{"id":131700,"date":"2022-11-19T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-more-we-pulled-back-the-carpet-the-more-we-saw-what-i-learned-when-i-bought-a-house-with-a-dark-past\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T17:21:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T10:21:22","slug":"the-more-we-pulled-back-the-carpet-the-more-we-saw-what-i-learned-when-i-bought-a-house-with-a-dark-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-more-we-pulled-back-the-carpet-the-more-we-saw-what-i-learned-when-i-bought-a-house-with-a-dark-past\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The more we pulled back the carpet, the more we saw\u2019: what I learned when I bought a house with a dark past"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI knew the place I\u2019d just moved into wasn\u2019t my dream home. What I didn\u2019t know was that its history would give me nightmares \u2026In January 2021, 18 months after a sticky divorce, I bought a house. I bought it partly because I could \u2013 my ex-wife and I had got lucky on the property ladder and walked away with enough money for a deposit each. But also, I bought it because I was desperate. With shared custody of our two-year-old daughter, I needed a place where she could be happy and where I could get back on my feet.It wasn\u2019t my dream home. The bay window had been replaced by a PVC box, the walls were wonky, the windows were draughty and the pipes groaned whenever I turned on the heating. It was freezing in winter and, I would learn, had a slug problem in summer. On a road in Walthamstow, north-east London, lined by Victorian bay-windowed terraces, mine stood out like a cracked tooth. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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