Sharp-eyed residents might earn themselves a pleasant monetary reward by reporting derelict homes of their neighbourhood to property builders.
Builders are at all times on the lookout for deserted properties to purchase and produce again to life.
Members of the general public who spot one can report it to web site YouSpotProperty.com and obtain a £20 Amazon voucher reward.
Good little earner: Builders are at all times on the lookout for deserted properties to purchase and produce again to life
They may even be given one per cent of the acquisition value of the property ought to the corporate go on to purchase it.
Ivan Jones, from Clowne, Derbyshire, has simply obtained a cheque for £550 after reporting a derelict bungalow that he passes each day when strolling his canine, Tommy. The electrical mechanical engineer, 53, obtained a £20 voucher inside two weeks of reporting the property, after it met the corporate’s standards.
Then a number of months later, he obtained a cellphone name to say the constructing had been bought for £55,000 and a cheque for one per cent of the sale value can be posted to him.
‘My wife-to-be and I have been planning our honeymoon, so it was nice to have the cash to spend on that,’ says Ivan. ‘I am going to even be happy to see the bungalow again in use. It is going to assist increase the look of the native space as a result of it would not have an eyesore.’
There are round 238,000 empty houses in England alone. They’re usually left deserted by households who can not afford to do them up, by house owners who transfer away or attributable to probate points.
Native councils even have a spot on their web site to report empty or derelict buildings. Particulars will be discovered on the Authorities web site gov.uk/report-derelict-abandonedbuilding.
To this point, YouSpotProperty.com has despatched out greater than 6,800 vouchers and 128 folks have earned one per cent fee for reporting a house that it later goes on to buy. The best fee paid up to now was £10,000 to somebody residing in Hertfordshire.
