• End-Terrace
• Bay fronted stylish property
• Large Garden and Veg plot
• Off Street Parking
• Through dining/lounge
• Study/play room
• Newly Fitted Kitchen
• 3 bedrooms
• Newly fitted Bathroom
• New carpets throughout
• Newly Decorated throughout

Asking price £132,950

For full details view the listing on Right Move

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I have been following the progress of Tepilo over the last 6 months or so and I have seen reports of some good private sales been made via the website, and although I have no experience of actually talking to any of these individuals or anyone who has used the site, this has given me the confidence to list one of our houses for sale on the site.

My view is that I can always either take it down or employ a traditional estate agent to sell the property if I get no interest, but we will monitor this over the next few weeks to see how it goes. As it is at the moment I still have some touching up to do on the property, I still have a couple of jobs to finish on the kitchen, but I have taken the risk of listing the property with this in mind.

The Tepilo Listing Process

The listing process on Tepilo is a very simple one, you answer some questions about your property, how many bedrooms, reception rooms. etc and upload an image. This is then your most basic listing created.

You can then enhance your listing by answering additional questions about the garden, property type, type of windows, central heating etc. You can upload more images to your listing for each room, and add more details text.

You can also create floor plans and virtual tours of your property so that people can walk through and see what your house is like online. I have yet to do these floor plans but will do when I get some time.

The Public Listing of your Property

The listing of your property looks great, Tepilo have integrated with Google Maps and Googles street view to show the location of your property and show an actual picture.

As I said before the layout is very much like a estate agents, with pictures of the property and the basic details, you can search for properties by region, price and distance from a postcode.

Our Listing on Tepilo

Ideas for enhancements to make Tepilo even better!

As a web developer/IT Project Manager myself, I always look at these sort of sites with a critical eye, with a view on ways I would have done to make it better. The truth is actually fairly little. There was one thing that I found a little frustrating and that needs fixing, which is I entered some content into the property details section, this text was formatted into Paragraphs, however when submitted it shows as one paragraph removing all the line breaks, a simple thing to fix. Perhaps even a visual editor would be good?

The other feature I would like to see is a view counter on your properties listing, this would show you against the listing in your account how many people have viewed your listing. This would give you an idea of how much impact your listing is having. It it could give you stats on how long each user spent on your listing similar to Google Analytics this would be even better.

Have a look at our listing on Tepilo

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I made my way to the property and opened the door to be greeted by water pouring through the ceilings in the dining room and living room (and little downstairs utility room). After going upstairs it was the same story, two of the three bedrooms had water pouring down the walls, and through the ceiling.

What is more worrying was the water was gushing our of the electrical sockets and light fittings, water has a habit of finding the easiest routes.

The central heating tanks in the attic had frozen solid,  but the water feed had not, thus meaning that the tanks were continually filling with water. The overflow simply could not cope and they were overflowing.

My advice to anyone with empty properties at this time of year is to make a daily check, if you have your central heating tanks in the attic make sure you check those as well. Condensing boilers are so much safer in this regard as you do not have tanks of water sitting around, however, make sure that the condensate pipe that goes outside is free from ice, otherwise your boiler will overheat and switch its self off.

I had left the central heating on low, however, with the loft insulation this heat had not stopped the loft from freezing. This in turn had stopped the boiler getting its water feed and thus it had over heated and switched its self off making the problem worse.

With temperatures of -11°c even with a property you are living in can easily freeze.

It will be a fairly large insurance claim to put it right, plaster has blown on walls, ceilings are coming down as the plasterboard is sodden, the carpets are ruined, and the whole place will need to be re-decorated just after I had finished decorating from top to bottom after a tenant left the place in a bit of a mess.

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Orangery Kitchen Extension Rear Elevation

I am rather busy at the moment working at another of our properties, getting it ready for sale, but when I get some time I want to re-work the project plan as we now know the maximum time that the planning application process will take as the Planning committee have to give a decision within 8 weeks of receiving the application.

As I have said before, if the plans are drawn up, and the go-ahead comes early all we need to do is pull the whole project forward the relevant time, but it is critical that I know this plan as there are lead times on ordering certain items, underfloor heating, kitchen units, hardwood floor etc.

Finally some good news on the project!

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Currently our kitchen is showing its age, and is simply not functional. We could simply change the units and rearrange things in there a little to try and make things work a little better, however, whatever we do will never actually make a great kitchen simply due to the size and shape of the room. You will never get the work triangle that so many people talk about and you can never get any decent length of continuous work surface.

What we are looking at doing is removing an inner wall between the kitchen and part of the backroom/dining room, removing the half width conservatory and extending out fill width to where the conservatory currently comes to.

We will then have an orangery roof and some large bi-fold doors which will open up the kitchen and dining room to the garden, bringing in light to the kitchen.

Here are some pictures from my CAD designs to give an idea of the results.

The problem we have is that although the distance from the end of the current kitchen and where we want to extend to is within the allowable 3m for planning, the rules seem to state that the measurement is taken from the furthest original wall which will mean that we will be coming out around 5m. Although this should not be a problem as really we are only replacing what is already there with one unified building, it will need full planning permission which of course takes time.

I am told that East Yorkshire Council currently look at 2-3 months for the planning process, this means that we really do need to get on with the project and get it moving. I have drawn up a project plan and gantt chart with all the work listed from packing up the kitchen to re-packing the new units, however the dates on this plan are currently very subjective as we have a great deal of unknowns.

