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Should we sell off the ghost estates for nothing?

  • 27-02-2011 08:04PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭


    It probably never happen due to some people who might as well have a 1000 year mortgages,but,would be best to sell off the ghost house estates for practically nothing?.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,475 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    oh definitely...in fact let me just get out my wallet :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    why not convert them for a more practical purpose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,257 ✭✭✭amacca


    well speaking as an interested buyer.....yes absolutely!

    just as long as

    there are no upkeep costs

    I have no liability should anyone injure themselves on my shiny new ghost estates etc

    and I can have as many of my thrill seeking hippy commune friends over as I want and let the neighbours bedamned I tells ye.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭PK2008


    Who you gonna call?

    Ghostbusters!!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    We shouldnt have bought them in the first place - Burn the bond holders jail the rest!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Please dont. Iv been living in one for the past 3 years and havent been caught yet. I move to a different house each day. Today im in number 227.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,191 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Anything would be better than just allowing them to sit there serving no purpose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,257 ✭✭✭amacca


    PK2008 wrote: »
    Who you gonna call?

    the local county council?

    oh no perhaps not

    psychic meg?

    a sex line?...yes that'll do


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Fremen


    We could charge large groups of tourists thousands of quid a pop to have massive parties in them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    You mean give them away for nothing, free meaning at no cost.....:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Sticky_Fingers


    Many unfinished houses will have to be tore down but I think it is criminal that finished units that are ready to move into are being allowed to sit idle. Personally I would move into one of them, I actually want to move into the countryside away from the big cities so if I could buy a cheap one on an estate (finished of course) thats out in the middle of nowhere then I would seriously consider it. The price would have to be pretty low though since there are many rural properties going for a song at the moment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭christmas2010


    Maybe they should be donated to the vast numbers of newly unemployed Fianna Fail ex TDs!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Sickened there is none really close to me. Definitely move into one and have a session or two


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,257 ✭✭✭amacca


    Maybe they should be donated to the vast numbers of newly unemployed Fianna Fail ex TDs!

    they wont be movin into my fcukin ghost estate

    backstards!

    ill keep my dealers, pimps and hoes and disaffected hooligan youths with nary a braincell to rub between them tks v.much


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭galwegians


    co councils should take them over seeing how- NAMA- own most of them anyway and put all the people waiting for social and affordble housing into them.
    and fair play to the fella squatting in a different one each day, well done.:D.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,263 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    galwayrush wrote: »
    You mean give them away for nothing, free meaning at no cost.....:D

    He forgot to use the proviso "terms and conditions apply", so they must be free (apart from the cost of finishing off the unbuilt properties, the roads, pavements, street-lighting, sewerage, etc etc etc)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Anything would be better than just allowing them to sit there serving no purpose.
    I agree. Its a complete waste.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭letsbehonest


    I think we should let the developers live in them and let the people that are currently living in them move into the developers houses!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭maglite




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Anything would be better than just allowing them to sit there serving no purpose.

    Artist hippy squats! Woo hooo!!!!1

    *runs off to book ticket home

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    Just think of the paintball/airsoft session you could have in one of them.

    Proper urban combat.

    That was my first though. No stealing my thoughts or ideas. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭bmarley


    What about the people who have already bought a property on one of these estates, should they be entitled to a refund? There are very few which are completely empty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    bmarley wrote: »
    What about the people who have already bought a property on one of these estates, should they be entitled to a refund? There are very few which are completely empty.

    Why? They bought the house, I assume their house is finished and liveable in?

    What's to refund?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭cordub


    Why? They bought the house, I assume their house is finished and liveable in?

    What's to refund?
    If they are filled with people who get them free it will hugely deflate the prices of the houses that people spent a fortune on , Plus what about if they end up with a load of gurriers living next to them NIGHTMARE I would be devestated !!!:mad::mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭Cybertron85


    cordub wrote: »
    If they are filled with people who get them free it will hugely deflate the prices of the houses that people spent a fortune on , Plus what about if they end up with a load of gurriers living next to them NIGHTMARE I would be devestated !!!:mad::mad:

    Yeah, partial rebate for the folks living there already and sell the empties at a low price, without giving them away for free.

    Presumably there are still familes and young couples out there who would be willing to snap up a very cheap house. + most are in the commuter belt so plenty of takers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    cordub wrote: »
    If they are filled with people who get them free it will hugely deflate the prices of the houses that people spent a fortune on , Plus what about if they end up with a load of gurriers living next to them NIGHTMARE I would be devestated !!!:mad::mad:

    True, it would be unpleasant. But to get a "refund?"

    That's the hazards you take when you are an early adopter to something new, should it be a new computer device, or a first house on an estate.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Maybe they should be donated to the vast numbers of newly unemployed Fianna Fail ex TDs!

    Why, these useless redundant Fianna Fail TD"s could well afford to upgrade to where ever they want with their life time fat pensions just about to kick in.

    They should locked up in jail instead.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭Amhran Nua


    Hire them out for zombie/apocalypse movies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Free premises for start up companies?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    Amhran Nua wrote: »
    Hire them out for zombie/apocalypse movies.

    See, it's this kind of thinking that'll get out of a hole. Some people want to give them away, **** that for a game of tiddlywinks, charge people for it!

    It makes money, money is then spent, people get paid, jobs are kept.

    Too much doom and gloom in these parts lately!


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