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- ESTATE AGENTS VOCABULARY
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- IN NEED OF MODERNIZATION - Estate agents volcabulary to watch out for when
- buying a house:
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- Unusual location:- In the path of a projected motorway
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- Local authority grants:- About to be condemned
- available
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- Period residence:- Built in the last two years
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- Select neighbourhood:- Beside sewage works
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- Compact:- Tiny
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- Country gentleman's :- No longer suitable for agricultral
- residence tenants
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- Unusual features:- No roof
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- Delightful rural location:- In flight path of nuclear bomber base
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- Box room:- Suitable for accommodating one or two
- large cardboard boxe's (folded)
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- A wealth of period :- Yourself, dry rot, rising damp and an
- features electrical circuit best operated in rubber
- gloves and wellies.
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- Quite,secluded setting:- On site of proposed dormitory town
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- Well situated:- In full vew of the neighbours
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- Within easy distance of :- Next door to a pub and opposite a sex shop
- local amenities
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- Rare opportunity to buy:- No one else want's it
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- For the gardening enthusiast:- Grounds like a jungle
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- Extensively modernized:- Former DIY owner had a breakdown under the
- strain
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- Unspoilt:- Planning permission granted for field next
- door
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- Deceptive appearance:- It looks terrible
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- Partial central heating:- The room above the boiler can get warm in
- summer
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- Easily maintained:- Requires at least two gardeners and live-in
- maid
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- Usefull outbuildings:- No inside bog
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- Much sought after:- It's been on the market at least twice
- before and still no one wants it
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- By private treaty:- If it went to auction it would never
- reach the reserve price
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- Owner eager to sell:- If it goes within a week the subsidence
- cracks won't be noticed
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- Subject to new instructions:- Thay have just decoverd death watch beetle
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- Sold:- Unless idiots like you offer a higher price
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