• Hold persons unknown to ransom for 10 quid

    From Andrew@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 7 14:33:06 2025
    https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/255/61/

    £10. Blimey, that's cheap for anywhere, never mind London.

    I wonder what you could actually do (legally) with this
    ownership.

    Someone has bought all the grass verges and odd little green
    spaces on the estate where I live. I wonder if that will have
    an impact on anyone trying to have the kerb dropped outside
    their house in future ?.

    Andrew

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Andrew on Fri Feb 7 15:30:21 2025
    Andrew wrote:

    https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/255/61/

    £10. Blimey, that's cheap for anywhere, never mind London.

    I wonder what you could actually do (legally) with this
    ownership.
    Charge the lime bikes a "toll" to cross your land?
    charge BT a wayleave for their manhole?

    <https://maps.app.goo.gl/5MjJApFmtWtPFw7X8>

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  • From Graham.@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 7 20:29:31 2025
    On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 14:33:06 +0000, Andrew <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/255/61/

    �10. Blimey, that's cheap for anywhere, never mind London.

    I wonder what you could actually do (legally) with this
    ownership.

    Someone has bought all the grass verges and odd little green
    spaces on the estate where I live. I wonder if that will have
    an impact on anyone trying to have the kerb dropped outside
    their house in future ?.

    Andrew

    (I needed to open an incognito window in Chrome to view. (It wasn't my Adbolck))

    You would think the property industry would have a polite term for
    "Ransom Strip". Then again, maybe you wouldn't.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_strip

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  • From alan_m@21:1/5 to Thomas Prufer on Sat Feb 8 08:12:23 2025
    On 08/02/2025 07:45, Thomas Prufer wrote:

    So I looked at this, imagining what it would be like buying lots of cheap offcuts, in the hope they will come in handy one day, only real estate, not DIY.
    Or making possibly tax-deductible trips to London to inspect my many properties,
    or...

    First off: "We have been advised by the Seller that some of the roads and pathways have been adopted by the Local Authorities and/or Highways."

    And while I'd still spend £10 sight unseen, the auctioneers have a minimum charge of £750...


    Being next to a pedestrian path and on the corner of the road the
    council could force the owner to maintain it, or alternatively maintain
    it themselves and send the owner a bill for the service.

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  • From Thomas Prufer@21:1/5 to Graham. on Sat Feb 8 08:45:40 2025
    On Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:29:31 +0000, Graham. <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 14:33:06 +0000, Andrew <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/255/61/

    £10. Blimey, that's cheap for anywhere, never mind London.

    I wonder what you could actually do (legally) with this
    ownership.

    Someone has bought all the grass verges and odd little green
    spaces on the estate where I live. I wonder if that will have
    an impact on anyone trying to have the kerb dropped outside
    their house in future ?.

    Andrew

    (I needed to open an incognito window in Chrome to view. (It wasn't my >Adbolck))

    You would think the property industry would have a polite term for
    "Ransom Strip". Then again, maybe you wouldn't.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_strip

    So I looked at this, imagining what it would be like buying lots of cheap offcuts, in the hope they will come in handy one day, only real estate, not DIY.
    Or making possibly tax-deductible trips to London to inspect my many properties,
    or...

    First off: "We have been advised by the Seller that some of the roads and pathways have been adopted by the Local Authorities and/or Highways."

    And while I'd still spend £10 sight unseen, the auctioneers have a minimum charge of £750...


    Thomas Prufer

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  • From Marland@21:1/5 to Thomas Prufer on Sat Feb 8 08:00:37 2025
    Thomas Prufer <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:29:31 +0000, Graham. <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 14:33:06 +0000, Andrew <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/255/61/

    £10. Blimey, that's cheap for anywhere, never mind London.

    I wonder what you could actually do (legally) with this
    ownership.

    Someone has bought all the grass verges and odd little green
    spaces on the estate where I live. I wonder if that will have
    an impact on anyone trying to have the kerb dropped outside
    their house in future ?.

    Andrew

    (I needed to open an incognito window in Chrome to view. (It wasn't my
    Adbolck))

    You would think the property industry would have a polite term for
    "Ransom Strip". Then again, maybe you wouldn't.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_strip

    So I looked at this, imagining what it would be like buying lots of cheap offcuts, in the hope they will come in handy one day, only real estate, not DIY.
    Or making possibly tax-deductible trips to London to inspect my many properties,
    or...

    First off: "We have been advised by the Seller that some of the roads and pathways have been adopted by the Local Authorities and/or Highways."

    And while I'd still spend £10 sight unseen, the auctioneers have a minimum charge of £750...


    Thomas Prufer


    If some of those parcels are regularly crossed by the public then one
    tripping and claiming for injury compensation if the surface was poor could cost a bit, you could insure yourself but that is more money to spend.

    GH

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  • From Thomas Prufer@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Feb 9 09:04:08 2025
    On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 08:12:23 +0000, alan_m <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 08/02/2025 07:45, Thomas Prufer wrote:

    So I looked at this, imagining what it would be like buying lots of cheap
    offcuts, in the hope they will come in handy one day, only real estate, not DIY.
    Or making possibly tax-deductible trips to London to inspect my many properties,
    or...

    First off: "We have been advised by the Seller that some of the roads and
    pathways have been adopted by the Local Authorities and/or Highways."

    And while I'd still spend £10 sight unseen, the auctioneers have a minimum >> charge of £750...


    Being next to a pedestrian path and on the corner of the road the
    council could force the owner to maintain it, or alternatively maintain
    it themselves and send the owner a bill for the service.

    Ouch.

    So, to hold anyone ransom, it won't work to just stroll in with a tenner. It needs a limited liability company on the Maldives buying the strip, after researching its usefulness, and then carefully monitoring if and when it is remunerative to pounce. Specialist work, not DIY, I guess...

    Thomas Prufer

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