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The race to be in for Christmas!

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  • Vickicb
    Vickicb Posts: 261 Forumite
    Congrats Mrsc! :beer:

    I can see a christmas move slipping further and further away from us.....
    Addicted to Facebook :D
  • pawpurrs
    pawpurrs Posts: 3,910 Forumite
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    I am starting to get excited now, but sad to be leaving this house at the same time. Not long now...........
    Pawpurrs x ;)
  • GhostDog_2
    GhostDog_2 Posts: 239 Forumite
    All measured up to the eyebrows here! :rolleyes:

    Was lovely to spend some quiet time in the new house today and start to imagine how it will be to live in it! :j Only the third time I've actually been inside despite it being less than 30 miles from us.

    A nice bonus was the kitchen was bigger than I'd remembered. :j

    Arrived home to find the survey on the doormat. :j Interesting to note that the original value of the property was £140k but on our offer letter it stated that the new value (Aug 06) was £155k (still offering us 60% @ £84k) but the surveyor's report has valued it at £140k again :confused::confused:

    Personally it's not that important to us right now as we plan to stay there for some time.... ;)

    Now we just wait for the mortgage offer and hopefully the solicitor has all the searches completed and we can think about actually "doing it" :rotfl:

    On a downer....I'd estimated approx £300 for removals (equivalent of 1-bed ground floor flat moving to 3 bed house) for distance of 27 miles.....message on the ansaphone says £420. Very tempted to hire a van and put my son & mates to work! :eek:

    <shuffles off to find cost of van hire> :D
  • pawpurrs
    pawpurrs Posts: 3,910 Forumite
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    Ghostdog, surveyour will only ever value it at price paid or below.

    How exciting!
    Pawpurrs x ;)
  • GhostDog_2
    GhostDog_2 Posts: 239 Forumite
    Thanks for that Pawpurrs :beer:

    It IS exciting....and exhausting....and crazy.....and like nothing I've ever been through before! :D
  • goldbyron
    goldbyron Posts: 790 Forumite
    Congrats Descartes (like the screen name!) - I know the feeling. I am due to move in next week and I have so much to buy! However I won't complain too much...at least I have exchanged.
  • Lotta_Littlies
    Lotta_Littlies Posts: 659 Forumite
    Descartes wrote:
    I have the keys to the house! :) ...


    Whoo hoo well done you!! Congratulations and if you need any help shopping let me know ;-)

    Lotta
    "One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child."
  • dkny_2
    dkny_2 Posts: 211 Forumite
    Descartes wrote:
    I have the keys to the house! :) Made offer mid July, so has taken quite a while! I am typing this from my parents home, I havn't set up internet just yet, hehe. Now just got to fill the house with stuff, I am a first time buyer so it will be an expensive few weeks while I order furniture.

    Good luck to everyone going through the house buying/selling process, I hope you are all in by Christmas :)

    C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S,

    even though it may have taken a while, i bet its been worth it, good luck and all the best in your new home, cant wait when we are finally in which looks like earrly jan 07
    :DCompleted House Purchase And LOVIN' IT:D
  • GhostDog_2
    GhostDog_2 Posts: 239 Forumite
    Received mortgage offer this morning!!!!!! :j :j :j

    Full steam ahead! ;) I smell turkey!!!! :rotfl:
  • uncle_ben_2
    uncle_ben_2 Posts: 56 Forumite
    mrsc wrote:
    We exchanged this afternoon!!!!!

    So excited!!!!!!!!

    Congratulations mrsc! :j

    Had a really frustrating couple of days... and am feeling really fed up now.
    The building regs thing is semi-resolved, and our solicitor needs to make sure that the sellers get the right thing, as the extension contravenes a covenant on the deeds (or something).

    On the positive side, our solicitor has assured me that she will be able to arrange to complete 1 week after exchange...

    It's all very tense at home now - we're like coiled springs ready to explode! :mad:
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