Owning your own home

Just made an offer on a house.

#nervous #excited

Offer accepted.

That was quick. I posted off our contract today and sent the solicitor a lot of money.

wheres this one den?

Kearsley, not the area we wanted but the house is worth it we think and I know some people in Kearsley. Some decent off road routes in and out of Manchester too so I can have some fun commuting on the Pompino.

isnt that like a 10mile commute ??

Yeah but my current commute is 9 miles so thats no big deal.

plus on nice days its a 10 mile off road, traffic free, muddy commute. :D

that's a posh shed

f*cking nuts

whoops. damn, I hate this new forum.

We've got the survey booked, this is where it goes horribly wrong right?

#goingtoosmoothly

This is where the bit where they find an ancient burial ground, toxic waste dump, and plans to build a motorway service station and the 5th Heathrow runway.

Isn't it the local searches they find that out in. In the survey they just find it's subsiding at such a rate it'll slip into another postcode in 6 months time. I'd still advise you to buy tho, chances are it's heading towards Muswell Hill and so actually increasing in value.

The local searches should show plans for a bike themed bar, micro brewery and BBQ pit at the end of the garden.

@TW - You forgot plans for HS2 and Japanese Knotweed.

They didn't move the bodies, they just moved the headstones.

There were never any headstones, it's built on the site of a plague pit.

Looks like we are getting that house after all, the seller had stopped panicking about the family illness and decided that she still needs to move, woot.

Congrats.

Christ, I have seen them being put on the market at up to 380k, but who knows what they're going for

I've been in my 1st flat, in Whitehall, Bristol, for a week now and loving it. Just the right amount of space for my GF and I, some little things to do, but perfectly livable in the meantime. The only shame is the guy upstairs, who seems really nice and helpful, had now also sold to a landlord.

We're on to the survey stage again. Fingers crossed this one isn't about to sink in to a coal mine like the last one.

Just paid the last of the money to the solicitor. I can now claim to have bought a house on a credit card I think.

Right, my learnings from the house buying process, everyone is a bunch of cunts.

Lots of delays and fobbing off to find out after over 5 months that there is a chain, after paperwork is exchanged between solicitors to say otherwise.

OK, fine, lets deal with that. Actually, the person your vendors are buying off is based in Israel and the "power of attorney" paperwork they filled out is only valid for Scotland so they are now (6 months into the process) filling out the correct paperwork to allow their brother to sell their house to the people you are buying the flat from.

Hold on a sec, that was going too smoothly, I tell you what, the solicitors for the Israeli chap have now decided they don't want to deal with a conveyance for someone who is not based in the UK. Never mind that power of attorney has been sorted out and they must have known 6 months ago that they were dealing with someone with a funny post code; they have no professional or moral ethics so they can do whatever the fuck they want! Lets just drop this shit and let someone else deal with it.

Yep, probably pretty typical.

I guess a lot of people will have seen this horrifying Halloween costume:

:D Next year!