UK Landlord Forum / Life

Apparently wealthy Arabs and Russians that buy property in London are super lazy. These days they require lifts so they can easily navigation from the first floor to the fifth floor in their super skinny, but tall flats. A lift can add 10% to the property, ya know?

These types of property costs about 4m. Will a lift really add 400k? Apparently so. Crazy world.

Source: http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article2875669.ece

ELEVATORS are really common in newly built houses these days in posch neighbourhoods in America. We visited some families who purchased homes between $400,000 - $750,000 (US Currency), all of them had 'lifts' in their homes. Only three story homes too, nothing out of the ordinary.

That just highlights how lazy americans are

The weird thing is, a lift would be genuinely useful in larger homes for moving chunky furniture like beds or cabinets... (pianos) ... but the lifts you see are never big enough for that!!


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Well, the article talks about installing lifts in those thin, 5 story city houses. There's not enough room for a big lift in those!

Even a big lift is smaller than stairs.

Could install a fireman's pole in a cupboard for emergency exit.

Come to think of it, hotel I stayed at in the New Forest recently had a lift, but it was horrible as it had no inner door. It was barely big enough for me and my case too, and though it wasn't fast it was just horrible watching the wall slide past. Eurgh. Is it just me that gets weirded out by these things even though you know you're adult enough not to do something stupid .... and feels almost a compulsion to touch the moving wall just because it would be all yicky and dangerous? bRRRRRR.


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