La Dolce Vita - 2024

Duchess2

@helensbiggestfan sorry to hear your viewing was so disappointing. Fate obviously has a different nest in mind for you, but as you say, a waste of everyone’s time. It’s so frustrating when you are so ready for pastures new and you are met by such apathy and inadequacy. Good luck with your next viewing🍀

helensbiggestfan

Thanks Duchess.  I've got three more viewings lined up.  So keeping fingers crossed. 🤞.   

I know it's none of my business but I actually feel sorry for vendors who don't get the right help and advice.  Maybe they did get good advice but chose to ignore it.  I know EAs come in for a lot of criticism and much of it is richly deserved but they aren't all lazy and clueless. There are some very hardworking gems out there.  

I bet the owner of that property (or their family or whoever is acting for them) have no idea that they stand to lose tens of thousands if they don't buck their ideas up.  If it were me selling I would have ensured the house was at least marketable even it is a fixer upper.  At the very least they should clean the place up.  The smell was not pleasant.  They should probably ditch their estate agent too.  

I should have viewed a house this morning but was so shattered after a sleepless night I rescheduled.  Never mind I'll get there.  

Floss

Helen, was the property itself worth a cheeky offer & doing the work needed yourself? 

helensbiggestfan

Floss. I did think about it.  However, as I walked around I did a few quick mental calculations.   I'm not getting any younger and a lot of the diy I used to do is probably beyond me now so I would have to get in the trades which would significantly add to the cost.  A cursory look told me I would have to offer at least £50k less than the asking price and that's only noticing the obvious work required.  And as I have found out in the past it's only when you start the work that you find the true horrors that lie in wait.  Renovations nearly always cost more than you anticipate.  

The irony is that if it does end up going to auction in the long run they will have to accept even less than that.  The auction starting price would probably need to be pitched around £100k less than the current asking price and it is unlikely to fetch much more in the current market.    It's just an ordinary chalet bungalow, quite spacious and in a nice area and it does have the potential to be a nice home but it's not special enough to start a bidding war. 

I'll pass. Lol.

helensbiggestfan

Hello My Lovely Friends.  

Saw a lovely house today.  Perfick!!!!  Only real drawback is it is literally on a building site. Builders will be around for a good couple of years yet which might be a bit off putting, damaging resale prospects.   .  However as I have no plans to sell (next move sheltered housing or nursing home).!!! For at least 5 years it should t be too much of a problem.  

It's a contender.  

Another viewing tomorrow, similar house about half a mile away where the building work has finished.  

Things are looking up......😁

helensbiggestfan

Found my dream house.  Going  to make an offer next week.  🤞🤞🤞

please send me positive vibes.  

Coxy11

So exciting!! Good luck 🤞🏻 

Wednesday2000

Great news!🤩

newroadahead

Great to hear Helen
Don't forget to fill us in

NRA x

helensbiggestfan

Thanks everyone for you good wishes.  I can hardly contain my excitement and anticipation. My family are probably even more excited than I am.  Lol. Bless their hearts, they have fallen in love with the house already and they've not set foot through the door yet.  

I have been crunching numbers and OMG its  tight.  Too tight for comfort really., so I will make a slightly reduced offer (hopefully not so low as to upset them because they are already reduced the price). And I do really want this house. I just don't really want to go to the full asking price unless I have no other option.  I might have to just grasp that particular nettle,  

WHO DARES WINS!!!!!!   

I can live on next to nothing if I have to .....I've done it before. 

 I quite like beans on toast.  😂