Owning your own home

Anyone know - on a personal level - any mortgage brokers who might be able to help out with some paid market research?

Ha! I knew I recognised it. Stayed there with my girlfriend last year. Lovely spot. The river boat from the local pub into central Bath is a nice touch...

Ha, small world. It was amazing. Could of lived their to be honest. Might not of been a financially feasible lifestyle choice though.

Sleepless night here in Forest Hill. Two identical offers on our place which are just the right side of acceptable. Although it has to be said they are acceptable within the context of fairly high expectations so really I should be more grateful.

We've had confirmation that the seller of “Kentish dream house” is tied into their other (lower than ours) offer, so we have finally had to accept that it's a lost cause. Am still in mourning to be honest. Nothing else we've seen has come close. Plan B renovation project house went for over the top of budget asking price, which I was sort of expecting as well. Meh. It was definitely haunted.

The problem now is that we've seen pretty much every other property in town in our fairly wide price bracket. Feels a bit vertiginous accepting an offer on our beloved home with nothing lined up to move on to. We're now trying to see smaller places with the option to extend. Of these there's only one up now that I'd consider and the seller has apparently decided that they've "had enough viewings".

Gah! What's wrong with these bumpkins? Their lack of dead-eyed greed is making it very difficult for us to f*ck over the yokels with our filthy down from London lucre. Bastards.

Thanks. I thought I saw someone recently post about a very cheap-sounding fixed-price conveyancing service. Anyone know who that was?

@mashton, think we may be about to beat you with a complete circle in 6 days!

If anyone has a reasonable, ie pretty cheap, someone who could do my back garden (gate, level garden,take into account main drain access point, some planting buckets) that would be ace.

If anyone has a reasonable, ie pretty cheap, someone who could do my back garden

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he knows...

Oh god damn it! I thought I was doing so well to. I have actually started to make an effort.

he knows...

He knows he doesn't surf...

Maybe. Pm me. I can ask them.

Anyone had a floor levelled/screeded in SE Laandon?

I need it done as the concrete underfloor varies between half an inch and around two and a half inches from level.

Here's the old one I just took up:

Any chance you could just level what you have now with latex self levelling floor screed. It's worked well for me in the past using the powder and ready mixed liquid.

I imagine I could do, but it'd take a staggering quantity to level the sections that are ~2" below "flat"

Gotcha. Not sure I could recommend anyone. It's an easy job in terms of skills so pretty much any trade can do it. It's the kind of semi-skilled work that labourers get charged with. You know it's dead simple if you hire a cement mixer and get a piece of 4x2 long enough to span the floor in one direction. Best to do it with 2 people though. Otherwise a local building firm might put a couple of labourers on it for a day. If you've got any renovations going on on your street you might find a couple of guys who can speak english well enough to organise it. They'd probably knock it out in a few hours. Just be ready with the spirit level.

come on then, wheres the link to the kentist dream house....you got us all wondering!

good on the vendor for having the morals to stick with the original offer and not letting greed fk over the other interested party. you should hang your head in shame!

So we've exchanged with a completion date of next week.

In other news @chrisbmx116 @Sparky http://www.edp24.co.uk/property/revealed_the_ten_most_expensive_homes_sold_in_norfolk_in_december_1_4411934

Couple of Sheringham beauties in there! :)

Pretty sure I've done something like this before and you're deffo more handy than me.

Yes, I just don't want to!

Gas-safe plumber. SE London?

Wahooo.. congrats!
That first house is incredible, I hope Norwich never gets expensive and I miss the retirement boat.
My folks had new neighbours a year or so ago, moved from "The London" and I guess were used to how everyone gets fucked buying here, offered 40K over the asking price to secure the house. Lols.

come on then, wheres the link to the kentist dream house....you got us all wondering!

good on the vendor for having the morals to stick with the original offer and not letting greed fk over the other interested party. you should hang your head in shame!

It's dead to me now.

Although to be fair, it wasn't really a gazump attempt. Our best and final offer was made early having been forced into a blind bid type situation with five other bidders, which I felt was pretty underhand as it wasn't advertised as such. I'm pretty sure we were highest bidder because they kept us hanging for 48 hours then announced thay were going to wait to see if we sold our house over the weekend.

Our place had only been on for 36 hours days at that point and we only had two viewings booked, one of whom had already stated that he definitively didn't want to live in a ground floor flat. Got our agent to thank for that. It was gloomy and p*ssed with rain all day and unsurprisingly it didn't sell. Dream house vendor decided to go with the other lower offer on the Monday. I was resigned.

We had a few viewings and offers the following week and weekend and accepted an offer this Monday. On the same day we were considering putting a bid on the haunted house but my heart wasn't really in it and before we committed, I wanted to make damn sure the ship had sailed on dream house. So we went back to them to see if they were still tied to the lower bid, mentioning of course that we were now under offer. They said they were.

It was a folorn and half-hearted one last attempt to get them to revert to our existing best offer. It's not like we increased our offer or anything. I don't feel bad about it. If anything I feel like I SHOULD have upped our offer. If I'd known then just how unpromising the prospects apparently are for finding something similar, I probably would have.

Now looking at smaller terraced places with potential for cellar and loft conversions. Hey ho, something will turn up!

Oh my God Norfolk. Up your game.

It will be underwater by retirement time though.

In idle moments I put my current flat's value in as the max value and search in Norwich for houses. Makes me want to cry. One day.