Did You Miss Out on Your Dream Home but Bought a Better Dream Home?

Davesnave

marksoton wrote: »

" What's meant for you won't pass you by "

Somewhat amazed that you, of all people, seem to be reciting the predestination mantra here.

In fact, I thought you were quoting someone else and spent 5 minutes trying to discover who! :rotfl:

It's very common on these forums, and total hogwash IMO.

Nothing is 'meant to be.' People have free will and make their choices, for better or for worse.

Person_one

It's probably only your dream home because you didn't get a shot at it. You hadn't even viewed, there may have been stuff that put you off, and there definitely would have been stuff that was less than perfect, even in a great house.

I love my house, it's great but it's not perfect. A friend of mine has been house hunting for over a year because only 'perfect dream house' will do so she'll probably be with her mum for many years to come!

I think the only way to get a true 'dream house' is to have unlimited money and unlimited space and to design it yourself.

Grenage

My ideal home is about £200,000 more than I can afford, so you make do and compromise.

We missed out on a couple of houses because I was cheap, I'm not overly sorry about them, 'missed out' on one because I wasn't prepared to be messed around.

The one we're now buying is nice, but it's a compromise. I'm sure it's someone's dream home, and someone's idea of hell.

+1 to the hatred of fate and destiny.

ellie27

We had been watching the market for almost a year before our house went on the market. We accepted an offer on the sale of our house and found a house that ticked many boxes, had a few compromises but it was the best for our budget at the time, certainly not our dream home, rather it was 'a home that will do'!

The sale of our house fell through and we had to pull out. We think it was a blessing in disguise as looking back the compromises were big but we needed a house!

Several more months on we sold our house and found what we would say is close to our dream house. We house we did buy and have been in for 9 months now, did cost £87k more than the house we were originally going to buy but we have not compromised on anything. Nothing has come on the market in those last 9 months that would have been better.

marksoton

Davesnave wrote: »

Somewhat amazed that you, of all people, seem to be reciting the predestination mantra here.

In fact, I thought you were quoting someone else and spent 5 minutes trying to discover who! :rotfl:

It's very common on these forums, and total hogwash IMO.

Nothing is 'meant to be.' People have free will and make their choices, for better or for worse.

Well that was 5 minutes wasted then!

Nah, wouldn't normally do so but when it comes to property i honestly think there is nearly always something better round the corner...

Out,_Vile_Jelly

I don't recall ever dreaming about buying a modest two up, two down terrace in a scruffy part of London, but that's what I bought.

I have daydreamed about a country pile with rolling paddocks, ponies, Aga, a library and Aidan Turner shirtlessly mucking out my stables, but I have carefully studied Father Ted's helpful diagram: http://uk.ask.com/youtube?q=father+ted+dreams+reality+diagram&v=Ne482i56Gqg&qsrc=472&qo=homepageSearchBox

Waterlily24

We offered full asking price for a property a few years ago even though it was just over the 250,000 pounds limit. We weren't told there had been any other offers for it but they sold it to someone else for less than 250,000.


We've got a lovely house now but no where near as nice as the other one. The first one was a very large bungalow with a very large garden.
This one is a chalet bungalow (they wouldn't allow us to extend as much as we wanted to and keep it as a bungalow. We've got a big garden but not as big as the other one.

lisa110rry

Back in 1986, we were looking for a home within commuting distance of Liverpool Centre (CAA/NATS). We looked at all the villages in Cheshire from Tarporley to Mold, there's a village in the area called Hope and I really wanted to live there so I could say, with a resigned smile, "we live in Hope". However, the Cheshire villages seemed rather tree-less and Mold was too far and there were no suitable houses in Hope, so we turned our attention to the Wirral and viewed a lovely new home, but it was £70,000 at the time so I got cold feet as I knew I would not be working until our small son was settled and then only part time. Then we started looking on the north side and found what we thought was our dream home up a small cul de sac with the local school next door and a good garden, detached, well decorated and maintained, in a village. Our offer was accepted, but the vendors couldn't find the home they wanted to move to so it was taken off the market. We started again, just wandering through villages "looking for a sign". We found a lovely 20s style, 1932-built, Accrington brick detached home which had not been altered by the local mill-owner vendors, who had commissioned the home. Although the fabric of the house and Accrington brick detached garage complex had been maintained, it had not been decorated for some time, had no gas, a broken back-boiler, and needed new plumbing pipes and electrics. On the plus side, it had five open fires, leaded lights and archtraving around all the windows. It did take us years to get it up to scratch, but we did.

I said at the time that if we moved in, they would take me out of that house in a box. It's my dream home.

DragonQ

Did You Miss Out on Your Dream Home but Bought a Better Dream Home?

Not really since we had to compromise a bit (e.g. smaller living space than we'd have liked). However, since we put in an offer on our new house back in February, we haven't found anything remotely as good in similar areas for anything near our budget. So we're very happy.

agrinnall

marksoton wrote: »

Nah, wouldn't normally do so but when it comes to property i honestly think there is nearly always something better round the corner...

At the very least there's always something that's different to what you decide to buy, and I defy anyone to say with real conviction that their house (when they bought it, or even now after living in it) is perfect in absolutely every way. I bet even Elton John wishes he had one more (or perhaps one less) diamond encrusted bog-roll holder .