General Chat

Wellll at last the surveyors report is here:)
One or 2 things we were'nt aware of and loads that we were aware of.
Still a couple of questions to ask.....but other than that it SHOULD'NT be a problem, will confirm as soon as we know :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

jude ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Ermm l think something might give you away... :-) :-) :-) :-)

If it helps, I can put a suit on and carry a clipboard and pretend

Letter waiting for us when we got back from son's....telling us of the offer from buyer etc....all we want now is the surveyors report....come on Mr Surveyor....

jude

Hello Maggie....
That is so sad, sorry to read this. But what a lovely thing to do and have a service for all her friends. Such a shame it all happened the way it did!! <3

We know how lucky we are, we hear more and more of houses taking such a long to time to sell and falling through....but ours is'nt sold yet!!

Take care

jude x

Good luck Jude.
We had to sell mum's house in Portugal. She'd been trying to sell it for 2 years. We'd got to the point of suggesting she lowered the price and just rented in UK.
Unfortunately she died unexpectedly in December.
We lowered the price to such an extent that the new buyer had to pay a premium (something Portuguese I think).
We (my siblings & I) went over to Portugal in February to sign everything, and have a service for mum's friends.
The buyers saw the house in April. Everything was completed by June.
We had a family gathering 2 weeks ago, a sort of memorial service and for scattering mum's ashes where we knew she wanted to be buried..

It is very exciting Jude Night night xx
<3

Aww bless him...yesterday we were driving back home and just turned into our road and there was the chap who's buying our house, he'd walked from town to see how long it will take him.....:)

Exciting innit:)

jude x

Nite nite x

Liz...too true and thank you:)

jude x

If you are meant to get the new property, everything will go through ok Jude, if not, then you weren't meant to go there, that's my philosophy.

27 years ago I started looking to move house, and I sold mine 3 times before I could eventually move. The first house I loved, just wasn't mortgageable despite a healthy deposit of about 50% and because house prices were flying upwards, people who had chosen my house had to pull out in case I did so later and they couldn't afford anything else, so each time I put mine back on the market while I searched for ''the one' I added a bit more to the cost, and eventually chose a house which wasn't my perfect choice but would do, just so I could keep in the market myself if you get me. The day before the surveyor was going round I spotted a house newly on the market and quickly viewed it the next morning. Decided it was perfect and rushed off to stop the surveyor doing the survey on the previously chosen one, and getting the one I have now. It was a real long road to get to that point but was meant to be as the house has held it's value better than the other would have and is in a much quieter area too.

Fate has a hand in it all I think.

Good luck

Lizx

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Thanks Uzzi:)

AnnG...yes its about a 10 min walk...3 in the car depending on the traffic. l remember you knowing about the move now, you asked me that question before....dohh:)

Sylvia....your property sounds lovely, oh l do hope you can sell it though, good luck:)

jude

Well Jude after getting a sale on Mums house after a year I know how you feel.

Good luck with the new house

Fingers crossed then Sylvia.

Jude is the new house in the same area as the present one?

I had a big surprise last night ............

We have a cottage on 20 acres about 7-8 hours drive north of here ................ we bought it in 1997, and have thoroughly enjoyed the many weeks we have spent there, but decided 2 years ago that we should prepare it for sale as we were spending less and less time. It was down to a total of 2 weeks or less a year, when previously we would go up for 1-2 weeks every month between May and October.

A friend down here is in realty, and gave us an introduction to a realtor up there.

That realtor phoned last night ............. he had managed to get out to the cottage, and have a look round. Weather has been rotten, and there are 12 kms of gravel road to negotiate, so he waited until the weather was better.

He walked round most of the property, discovered that the large flat meadow area was flooded because the creek had overflowed, etc etc ....................


but he then told me what he thought he would declare as the asking price

It was about TWICE what we were thinking we would be lucky to get :-0


He did admit, as we know, that it will require a very special person to buy it ........... not many people want 20 acres in the middle of nowhere, even with a year round creek running through it, so we will have to be prepared to wait


But, still ............................. :-0 :-0 :-0 :-D :-D

Lesley...thanks:) x

Hows your grandchild?? granddaughter l think?

jude x

I've only just seen this Jude.

Fantastic news I hope everything goes smoothly. x :-D

Pushed this up for AnnG.....:))

Also we took a peek at the house earlier....its so cute:)

jude x

Aww Mersey...thank you but please don't fall over ;-) ;-) ;-)

jude x

Ive got all me bits crossed for you Jude :-) <3