Owning your own home

No one gets what they want at the mo.

The one you’re buying will be cheaper too.

Congrats Greenhell!

Hope your transition is better than ours. We accepted an offer in March last year and were then pissed around by successive sellers until we had to move out in July or lose the sale. We left without anywhere to go and ended up staying in my wife's childhood bedroom at the in-laws for 8 weeks and finally moved into our new place in October. It was a fsking nightmare.

The one you’re buying will be cheaper too.

considering we put in an offer about two months ago and the low ball offer we've accepted, presumably we'd be within our rights to revisit our offer?

fuck that noise.

ps. is your missuses childhood bedroom still available?

it is! Uninterrupted access to the sound of the mother in law using the bathroom only 6 feet away through a thin wall. Knock yourself out. I did. With whisky.

Does this mean you're Corbett in-bound?

quite possibly maybe. this is the gaff we have our eye on.

https://www.reedsrains.co.uk/property/semi-detached-house-for-sale-glenfarg-road-london-se6-id-200985916/search

i've probably jinxed it now.

considering we put in an offer about two months ago and the low ball offer we've accepted, presumably we'd be within our rights to revisit our offer?

You mean you put in an offer two m0nths ago that the seller agreed to?

Errrm....I dunno....slippery slope.

If on the other hand if they were like 'sort ya shit out then we can talk' I guess all bets are off.

Fo sho.

No shame in telling them the truth.

‘We would have honoured our original offer, but we’ve had to take a £15bag hit on our place so we just can’t make it work. Before we go and look elsewhere at cheaper houses is there any chance the seller would take £15large less? We really love the house and are gutted we can’t afford it so thought we’d ask before we write it off altogether. Hope that’s not too cheeky!’

I’m not sure exactly how you’ll get on with the next suggestion, but here it is: Be nice, don’t call them a Tory cunt and you probably stand a good chance. No one else has bought it in the last two months.

Obvs get your own surveyor, but looking at the bricks on the house to the left, the render on this one may be covering up something. Also, all the other houses have vents galore in the walls - this one has none. Was it built at the same time, or knocked up more recently?

i have no idea, but yes, we'd have a full fat survey done on the place as a matter of course.

more like a month and a half ago.

by the sounds of it, the seller lives overseas and wants as little fuss as possible, hence him agreeing to take it off the market while we got our shit together. not a day goes by when his EA isn't hounding us for updates on our sale.

going to offer 10k less tomorrow and see if it lands anywhere.

Now I've clicked it, I share @TW 's general suspicion about that house.

I'd say the ground levels outside are above the damp proof course and there are no air bricks. It also has cement render outside and old double glazing with no trickle vents. It'll be a damp fest.

I'd need some serious reassurance that the person who renovated it knew what they were doing.

Pay for the big survey.

Supposed to be @greenhell

Also - they took it off the market when you weren't even sold stc? This means you've offered too much. They must have been really certain no one else would pay that much to make it worth the risk.

Weirdness! But hope it goes well. Worst that can happen is they say no, and you might be dodging a bullet too...

top points on the air bricks. we're going to arrange another viewing this week. get a closer look.

the person who renovated it

Pre-dates the seller, my guess - that's painted pebbledash, which dates it, somewhat.

Look for fresh paint & iffy plaster on the inside.

The surveyor will just say get a damp person, the damp person will just say chemical damp proof injections >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

To be fair, if the chimneys are open that will help, the kitchen is right by the big bi-fold doors and which you could open when cooking, the bathroom has a decent sized window and extractor. A few air bricks won't be hard to retro-fit. Agree the windows look like they want replacing. Nice looking place tho GH. Good luck dude!

That's a lotta space for more plants on tripods. Hope you have budgeted for that shit.

yeah cheers. we're going to give the place another proper looking over this weekend and try and get a better picture of what was done to it and when.

So that's the end of #wn4lyf...what next, I ask. What next?

ctfrd>dptfrd

It looks very different on streetview, dated 2017.

Bloody lovely... Eyewatering price but lovely...

We viewed that place. Did you nearly stack it on the path? They seemed to have used kitchen tiles outside - it'd rained that day and it was like an ice rink.

Obviously @amey, you and I have been looking at the same stuff in recent weeks. I'm sick of it, frankly. Putting it on hold until I can stomach it all again.

You're not wrong. It's a bit less bum clenchy when you consider we can smash down a 200k deposit. Our mortgage will still be less than whoever's bought our place. Which is bleak.