Owning your own home

We haven't expressed excessive keenness and are wanting, vaguely, to play it cool and not come across as 'the idiots relocating from Brighton with cash'. Happy to pay over asking for it but not silly money which I would worry the agent would push for if I said tomorrow "Will offer asking if you take it off the market now" etc.

Difficult to judge how sensible the agent is from a couple of calls :/

Nice. Now you just need one of those round expandable tables underneath it.

Do you think the market is that hot wherever you’re looking?

Nice. Now you just need one of those round expandable tables underneath it.

I have seen those - the ones that iris open, as it were? Nice but spendy.

The current table does expand, but not in such an impressive fashion.

Not sure... :/

3 bed house in the same street went on the market on the 10th and is sold stc. The asking for that one was 5k less than the one we're looking at and it was in worse condition.

Another one in that street was put on the market in January and is also sold stc though that was a 4 bed and sold for a bit more.

The one we're looking at went on Rightmove on the 13th. It's a Victorian 3 bed in Devon for about 100k less than what I'd expect to be paying in Brighton. It's about 30k less than what I'd been looking at in the same area so I think it's priced to sell. I just happened to expand the upper/lower brackets on Rightmove and saw it by chance. It looks to be in very good nick and it's also decorated exactly to our tastes.

Toying with getting a train down tomorrow just to vet it before enduring a very long drive with a 1 year old on Friday... But 250 quid last minute train tickets aren't winning me over.

They're the ones. Not cheap, granted. But very cool. I doubt the novelty would wear off for a while.

Play it cool

Yep, fair enough. Probably worth giving the agent a call tomorrow and finding out position of the vendor, how many viewings there have been, any offers etc. No harm in explaining you're keen but yes don't lay all your cards on the table yet :)

Devon.

Wait until the weekend until you drive down there. Then you'll realise how long and awkward it is to get there.

Yes I've been there before, thanks.

Aways good to get the rituals done. Congrats on getting it sorted and in the place

Cheers fam.

Having a choice of 6 rooms to lose my keys / phone / wallet in is a fucking delight.

Looking good tho.

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Noice 👍👍👍 that floor is well lovely.

yeah there's a fair few loose bits. it was flagged up in the survey - hopefully nothing too onerous to fix. @Dammit is the forum approved pourquois flooring expert unless i'm very much mistaken?

also - that sofa is on the way out. free to good home - it's a bit fuxxored tho.

Needs more plants.

u knows it.

hence the name.

Surprised the surveyor didn't pick up that the whole place was leaning to the right...

What ££ am I looking at to fit an FD30 door / frame to our flat?

The doorway isn't a standard size, I'm told.

Additionally, given our freeholder has never fitted them until now, can they force us to pay for and fit one through an existing section 20? Appreciate this might be terms of lease dependent.

Well doors aren't that expensive, we got oak veneer ones for less the £100 a go. Do you have to have intumescent strips or smoke strips? I think for the frame it is just the case of having deeper\wider door jambs.

No idea of labour cost, but shouldn't be much more than hanging a normal door, putting in the strips does mean they need to router all along the edges, but not more than half an hours work to do that.

When I had it laid in my last house, a patch got bouncy about a year afterwards. The guy came back and sorted it within an hour. One bit he drilled/screwed, another just reglued. Easy peasy.

I recall he went as far as testing various adhesives and whacking them with a hammer.

your guy... who dis?

it's sydenham. pretty much errything is on a hill

Manchester - no use to you i'm afraid.