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Monday, 4 February 2008

friendsandmoney Competition Thread

Welcome to our first friendsandmoney competition where you can earn points just for contributing to our site and help the friendsandmoney community to grow. We want to reward your efforts in return.

Please read the full competition details here:

Please post details of your activities on this thread so that we can correctly attribute any points to your hard efforts and include your email address in the post so that we can contact you if you win any of the prizes on offer. If you would prefer to email us directly with this information that's no problem at all just send an email to prizes@friendsandmoney.co.uk.

Please be clear about any activity that you think qualifies for points.

Depending on the success of this competition we may make it a regular monthly feature.

Labels: competition, friends, money

posted by Lone Duck Blogger @ 02:32 5 comments

Tuesday, 15 January 2008

Save Yourself Thousands Before You Buy a Property

I want to reveal a relatively new but superb money saving tool that could save property owners or buy to let landlords, thousands of pounds in extra costs such as insurance premiums, house devaluation etc. If you’re think of buying a house or looking to move home please read this money saving tip first!

http://www.homecheck.co.uk/ is a website that is designed to help make potential buyers aware of environmental or planning risks BEFORE they buy a property. Those of you who have ever bought a property only to subsequently discover a major planning application was not picked up by the land search survey, or that you were in fact right in the centre of a flood plain will know how much the value of your property can be affected.
The difficulty with land search fees is that you often have to pay them up front and if you discover a problem you don’t a get a refund on the £45 or £95 fee that you paid. In essence it’s dead money.

Our advice is do your own research first and don’t rely on the professionals getting it right for you. http://www.homecheck.co.uk/ makes checking environmental and planning risks easy and straight forward and what’s more it only takes a minute and it’s free!!!! So that’s between £45 - 95 saved already!

How It Works

Firstly I stress the point again, it’s free to use.
The site simply requires you to input the postal code of the property that you intend to purchase and it returns a risk assessment of the following factors:

Flood
Subsidence
Radon
Coal Mining
Landfill
Pollution
Neighbourhood Summary - including crime rates and a demographic profile of the area
Planning Summary - The planning applications have been lodged recently and how could this affect the area

The website is keen to stress that these values are not specific to one individual property but cover properties in the immediate vicinity, but this is sufficient for the purposes most people often require.

The best asset of this website is that it helps house buyers to make informed decisions or flag up potential problems Before you spend a penny and could also help save you thousands in the long term.

If you have any experiences of this site or any feedback on this tool, please let us know by leaving a comment

Labels: environmental, house buyers, money, planning, www.homecheck.co.uk

posted by Lone Duck Blogger @ 11:39 0 comments

Sunday, 13 January 2008

About friendsandmoney.co.uk

Welcome to the friends and money blog. Feel free to browse our site or this blog and leave any feedback on any of our blog posts. Anyone can leave a comment or provide further information, you can even do it anonymously, you don't have to register to do so, we even post even negative feedback as long as it is constructive.

Please note that all comments are moderated before being posted on the site. Also, this is a "Do Follow" blog, which may not mean much to some of you, but means that if you leave a comment and your website name, this will be indexed by Google and gain you valuable page rank, unlike many blogs which do not have this feature.

Our Aims:

- To find a host of money saving and making or financial hints and tips that everyone can benefit from.

- To create a friendly and informative community where people can share ideas, exchange helpful money saving or money making tips.

-To place an emphasis on fun and friendship as well as money.

- To be the definitive directory for locating paid survey, social networking and cash back shopping links and reviews.

- To provide reviews and information on the latest money making/money saving sites to save others time and effort having to trawl the internet.

- To encourage feedback and contributions from visitors to the friendsandmoney site.

About Us

Having experienced a period of ill health, I was keen not just to sit at home and dwell on how ill I was feeling but instead channel my energies into something creative and helpful to the wider online community. I found that there were hundreds of paid survey, social networking, paid review, cash back shopping and other money making sites but many of them placed profit above friendship building and fun. I felt that it was entirely possible to have both, and hence our site theme was born "Make Friends, Earn Money."

I also decided that I wanted to research as many money saving tips as possible to pass on to visitors to this site and the wider friendsandmoney community, and also provide helpful advice and information from a personal perspective on a variety of financial matters. It must be stressed that I am not a financial advisor and the information I provide is no substitute for good independent financial advice, but I have many years experience of working with individuals from all levels of society facing financial hardship.

In the last 6 months I have taught myself HTML and JavaScript and started this site from scratch. I actively encourage visitors or users of this site to make contributions so if you have a money saving idea, information about paid survey sites, review or social networking sites or cash back shopping sites feel free to leave a comment.

Happy Posting!

Labels: financial, friends, money, money making, money saving

posted by Lone Duck Blogger @ 06:26 0 comments

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