Owning your own home

Sale by tender has spread to my ends and is starting to show up in my searches :(

£400k+ for a 3 bed terrace in Palmers Green

Fuck you Haart

west norwood.

it's the future.

Too close to West Dulwich - surely it's already happened?

property prices have plummeted since we moved into the area. now's the time to scoop up a deal.

Keep it up - makes my season ticket into London seem like remarkably good value for money. Which it wouldn't otherwise.

much heat?

very stove, so flames, wow.

Looks nice.

Just totted everything up, it was £3,300 for everything- including having the old wall demolished, new one built, new secondary chimney (not in shot), the stove, the flue-liner etc.

Very happy with it- although the cats are still suspicious.

And today I buy an axe.

Martin Browne @ Gisby Harrison: http://goo.gl/YojEA1

Martin Brown at Gisby Harrison has sorted the conveyancing stuff for at least three first time buyers on this thread, including myself.
Would highly recommend.

would either of you be prepared to PM me your names? I want to get with that there Martin and would like to be able to say he is recommended.

dammit start showing us pictures of thermometers instead of weighing scales !

fires!

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They are good. Are you using yours to sharpen razor blades?

I need to find a good source of hard wood logs, and a decent chunk of wood to use as a splitting-base.

amber tree care?

Hah, they're ~500m from my flat.

I am emailing them now- thanks.

would either of you be prepared to PM me your names? I want to get with that there Martin and would like to be able to say he is recommended.

PM'd

thanks people :)

Good luck with it.

west norwood.

it's the future.

It's not.
Neither is Streatham.

If our flat purchase fails, we're fuxxored in an area I've lived in for 4.5 years.
Vibrant.

cocklords, sorry to hear that damo - i thought it was done and done. hadn't realised the vibrancy virus had spread that far so soon. i blame those fucking norwood feast cunts.

Streatham is vibrant.
Their solicitor has proved to be an utter dick. Unable to ask questions of Lambeth Living, unable to provide answers. I'm fairly certain it's deliberate. We've been told the seller would "knock 2k off the price if we can complete by the end of feb". Which would require me signing something without having all the information about a 17k bill on the property, whether Lambeth will transfer the land registry details etc etc.

The estate agents (haart streatham) have said "there's clarity and there's clarity" to which my next answer will be "if it's not clear, then it's opaque". I've had the estate agent say "if they don't complete by the end of the month, then they'll just unpack and stay there".

I'm utterly fucked off with the situation, "you look, you touch, you buy" and there's a very real possibility that if it doesn't happen then it'll be "adios London".

#crywank
#firstworldproblems

The agent is right. There are grey areas throughout conveyances and solicitors egos often stop them taking a sensible view on whether stuff actually matters. It's not unusual for one side to ask something and the other to tell them they don't need to know the answer instead of just answering properly.

Sit down with your solicitor tell them you are very keen to make sure the purchase happens, ask them if you can help or if there are things they can work round. You might find you can get info on the £17k bill direct by ringing or emailing the freeholder. You shouldn't have to of course, that's what you're paying them to do, but do it anyway. The agent could also help, but they're probably cunts.

Streatham is vibrant.
Their solicitor has proved to be an utter dick. Unable to ask questions of Lambeth Living, unable to provide answers. I'm fairly certain it's deliberate. We've been told the seller would "knock 2k off the price if we can complete by the end of feb". Which would require me signing something without having all the information about a 17k bill on the property, whether Lambeth will transfer the land registry details etc etc.

The estate agents (haart streatham) have said "there's clarity and there's clarity" to which my next answer will be "if it's not clear, then it's opaque". I've had the estate agent say "if they don't complete by the end of the month, then they'll just unpack and stay there".

I'm utterly fucked off with the situation, "you look, you touch, you buy" and there's a very real possibility that if it doesn't happen then it'll be "adios London".

Sounds like its going down the pan. Tell them you won't sign off without the information. You never know, they might jump to

We've essentially told them that. And the estate agent has given us a name of someone in Lambeth Living. Our solicitor has addressed our questions to them directly.

The questions we've asked are:
who is responsible for this 17k bill?
when does it need to be paid by?
can it be paid in installments?
will it affect the transfer of the registration etc?

their solicitor didn't answer any of them. In a phone conversation their response was "i don't know". Not "you don't need to know".

I don't think it's our solicitor being overly pedantic.
Note: I am overly pedantic.

Whats the bill for?