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My wife and I (both in our early sixties) have been renting out our original family home for over ten years now. The house, mortgage-free and located in Dublin, has an approx market value of 220k. Rental income 1200 euro pm., no trouble with tenants. With tax, repairs etc, net income would be...

Panic over! Found the forms at home, sending them off today...phew!

Just coming in very late on this whole issue...have shares , probably got documents, then threw the documents out not realising the importance of filling in the form in order to benefit from the sale. Only realised last night, from an article in one of the local papers, that the deadline for...

Well, based on the above replies, some food for thought there, alright. It's encouraging that there appears to be some financial merit attached to our scenario, whereas I had assumed that any advice forthcoming would have been more negative generally. Not in any hurry to sell, and the point was...

Thanks for the replies...in relation to your question, AlbacoreA, when we decided to move in 2003, I was wearing boom-tinted glasses (a popular fashion accessory at the time!) and so we considered that over the next five years or so, that we could sell the rental property at a profit; hindsight...

My wife and I currently have a tracker mortgage on the house we have lived in for ten years now. We have been renting out our former house in Dublin since we moved, and so far we have been lucky with any tenants we've had. The value of the rental property at peak was around 450k so I suppose...

Thanks for the replies (so far)... Part of our thinking in 2004 was that the house in Dublin would be like a kind of pension, but we all know what happened since. We intended all along to sell the house in Dublin, just a question of when. The rental contract with the tenants was renewed in...

Hi, I would really appreciate feedback and opinions on my query below. I will try to give all the relevant information, so here goes... My wife and I (in our late fifties) moved house in Feb 2004, to a house just outside Dublin. We don't intend moving anytime soon. Purchase price 296k...

Saw it last night in the O2. Maybe my wife and I made a mistake in expecting Riverdance Mark Two but it was a disappointment. Spectacular when all of the dancers were tapping away, but there were a lot of fillers (three songs, including "I wish I was I in Carrick-Fergus" etc). Twenty minutes...

There is a local kitchen-fitter in Ballyfermot, Brian Rochford, who has a business name "Abstract Kitchens". He is a down-to-earth guy who would definitely have some useful advice as regards organising a kitchen within your budget. (Not a friend of mine or anything, but he did a modification in...

Leaking from the base of the on/off valve so that the water drips down the pipe going into the floor (the rad is in an upstairs bedroom)...hope this clarifies...

Anyone know a good plumber who can fix a leaking rad? We've had two who attempted a repair but didn't solve the problem. It's not a severe leak but over time it is affecting the level of water in the heating system and adding new water, AFAIK, dilutes the additive that was put in when we had a...

Thanks to all above for the info...very useful and re-assuring!

Hi, I am bringing my wife to Prague for a long weekend in Mid-December, to celebrate her em...land-mark birthday! Has anyone out there been there at that time of year and what were the highs and lows of the place? In particular, what is the best way to get from the airport to the old town (near...

It is certainly possible to have an under-counter double-oven, asuming your work-top is a standard height, which it more than likely is if you have presses underneath etc. Perhaps you should look beyond Neff, maybe try other brands like Zanussi or AEG (the quality of the appliance is another...

Re: Calling all online shoppers Done and dusted...good luck with your project!

Well, Oldnick, on reading your post, you have me curious as to the location of your travel business! I work near Liffey Valley, I wonder if it is in that general area of Dublin? Anyway, I was talking to a driver who delivers to our place and he was telling me that he does DIY all the time now...

Well, thanks again, everyone, for the great response to my query...(quite enjoying the jousting between Leper and Old Nick!!). I would be fairly flexible in some respects, e.g., Greece would be another option, and a mid-week departure/arrival wouldn't be a great problem either. Portugal is...

Thanks, all, for the replies...will have to get moving soon on organising it one way or the other. Once the basic arrangements are in place, MBH takes it from there and looks after all the details so she is looking to have something in the bag so as she can get cracking!

My wife, three kids, and I went to Gran Canaria last year, very enjoyable but looking to go somewhere different, around early July, perhaps Malaga and environs.. Would really appreciate feedback on whether it is worthwhile organising our own flights, accommodation, insurance etc, or would it be...