our ideal house under offer from someone else heartbroken but not sold ours yet

Lord_Baltimore

Davesnave wrote: »

But in one sense it wasn't 'perfect' anyway. Like the perfect partner who isn't aware of you, because they attended college the year after you, that house wasn't written into our life script; it was in someone else's.

That's your 'perfect' house too at present; in someone else's story. You will write your own.

Remember 'Our tune' on the Simon Bates Radio programme Davesnave? When I read this part of your post all I could hear was Nino Rota's theme to Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet . Go ahead and try it readers!

Nicely put.

GalaxyStar

We found one we loved, large kitchen, decent living/dining room, corner plot plenty of parking. We must have offered about 5 different amounts by the time we gave in and offered the price he wanted, to then have him turn around and take it off the market. We were gutted having gone through the stress of offer after offer being rejected. We weren't even sure it was worth what he wanted but thought the valuation would make sure. Depressed when he took it off, and every house I viewed after was meh and didnt match. In the end one came up just a few streets down so we went to go view it, it was a different style of building and completely the opposite of what we had been looking for and nothing like the other and yet so much better. It needed fully renovating having being owned by an elderly couple for the last 25 years with nothing done to it, which meant we could put out own stamp on it. It's bigger too, i'd never been 100% about the upstairs in the last property but the rooms are much bigger. And it's on a fully private owned quiet street which is a much nicer atmosphere than the last which was at the entrance to a pretty bad council estate. We're now at the point of everything being done and moving in and I'm so excited, and glad we did this than bought the ready-done one! We should have created about 30k value on the house so an extra 15k equity in it for us after we've finished which would never have happened on the last one. Better ones do come along but you have to view them, not all houses are shown their best online it can help a lot just to go view them if they're close to requirements

Davesnave

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

Remember 'Our tune' on the Simon Bates Radio programme Davesnave? When I read this part of your post all I could hear was Nino Rota's theme to Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet . Go ahead and try it readers!

Nicely put.

Gosh! As my wife would readily confirm, I'm really not the romantic type!

My points were only that we miss perfect opportunities many times, usually without knowing it, and quite often, the 'perfect' person/thing we see and desire, turns out not to be the best for us after all....hence life is a slightly wavy learning curve!

I'm firmly of the belief that when disappointment strikes, it's our own reaction which steers the way things go. That's what i mean by the OP writing their own life script.

Anyway, thanks.

rosie383

^^^ Love it!

nadmaj

kep79 wrote: »

We're in exactly this situation too!

thanks everyone for replying. im 33 3 kids hubby, moving to the family completed final house ,home with everything that we want.there is just nothing coming on the market our viewers have been complete time wasters so have to think about compromising to a part x to a new build which are incredibly small in size and just don't want to move and then move again to the perfect house or move to any house will do now. maybe it's a devil in disguise as we will have to pay a fee for the mortgage and next year its up for renewal .

............. arghhhh so hard moving this time round nothing is going easy........

nadmaj

GalaxyStar wrote: »

We found one we loved, large kitchen, decent living/dining room, corner plot plenty of parking. We must have offered about 5 different amounts by the time we gave in and offered the price he wanted, to then have him turn around and take it off the market. We were gutted having gone through the stress of offer after offer being rejected. We weren't even sure it was worth what he wanted but thought the valuation would make sure. Depressed when he took it off, and every house I viewed after was meh and didnt match. In the end one came up just a few streets down so we went to go view it, it was a different style of building and completely the opposite of what we had been looking for and nothing like the other and yet so much better. It needed fully renovating having being owned by an elderly couple for the last 25 years with nothing done to it, which meant we could put out own stamp on it. It's bigger too, i'd never been 100% about the upstairs in the last property but the rooms are much bigger. And it's on a fully private owned quiet street which is a much nicer atmosphere than the last which was at the entrance to a pretty bad council estate. We're now at the point of everything being done and moving in and I'm so excited, and glad we did this than bought the ready-done one! We should have created about 30k value on the house so an extra 15k equity in it for us after we've finished which would never have happened on the last one. Better ones do come along but you have to view them, not all houses are shown their best online it can help a lot just to go view them if they're close to requirements

sooo glad that things worked out for you and having the patience and money to renovate... its just we don't and i hate renovating, just want it all done and we would pay a descent amount for it .. the house that we loved was perfect right price size all done up .... fingers crossed 2015 will be a prosperous and productive year

Hoploz

We viewed our perfect forever home back in January. The agent had mentioned it in November. Viewed it, sold our house to buy it. Then when we offered they decided they weren't ready to sell. Everyone said it wasn't meant to be, something better will come along.

It didn't. We looked at everything else but nothing compared.

We decided to settle for an alternative in July, having been looking for 2 years. We were deciding how much to offer when the agent told us our perfect home was now for sale!

Nightmare of sealed bids etc, but here I am sitting in my perfect home after all!

You never know what's round the corner!

Old_Git

I put an offer on a repossessed house in November 2012 .The bank sold it and two other properties to one of their own customers for less than they had been offered elsewhere .
I was gutted .Three months later a house around the corner from me came on the market .It wasnt the house of my dreams ,it didnt even have a toilet seat .I bought it and now I am glad I didnt get the other house.

phoebe1989seb

Don't give up hope entirely OP......another positive experience to inspire you here -

We've been restoring our period rural house for the past three years, but have been intending to move for some time so - rather stupidly - I began trawling RM, Zoopla etc back at the beginning of the year and unintentionally stumbled upon *the one*. As our only DS has already left home and we sold the *forever home* to be mortgage-free a few years back, this is not some huge all-singing, all-dancing mansion, but we do have extremely specific tastes/wish list and (unlike anything else I'd seen) this house ticked majority of the boxes

As it happened, *the one* was SSTC No matter, our project house was still far from finished, but we buckled down and got on with the work anyway. Fast-forward to late Summer and, having had a sale fall through *the one* was suddenly re-available! We got our place on the market and have been luckily enough to secure a buyer, having specifically instructed our EA that we needed to a) price realistically, so silly inflated prices and b) sell quickly in order to buy our next home.

Things are now moving fast and we hope to be in by the end of next month. We are totally gobsmacked that it is all (touch wood) working out so well......

Fingers crossed things work out for you too OP x

GalaxyStar

nadmaj wrote: »

sooo glad that things worked out for you and having the patience and money to renovate... its just we don't and i hate renovating, just want it all done and we would pay a descent amount for it .. the house that we loved was perfect right price size all done up .... fingers crossed 2015 will be a prosperous and productive year

Thanks, don't worry too much it will work out eventually! It's still worth considering the run down ones though, if you can get it for the right price and have money left over you can get other people to do the renovations for you without having to lift a paintbrush Just keep searching and looking. Have you tried leafleting a few streets you'd like to live on maybe? I've read on here that can some times work!