Buy a House

I think I have convinced my husband that building a new home will cost just as much as buying an existing house. I talked to my grandmother about it and she gave me some layouts, price ranges, and what to expect, because her and my grandfather were going to build a house about a year ago (they ended up buying one instead). It sounds like somthing we can afford and somthing that is much more appealing to me becuase I can customize it the way I want it. I started thinking about buying the property now so that it can be paid for by the time we want to build.

We got our contract through the letter box today. A big envelope full of paper. We’ve gradually been working through it for the last half an hour or so.

We’re aiming to get it sent back to the solicitor today. I think we’ll definitely be sending it recorded delivery though. It’s a bit worrying having all that information (national insurance numbers, dates of birth, bank account details, phone numbers, old and new addresses, etc.) all in one envelope going through the hands of some random postal workers.

As soon as we’ve sent it we’ll just be waiting for the solicitors (again) to exchange contracts and set a moving date. I can’t wait! The couple we’re buying from are moving into rented accomodation to prevent a chain, which is very nice of them.

Hopefully everything will work out now!

I found this agent through the internet and tried to work with him in the last month. I am not in a hurry, but he didn’t seem to care at all about me. He returned my calls a week or so late explaining he had other clients with more urgent needs. He never even showed me a single house! So today I emailed him to say I found another agent.

Sure enough, later today a new friend recommended her agent. He seems wonderful, returned my call within 20 minutes of me leaving a message, and I am meeting with him tomorrow.

I am not a very assertive person, but I’m feeling happy that I made this decision. Buying a house is supposed to be my happy time. I want to be happy and excited, not annoyed and bitchy.

also don’t want to be tied down to one area.

We bought a place of our own. It is not big or new but it is ours. If everything will go as planned we will be moving next Sunday.

We got a message from the couple selling their house over the weekend saying that we should be getting our contracts on Tuesday.

This was news to us. Apparently their solicitor had told them that. I called our solicitor today and was told this is the case. Everyone in the chain was informed before us. Not very pleased with that, but oh well.

We’ll get the contracts tomorrow, or the day after at the latest. We’ll sign them right away and get them sent back again.

All we need after that is for the solicitors to exchange contracts and then we get a moving date! :)

I’m hoping it’ll be after the weekend, because I’ve just arranged to be elsewhere.

OK – so it’s not technically a house, it’s a flat, but I’m still crossing this one of the list!

We’ve been in it a few months now and the novelty still hasn’t worn off – absolutely love it!!

I am watching one of the guides on HGTV right now and I like it.

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/real_estate

This weekend we began our house hunting quest in earnest. Looking at two lovely cottages in countrydie villages just about commutable. They were ridculously pretty and yet also ridiculously expensive alas. Unfortunately both had really big drawbacks – being next to a pub, having no parking, communal gardens and broom cupboards where second bedrooms had been promised. Sigh….. a dsappointing start and I came away feeling really disheartened. The search is gonna be harder than I thought. I dread ending up in the burbs but if I’m gonna get my garden for the veggies and space to swing a cat, dog and some chicks then the countryside dream is gonna have to be moved at little more nearer the metrops…...

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/

I think I want something like one of these some day. So cozy!