Cold feet on house purchase

Jhoney_2

nickyg2000 wrote: »

Well I know the house joining ours is a lovely ex professor lady in her 50's and tbh the other houses don't look to bad. I worry more about resale as the title plans state housing association all over them. Its also in a flood plain abet low risk but still there.

My stress and anxiety has been through the roof the last six months. If I stay put will the noise from the flat about drive me nuts(just walking and talking but still annoying), will we be able to sell again at a good price. My mental health seems very effected. The only house I was sure about was the friends cottage i.e no risk, nice small development, nice neighbors, detached, character 200 year old but with ten year warranty, I just want risk free as its £150k deposit and 4.5 x joint salary mortgage.

Have a look at all the posts you have added to this (and the other thread). Hardly a good word to say about it. Now imagine you are trying to sell it in a few years time...

Act in haste, repent at leisure.

mrginge

TBeckett100 wrote: »

OP, you wont be happy. Problem is, everytime you see a chav, a ginger child, a clapped out Ford Mondeo, you'll wish you didn't buy because there is a perception.

Surely one of those attributes would be seen as a very positive reason to buy.

TBeckett100

in my old village it was very much subdivided between the rich and poor with a main road running through the middle. I use the term 'rich loosely' as the neighbours stopped talking to me when my new car was delivered one Christmas Eve :rotfl:

Anyway, to tell how rough an area is, have a look at the demographic of the cars, are they tatty old work vans, Polish number plates?

Winter is a hard time to spot problems. In Summer during the World Cup the FPSF (flags per square foot) ratio can be a tell tell sign. Also in the warmer months, poor people hang about on the front step with a fag and maxwell house, whilst the rich enjoy premium sausages 'dans le jardin' with a bottle of M&S Cava. In winter, everyone sits indoors enjoying their respective foam/duck feather sofas.

you need to go there early morning (9am) to guage who has gone to work and who is brewing up for Jeremy Kyle.

Birdman2015

I am now in a position of trying to sell a house I was very unsure of just a few months after moving in so know what it's like. (I was unnsure of the size rather than neighbours etc).

Do not buy this house, you will have doubts nagging away from the minute the removal lorry pulls away.

Missus_Hyde

I think you know in your heart of hearts that a two year house on a housing estate is not really what you're looking for and I would suggest that you pull out now whilst you still can, as I fear you'll never be happy and settled in a house/ area that you don't really like.

Better to do that now than go ahead and have all the stress and aggravation of having to move again very soon after buying. (I'm afraid a two year old house on a housing estate wouldn't appeal to me either, but that's just my personal opinion. )