s) ago
| | | |
13 | 22 minutes(s) ago
| | | |
13 | 56 minutes(s) ago
| | | |
13 | 2 hour(s) ago
| | | |
13 | 4 hour(s) ago
| | | |
13 | 7 hour(s) ago
| | | |
12 | 10 hour(s) ago
| | | |
13 | 11 hour(s) ago
| | | |
13 | 2 day(s) ago
| | | |
13 | 5 day(s) ago
| |
|
Homepage 
Financial
Forum 
Renting & Real Estate 
No Spam
Adult 
Gambling
Unfinished
Deception
Plagiarism
Not English
