It is almost exactly 2 years since our first attempt to move fell through when our buyer pulled out.
6 months later, our seller pulled out on exchange.
We found a new house to buy, but there turned out to be a restrictive covenant that meant we couldn't buy it!
We have now bought a house at last. We are going to rent out the house we currently live in. A combination of factors, mainly Brexit, have led us to this decision.
So, for 2 and a half years we didn't do much to the house as it was mostly Sold Subject to contract!
I think I also emotionally detached from it, so things didn't get done. I let the garden go a bit etc.
I loved this house so much. We have been here nearly 20 years and have done up every room. I thought it was our forever house.
We decided to move because our new neighbour raised a boundary dispute and then had an extension without getting a party wall award, destroying our garden.
We were about to do an extension ourselves, and he told us he would make our lives hell if we did. Basically, we have been bullied out. Police say it's a civil matter. I nearly had a breakdown, it was just 6 months of hell.
Anyway, we are getting the house ready for the tenants now. We have nhad new blinds and hall carpet, about to get a new dining room floor.
I love the blinds and keep feeling a bit shit that at last the kitchen is perfect and it's not for me. We have spent £5k getting the house up to a really high standard.
I feel sad leaving the kitchen I paid for with my inheritance when my mum died. We are leaving my pride and joy range cooker as we don't have gas in our new house.
We are having our last dinner party here on Saturday. I keep thinking of all the things I've never done. Stupid things, like paint a wall which is a slightly different colour. Thinking why didn't I change the blinds sooner?
I love our new house, but it needs quite a lot if work. It will be ages until it is right.
I am supposed to be choosing colours for our new kitchen (work starts on the12th!) I keep kind of trying to replicate the kitchen I'm leaving, which is nuts!
I know this house is too small and we need to move. I want to move.I need to get away from our cunt of a neighbour. I am starting a new adventure and it is exciting.
But I am a bit homesick already!
I am.just wondering if this is normal? And I know this is a first world problem...