u/some1pinchme

looking up the internet it appeared £500 for a 2 bed just over £200.000 would be more than enough for a level 2 survey. I've approached two local surveyors and was quoted £700 and £750+vat! online surveyors start their prices at £450-550 vat included but they're all either from somewhere up the country or operate from virtual offices - some claiming they're in Swindon are registered places like Pembrokeshire. I've found one giving their RICS number which didn't even come up on the RICS website! how do people in Swindon get their surveys done? why are they so expensive? We're talking tiny 2 bed from the early 90s here! I do want the house to be checked over by a professional but £700 seems like too much, £500 seems decent but the companies offering them give a shady vibe.

every time I go for my weekly shopping at a local supermarket in a retail estate I see cars without blue badges taking up disabled parking spaces just because they're right at the entrance to the shop. I need to highlight I go in the evening when the whole car park is empty and it's just a few steps extra across the road. if these people are so selfish when the car park is empty what do they do when it's actually busy? I know police won't give a single f... because it's a private property. has anyone ever tried to do something about it? I'm more than happy to take photographs every time I go shopping and forward them to a management company. my first instinct is just to leave my car behind theirs boxing them in and go do my shopping but then I'd be probably breaking the car park's policy myself.