General Chat

Try to stay sane Uzzi - there is a house our there with your name on it - believe me - it will happen
Love Mary xx

Trust me I have checked repos and seen them not just my bank either.
Kim you could be right , the house will find me but it needs to do it rather quickly as I need to find a home !
I have heard from the estate agent that the buyers want to complete next week EEEKKKKKK

*shrugs* okay says me ......PANICCCCCC

The house will find you.....

i know that sounds weird but when i was looking to buy i was having trouble.. i found the perfect one but it got sold.. i was the underbidder... but then the first buyers could get a mortgage.. so the house was mine.... i loved that house and it
was a wonderful place to live in... i stayed there for six years then moved to the UK. after renting it out to a family who also loved it I sold it... I did visit sydney a month back and drove past it.. i wanted so much to knock on the door but i didnt... the house was now theres........... <3

Uzzie.
Just a thought, but have you tried the banks for properties?
Don´t know what the situation is where you are, but here in Menorca the banks each have dozens of re possessed properties they can´t wait to get off their hands.
Some friends bought one last autumn & got €15.000 off the price the estate agent was asking for the same property.
The agents are only interested in getting a good price because they want their commission.
The banks may have some that are not in the hands of agents.They just want their money back.
Marion

I know it's a trying time, Uzzi, and drives anyone up the wall looking at so many houses, but I am sure you will find something that fits the bill soon.

I looked at loads when I was moving last time, took me over two years lol, but I was at the point of buying one to get myself out of where I was, when I found the one I have now. I had to run to the Estate Agent's as couldn't get through on the phone, to get them to stop the surveyor going round that day, and make a new appointment for him to look at the better one instead. Luckily it worked out ok so I didn't have to pay a surveyor's fee for nothing, had already paid out on one to find it was unmortgageable so to spot the one I have just at that critical point was really lucky. I was the first person to view it.

Fate will show you the right place.

Best of luck

Lizxx

any repossessions going on where you might grab a bargain? mind I supose houses are OK if you dont have a limit,,,,,,its difficult,,,but look at compromise,,,,,,,,mum probally wont care too much if shes near you and may pick up when shes out that home.....

Kay you are right but I want this house to be my forever home also, I really don't want to move again. I did say after the move here i would only do 1 more move, and I am sticking with that!!

Look at what it doesnt have,and what you could achive from it by making it more what you want.

If you need to put mum and her safety first then do that,at a later date you can always upgrade it or look for more of your choice,,,

Lynda I know what I want if it just me I wouldn't be looking any more, the difficulty is mother.and that is the worry

I can walk into a house, and just know if I want to live there, I get a "feeling"

I have a list of what I'd like but always willing to compromise on some things, being too rigid doesn't work for me

Sylvie you could be right on that and to an extent I am ignoring what she wants but I know she has to be close to me or my life will be hell. When I find the perfect house no doubt Mum will object. I am expecting it but by then she has a choice live with me or not -
If not I ship her back to the UK .

Uzzi


knowing what you have said in the past about your Mum ..........

........ is it likely that she will not, in fact, like any house that you buy, just out of perversity????????

Mayfield I would not buy on 1 viewing alone, I would want to view the area at several times of day and even go into the local shops and bars (if there are any ! ) I actually miss my Dad because he was a quantity surveyor, architect, master builder, and in previous house buys Dad has been there. Dad is no longer here but he did teach me well.

I think I am more worried that I may buy a house that I love and mother won´t or a house that is perfect for mother but will not be a "forever" house for me.

I have actually bought 3 places in the past, my 1st house I bought because it was ex council, the 2nd because I stuck a pin in a map and the house offered worked, (we looked at 3. Then I bought the pub that I was already running. easy buying !

Whatever you do never buy after only one viewing, always go back after you have fallen in love with a house and look at it in the cold light of day,. We made that mistake with this house and while we still love the location and style it has turned into a nightmare to fix up, it looked fine but lots of things we should have spotted and run away!

Mayfield in the money pit

Stray you could be right but what could be my forever home might not be right for mother. A fine balancing act I have to do. I have found the perfect for Mum but it isn´t my forever home. I have found the house I would say YES to but it isn´t Mum.

So hard, I think I want to cave lol ª

they say moving house is the most emotionally fraught after the death of a spouse
so best of luck and stick for what you want
act in haste repent at leasure

i think you will just know hun,

when i was loking for a new home, i went in houses n thougt yea, i could live here, then i walked in the one im in now, n just knew it was going to be my forever home, it just felt right,

Gwyn I have listed all that and I think the estate agents hate me, because I have given them such a definate criteria., but then I have also said show me x `place and fallen in love.

<<<<<so I now love more places than I can buy and do not know where to go

I think it must be so hard to know that so much depends on getting this right.

I guess you just have to list what you really MUST have in the new property, what would be desirable and what you could compromise about.

Maybe some things could be easily altered to make life more comfortable for all, so perhaps location / area and access and amount of room and aspect would be my priorities.

Good luck.

Gwyn

I have seen so many houses now both on the net and up real, and I don´t know what to do, I didn´t think house hunting was this difficult.

I have fallen in love with houses which I have to reject because area, mother, or me.
When do I get it right ??