22 Foxhole East

f0xh0les

No, it is all open and above board.  Now it is £32k over the asking price, I know who is selling to family, who has a sale agreed on their house to  first time buyer and who is in a chain.   The EA has been doing their due diligence.  The EA is lovely and seems totally on top of things at her end.

dizzydonkey2

What is the going rate for my time? Rhetorical question -my time is zero rated.

I have to disagree that your time is zero rated, you are worth far more than that. Also  given the total lack of interest by the other parties you need to make sure you do charge for your time as a legitimate cost to the estate. (Maybe even £175 an hour to match the solicitor   )

You will then be able to have custom made gargoyles.

xx

badmemory

I agree with the matching the solicitor.  After all you have already done most of his work for him.  That is quite normal with probate though.

firsview

My late f-i-l was a hoarder on the scale of the programmes you see on the tv. His house was disgusting and he was living like a pauper, but when we finally scaled the mountains of carp and found the paperwork we discovered he had 450k in the bank. We drove home in silence with our mouths open like a couple of goldfish!

f0xh0les

Oooh, I wish I could!

The  'He' ( solicitor) is a She  - sexist!!   as is the E.A  - not by any effort on my part, it just worked out that way, we are an All Girl Probate team  whoop whoop!

It states quite clearly that I am not allowed to bill for my time.  I can bill them for travel, petrol, postage, gardening, cleaning, house clearing but not for time spent doing admin.  I suppose I could ask The Siblings for a contribution if they wanted to give me one. I am not too proud to take charity

Had a declutter in the bedroom this morning, and I have just sent off over £25 of books to Ziff1t.  So that will be nice. 

Will just check every fortnight for the other books, then send to c/shop if they do not go.

I have cut up a divan bed base to make a planter in the yard. It is going to be two tier, with trellis up the back.  A bit like a hall umbrella stand, but for plants. I am not explaining this very well. Oh dear.

All food was from stores, mushrooms on toast for lunch, tried to do a bbq for supper, but it had been sitting around for 2 years, did not want to light and never really got very hot, so it all ended up in the oven, and I now have one less box of long matches.  Booo! my pyromaniac tendencies know no bounds normally.

Lots of laundry done, and dried on the line before my bbq failure. Will give it an hour and stick the white wash out - school shirts and bed sheets.

Today I am sad.  No idea why, I just am. So that is ok, there is no reason for it, so it should b0gger 0ff as fast as it came.

It really was sunny today. The plants will like that.

apple_muncher

An umbrella stand for plants is the perfect way to describe it 🌂🥦🌂

mark55man

sorry to go back to the house offers I meant to post this this morning

I think you have some choices (stating the fe**ing obvious)
- go with the one who is highest (possibly via the sealed bid) - some might say as executor you have to do that to maximise value of the estate
- go with most proceedable - I'm sure a valid mitigation to not getting max value is getting money quicker
- go with FTB or other that rewards you with most karma for doing good - who else would ever find out about options 1&2 

Not a lawyer but I think for probate satisfaction you only have to sell it at (ie not below) market value - so if all the offers are above that then you are OK to choose

f0xh0les

I am really aware 1 in 3 house sales fall through, so no chain is top of my thinking, the EA has now closed viewings and will find out the offers after informing the top 5 what is going on and they will do a bit of horse trading and one upmanship.  She is going to earn nearly £3.5k for 3 weeks work.  She can sort it for me, and then we will have a brief discussion, and it will be done and dusted probably on Monday or Tuesday next week. 

Then the conveyancing starts - no mortgage, new build in 80s on formerly agricultural land so no mining or coal mining nearby - no historical weirdness to worry about.  It should not be a difficult one.   One previous old lady owner.

I even have the consent to discharge certificate for the septic tank ready.

f0xh0les

The house is 'sale agreed ' at £265k -which is £40k over the guide price. 

We have one person left in reserve just in case.

 It is all going to the solicitor tomorrow and takes 12-16 weeks.  

Got written confirmation of rates exemption until October.

Cashed out another £20 on p/a. I have made over £50 on p/a so far this month. Not a bad ambient income.

Stuck to the diet, today's exercise was speed-changing all the beds, and remaking them, and turning mattresses.  In 26 degree heat. Then laundry, laundry, and more bed sheet laundry with the odd mattress topper/protector thrown in for good measure.  Well, it felt like a workout.

Still have nearly £30 pending on ziff1t from the book purge.

I need to sell some silver but honestly have no idea how to go about it. Pawn shop? any suggestions?

I have Waterf0rd crystal glasses and tumblers to sell as well, all in sets of 6, and a couple of B-eleek  items, it is really hard to sell things you find utterly hideous. I am taking photos and waiting for fleabay to have a £1 fees weekend and then dump the lot on there. Unless any of you have any better ideas?  Maybe I should take a punt on  the fakeb00k local selling page.

Grumpelstiltskin

Foxholes With the silver have you got a proper Antique Auction House anywhere near?

You can start with them they usually set days when you can take things in. They will tell you if it is worth selling at auction and give you an idea of its value.

Be careful of porcelain and glass on E Bay you will end up have to post as a parcel and they are not cheap.