Whether you are buying to rent or sell, this book shows how to get it right first time, what the consequences can be if you get it wrong, and how to fix them. Full of practical information to guide you through all stages of improving your house.
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Sarah Beeny is a self-taught property developer and presenter of all series of Property Ladder for Channel 4.
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When are they going to release DVDs of this series?!!!!,
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I have not read the book. I HAVE seen most of the TV shows from which the book derives. This is a plea to make the shows available on DVD (for North America, whatever zone that is). I imagine the book is quite good (Sarah Beeny has her head very well screwed on), but it could NOT be better than the original shows. I, along with my entire family, am a complete addict of this show. I live in the States, but the members of my family who live in the UK tape this show religiously, and we all binge on it when we get together. The premise is that each hour-long episode follows someone who has bought property with the goal of developing it, and selling it a short time later for a (hopefully large) profit. The host is a woman with extensive development experience, who reviews the guest's initial plans, offers suggestions, and occasionally help, but mostly watches the guests dig themselves into a financial hole. Each episode begins with the guests having bought their property, presenting their overall plan (typically: bought Welsh cottage for 25,000 British pounds, plan to put in new plumbing, new electrical, indoor bathroom, skylights, replaster all the rooms, add extension at back of house, with budget of 9,000 pounds, and sell in 12 weeks for at least 50,000.) Sometimes it's the innocence of the guests (as in the New Zealand woman living in London, who more or less planned the above project as her first). More juicy is when the guests are ignorant. Ajay - I think that was his name, I'm working from memory - who plans to do *everything* himself, though he barely knows one end of the hammer from the other. Just to make it a little more challenging, he's keeping his day job, his wife gets pregnant half way through their 12-week remodel. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention they're going on a two-week vacation halfway through, for a wedding in Los Angeles! Equally fun is when they're obnoxious or self-absorbed, like the guy who buys a terraced (row-) house, puts steel beams into his neighbours' walls without either a permit or warning, and then wonders why they're suing him, and blocking his further development. Schadenfreude plays a large part in this show obviously, but you often empathise with someone who's naive, has gotten in over their heads, and really learns some hard lessons. It wraps up with a run-down on how far over-budget they went, how they could have done things differently. Often, things work out OK for people, despite the mistakes they make. People have a great resiliency - they often MAKE things work, no matter what happens. This is NOT like those makeover shows, where the "team" comes in and builds you a new bedroom set from MDF for under $1000, in 48 hours. This is REAL re-development, major remodelling, with real people's lives. I'm not a huge fan of "REALITY" TV, partly because so much of it seems contrived (e.g., Fear Factor, Who's Your Daddy, etc.). This is REAL reality TV, and makes for great entertainment, particularly if you're a homeowner. Bring out the DVDs!
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