aaaaaargh.......

[Doraemon]

Would it be cruel of me to say that I hope my first time buyer living with her mum one day has to move house with 3 children one of whom has ASD and that her buyer suddenly starts applying for a different mortgage offer right when everything else is sorted and then moans because the eventual completion date doesn't fit with her annual leave!!!!!!

Ime, first time buyers are utterly painful: they panic if a survey says the exterior will need painting in the next five years; they never have anything like a solicitor lined up and spend a couple of weeks "researching" that; they have no idea how fraught it is for someone selling and buying at the same time and are generally to be avoided. Unfortunately, that's not always possible so if she's giving you a decent price, deep breath and suck it up.

Price is depressingly low and our vendors have refused to budge an inch on theirs but I'm past caring about money I just need to move.... Feel better for having a little rant though :-) can't rant IRL as this village is so incestuous that whoever I spoke to would turn out to be her cousin or something....

We were all first time buyers once! The point about the AL would piss me off though. I had a friend whose vendor messed them about on the completion date because her 'preferred' moving company couldn't do that day. That was after months of trying to sort it out for various other reasons.

To be fair, I would be feeling less stroppy if the baby hadn't woken me up at 5:20 this morning...