Owning your own home

hope you get sorted before the end of the SDLT holiday.

We started the process mid Jan hoping for the first one... We're still not done. 😭

Yep, we're currently being ghosted by our window cleaner who also does the gutters.

Viewing cancelled for the place we were due to look at tomorrow as they have accepted an offer today..
Can see this becoming a theme.

Bid first. View after?

Can see this becoming a theme.

If it’s remotely good, it’ll go.

The flat we’re in still on the market (£300,000) after several months, it wasn’t attractive simply because it’s above a shop (memorial).

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/79885905

We were going to buy it as we know the owner and already live in it but mortgage said no to flat above shop.

In the current market, try to get in as soon as it goes on, don't wait until the weekend if you can. My Wife went the next day on the house we are buying (without me) after this happening several times to us.

I love this, Ed:

It's great to see that sort of picture in an ad for a flat.

Yeah, once we have offers on our place I think we will do that.

Yeah and a painting of a banana wearing a condom.

My Wife went the next day on the house we are buying (without me) after this happening several times to us.

I was saying to my girlfriend that if it’s good, go for it.

Garden are extremely sought after due to the lockdown .

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/detail­s/58847912/?search_identifier=9a11817b2e­4bd0a82aa0bc238b671f31

I know this house! It was one street along from our flat. It was bought by a fairly well known artist (hence the tiles presumably) who did the extension, but actually I think @Howard is right and they subsequently moved out and rented it.

The decorative style is very not much not for me, nor the amount of outside space, but I think you're all being a bit harsh really, this is just Clapton prices. Full disclosure (because you could just Land Registry it anyway): we sold our 1 bed for £580k. Which is better value?

Then I realised it was just a toddler death trap.

Don't worry about this BTW @tbc, I'd put money on no toddlers moving in.

Yeah they can’t touch the stuff really, they have to shoot it as is.

As @stevo_com says not always true - The Modern House got us to move furniture around, take things out of rooms etc. But their clients expect that, would be a difficult conversation for most agents plus their photographers just don't spend the time.

They cannot touch the stuff unless the tenants specifically agree to it.

Cue everyone saying I've made a rod for my own back.

Feel your pain on this @stevo_com

We basically have the budget to do a side return extension with small change left, but a whole house worth of other smaller jobs that need doing.

I'm just upping my DIY game and taking on way more than I thought I would. It definitely helps that I'm a bit OCD and tend to be unhappy with the job most trades do due to lack of attention to detail/spending insufficient time on it but that means it's going to take forever!

Oh sorry yeah it's tenanted! Literally just finishing my first coffee and it's not kicked in yet...

1. Buy house
   
2. Can’t get trades to work on it
   
3. Become trades
   
4. Profit
   

The two year old either running around needing watched or sleeping so can't make too much noise, means I'm limited in what I can do. As much as I'd like to just batter through stuff in the evenings or at weekends, I can't.

Builder is trying to save face and has promised someone onsite everyday this week to get some bits done. Hoping to at least get my office done and the chimney breast on the living room boxed in. In the spirit of room Jenga, we moved 99% of the living room shit into the dining room (which still has all our books in boxes and about 80% of my shed shit - need recommendations for a 6x3 storage shed until I can build the proper one). Will be smashing out more bricks from the fireplace once mini_com is up from her nap. Photos of that in the DIY thread later, hopefully.

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I love the street and previously lived on it but the £/sq ft on that place is what shocked me. It’s double what we paid per foot less than 3 years ago (on a nice street albeit just north of the Clapton roundabout). I get that it’s quirky but you’d surely never get a rental yield on it at that price & I really can’t imagine living there long term

3rd from right

Don't......

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https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/colour-details/willow-tree

Last one on the right is the best.

Smashy smashy

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2nd from the right.