Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

...Look at that view though!! And still walkable to the train station! (well, a fair old walk, but definitely cycleable!) Sigh... :rotfl: :rotfl:

Now THAT was property !!!!!!!:D Just salivating!

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

(KC, I think you replied on your own thread to what I was waffling on about here) :rotfl:

:eek:





How on earth did I manage that? It must read very oddly. Never mind, I'll pretend its all :cool:

:rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

I shouldn't worry KC - nobody else seemed to notice and I knew what you were talking about anyway so all good :rotfl:

Had a lovely day :j :j Mr Cheery's old school pal stayed over last night, I fell asleep on the sofa while they nattered and when I woke at 3am to go to bed put a loaf in the bread machine SO nice to get up to fresh bread, I really must do that more often

Been for a potter round the local shops today, and then to Buxton - bought a new top, new purple dress (well, 'new' to me from charity shops, that is) and a pair of thermal leggings £16 for all three, not too bad :j

Stopped in a cafe to talk about houses. Upshot is that Mr Cheery likes it here but is happy to move - IF (and only if) we can find the right house. So we will NOT be putting ours on the market and then scrambling to find somewhere. Instead we'll be looking for somewhere perfect and then shoving ours up priced for a quick sale.

I know there's disadvantages of doing it this way round, not least that we might find the perfect house and then lose it cos we can't sell ours :rotfl: However, that is better than selling ours then rushing to find somewhere quickly and it not being the right place, and having to move again. There'll be more than one perfect place out there, and if there isn't, we'll just stay here

SO... plan of action:

* tidy up (literally just tidying and cleaning) and get a free valuation on this place in the next 3-4 weeks :j At least then we know price range we're looking at, and they can advise us about whether to bother with DIY related things or not.

* Keep raking through RightMove and go and see anywhere we think might be a good fit

In the meantime we'll keep throwing all available dosh into the Patchwork fund - the longer it takes us to move, the more we'll have sitting there

Feels good to have sat down and talked it through properly - I probably would have got completely carried away :rotfl:

Right - off to look at some houses again

Karmacat

Sounds very sensible, Cheery, to chuck money into the fund, have a good old tidy up, and see where you are on a potential selling price - I always underestimate that, so thats always essential for me to do ...

Um, can I ask what the basis of the move is? What are you looking for? When you're not looking for houseporn, that is Apart from the paddock for Lula's imaginary horses :beer:

Cheery_Daff

Well, yes, apart from the paddock for Lula's imaginary horses :rotfl:



It's a fairly mixed list, of practical and airy-fairy things

Current non-negotiable things are:

* detached
* no smaller than this one
* garden (NOT overlooked by road (and preferably not much by neighbours) with room for chickens and potential for small dog some time in the future

Also important:

* within walking/cycling distance of mainline train station
* good hanging-out-in space

Other than that, we're pretty open to suggestion, although I imagine we'll be quite picky (probably in different ways) with everything we see and refine our list as we go along

Right, off to have a look see if there's anything new

Will be back if I find any particularly exciting ones for you to have a look at :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Ooooh, look

Look at that view and those windows!! And there's TWO living room type things with giant patio doors out onto balcony/garden :j Oooh... And it's close enough (just) to be able to cycle to the station, and even to do tram if necessary in the winter...

slightly... above price range but if we bumped Mr Cheery off the mortgage application and did it over 25 years they'd give it to us...

Hmm, look at me going back on my own agreements already! :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

actually, after a brief chat, we will NOT be doing that :eek: :rotfl: Lovely as it is, we DO NOT WANT TO STRETCH OURSELVES and I DO NOT WANT TO STILL BE PAYING THE MORTGAGE WHEN I'M 60 :eek:

(just shouting to remind myself :rotfl: )

However... I have just found a perfect house, which I'm not going to share on here as when Mr Cheery gets out of the bath I might talk him into going to view it on Monday :eek: Extremely cheery, meets all requirements, and I love the area it's in :j :j

Best find me rubber gloves and start cleaning this place just in case :eek: :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Ah, of course things are never straightforward.

We never actually sent off the forms to change Mr Cheery's name on the deeds, or add me to them... so we'd have to do that first, or else he's going to have to do all the talking to estate agents to sell this place, and I promised him he'd never have to speak to one ever again :rotfl: :rotfl:

Best stop looking and getting all overexcited til that's sorted out!

Cheery_Daff

Humph.

At completely the other end of the financial scale - I went 2 days without reconciling YNAB things and I seem to have lost £11.49 :mad:

That's £16.49 I've had to put through as 'budget fiddling' this month cos I couldn't figure out what I'd done with it! :eek:

Either I'm buying things and not putting them in the app (possible... :rotfl: ) or I can't count (also possible... :rotfl: )

Must do better! :rotfl:

Karmacat

Oh my! Thats huge! But blimey, finding the paperwork isn't completed has brought a cautionary note, grrrrrrrrr. At least its fixable ... what a shame you found such a good one, the one you *didn't* post. At least you found the paperwork thing out *now*, before you made an offer. I know what you mean about stopping looking - its good to get an idea of whats available, and what the prices are, but do it too much and it just feels wasteful of your time. Did to me, anyway.

Good luck!