We need to get some routers after our office move, but the budgets were down on the last time we did it. Through a friend, I then found this used cisco company called ICP Networks right on our doorstep in Wilmslow. The guy who owns it is called Matt Archer, and boy does he know his stuff! Saved us a packet. Highly recommended.
It seems only a few weeks ago when our house price was rising by £3k a month! It seems crazy looking back only 3 short years to think that almost everyone we knew was getting richer by doing…nothing!
Fortunately, it never went to my head because I remember the price crash in the early nineties. I was in negative equity for TEN years!
I was lucky in that I could rent out a room throughout that period which covered the mortgage payments – which meant the house never actually cost me anything 
But I do remember on very cold winter, when there was no work, no tenant and certainly no money and I turned the pages of the local newspaper (it was pre-internet folks) and found an advert saying “Houses Bought For Cash”. I tentatively rang this number and was greeted by a gruff voice who offered me the princely sum of £5000 cash. Trust me, even in 1992, that was bloody cheap. I declined his kind offer at the time.
Recently, we’ve had a really nice house on the market for over 18 months now. 60 viewings, not one sensible offer. We’ve even dropped the price by 20%. Still no takers, so I’m wondering, even though I’m not in the same desperate position I was back then, whether I should consider contacting on on those quick house sale companies?