how do you physically view houses when they are far away from where you live? like, for moving house

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dragging the girls around house viewings is bad enough without the houses being 2 - 2.5 hrs away initially

how do we do it?

dh lives in the city we (think) we will be moving to?

do i Trust Him to view these houses alone?

what did you do

god i WISH i could call on Phil and Kirstie

I like 'em...

i heard it was becasue its all volcanic rock

i have no idea the downside of volcanic rock tho

Grumpy?

I hate that accent, np. I really, really do. Dunno why. Just always have.

My venue will always be a drinking establishment in The Shore. The Waterline. Which has been granted permission by the council to erect a huge patio w/heat lamps.

Who wants to nip outside for a fag?

Phil's a ponce.

She's an even bigger one.

I have nightmares my daughter takes up w/a bloke like that and we have to send her away to a place where there are some real men about .

Oh, mellow, this council is so funny!

They put in more controlled parking.

Then duffed up and didn't send the residents their permits in time.

D'oh!

i can see it now - stopped smoking for a whole year - tempted within 1 minute of meeting expat

what about the lighthouse? i had my leaving do there

or fishers restaurant

no, sorry, ill let you pick...

I'm with Expat don't like their accents.

The Lighthouse has changed hands. It's called something else now. But the Waterline is just across the road and down the street from the King's Whark, so it's in the same area.

In fact, that entire street is a giant pub crawl .

WooHoo @ "giant pub crawl"

You can watch our bags whilst I nip out for a ciggy.

I'll be right back .

NP just to add we rented down here for 6 months too - too much to risk buying a house in a city which we knew nothing about. Albeit you don't have that problem.

My sis and BIL went pub crawling there, b/c it's a quarter of a mile from our flat.

They came back utterly bladdered and laughing their erses off in the stair.

Gt him to shortlist some for you
Then come up for a weekend and arrange to see the ones you'd like - maybe he cna take photos etc
When we moved we used rightmove to shortlist properties then did a weekend up there and got to see all our shortlist in 2 days

Are there no property websites for that area?

but what if you see your dream home and you still have a 5 months left on the rent cotnract

!!!!

yes theres loads paula but its not close to seeing it yourself

they have lots of pics tho

Well, I was going to say you could easily make it take that long, but you will be in Scotland, so once the offers in it's all over bar the shouting isn't it? Hmmm...

offer's

thats right becky

you make an offer over the asking price and then they set a closing date and the highest wins

a lot are fixed price tho that ive been looking at, so you offer that price and its yours

Yeah, but what if you buy some place, and you didn't rent, and then it turns out to be a pile, or you don't like it, or the schools?

good point expat

I agree, but it might help you narrow things down.

When the place is right, everything will fall into place.

Just put the entry date down as five months hence! It takes so blooming long for the deal to be done down here, you would need the 6 months and more!