RWD_cossie_wil

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As title, I might be getting a job at Coventry airport near Baginton. What's the area like, as I may consider buying a house there to save long commutes, where is decent & where should I avoid? ...

Staffi

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Avoid Wood End, Willenhall you should be ok..

dave cos4x4

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i went there once and was in the town center for a day....looked like it was full of inbreds.

xr4x4rs

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baginton is near ryton which is a very nice quiet area

avoid wood end, hillfields, spon end, stoke, parts of walsgrave and wyken are good, binley isnt bad

chelysmore can be nice some of coundon, radford is ok, canley and tile hill is to be avoided aswell lol

but glad i moved out of cov if im honest even though im still there most days

focusv8

Wherever you choose to live could be a perfectly good area, then someone who works at the airport, for example, moves in and comes and goes at all times of day and night.
Wrecks a good area.
I live next door to a Police Officer, they work some wierd shifts.

RWD_cossie_wil

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How does someone leaving for work make it a good/bad area? I am talking about crime levels, employment rates etc?

studabear

You need to go play count the bag heads and piss pots on a midweek before noon drive about lol

TIFF

Baginton is a few mile from Royal Leamington Spa/Warwick.....And its very nice mate....As thats where im from.

Joking apart, Leamington and Warwick are both within 10 minutes of Bagington and a very nice if a little dear for some places.......average 3 bed house is about 220k.....

Shings

If I were you I'd avoid Cov and move somewhere around there or within sensible commute...

Meriden
Solihull
Leam
Warwick
Any of the little villages (within reason) over that side of 'Cov'.

TIFF

Agree with Jake.....steer clear of Cov.....

matts1

Its a small place mate and you get nice patches with shit patches right next door.

As mentioned, hillfields, bell green, wood end, aldermans green, willenhall are pretty naff all round, other places are hit and miss.

Best bet is to take a drive round an area you are looking at and clock the streets that are ok and the ones that are not.

City centre is total gash,, but you are 15 minutes fromm solihull/touchwood for shopping days and central six and the ricoh arena are there for more local stuff.

Leamington and kenilworth are not far away but you pay more and they have equally shit areas, same goes for rugby. Bagington is nice but then again, will be more costly.

What sort of money are you thinking for buying?

focusv8

Noise.

If you lived in a crime free area with warehouse receiving 24 hr deliveries at the end of the road, would that be a good or bad area?

RWD_cossie_wil

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How do you survive? Some poor sod starts a car outside of the hours of 7am-11pm and you would consider them a bad neighbour?

focusv8

Slamming car doors, slamming house doors and bounding upstairs at 1,2,3 4, or 5 oclock in the morning,,,yes.

RWD_cossie_wil

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To be honest, I want to either buy somwhere that I can live in & do up, or somwhere where I can buy and rent a couple of rooms out, as I only live in Stourbridge, which is between J3/4 of the M5, but at 40 miles/ 50 mins each way, it is a bit too far for a daily commute, and it will save me paying out over Ł400 a month on fuel or rent?

Ideally I would like somthing under Ł140k, with room for a bit of profit or space to rent out, so 100-125k would be ideal really, lots of houses around 80k on right move, but the areas look somwhat "challenging"

RWD_cossie_wil

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I don't know where you live mate, but modern life is full of shift workers, if you can't cope with the sound of a car or front door being used, I fear for your sanity.... . Do you never go out and get home after 11pm?

focusv8

I worked shifts for 20 years and never managed to wake up any of my family let alone the next door neighbours.

RWD_cossie_wil

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Couple of houses that I have saved as they look half decent?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-21864708.html
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-22490511.html
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-14243652.html
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-37141436.html

RWD_cossie_wil

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Exactly, so I don't really get your point?

focusv8

You seem to fail to get several points.

Best of luck to your sanity when you rent out rooms in your own house.

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Shings

Last time I checked the WHOLE of Cov was on the market for just shy of Ł140k so you could be Lord of the Manor with that to spend.

RWD_cossie_wil

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Seriously, I don't get what your point is? You say people that work shifts make bad neigbours, then say you worked shifts for 20 years without a problem?

I would far rarther live next door to working people who might start a car for 30 secs a day & try to be quiet and respectful, rarther than dole dossing smack heads who don't work at all?

What exactly are you getting at?

As regards to my own house, it will be a home from home for me, renting rooms out will hopefully cover the morgage so I will be living for free , it won't have all of my belonging there, and I will only be renting to proffesionals or people who I think will behave, obviously there is a risk but there always is in these things.

matts1

Not sure on the ryton one but the others are Strict no!!

Here are some mate, mainly exiting radford heading out towards coundon.

main drag, parking a bit of an issue but ok area, most have garages to rear on this stretch.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-34328180.html

this one is a street off the scotchhill, pretty quiet, dent sized houses, ok area

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...?premiumA=true


Coventry being pretty small, getting from one side of the city to the other even in rush hour is only 20 minutes really,less once you know the short cuts to avoid the jams.

this is a quiet close, new build, would want to check build quality, sister lived in one of these three properties for a while, nice street, older people mainly with 3-4 new builds developed on some spare land.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-19679160.html

he is selling them all so maybe room to haggle hard but iirc were slapped up a bit quick.


