Owning your own home

Did you go through a broker? 7 weeks is extreme. I had my mortgage sorted with santander via a broker in 4 days but maybe that was lucky

Yeah we used a broker for the first time, he says that there is a backlog due to the rate increase and people locking in deals before it went up. Have a deal with our original lender to fall back on but the rate (5 year fixed) isn’t as good....

@revenant. this could be you https://www.nimtim.co.uk/corbetts-house

@revenant. We gonna be neighbours? I'll lend u sum sugar and feed the cat.

@amey that's the kind of house I would buy thinking it looks cool and then a year later I'd have my head in my hands repeating "what the fuck have I done" over and over.

Hah, yeah. It really pains me when they don't get a party wall agreement to extend the brickwork to the new roof height too.

my experience of catford loft conversions (on that very road!) was that party wall agreements were very much optional.

I'd always be thinking IKEA if I had to live with those colours. Garden looks like shit too.

guys, its yellow, has birch ply and aesop!

corbett's house? drake looking glum
corbyn's (neighbours') house? drake going eyyyyyyy

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Yeah bi-folds open nicely onto a huge drop - but guess they would put some decking down by now.
They should have sunk the bi-fold frame lower in the kitchen though so it's all level

Why would you feed sugar to a cat??

+1 but saves about 5k.

Which I fine if you are happy to abandon all possibility of maintaining your exposed to the elements party wall and the side of your loft conversion once the neighbours sling up their wooden box.

I was looking at that drop and thought it looked quite a fall but cba'ed to see what the drop was like on our back door for comparisome sake.

Not quit sure what that titty little light to the left of the bifold is supposd to do - light up your pot plant?

I'm always suspicious of house flyers which dont bother with a picture of the front of the house or the garden

That house is everything I hate about an interior, where the fuck does all the stuff go?

Which is what I am going to have to deal with... cry.gif

The actual kitchen surface area is pretty small, chuck in a kettle, a toaster, knife block etc and there wouldn't actually be that much room to do any cooking.

Yeah good shout, while I don't want to be an internet expert, the use if space there is about as bad as I could imagine it could be, but then again, I'm not the user, they may be a childless couple with no friends who only eat ready meals and have no plans to change any of that.

Or just like plenty of space for dancing, which I believe is what kitchens are for.

My ginger cat will eat pretty much anything.

Out of curosity, are these portfolio sites supposed to treat addresses as confidental info ?

I'm always suspicious of house flyers which dont bother with a picture of the front of the house or the garden

From the picture of the front door it looks like the front is a sort of brown pebbledash? Can understand why that was omitted.

Having grown up near Midhurst those window frames just make me think of the Cowdray estate.

Out of curosity, are these portfolio sites supposed to treat addresses as confidental info?

All available through the planning portal anyway for the determined.

It was only a thought when I noticed all the jpg file names were the road name.

looks like they have about the same amount of surface space as us - it’s fine tbh but we don’t have any kids or friends and only use our kitchen for dancing