Really confused about what I want :(

spoovy

Seems to me that you're fantasising about buying a house and have not actually mentally committed to it yet.   Big purchases always involve compromise, but you already know that.  There is no magic perfect house that also happens to be within your price range.  When someone found one that came really close, you complained that it was too perfect! 

Most of your compromises are so trivial that they come across as borderline ridiculous anyway (walk over a mile to a pub? unthinkable!  Put my piano in a room with a shared wall? Never!

Get serious about compromising, or keep renting for the rest of your life:  them's your options.  

MFWannabe

spoovy said:

Seems to me that you're fantasising about buying a house and have not actually mentally committed to it yet.   Big purchases always involve compromise, but you already know that.  There is no magic perfect house that also happens to be within your price range.  When someone found one that came really close, you complained that it was too perfect! 

Most of your compromises are so trivial that they come across as borderline ridiculous anyway (walk over a mile to a pub? unthinkable!  Put my piano in a room with a shared wall? Never!

Get serious about compromising, or keep renting for the rest of your life:  them's your options.  

Summed it up perfectly 👍
OP hasn’t commented today 🤔
Theres a lovely detached bungalow I listed that to me ticks the boxes but no comment from OP 🤷‍♀️

NinjaTune

MFWannabe said:

spoovy said:

Seems to me that you're fantasising about buying a house and have not actually mentally committed to it yet.   Big purchases always involve compromise, but you already know that.  There is no magic perfect house that also happens to be within your price range.  When someone found one that came really close, you complained that it was too perfect! 

Most of your compromises are so trivial that they come across as borderline ridiculous anyway (walk over a mile to a pub? unthinkable!  Put my piano in a room with a shared wall? Never!

Get serious about compromising, or keep renting for the rest of your life:  them's your options.  

Theres a lovely detached bungalow I listed that to me ticks the boxes but no comment from OP 🤷‍♀️

Apparently there was some traumatic event involving a bungalow and an aborted purchase which means OP now won't buy one.  Not sure what happened as I haven't read the other thread.

Hopefully OP is out viewing properties

MFWannabe

NinjaTune said:

MFWannabe said:

spoovy said:

Seems to me that you're fantasising about buying a house and have not actually mentally committed to it yet.   Big purchases always involve compromise, but you already know that.  There is no magic perfect house that also happens to be within your price range.  When someone found one that came really close, you complained that it was too perfect! 

Most of your compromises are so trivial that they come across as borderline ridiculous anyway (walk over a mile to a pub? unthinkable!  Put my piano in a room with a shared wall? Never!

Get serious about compromising, or keep renting for the rest of your life:  them's your options.  

Theres a lovely detached bungalow I listed that to me ticks the boxes but no comment from OP 🤷‍♀️

Apparently there was some traumatic event involving a bungalow and an aborted purchase which means OP now won't buy one.  Not sure what happened as I haven't read the other thread.

Hopefully OP is out viewing properties

Haha you never know 😂
I haven’t read anything traumatic, I read that he had offered on a bungalow, got cold feet and pulled out of the purchase. But it was a different bungalow, had steps going up to it so he was worrying about resale. I may have missed something as I didn’t read the whole thread
Really shouldn’t put anyone off as there’s may come a time when you need one 🤷‍♀️ best to future proof imo 
Personally a bungalow, definitely detached would be first on my list, love them 😀

getmore4less

hazyjo said:

getmore4less said:

Why does the piano have to be on the ground floor?

Hobby/office room upstairs would keep the living space for living, having people round for socials. 

Would make those places top heavy with integral garage more balanced. 

We've gone through this a few pages back.

He wants it on show so he and visitors can see it (and admire it I suppose).

Which I guess rules out a music room at the bottom of the garden too...

I thought it might have been covered, I recall there were earlier threads and jumped on this one late.

Not sure how this would work in a living space used multifunction need a decent sized room you could zone. 

coachman12

Flicking through this thread for the first time, I am amazed at 25 pages of pianos, level driveways for a car that is never used to travel into B-ham (it is not hard to travel by car from Dudley to B-ham). 
The O/P does not have sufficient funds to move out of the rather downmarket DY4 area and look towards places like Kingswinford or Walsall or Bloxwich. In fact I am not at all sure the O/P wants to buy a house at all. But, as I've said, I've only glanced through this marathon search for an elusive house in Dudley, so many helpful points must have been posted already. Personally, I would get as far as possible from Tipton or any such area around Dudley.
But it is the wishes of the O/P which have to be respected so I hope he makes his mind up and finds a suitable house from which to regale the neighbours with the strains of Rachmaninoff 
Good luck.

SaintJudy

coachman12 said:

The O/P does not have sufficient funds to move out of the rather downmarket DY4 area and look towards places like Kingswinford or Walsall or Bloxwich. 

Oh god not Blocko!   

coachman12

SaintJudy said:

coachman12 said:

The O/P does not have sufficient funds to move out of the rather downmarket DY4 area and look towards places like Kingswinford or Walsall or Bloxwich. 

Oh god not Blocko!   

There used to be some very nice houses over by the Golf Course in Blocko-----but that was before I left and took all my photos and posters of Bully with me 

hazyjo

getmore4less said:

hazyjo said:

getmore4less said:

Why does the piano have to be on the ground floor?

Hobby/office room upstairs would keep the living space for living, having people round for socials. 

Would make those places top heavy with integral garage more balanced. 

We've gone through this a few pages back.

He wants it on show so he and visitors can see it (and admire it I suppose).

Which I guess rules out a music room at the bottom of the garden too...

I thought it might have been covered, I recall there were earlier threads and jumped on this one late.

Not sure how this would work in a living space used multifunction need a decent sized room you could zone. 

There won't be many houses unless he buys a major doer upper.

I'd love a piano, but with just a lounge diner (can be divided) and a relatively small kitchen downstairs, it ain't happening.

(I'd love a second lounge, large kitchen, extra 2 bedrooms, indoor pool, and games room, but realised very early on it wasn't gonna happen 🙄)

Cut your cloth and all that malarkey...

AdrianC

coachman12 said:

The O/P does not have sufficient funds to move out of the rather downmarket DY4 area and look towards places like Kingswinford or Walsall or Bloxwich.
...
Personally, I would get as far as possible from Tipton or any such area around Dudley.

I think you might have missed the brief interlude around page 19 where he explained he doesn't deserve anything better...