Owning your own home

Welcome to Leeds

Hope you like red!

Amazing bargain, how's the area?

Fuck me: http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/14027027?search_identifier=e8333423a9fa48acc3816520e58d1052#GfTOTOYD5tvbyjUS.97

That last bedroom is actually a cupboard with a window

How close is your flat to the horniman school and Eliot bank school?
Selling point...

Yeah, the interior design leaves a lot to be desired. The blue bathroom sucks!

However, it has a garden, a decent sized kitchen and two double bedrooms.

I'm 10 minutes away from the last stop to the city centre, the buses add another 10 . Also, and why I was keen to buy, the new Leeds-Bradford cycle way is on my doorstep.

And a Aldi. So primed to get in there early for cycle kit.

@Dammit

Maybe you could afford that Ringmore Rise place after all...

Yours is nicer. Reckon you could fetch the same?

Have you considered whether chance encounters with @General_Lucifer on a misty morning are a pro or con?

I think that flat in the link is overpriced, if it's not and they get that for it then I'll significantly revise what I think my place is worth, especially once it's plastered and painted.

Our place has two large double bedrooms and one smaller (but still would fit a double) bedroom, an en-suite to one of the double bedrooms, very large kitchen/diner to sitting room, fully hand-made kitchen*, wood-burning stove, cat flap, large bathroom with massive cast iron bath (2m by 1m) etc etc.

[imagine there is a star here, which I can't actually put here due to the stupid fucking forum software] Not by me, by a professional, and just to add to the previous row, this cost 10K.

How many mink coats?

Much.

Plush.

I thought I'd left him behind when I left Brighton!

Nice and handy for Bob Jackson's there too.
Got to be a bit careful with Bramley - there are a few 'types' around there, that's why it's cheap. Make sure you ask the seller what the neighbours are like because they have to tell you if the bloke next door is a meth dealing rave music enthusiast with a garden full of pit bulls. If they don't disclose that sort of thing they can get done.
That Aldi up the road is a cracker too - it's where we do our weekly shop!
Where are you at the moment, @Mr_Sworld?
I'm one of the reasons the houses are cheap round there, @Brun!

* @Dammit, put a \ in front of stuff you don't want markdown to play with.

can't get a decent kitchen for less than 15k, thread fact apparently

Do they need to declare what the neighbours are like if they have not lodged an official complaint against them?

[imagine there is a star here, which I can't actually put here due to the stupid fucking forum software]

\*

#pagefail

\Fuck needing to be an IT monkey in order to be able to use a fucking asterisk.

No they don't. Always worth a bit bit of stalking at various times of day to check the neighbourhood before you buy.

Offer accepted this morning.

I am still going to keep viewing as a back up if it falls through etc. Both parties chain free. Its cheap for what it is given the type of property and area. Its in the area we really want; of course there are trade offs but thats the case with anything we view at our 'first time buyer' budget.

We have done about 10-ish viewings so far; is it too early?

Congrats!

I bought my flat after precisely 0 previous viewings. If you like it, and you can afford it, what else do you need to see?

is it too early?

Nope. It can take a few viewings to get a good idea of what you want/can get/are willing to compromise on.

Congratulations! Hopefully it all goes smoothly.

We've only just sent all our mortgage application material off - just got my third payslip for this job and they require three.
Still shitting bricks.

Alright! I will get slightly excited then ;)
Will start moving things.

Since both are chain free parties how much should I worry about it falling through?

Should I get a third party solicitor (forum recommended) or agent's affiliated? They said their lawyer charges £650 with VAT and its no sale no fee.

SE12 MASSIF soon