agent69
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Post by agent69 on Mar 30, 2014 4:59:14 GMT
Buying a timber framed house in the 80's a couple of months before the TV expose showing that they stacked the timber frames on site in the mud and they would all rot in a few years time (recall it took about 5 years for the house to regain it's purchase price).
Still as the song goes 'regrets I've had a few, but then again too few to mention'
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Post by rudry2677 on Apr 18, 2014 21:14:01 GMT
Equitable Life. Invesco Property Income. Beacon Hill Resources. Remarrying after the very sad loss of my first wife.  |
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baz657
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Post by baz657 on Apr 19, 2014 9:07:06 GMT
3 ex-wives...
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Post by deddington on Apr 19, 2014 18:02:08 GMT
Lending money to family or friends.
If you want to keep the relationship give it to them, however,on the positive side if you want to be rid of them lend it.
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mikes1531
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Post by mikes1531 on Apr 19, 2014 22:03:21 GMT
Lending money to family or friends. If you want to keep the relationship give it to them, however,on the positive side if you want to be rid of them lend it. Perhaps I've just been incredibly lucky, but I've lent significant amounts of money to friends on three separate occasions, and in all three cases it was repaid without any problems -- and I'm still on good terms with the people! But I do recognise that if it does go wrong it will make a mess of your relationship.
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Post by dorset on Apr 21, 2014 16:43:14 GMT
Possibly investing my whole ISA (and a bit more) back about 14 years ago in Invesco European Growth, just before that Mr Po*e "managed" to lose far more of it than any other fund when the bubble burst. Yes I put my year 2000 ISA for £7k in this fund. Sold it about two years ago for about £4.5k. I kept it that long as a constant reminder not to listen to conventional market hype.
On a more positive note I did see the Equitable Life crash coming (despite EL staff saying that non guarantee funds were ring fenced!) and took all of my with profit funds out in December 2000.
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j
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Post by j on Apr 21, 2014 21:46:22 GMT
Mine would be a mixture of buying & selling shares at wrong times. In the end, despite the odd success, it just wasn't worth the time or stress to pursue any further for the very small profits I was making. It takes a wise man to realise he's not very wise in certain areas of decision making! - that's penguin logic for you  |
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 23, 2014 0:47:29 GMT
Agreed to buy hugely expensive farm in Belgium in 2008 with pound at 1.6 to Euro. Did not transfer money into Euros straight away. Pound started to fall, waited hoping it would go back. When deadline to pay reached, had to transfer the bulk at 1.2
Cost of delay around £110k
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