This one is round the corner from me, a council estate is a few streets away but all pretty quiet

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-26189315.html

Earsldon is renter city as it is clse to the city centre, decent pubs etc and a mix of terraced 3 sotories and then posh pads all mixed in to the area, mainly student as renters, not sure if you will get city types/professionals for coventry to be honest, plus there are LOADS of appartments on offer standing empty so lots of competition for that market I would guess.

TIFF

The one in Ryton on Dunsmore is the pick of that bunch and with the money you have.

With that budget you will have to rule out the "Nicer" places mate........

RWD_cossie_wil

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As said Tiff, as long as my car won't be getting damaged and it is a reasonable area, with the potential to either rent rooms out or take on a project that I could add value to, it's not a problem really, it will be my first time buy so the lower value ones might be a bit less of a risk?

It is basically an idea to save me 80 miles a day commute, or Ł350+ rental, which works out close to fuel costs anyway?

matts1

I would go for a three bed place in an ok area needing modernisation.

To give you an idea, we did my grandads place up when he died the other year, three bed ex council house, not been touched for 40 years.

Made the kitchen dinner open plan by taking the wall out and fitted some french doors between the lounge and dinner. New bathroom suite. New internal doors, skirting and architrave all through for a modern feel. Then slapped new flooring down. Walls were all pretty good, just needed stripping and sanding with the odd patch repair.

Valued before at Ł112k, valued after at Ł140k and and sold in two weeks for Ł135k.

Cost to do it was around Ł11k including fees, most paying tradesmen to do the kitchen and bathroom and fit doors and skirting, which had we had time, could have been done by ourselves.

RWD_cossie_wil

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Wow you did a great job there mate, that is exactly the sort of thing I am thinking about doing, how long did it take you?

matts1

took about 6 months, to be honest, it could have been done in about 1 -2 months but it was not costing anything as it was owned outright and so became a weekend thing so was no rush.

If you are going to live there, set a room aside that will be to live in, the rest can be a buiding site but if you plan out what will be done and when you could do room by room and keep it liveable working on it as and when.

main thing is to check out the street/area and neighbours, make sure windows, electric and heating is all in order and it is structurally sound. The rest is cosmetic stuff that can be tackled yourself and we always search around for sale items and bargains so you get the look without the price tag.

xr4x4rs

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what about nuneaton, come over here and you can help me do the cossie lol

or if you gona buy to rent i mayneed a new house to rent soon

Psycho Warren

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focusV8 sounds like a potential nieghbour from hell when hes an OAP

RWD_cossie_wil

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I don't really understand his point, on one hand he says he hates living next door to shift workers, yet says he worked them for 20 years without a problem?

In the modern world people come & go at all hours, as long as the noise is kept sensible then I don't see a problem? Saying that living at the end of RAF Lynehams runway for 11 years has probably desensitized me , nothing quite like being woken up by a VC10 or Eurofighter on max take off thrust

matts1

may well be worth renting a place for 6-12 months before you dive in, suss out the job, and get a feel for where would be a decent place to live.

Although renting may seem like dead money, and to a degree it is, but a year mortgage payments wont take naff all off the value of the house and will be less financially risky if the job doesnt pan out. Buying and doing up to build equity into the property is fine but you do need the cash to put down on the place and then the cash to do it up sitting aside which can be a big chunk.

RWD_cossie_wil

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Well chaps, I took the job so Cov here I come

Psycho Warren

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could be worse. You could of moved to stoke

gingeRS

god i wish i could could buy a 3 bed for Ł140k.

my budget at the moment is Ł250k and thats for a 2 bed flat.....london

Lambchop

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I'm amazed at the prices too. 90k for a WHOLE 3bed house?! wtf!

TIFF

Well once you have a house give me a shout if you need any Plumbing doing or anything tbh as i know people in most trades in this area...

Chip

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I used to work at baginton, had THE most dangerous roundabout ever, but they have calmed it down with traffic lights since, used to be known as "death island"

I lived on the outskirts of bedworth and nipped down the dual carriageway that leads from near bedworth straight to there everyday, made for a really easy commute.

I really like cov, its local for loads of stuff, the nightlife is pretty good, loads of petrol heads about and most folk there some pretty friendly.

Some PROPER shit areas like hillfields/paradise etc that you want to avoid, but other than that I reckon you'll love it, I did when I lived there.
Cov women were pretty fit too when I was there

massivewangers

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I lived in Hillfields for a while. God it was bad. Gunshots were not uncommon at night

Chip

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My mate got burgled 3 times in a week when he lived there, and someone tried to mug him.
The mugger was about 13 and my mate was over 6 foot, huge build, and a martial artist, he genuinely couldnt believe it how brave the little fella was, the kids round there must have balls like bowling balls