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  • chevalier
    chevalier Posts: 7,937 Forumite
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    hope you found a forever home LT.
    I want a job that is less than an hour driving away from my house! Are you listening universe?
  • Lemon_Tree
    Lemon_Tree Posts: 10,202 Forumite
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    the middle one we saw was the exact same house as the other one which we loved, but it's a corner plot so not a huge back garden but gardens around the side and a big garage.
    It's on for more money and although it's liveable you (or rather I!) would want to replace the bathroom within 12 months and the kitchen within 24. I'm still trying to weigh up whether the fact that it has side gardens which you can make more use of if you move the fence outwards and a huge garage makes up for the lack of huge back garden. I think it does especially as it's in a quieter road.
    Only decision now is how much we offer, if we make an offer. apparently it's been reduced from 'offers in excess of 150k' to 'offers in excess of 140k' which is still a lot higher than the other house but it's liveable as it is when the other one wasn't. Oh heck i just can't make decisions and Mr LT is even more terrible at these things than i am. The only think i do know is that he does like this house.
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    Do you use property bee?
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."
    OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • Lemon_Tree
    Lemon_Tree Posts: 10,202 Forumite
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    not heard of that but having a look now
  • vl2588
    vl2588 Posts: 1,352 Forumite
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    Got to be worth a cheeky offer??? Must be such a hard decision to make, I made enough fuss over my new rental property :undecided. Good luck!
    Weight loss: Start weight: 80kg; Current Weight: 77kg; Target weight: 55kg
  • Lemon_Tree
    Lemon_Tree Posts: 10,202 Forumite
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    it's really hard VL especially as we've yet to sell our own place. I think if we had a buyer then we'd be in a much stronger position.
  • vl2588
    vl2588 Posts: 1,352 Forumite
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    Nightmare :(
    Weight loss: Start weight: 80kg; Current Weight: 77kg; Target weight: 55kg
  • Lemon_Tree
    Lemon_Tree Posts: 10,202 Forumite
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    yep at the moment, but i'm sure that in a few months from now i will be moved in somewhere and will look back at this and just laugh at myself.
  • Well all that sounds very exciting :) fingers crossed for it all.
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • Uniscots97
    Uniscots97 Posts: 6,687 Forumite
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    LT send me your house details and I'll put it on our internal electronic noticeboard. We have a captive audience of 25,000 people across the country.

    As for the house with the side garden, could you not use that for veg etc? and the back garden for relaxing/bbq's/entertaining? Bathroom suites can be replaced easily enough and there's enough companies out there that if you shop around you can get a really good deal. One of the girl's at my work got a complete new bathroom suite (wc, sink, bath and inclusive shower) fitted and tiled (white suite and sand coloured large tiles) for £699.
    CC2 = £8687.86 ([STRIKE]£10000[/STRIKE] )CC1 = £0 ([STRIKE]£9983[/STRIKE] ); Reusing shopping bags savings =£5.80 vs spent £1.05.Wine is like opera. You can enjoy it even if you don't understand it and too much can give you a headache the next day J
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