julicorn's journey 2 - Moving Up 1 January 2022 at 11:21AM in Mortgage-free wannabe 470 replies 14.3K views

julicorn

Thanks @powerspowers

The listing went live this morning, yay! It's looking really good, so we'll just have to wait and see now. 

julicorn

Just gonna keep posting all the little updates here, haha  

We just dropped keys off at the estate agent's for next week, and it turns out they have 9 viewings booked already for next Saturday. Not bad at all for 24 hours live! 

julicorn

Feeling under the weather at the moment, but I suppose that's winter for you. 
The weekend was lovely, we went to the cinema on Saturday (watched 'Parallel Mothers'), and saw Mr julicorn's family for a bit on Sunday. 
We still have a bit of tidying and cleaning to do to prep for the open day, and before we go away on holiday. The freeholder is also coming over on Thursday to discuss plans for the building with us and the other leaseholders - gonna be a bit of a weird one because things shouldn't affect us all that much, so chances are we'll have very few opinions (on anything that wouldn't cause issues with the sale, that is). 
I've also started looking into interior design stuff a bit more again, I want to pick up my course again properly this month I think it's the excitement of looking to move somewhere else, and having an opportunity to design the rooms from scratch again. 

On the mortgage front, our current balance is ~£88,500, which minus the house buying savings pot leaves us under £60k. Mr julicorn has asked for a pay rise at work as well, they're just taking their sweet time getting back to him. Gonna just keep those fingers crossed, a bit of wiggle room can't hurt.

beanielou

Just catching up 
Hope your viewings go well.
Enjoy your break.

julicorn

beanielou said:

Just catching up 
Hope your viewings go well.
Enjoy your break.

Thanks so much beanie! ❤

Karmacat

I'm catching up too now, and I've obviously come in at a very exciting time - so the viewings are this Saturday?  Amazing!

julicorn

Karmacat said:

I'm catching up too now, and I've obviously come in at a very exciting time - so the viewings are this Saturday?  Amazing!

That's right, and we will be at Center Parcs at the same time, haha! It all feels a little surreal. I hope we'll get a half decent offer, latest I heard was 11 viewings booked. 

Sistergold

Viewings yey! 

julicorn

Sistergold said:

Viewings yey! 

It's all very exciting yay! I hope they like our little flat. 
(On a side note, I now realise why it's generally recommended for estate agents to do the viewings - I don't think I could bare showing anyone around who didn't totally love it, haha! )

TallGirl

Great to find you again good luck with the sale and purchase. Exciting times I love interior design too!