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19 Oct 20, 10:02 AM |
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OP. I assume you have a steel post bolted into concrete to stop the caravan being stolen. 2 x chains are also worth using.
Reason I say this is because they do get stolen on a regular basis and are just about untraceable due to where they end up.
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19 Oct 20, 10:05 AM |
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In pure cash terms this may be right, but in objective terms not so. Both home owners most likely paid the value of the home at the time of buying.
So in comparison they are the same investment. One may get more money when they sell as the new "market rate" has increased, but so has the replacement they move into |
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19 Oct 20, 10:23 AM |
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19 Oct 20, 10:34 AM |
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We’re in a cul-de-sac, and in the corner there is a house that overlooks the neighbours drive, however, there’s a footpath between them, and a long enough front garden, so they are not close enough to one another to cause any bother. Ironically, the drive does occasionally have a caravan on it, despite there being a so-called ‘snobby’ covenant in the deeds forbidding it.
Rubbish picture, but the house under the white pathway faces to the left, so the house above it faces onto their drive. If there were no front gardens, I can see that the caravan could block light.
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19 Oct 20, 12:07 PM |
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A pic meaning anything to show perspective. I don’t mean a photo from the front of the house showing both OP’s house and the neighbour’s 😳
I would never do that myself. A diagram with positioning etc was more what I was thinking, like they’re always doing on Judge Judy 😆 I personally wouldn’t like to see a huge white object in my line of view if that was all I could see tbh. Our neighbours each side don’t park on the front drive/garden anyway. We do, but our houses have the downstairs WC and kitchens at the front so not such a big issue anyway.
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19 Oct 20, 12:15 PM |
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not really relevant but my mate recently moved onto a nrew estate in the small town we live in
part of the terms/deeds on this new estate are no "branded" work vans or caravans allowed on drives/street i was amazed they can specify what you can/cant park on your own drive ! one of my neighbours sometimes park his HGV tractor unit on the drive dosnt really bother me its his job... Edited at 12:19 PM. |
19 Oct 20, 12:27 PM |
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Yes caravan sales have gone exceptionally well since covid started. Presumably because people are looking to have more holidays at home rather than flying abroad.
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19 Oct 20, 12:34 PM |
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Theft from service stations is a huge risk for caravan owners.
Most insurance policies require you to have a hitch lock (which you should also use on the road to protect from service station or other en-route theft) and a wheel lock. They don't usually require any posts. As most won't pay out without the hitch and wheel locks this should be your first focus. With the hitch lock, ensure it also has the tow ball plug as well. Then as Tom mentioned consider a security post. Other deterrents are the window etching, alarms and trackers that most modern caravans have or can have. It was interesting reading in this thread how the posters aligned, as it was very much aligned to how many post their views on Covid as well. Just goes to show how much core values and beliefs drive and play out in many different situations. |
19 Oct 20, 12:36 PM |
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That’s a good point. A friend of mine has a good skelp of land next to her house and while they were away in holiday (funnily enough in their caravan) a large towing trailer got stolen. It did not belong to them (letting someone they know park it there). Never occurred to them that someone would steal it.
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19 Oct 20, 01:32 PM |
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Wise words, my parents caravan was very difficult to get out of its spot but my dad moved it the night before ready to go off in the morning. When they got up the van was gone despite having a hitchlock on and the clever blighters had also removed the security light bulbs from all of the lights without one assumes setting them off
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