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House Exchange

On 10 Jun 2008 at 10:44pm toffeeapple wrote:

Anyone on here want to exchange to lovely 2 bed ist floor council flat off Spences Lane Malling for 3 (or 4) bed council house in Landport with a garden?

On 11 Jun 2008 at 3:11pm M. Elliott wrote:

We live in hope

On 11 Jun 2008 at 3:54pm Mark wrote:

Dream on

On 11 Jun 2008 at 4:40pm toffeeapple wrote:

Why is that so unlikely Mark? The flat is lovely, its sunny & spacious in quiet area with balcony doors overlooking community garden & wooded area. There is plenty of resident only parking, bus stop within few yards & short walk to town with no hills. According to people on here I'd have thought people would want to get out of Landport!!

On 11 Jun 2008 at 6:27pm Mark wrote:

give up a garden and live in a flat dream on.
I know those flats and there are a no no.

On 11 Jun 2008 at 7:15pm FA wrote:

My next door neighbour has just done exactly that....given up a 3 bed with a nice garden for a 1 bed flat.
Dream on

On 11 Jun 2008 at 8:11pm LORD LANDPORT wrote:

toffeapple you will be very lucky if you do manage thIS feat..
A friend of mine had to wait years despite all the right amount of points in the end he had to offer some cash to the lady to swap (to cover her thread bare carpets) she said. made me laugh if you pull this off let us know
we will let all our Nigerian ebay friends know the swapppers address they will have a field day .
good luck

On 11 Jun 2008 at 10:12pm toffeapple wrote:

Well you may be right but people do swap houses for flats when they no longer want the work that goes with maintaining a garden of their own yet they still have the benefit of sitting out undisturbed in the sun in the large secluded communal garden. We get precious little summer anyway & people no longer tied by family (like my parents) work, holiday abroad & spend spare time doing active persuits so have little use for a garden. Your wrong about the area being a no no Mark, they are actually quite sought after because it is so quiet.

On 11 Jun 2008 at 10:43pm Cliffebimbo wrote:

There are people out there who would be prepared to swap a house for a flat-I just don't think they would use this website. Have you been along to the council, they used to have a board with all the possible swaps on there.

On 11 Jun 2008 at 11:06pm toffeeapple wrote:

Yep they have got their details on the council exchange list but just thought I'd check out on here as they were interested in going to Landport which is always getting slated on here! It would seem even older residents arent that keen to get off the estate after all :-)

On 13 Jun 2008 at 6:17pm jules wrote:

My sister swapped out of Landport using a site called UKHomeswap. It has lots of swaps litsted and you pay a tiny fee per month. My parents live in a 3 bed in Landport and wont ever move from there. Some people love it!

On 20 Jun 2008 at 8:29am Happy swapper. wrote:

I am swapping from my 1 bedroom flat to a 2 bedroom house in a couple of weeks time.Her kids have left home and she wants to downsize.I have been looking on the internet swap sites for about a year and It has finally come to fruition.So it does happen!