To those BUYING in these difficult times....

happy_2008

Still a long way to go yet Catt. We just got our home buyers report back

Skint_Catt

Oh I know it's only the start of it, but at least with our deadline looming we're actually getting somewhere!

The_Drama_Llama

Completed today! I'm stuck in work....but all I want to do is go to my new house! Can't move in yet cos of the building work needed, but I have started making proper refurb plans now (didn't want to jinx it by being too specific until it as mine).

Good luck everyone who is still trying to buy. May all your sellers have realistic price expectations!

DL

Grimbal

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Accepted! We've just bought a house

C xx

what's the rest of the chain like do you know? Hopefully it'll be a short one so that you can get in before you're 2+1!

The_Drama_Llama wrote: »

Completed today! I'm stuck in work....but all I want to do is go to my new house! Can't move in yet cos of the building work needed, but I have started making proper refurb plans now (didn't want to jinx it by being too specific until it as mine).

Good luck everyone who is still trying to buy. May all your sellers have realistic price expectations!

DL

Congrats DL, it's great feeling isn't it?!

This thread ssems to have a fair few recent success stories - here's hoping that the rest of you guys on here find your home very soon. I'll be leaving this thread now, but wanted to thank you all for the support & understanding - all very much needed to keep me sane

wanders off to the "in my home" board looking for a "newbie owners buying a wreck who have NO idea what they've let themsleves in for" thread..........................

Skint_Catt

Grimbal wrote: »

what's the rest of the chain like do you know? Hopefully it'll be a short one so that you can get in before you're 2+1!

Well we have no chain but our vendors have yet to find anywhere - we know they were doing two second viewings yesterday so fingers crossed they'll have an offer accepted very soon to get things shifted - I'm getting nervous now about that aspect!

celyn90

Grimbal wrote: »

wanders off to the "in my home" board looking for a "newbie owners buying a wreck who have NO idea what they've let themsleves in for" thread..........................

:rotfl::rotfl:Can I join you I was looking for: "so I moved in yesterday, the bathroom suite is in the lounge - and am I supposed to be able to see into the kitchen from the third bedroom?"

phoebe1989seb

celyn90 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:Can I join you I was looking for: "so I moved in yesterday, the bathroom suite is in the lounge - and am I supposed to be able to see into the kitchen from the third bedroom?"

Me too please We completed/moved into a 'half-finished project' four weeks ago today and plan to do most of the work ourselves. We currently have no oven connected or washing machine plumbed in, but we adore our new home and are prepared to put up with all manner of discomfort, especially as OH says it could be a ten year project - gulp! That said, the previous owners had it for twenty years and only got half-way :eek:

Also on the plus side, our purchase went through in one month exactly and as our previous house took only two weeks to sell, we did pretty well considering all the current doom and gloom in the housing market!

Best wishes to everyone else buying (and selling) at the moment, especially as there seems to be a distinct lack of really decent properties out there.

Phoebe x

celyn90

Oooh we need a thread! Wanna see my bathroom



trust me; it was worse than this before it was sitting on the driveway :rotfl: :rotfl: If you get close to the hole in the floor, you can see the space where there should be a kitchen too Open plan...

cel x

ChrisEvanson

Lol!!!

Just stumbled across this thread. My partner sold her house nearly two months ago, we sold mine a month ago. Both nice small chains (she has a buyer who won't have a mortgage and a ftb buying her buyers house; I have a cash buyer and buying from a chap going to live with his daughter).

I say 'sold' as neither has completed. Mine has been reasonably straighforward and hopefully we are on target (we set an ambitious date 6 weeks after the offers were accepted). My partners chain just seems to be so SLLLOOOOOWWW!! There are complications.... she sold some land a few months ago and the shared access agreement has wrong referencing. Then the solicitor went on holiday unannounced. Now the buyer is claiming the boundary of the sold land is 12" (yes inches) from where it should be, having blown up land registry plans which state they are a guide and not to be scaled up!!

We are now stressing as our new mortgage on our new home (the one in my chain, old chap moving to daughters) is catching up her chain, but we can't complete before hers is complete as her mortgage needs to be paid off before we can take one out together.

Solicitors both very pleasant people and communicate when pushed, but they have no concept of speed! I know things take time but we are now waiting replies to questions I put two weeks ago which the solicitor sat on for a week before asking them! Grrrrrrr!

Mazzawa

Quick question - after noting interest how long is reasonable to wait to see if a closing date will be declared or just an offer accepted? Getting impatient...