to want stairs before i am 40

[driedapricots]

for gods sake. our flat has been on the market for 14 weeks. not one offer. and it is def not over priced, good location etc etc..just competing with over 60 others in same area and no first time buyers. so we decide to rent. fine, it'll get a tenant no probs. but we can't find any decent 3 bed houses for us in the area we want to be....so frustrating. i just want a house, surely not too muich to ask when my dh and i are both employed and earn decent money....this bloody credit crunch is really p'ing me off!!! don't expect any responses, just wanted a rant :-) much better now!

YABU.

Stairs are a PITA.

Lots of people work their arses off all their lives and live in flats.

It doesn't kill a person.

It's over-priced if no one's buying it.

yes stairs are a bloody pain

god, if i have to go up and down ours one more time today i think i'll cry

Stairs are a pain. I aspire to a bungalow ( I can dream). I was desparate when my house was for sale as i was trying to avoid reposession so do understand how frustrating it is though.

we lived in a rented bungalow and it rocked!

i loved it.

so sick of these fucking stairs.

We have stairs!!! Except we're in a first floor flat, so the effect isn't quite the same.

FWIW, we have the same problem except ours has been on and off the market for nearly 3 years...

We can't drop the price any more as we'll make a loss (we didn't have anywhere near 100% mortgage), but the market round here is flooded with flats which everyone wants to rent, but noone wants to buy. On the flip side, the mortgage is totally affordable, so there's no point in us moving to rent elsewhere as we'll be out of pocket. This when I'm about to go back to work part time after having a baby.

I am grateful that I don't have to worry about her sleeping upstairs while we're chilling out downstairs, and that I don't have to run up and down the stairs a million times a day between naps and nappy changes and night wakings, but carrying the pushchair up and down the communal stairs is getting a bit old. I just want to be able to leave it in the porch/outside the back door.

Sorry for hijacking your rant. As you were

I hate stairs. So happy we live in a flat.

Bungalow here - would hate to drag the hoover up and down stairs.

we're in the same boat dancing re money.

but yes, i guess i am BU...there's a lot worse situations to be in.

it's not just the stairs to be honest...a bedroom for my son would be nice as he can't sleep in our room forever, but i should count my blessings and stop ranting..or at least don't bother ranting on here where sympathy is generally in short supply!

I fantasise about turning one half of my stairs into a slide. Would be great fun and handy fro dragging things up and down stairs.

We're on 3 floors so have 2 sets of stairs - they're a good fitness implement :-)

OhYouBadBadGhostie - something like this?

my future stairs

I hate spiral staircases... but I so want those! A tad pointless in a flat though.

Driedapricots - Bert2e has revived the thread - so you might not see this... However, you have all my sympathy. It's shitty being stuck in a place you don't want to be in, because the economy is so shitty. Have you been able to come up with another plan in the last fortnight?

(I think some of the posters were tounge-in-cheek actually trying to make you feel better! x)

Well, I once read a story about a guy who got up in the night for a drink, fell down the stairs and broke his neck. So, no stairs is safer. Look on the bright side.

You could always get a Stairmaster and pretend.