Anyone else just really tired all the time!?

robatwork

Everyone.

It can be to do with house buying. 
Or work, children, parents, money, health, planning a trip to the shops or a trip to Japan, your favourite footie team, mobile phone going flat.

It's the human condition and house buying/selling and renting just forms a large part of it.

desthemoaner

Absolutely empathise with all the above.

My wife and I first exposed ourselves to the stress of the "post COVID, summer 2021 house buying frenzy" just a handful of weeks ago. This will be our fifth move in total, and we've never experienced anything even approaching the current practice of multiple buyers diving in as soon as a property comes on the market, and making offers well over asking.

We put our house on the market on 27th July, having no idea just how mad the market had become. It took us a whole 16 days of viewings before an offer was made, just over asking, and we bit their hands off because we'd been expecting to wait for months. That's when the fun really began: the daily online listings of properties in our price bracket began to dwindle till there was nothing left but the last turkeys in the shop. Even just a week after we accepted the offer I was texting our buyers to reassure them that we really WERE trying to find something....they were brilliant, telling us they were totally relaxed about timescales, and I believe them. Problem was that we weren't relaxed, because very little was coming up and when it did, a host of would be buyers were creating a blind auction and pushing prices through the roof. We were going to bed early and waking before it got light, worrying that we might never be able to buy anything and would eventually lose our own buyers.

We actually made an offer on one property after a single viewing, went back for a second look because we were concerned about a crack on the bedroom wall and discovered that the place was riddled with them. Cracks, that is. Another property also looked terrific through the rose-coloured spectacles of desperation so again we made an offer, but this time we lost out. I reckon we had a lucky escape because it was a second home, and you could tell it was rarely occupied because of the rope-like cobwebs dangling from the ceiling and the snail trails on the bedroom carpet. That one went for 10k over asking, from a cash buyer. I hope he or she like spiders and snails.  

But then a very nice bungalow in a small village came along, we viewed, put in an offer and to our amazement the offer was accepted. Common, sensible buying protocols as experienced during all our previous purchases had unexpectedly prevailed...and now we await exchange. Still wake up during the night in a lather of sweat and an agony of uncertainty, but I guess that comes with the territory of what is a veritable greed-fest, and the most bizarre housing market since we bought our first house in 1980.

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