Victoria Ricketts

UK & International Recruiter -Search Consultant, for Stafford Lawrence Ltd. Construction & Engineering Recruitment

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

You are totally right to highlight the horror stories, but it’s important to know that they aren't all bad! I’m currently selling my mum’s retirement flat at Daniels in Highcliffe, Dorset.

The media often focuses on skyrocketing fees, but the maintenance here is incredibly well-managed at just £2,609 per annum (approx. £217 a month). When you break it down, it actually saves the owner money:

🔹 Water Bill Included: With water rates soaring across the UK, having your water bill completely covered by the maintenance is a massive win. 🔹 Free Laundry: Full use of the top-of-the-range communal Miele washers and dryers is included. No extra electricity or water costs on your own meters for doing the washing! 🔹 No Exit Fees: Churchill Living completely abolished exit/event fees on their resales, which cuts out the main "trap" people read about. 🔹 Security: Includes a Lodge Manager on the front desk Monday-Friday and a 24-hour Careline.
Its less than a 2-minute stroll to the Highcliffe cliff top.

If anyone has a parent looking to downsize to a safe, low-maintenance coastal spot without the financial nasty surprises, all the details and photos are here: https://t.co/5wv5SIyhqm
#Leasehold #RetirementLiving #Downsizing #Highcliffe

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

You are totally right to highlight the horror stories, but it’s important to know that they aren't all built the same! I’m currently selling my mum’s retirement flat at Daniels Lodge in Highcliffe, Dorset.

The media often focuses on skyrocketing fees, but the maintenance here is incredibly well-managed at just £2,609 per annum (approx. £217 a month). When you break it down, it actually saves the owner money:

🔹 Water Bill Included: With water rates soaring across the UK, having your water bill completely covered by the maintenance is a massive win. 🔹 Free Communal Laundry: Full use of the top-of-the-range communal Miele washers and dryers is included. No extra electricity or water costs on your own meters for doing the washing! 🔹 No Exit Fees: Churchill Living completely abolished exit/event fees on their resales, which cuts out the main "trap" people read about. 🔹 Security: Includes a Lodge Manager on the front desk Monday-Friday and a 24-hour Careline.

If anyone has a parent looking to downsize to a safe, low-maintenance coastal spot without the financial nasty surprises, all the details and photos are here: https://t.co/5wv5SIyhqm
#Leasehold #RetirementLiving #Downsizing #Highcliffe

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

You are totally right to highlight the horror stories, but it’s important to know that they are not all bad! I’m currently selling my mum’s retirement flat in Highcliffe, Dorset.

The media often focuses on skyrocketing fees, but the maintenance here is incredibly well-managed at just £2,609 per annum (approx. £217 a month). When you break it down, is actually not a bad deal
🔹 Water Bill Included: With water rates soaring across the UK, having your water bill completely covered by the maintenance fee is a massive win. 🔹 Free Laundry: Full use of the top-of-the-range communal Miele washers and dryers is included. No extra electricity or water costs on your own meters for doing the washing! 🔹 No Exit Fees: Churchill Living completely abolished exit/event fees on their resales, which cuts out the main "trap" people read about. 🔹 Security: Includes a friendly Lodge Manager on the front desk Monday-Friday and a 24-hour Careline.

If anyone has a parent looking to downsize to a safe, low-maintenance coastal spot without the financial nasty surprises, all the details and photos are here: https://t.co/5wv5SIyhqm
#Leasehold #RetirementLiving #Downsizing #Highcliffe

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

You are totally right to highlight the horror stories, but it’s important to know that they aren't all built the same! I’m currently selling my mum’s retirement flat at Daniels Lodge in Highcliffe, Dorset

The media often focuses on skyrocketing fees, but the maintenance here is incredibly well-managed at just £2,609 per annum (approx. £217 a month). When you break it down, it actually saves money:

🔹 Water Bill Included: With water rates soaring across the UK, having your water bill completely covered by the maintenance is a massive win. 🔹 Free Laundry: Full use of the top-of-the-range communal Miele washers and dryers is included. No extra electricity or water costs on your own meters for doing the washing!
🔹 No Exit Fees: Churchill Living completely abolished exit/event fees on their resales, which cuts out the main "trap" people read about.
🔹 Security: Includes a friendly Lodge Manager on the front desk Monday-Friday and a 24-hour Careline.

If anyone has a parent looking to downsize to a safe, low-maintenance coastal spot without the financial nasty surprises, all the details and photos are here: https://t.co/5wv5SIyhqm
#Leasehold #RetirementLiving #Downsizing #Highcliffe

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

@Number10cat How do you know it was a woman 🤔

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

@Ginopower3 @frankbrunoboxer 🤣 Using insults as a way of getting your completely invalid point across is somewhat amusing . A clear sign of a person who is incapable of listening to differing opinions and debate. Jog on kitty.

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

@Ginopower3 @frankbrunoboxer I would rather work for anything than claim and do nothing. It would be about personal pride.

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

@frankbrunoboxer Good call Frank.

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

@Ginopower3 @frankbrunoboxer But it’s not free is it? If they are getting benefits 🙄

[Andrew P. Weston @WestonAndrew]

On 5/6th June, the ‘Back to 65 Movement’ has won the right to a Judicial Review regarding men's retirement age & is taking the DWP to the High Court.
However, there appears to be a media blackout on this issue, suggesting that the government has put a block on reporting it.

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

Please keep the pressure on about the Dartmoor pony cull these have been apart of our country since the ice age ! They are going to get rid of them no doubt to put more houses in their place for foreigners stop this !

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

@KiszelyPhilip Kings college london state: women make up over half of the electorate. Strategists advise not to ignore their potential for driving election results . So before @AndyBurnhamGM decides with great omnipotence who can occupy women’s spaces .may I suggest you read the room.🙄

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

Kings college london article: women make up over half of the electorate. Strategists advise not to ignore their potential for driving election results . So before @AndyBurnhamGM decides with great omnipotence who can occupy women’s spaces….may I suggest you read the room.🙄

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

@thecarolemalone Wonderful isn’t it, yet another man making a decision for women 🙄

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

@sharrond62 🙄🤬

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

@J_K_Wood Omg this is sick ! I can’t get my head around it. What a depraved human being 🤬

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

So much for standing up against Russia. We pay them for oil we could drill for ourselves, so they can buy weapons to fight Ukraine, that we fund to buy weapons to fight Russia! Make it make sense?

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

A very interesting read

[Victoria Ricketts @VRInternational]

@Feargal_Sharkey Did anyone see the post on FB yesterday from Starmer " We are cleaning up our rivers and holding the water companies to account" 🤣 WHEN ? !

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

“Don't swim' at 12 of 14 river bathing sites, as more locations announced.”

Here’s something to wrap your head around.

The only stretch of river graded as ‘Good’ is at Friars Meadow, Sudbury yet from 13th March to the 13th April Anglian Water dumped sewage into Friars Meadow nonstop 24 hours a day for 31 days straight. If you went swimming there during the Easter holidays you were probably swimming in human waste but none of it shows in the data because the EA don’t even bother testing until the middle of May.

PS the EA don’t actually test any bathing site in the country for most of the year 7 and a half months in fact. You go swimming between 1st Oct one year and 15th May the next you’re on your own.

https://t.co/VGBvWJVhkQ