As I said in my last post we are waiting for suppliers to come back with quotes before we can really start to bottom things out in terms of the plan and the possibilities, but with my estimates we are looking at the end of August for the completion of the project. I am sure that this will slip as weeks are going by and we are not actually getting anything underway, but hopefully once we have all the information for us to look at we can start to push to the plan.

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We have had several visits from representatives of the three companies, all bringing their builders round to have a look at the project, which when all said and done amounts to the building of two walls, manufacturing and fitting an orangery roof and fitting some bi-fold doors, not the most complicated build that there has ever been.

I have been chasing quotes from those companies for several weeks now and the frustration is beginning to show. Without those quotes we can not progress any finance, planning applications or further the plans in any way.

I intend to chase them all tomorrow and give them a deadline of the end of the week for their quotes, meaning that this weekend we can look at the feasibility of the project with real facts and figures to look at.

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While changing the kitchen tap I found a newspaper packing the kitchen unit, after taking this out I found it was printed in 1986, making the kitchen 24 years old! It is not as bad as it sounds, the units have dated well and are in very good condition for 24 year old units so they must have been good quality, however, that confirmed that it was time to start a fresh.

I mentioned in an earlier post that we are having problems with our boiler. These were going to be solved in the kitchen plans, currently the boiler is on the kitchen wall, which does not make any sense when we are struggling for storage space. Although we have not decided that we will have to do the boiler sooner than our kitchen plans allow, we are still taking the decision that it should be moved out of the kitchen to provide the extra space for an additional wall unit.

As I mentioned, simply replacing old units for new units just will not provide us with any significant advantage, so we decided to look at taking a wall out between the kitchen and dining room to open it up into a kitchen diner, and then extending the conservatory ac cross the whole of the back of the house and opening up the wall into the conservatory so that it was all effectively a single room. We had plans drawn up for this and we feel that this really does work well. It will give the kitchen dining room (which we hardly use currently) and conservatory a new lease of life and effectively make them the centre of the home.

In addition we love to entertain and have dinner parties. Currently I am cut off from guests while cooking, in this new scenario guests could be seated in the conservatory or dining area while I was cooking meaning we could all talk and relax in the better living space.

This is all very well in theory, however, in practice there are several problems to overcome. In my experience (although limited in terms of building, I do have quite allot of experience in house renovation and development) I do not this this is a big job. The wall that is to be removed is not load bearing, a couple of walls will need to be built and as such footings put in place and we would like a large opening door system on the conservatory, the roof on the kitchen will be removed and replaced with a sloping roof with sky lights in it. In terms of the building that will be it. In my opinion this is something in the region of 3-4 weeks work, however, a builder has quoted 12-16 weeks and £60k which is simply not practice for us, nor can we afford such a figure, especially bearing in mind that this was simply for the building work, no electrical, plumbing, internal finishing or kitchen units.

Once we add on the extras, and any inevitable slippage or things that we have not considered I would expect that figure to be around the £100k mark. Although this will put a great deal of value onto the property, I doubt that it will put £100k onto it.

We are therefore at rather a standstill on the project, unsure where to go and how to proceed. The only solution I can think of is that I do much of the work myself, or find a builder who does not think that I was born yesterday.

I maybe of course underestimating the scale of the work involved, however, I would have to be drastically underestimating it to get to where the builders think it is.

This is all very frustrating as I wanted to get on with these plans this summer, and as such need to get rolling with the planning department and building reg applications.

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The monthly payments cover a yearly service and safety certificate for the property, something that is a legal requirements for land lords to have. The first years cover is now over and as such the second services are also now due. It is down to the tenant to book an appointment for the service and the safety certificate update. This has proven to be a failing, not really with the cover it’s self but with  how it actually works in reality. If the tenant does not organise a time then the do not have the safety certificate for which the land lord is legally responsible. As such I believe that it should be the land lords responsibility to tell the tenant when the booking is and if the tenant can not be at the property for that allotted time then the land lord should have access to the property for the service and gas safety certificate to be done.

I have however been very pleased with the service, I have only had reason to call them out for two separate incidents, firstly a boiler which would not stay on and secondly a burst radiator. These where both dealt with swiftly and all under the cover at no extra expense to myself including a new radiator.

All in all I would recommend the service both to private home owners and Land Lords, however if you are a land lord make sure that you manage the process and ensure that you do not take your responsibility for granted.

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It covers me for Gas, Gas Safety Cert, Plumbing, Drainage, Electrics and electrical safety. Which means that I am left dealing with general maintenance which suits me.

There is a monthly cost to the cover £29, however this is tax deductible and as things stand with how precious time is for us at the moment, this is  an investment to get time back more than anything else.

I will blog in the future about how it goes.

As a landlord I have been researching many aspects of property rentals, from legal requirements, to insurance, mortgages and agents who run fully managed services. I have noted that there are rather few sites with provide all these resources in one place that are also aimed at people like me who dabbles in this rather than someone who has 100′s of properties.

I am therefore wondereing if there is an opportunity to create such a resource.

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I wonder where other people blog from. I usually blog in my office at home, sometimes sat in front of the TV, but I don’t see why with today’s technology why one needs to be limited. I do have an Orange Mobile broadband dongle which I use quite often when I am out and about.

I was recently searching for domain names,  someone suggested ontheblog.com a play on words… unfortunately it i taken, although there is no site there.

I wonder where the stranges place anyone has blogged from is. Post a comment if you have any strange blogging habbits!

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