Bought house and regretting it

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Please tell me you're getting the electrics done before the decorating otherwise you'll need to decorate again if there's any rewiring needing doing.

Yes, the electrician started work first, adding some additional sockets etc.

Windofchange

We brought a Victorian terrace a couple of years back, and it was liveable, but there was a lot needing doing. Whole place stunk of cigarettes, decor was dated, and my god last winter it was very cold with the knackered old boiler we had struggling to keep going in a poorly insulated home. I wanted a project as I am a very keen DIY'er, but the other half had similar thoughts to yourself pretty much all the way through to recently. Over the past year and a bit I have been all round the house stripping floorboards, plastering, plumbing, electrics, sorting the garden out, installing radiators and so on, and now we love the place. It feels like ours and this was the big advantage over something newer that didn't need all this doing. I have learned loads which I am able to use to help friends with in return for a few beers, and we now have a new boiler which means I am sat here in shorts and a t-shirt as I type this rather than this time last year being wrapped up like Scott of the Antarctic. I would say that nearly two years after we moved in it is only just about starting to feel like home. 90% of the old owners decor is gone along with the stale smell, and the only thing really left untouched is the kitchen whilst we save enough to have a couple of walls knocked through. 

If it's the area you hate then you are kind of stuffed, but if it is just the house, I would say that it is probably quite normal, and as you change bits and bobs it will slowly start to feel more like home! 

lookstraightahead

Windofchange said:

We brought a Victorian terrace a couple of years back, and it was liveable, but there was a lot needing doing. Whole place stunk of cigarettes, decor was dated, and my god last winter it was very cold with the knackered old boiler we had struggling to keep going in a poorly insulated home. I wanted a project as I am a very keen DIY'er, but the other half had similar thoughts to yourself pretty much all the way through to recently. Over the past year and a bit I have been all round the house stripping floorboards, plastering, plumbing, electrics, sorting the garden out, installing radiators and so on, and now we love the place. It feels like ours and this was the big advantage over something newer that didn't need all this doing. I have learned loads which I am able to use to help friends with in return for a few beers, and we now have a new boiler which means I am sat here in shorts and a t-shirt as I type this rather than this time last year being wrapped up like Scott of the Antarctic. I would say that nearly two years after we moved in it is only just about starting to feel like home. 90% of the old owners decor is gone along with the stale smell, and the only thing really left untouched is the kitchen whilst we save enough to have a couple of walls knocked through. 

If it's the area you hate then you are kind of stuffed, but if it is just the house, I would say that it is probably quite normal, and as you change bits and bobs it will slowly start to feel more like home! 

Great post!

Scotbot

I still don't  like my house 4 yrs after purchasing it. It is a head house, I needed somewhere to live after moving back from overseas. If I had rented it would have cost me around 75K whilst the house has gone up in value by about 60k. A no brainer financially. 

Crashy_Time

Scotbot said:

I still don't  like my house 4 yrs after purchasing it. It is a head house, I needed somewhere to live after moving back from overseas. If I had rented it would have cost me around 75K whilst the house has gone up in value by about 60k. A no brainer financially. 

Of course to realise that "value" you would have to sell it, why would anyone pay you over the odds for a house that you don`t even like!

RelievedSheff

Crashy_Time said:

Scotbot said:

I still don't  like my house 4 yrs after purchasing it. It is a head house, I needed somewhere to live after moving back from overseas. If I had rented it would have cost me around 75K whilst the house has gone up in value by about 60k. A no brainer financially. 

Of course to realise that "value" you would have to sell it, why would anyone pay you over the odds for a house that you don`t even like!

Who says the price is "over the odds?"

aoleks

Crashy_Time said:

Scotbot said:

I still don't  like my house 4 yrs after purchasing it. It is a head house, I needed somewhere to live after moving back from overseas. If I had rented it would have cost me around 75K whilst the house has gone up in value by about 60k. A no brainer financially. 

Of course to realise that "value" you would have to sell it, why would anyone pay you over the odds for a house that you don`t even like!

because there will be someone who does like that house and besides, no one says "I don't like this house" when selling it, so it's irrelevant.

Scotbot

Crashy_Time said:

Scotbot said:

I still don't  like my house 4 yrs after purchasing it. It is a head house, I needed somewhere to live after moving back from overseas. If I had rented it would have cost me around 75K whilst the house has gone up in value by about 60k. A no brainer financially. 

Of course to realise that "value" you would have to sell it, why would anyone pay you over the odds for a house that you don`t even like!

Because of where it is. Walking distance to two Ofsted outstanding primary schools and 1 ouststanding secondary..  Of no interest to me as I don't have school aged kids but properties here sell very quickly.  Get leafleted by buyers and agents regularly. As they say location,  location, location. 

Crashy_Time

RelievedSheff said:

Crashy_Time said:

Scotbot said:

I still don't  like my house 4 yrs after purchasing it. It is a head house, I needed somewhere to live after moving back from overseas. If I had rented it would have cost me around 75K whilst the house has gone up in value by about 60k. A no brainer financially. 

Of course to realise that "value" you would have to sell it, why would anyone pay you over the odds for a house that you don`t even like!

Who says the price is "over the odds?"

It is boosted by the SDH and zero rates, hard to sensibly argue against that IMO.

Crashy_Time

Scotbot said:

Crashy_Time said:

Scotbot said:

I still don't  like my house 4 yrs after purchasing it. It is a head house, I needed somewhere to live after moving back from overseas. If I had rented it would have cost me around 75K whilst the house has gone up in value by about 60k. A no brainer financially. 

Of course to realise that "value" you would have to sell it, why would anyone pay you over the odds for a house that you don`t even like!

Because of where it is. Walking distance to two Ofsted outstanding primary schools and 1 ouststanding secondary..  Of no interest to me as I don't have school aged kids but properties here sell very quickly.  Get leafleted by buyers and agents regularly. As they say location,  location, location. 

So you have no compelling reason to be there and you don`t like the house? Seems strange to me that the 60k that you think it has earned you is more important to you than actually enjoying the house!