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unexpectednewbee

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  1. that pretty much the way i was thinking thing might go once once advice/estimates/valuation were gotten. the sister mentioned above is tecnally only a half sister through our mum so legally has no baring on the inheretance. but as i i found out a week before the funeral we aparently do have a half sister through Terry and then met her for the first time at the funeral, so there is someone else in play as they say, though she was estranged from him twice as long as i was and has been very verry hands off with everything. Mb feels that neither i nor our sister should inheret anything as we had had no contact in years but its a mute point as he died with out a will so its govened by intestate law, unless we dicide to give up our share. it's basically going to end up in some very hard conversations where it'll proberly be easier to get blood out of a stone than get a unanumus dicision made.
  2. I know, I Know yet another thing that my brother hasn't thought through with wanting to fix it up i know that supposedly he is supposed to have a friend that will help with some of the work but i know that he's unreliable and has a patner and young baby/child and i don't even know if he has transport. our sister has a car at the moment but we can't rely on that. it is funny thought to imagine oli on his motorbike trying to transport planks of wood etc
  3. I don't underestimate either the cost or the time that it's likely to take and have a much realistic veiw point than my brother who from what i gathered from our first convosation about fixing it up was it would only take him a couple of years of doing it on the weekends ( though i dont dout he would get board) presumably while also cc as he made no mention of geting it out of the water or into a marina!! and as much as I could really do with moving from where I currently am living for my own wellbeing I know that realisticaly it's not something that is viable at this point in time no mater how much i might wish it. so i'd have no problem selling it now once i know what we could reasenabley get for her. The problem is trying to pursade my brother that selling it is the best option but he's very hard headed and stubon and dosn't take being given advice well and it's doubly hard at the moment with him feling guilty about the whole thing to even get him to talk with me about everyday stuff let alone anything to do with the boat ect as he's, what's the saying 'put his head in the sand' and left me to deal with it all. some i'm trying to get all the right information about every option so it will hopefuly make the descusions we need to have easier.
  4. hi mike, that's the thing I don't know, I know my brother has said he doesn't want to live on it but he wants to 'finish' as terry would have wanted as he's feeling guilty how estranged they got over his last years especially when they had not long re-established contact.On the other hand, although I could really do with moving out of where I am at the moment if it works out financely but am not sure if I could go straight into cc'ing as it has been many years since I last lived on a boat as a teenager and I don't believe the boat we lived on ever moved and just from asking/looking around I know that finding a non-leisure mooring is hard what with not be able too far from Bradford on avon for work ect and the boat being 64'. there has also been the idae of keeping it for leisure use which is an good idea as I could get used to being on a boat again while waiting for a morring ect. What i'd idealy like to do is have a survey done first to find out if there are any major problems and get a value for the boat as is; 1. so that if there is anything thats major we can look at how long its likely goin to take to do her up as my brother works full time so will esently only have weeknds and holidays. I'm expecting it to be quit a bit of work even if there aren't any major problems as half the inslation is missing,and there's rust on the inside, the roofs leaking ot a couple of the glass dome spots so the interia celing and insulation has to come out not to mention the missing kitchen and bathroom. 2.because at the moment we've no idea of how much to look for if we did go down the root of seeling it. although friends of terry's have said we'd probly only get between 6-10 thousand for it as is. 3. so that if there is a lot of work thats more than just cosmetic and not worth our time and money to do up, it might be easier to perswade my brother if we have it in black and white as they say. The other reason i'm looking to get it on to hard standing sooner rather than later is Terry was rather naughty aparently with regards to adhearing to the cc rules and as he died sudenly we are unsure at this point if he managed to get his licence for this year before he died. Although we were certen we had found this years licence in his very limited paperwork. with haveingto get probate there's nothing crt can do at the moment but once it's sorted is another matter and i think i'd rather have it out of the water rather than paying for a licence we might not use in the end thanks for the condolences, but we were many years estranged. I will have to give them a call thanks
  5. So as the title says my brother and I have unexpectedly become a boat owners as earlier this year my father died, as he was living on a narrow boat at the time of his death its part of his estate that we are having to deal with, aside from the internal fit out that needs compleating/redoing as it is only half done as well as being used as a workshop, we know that the bottom needs re-blacking and repaint of the whole boat, the tentative plan at the moment is for my brother and I to do as much of the work ourselves, with this in mind I have been looking into what we would need to do now and further do the line. After having looked at the options and I believe getting it on too long term hardstanding would suit our needs best with regards to cost/timeline. so I'm looking for some recommendations for hard standing around Bradford on Avon or as near as possible as neither of us has a car. Also before anything is decided about what we're going to do I'd like to get a surveyor out to go over the whole boat to find out if there are any problems and to also value the boat; as for if we decide to sell it as a project, so recommendations for local surveyors would be good thanks. as this has turned into rather a rambling post let me bullet point the important questions 1. recommendations for hard standing in or as near to Bradford on Avon as possible? and local crane/transporters if needed ? 2. recommendations for surveyors in the Wiltshire area? 3. any other advice that might be needed? thanks hanna
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