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Its not a council house as such ,its a end terrace.

I am not going to bother putting a bid in i recon looking at it again it would require a lot of work.

Probably be snapped up by some southern developer.

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You could try claiming for the damage from Lancashire County Council. They are responsible for the roads. Several years ago a friend of mine got them to replace a car wheel after it was damaged hitting a big pot hole.

It's worth a phone call.

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You can raise a mortgage on almost anything, though the lender will only loan you as much as they think it is worth in it's present state, in case it's defaulted on, and they need to get their money back by reselling it.

In this case it would be difficult to raise a mortgage on a property that is in a bad state of disrepair. They would almost certainly demand that a full structural survey is carried out, paid for by the person seeking the loan. Making it an extremely unattractive prospective purchase for most people, other than was said earlier by a property developer, who would probably pay cash, as do most of the buyers of properties at auctions.

It's a risk, but someone could strike lucky by putting in a cheeky bid, you never know.

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Hyndburn Borough Council can't even work out how to lie straight in bed, why p**s about like this, and as chav 1 rightly says leave themselves open to accusations of corruption, surely the easyest way would have been to shove it on 'Homes Under The Hammer' P.B. mighn't have got his mug on morning television, instead of his own personal news- sheet 'The Thobserver'. (No it's not a spelling mishtake).

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Without knowing the details of HBC's sale of this house, in Scotland the sealed bids are given on an offers over price.

It would be nice to think the council has had at least a couple of valuations on this property, and that only bids over a certain price are accepted.

Or as I said earlier a cheeky bid of £5.50p might just clinch it.:D

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its a con , somebodys on a nice little earner with this, is my opinion, any councillors dont like it = SUE ME.;)

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I disagree. Things like this are now very tightly scrutinised, for obvious reasons.

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...even things like gerrymandering for prospective voters, like Dame Shirley Porter did in Westminster, are nigh on impossible now. There is so much more public accountability now in government than ever before. Besides the opposition would love to uncover a scandal if it did happened.

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By Who HBC?:rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38: so are elections an they have been fiddled.

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Where there is muck there is brass, where there is brass there is muck, 'cashy' bob on as usual, garinda stop being so mischievous, you are certainly not naive, cynical a little bit, geremandering by gum your begining to sound like Ian Paisley, does thet mean messing about with borders to try to grab 'your sort' of voters. Tell you what garinda that avitar has style, is your mugshot from Styal.:D £5.50 Tha can have mine for that.:D

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jsut to be clear i am not saying a councilor would buy this property and make a proffit

that would be to obviuos

probably make sure a friend got it and split the proffits ;)

unless HBC have a councilor called A.Councilor i shoud be safe from being sued :Banane45:

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Do we know where this particu;ar property is?

There's an eyesore at the bottom of our row that could do with going on 'Homes Under The Hammer'. :rolleyes:

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Someone said to me the other day that they should start bull dozing at the bottom of Willows lane and not stop until they reach Green Haworth golf course. I thought that was a bit extreme personally.

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They demolish/sell the old solid if somewhat "broken" houses and then throw up lightwieght plasterboard palaces that cost a little to build and a lot to sell.