feeling a little disappointed this evening. Basically we are looking to do a mutual exchange we are in a 2 bedroom absolutely love our house it was bad when we moved in 10 years ago and took us a long time and a lot of money to get it to where it is. We was getting no where for ouR HA to do repairs so we’ve done everything ourselves fitted our own bathroom and kitchen, changed radiators to the tall wall ones. Handy my other half does this sort of thing for a living so just have to pay for materials.
anyway we have 3 children 12, 7 and 9 months. Our middle child is autistic and eventually our baby will need to go into his own room. We was in no major rush to move but was looking.
anyway a lady came forward and said she had a 3 bedroom house…. sent pictures to each other asked if she could view ours on Thursday. On Thursday morning she messaged and said she didn’t need to view just send measurements but we still agreed we could view hers Friday (today).
anyway we’ve gone there this evening and I’m under no illusion when you move you want to put your own stamp on the place. Decorating I don’t mind. But no exaggeration the whole house needs a full refurb before we can even move in- the bathroom is literally falling apart nothing like the photo infact it doesn’t even look like the bathroom she sent photos of, out of the whole house only one room and that was a bedroom was liveable until we could do it all. We would have no bathroom until it’s done. It was honestly terrible in the house. 2 of the bedrooms we couldn’t view because we couldn’t get in the rooms because they were full of stuff could t even get the door open.
the back of the house she said “oh I forgot to tell you we’ve got a conservatory” we went through and it was literally a shed attached to the house made of ply wood which was rotting and leaking.
they had cut the garden in half moving the back fence forward to hide the old tenants rubbish she admitted there was at least 2 skips worth the back of the house.
every room we went in she would go oh we’ve brought tiles we’ll leave them for you to finish, we’ve brought installation for you to put up (for the “conservatory” that needs knocking down), every door had holes punched in it- oh we’ve got the doors they are in the small room we can’t get in.
im not a snob and I’m not afraid of getting my hands dirty doing some cleaning and decorating but I feel so bad she was a nice lady really nice but I can’t help but feel we are going from something we’ve put a lot into in to something that’s gonna cause so much with stress with 3 children- 1 disabled who is petrified of germs and really not keen on moving putting her in a situation which will be torture for her for a year maybe 2 max she would be absolutely hysterical walking into that house she wouldn’t be able to stay there until the bathroom is at least done.
the lady messaged me this evening when we got home for some more photos of one of our bedrooms and measurements for her wardrobe. I feel awful but it’s honestly so bad