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Lemon_Tree

Kittikins wrote: »

Even the estate agent is getting fed up with my buyers now, and so far I've felt like they've been on the buyers' rather than my 'side', so she's going to come over when the surveyor is here tomorrow (and I'll be here too!). I dream of having an exchange date!

i hear your pain, and completely understand. I'm desperate for an exchange date let along a completion date.
the surveyor who did our house also did our new place and he was a complete pedant. i do agree as well that our estate agents don't give a rats about us whereas the ones we're buying from are nothing if not helpful. hmmmm wondering if that's what they get trained to do.

Karmacat

starnac wrote: »

Aw KK that sounds fab. We will all pop in for virtual cheesy biscuits when you finally move

KC how come you are finishing your own diary? And why on such an exact date??

Oh! I suppose it might sound a bit odd - 31 January *is* an exact date, which gives a very rounded feeling to ending, ending "properly" so to speak, and its also the last date for submission of the tax form, which is what I'm prattling on (and on and on) about at the moment.

I'm finishing it because I'm debt free in the UK, and have been for a while - the debt thats left is a mortgage thats in euros, in France, and the payments are E657 a month - one went out yesterday actually, so I'll amend my sig, even though the rate of interest is comparatively high, its still paying off E525 capital this month - the sums are so big, and in a foreign currency come to that, and my energy is all concentrated on making a home and a social life when I can, not on increasing my income - it just feels right.

I tell you what, too - I wrote about finishing in summer, and got a storm of protest about it - this time, there's just been thanks for the post, which I take it that people feel like me - its lovely being on here, but the time for it (in that form!) is finishing.

Still going to be here tho! I started on dfw by sitting on Hypno's diary, and it looks like I'll finish by sitting on Pippi's

Your concern is muchly appreciated :kisses3:

Kittikins wrote: »

It's a date Cheesy biccies all round!!

I can bring stuff :j:j:j - a salad and a yummy gluten free crumble

Kittikins

Mmmmm, I'm definitely going to be asking guests to bring a dish to the party if they're scrummy like that Count yourself invited KC!

Well this is of course on the hope that the s&dding surveyor will be happy at lunchtime when he sees that despite a considerable amount of rain in the last couple of days the house is still standing and not damp/waterloggged/whatever and quelle surprise, the pipe hasn't burst from this mythical blockage! Hopefully having me and the estate agent there to see exactly what he's talking about will help him focus his mind....

Hoorah, just got a letter from the solicitor and my last remaining query regarding the boundary between me and the house behind (no fence, but they've now put yellow paint on the previously hard to see old fence posts) is cleared up so I'm happy to get going asap on the deal.

Sorry for hijacking your thread Pippi, should moan and groan on my own really, lol x

starnac

Karmacat wrote: »

Your concern is muchly appreciated :kisses3:

As long as you are not leaving us.

Morning all. How are you feeling this morning Pippi???

Lemon_Tree

yay to progress KK (still jealous!)
glad you're sticking around with us KC, you're more than welcome to pop along to mine as well, any time you feel the need to fall asleep and can't it will be most useful for you.
Pippi, hope you're fine and not rushing round too much like the proverbial fly.

Kittikins

Hmmmph, the surveyor finally turned up nearly an hour late and now we're at the 'we need a drainage company to come round and put a camera down the pipes' or something as it's a bit of a deadlock with the surveyor not being able to give any concrete evidence of a problem, but saying there could be a problem....... The surveyor's doing his job, i.e. talking all doom and gloom about the direst of scenarios, but it's all a bit annoying. I'm hoping that at worst I'll have to replace the downpipe and that'll be it, but it could be a bigger job - or nothing at all. Keep fingers and toes crossed please!

Lemon_Tree

why does he think there's a potential problem? sounds rather bizarre to me, but then they are a bizarre breed and a law unto themselves. (appologies to any normal surveyors which may pop by or be out there in the world at large)

Kittikins

I hope he's just being overly-cautious because the pipe is the original cast-iron one most of the way up and he says its rusty (err, not sure how that affects things) and so there is probably a blockage. I did try and reason with him that if there's damp then surely it would be coming into the house but he said that I have a damp course so it won't. *sigh*

Karmacat

Thanks LT!

KK - erm, you have a damp course so it won't be coming into the house. Then, as you say, whats the s£dding problem? Mad. I have the original cast-iron ones here - they're a bit leaky, very leaky in fact, but the only effect was to give me beautiful long icicles last year

Sounds a bit political to me ... don't let them use a non-existent blockage to lower their offer!

Kittikins

I'm hoping the drainage company will 'xcuse the pun, "blow them away" with their silly issues