Well, Is been a long time since I posted on here, mainly cos nothing has been happening!
The housing market is dead dead and more dead.
We were asked by our estate agent to drop the price by £50,000
we had a long think about it and decided to drop by £25,000 and offer the car as an insentive. We still have had no response. So we called a local letting agent and asked them to come round and look at the house. Strangely the estate agent turned up at the house on friday (the day after the letting agent) as he's was new to the office and wanted to view the house. Everywhere was fairly straight apart from the sitting room, the bl**dy cat had caught a mouse and it had died under the sofa we were unaware of this until it started to smell
so I had upturned the sofa to get rid of the offending mouse and was about to clean the carpet when he called.
The estate agent then suggested that we needed to drop the house by another £50,000 if we really wanted to shift it
this would then have been a price drop from £415,000 down to £300,000 I think he was having a laugh or had a friend who wanted it for a knock down price Its not a bug hutch, there are 5 bedrooms 2 sitting rooms 2 kitchens 3 bathrooms dining room office garage and gardens so no small house. So we said we would think about it and get back to them on Monday.
After a weekend looking at the figures, we have decided to rent the house and wait for the market to recover? I am not happy about giving my house away which is what we would be doing if we had followed the estate agents advice. We rang them on Monday and politely told them to sling their hook and take their for sale sign with them. We then asked the rental company to take it on and its on their books now, hopefully we will get a rental quickly. We then looked at dates
The rental agent wanted the house by mid september as he said the best time was July August for rentals so we chose a date rang the shipping company organised a date and booked it
We are now in a state of complete chaos. Trying to organise things and sell off the last remaining odds and sods that we dont want to take with us.
But we are gettiing there.
So far I have
Booked flights
Booked car hire
Booked bed and breakfast for the days before we fly so we can have the house clean for the tenant
Organised shipping
booked carpet cleaner
booked cleaner
ordered medical records from GP
looked into house insurance for letted houses
bought extra bedding for new house
I have been trying to sort out how we can get money to my mother in law at her sheltered accom, Im waiting for SS to get back to me on that
Also awaiting call from money exchange to transfer some dosh so we can buy a car when we get there
Well thats about it for now, with the housing market as it is at the moment we think we have taken the best option as with pensions and rental we should have a reasonable life will just need to get the kids to camp in the garden when the come for a holiday!!
take care everyone
xx
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which after all the weeks of sorting selling and giving away we seem to be getting there. We have also recently updated both bathrooms and revamped the kitchen, which I hope will make the house more appealing. Dont get me wrong we didnt just do this to sell the house, the bathrooms were very dated and cramped and by retiling changing the room round etc we now have somewhere that we have enjoyed living in.
After the last few months that sounds like bliss
. Although our buyers wanted to complete on 12th April and we said no, 12th May, it is now apparent that it would have been an impossible task to complete by April as the solicitors spend a lot of time making suggestions, querying points and generally justifying their fee. Bit cynical maybe; just looking after our interests as clients. So, all in all, to complete in anything less than 2 months is pushing it a lot. More like 3, so you could probably delay until July anyway. And if there is a chain then it could take longer.
