Hello everyone I'm new to the forum after doing some research online and looking for some advice if possible please regarding a possible house swap that's become available to us
We currently live in a housing association 3 bed new build house its a good size as its adapted for disability etc with a down stairs toilet / shower room large kitchen diner nice size bedrooms etc etc
We have done the house up to a lovely standard over the years and spent quite a bit of money on it as it was going to be our forever home but we no longer enjoy living here anymore hence putting our home up on the swapping site
My 17 year old daughter over the last year is also hanging around with the wrong kind of people and getting into trouble constantly which is heart breaking and is another big reason we want to move areas to get her away from it all and have a fresh start ( Even though she hates the idea )
We have received a large amount of offers over the last 48 hours since putting it up on the site and only 1 has really caught our attention its in a really nice area that's extremely hard to get into with regards to social housing as its the only one in the village
The house is beautiful but it's so much smaller than we currently have at the moment. We viewed the house this afternoon and it is such a nice house and we are really torn on what to do
It's a 3 bed again but a much older house the kitchen is that small only 1 person fits in it and there is only room for a washing machine no other than the cooker. The fridge for example is in a cupboard in the dining room. There is planning permission from the housing association she said to knock the very small wall down into the dining room to open it all up to make a bigger kitchen diner so its something to consider
The living room again is small and the house is that old the down stairs toilet was in a brick outbuilding but the toilet and sink has been removed from the out building and covered over but the pipework is still installed under the screed she said if we wanted to put it back in.
The Bedrooms are again much smaller but manageable
The front and rear gardens are beautiful all enclosed and kept to a high standard much better than our current garden
We are currently a family of 5 so my 2 sons will have to share again but one of my sons is 19 now so not sure how it will work with even less space in the bedroom
My wife has also found out she's pregnant this week so another hurdle to overcome with a baby in a smaller house and she also has a few health issues so the downstairs toilet will be a big big miss
She's adamant she wants to do the move though as the area is amazing and somewhere you would be happy to bring up children etc its a proper lovely old school village
We could always do the swap and do the required stuff to make it more manageable like extend the kitchen etc
Im sorry for the long post I just hope someone has maybe done something like this before and has some words of advice good or bad I would be very grateful as there is good and bad points on both staying and moving