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A 'waiting for viewings and offers' support group?

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TheWanderingUterus · 17/11/2016 13:24

Not quite ready for the 'in a chain' support group (please please don't let it be too long!), but we have just put our house up for sale and are waiting for viewings. Mostly cleaning and primping and procrastinating, with occasional adrenaline bursts when the phone rings.

Anyone else in the same position wanting to share the angst?

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ocelot41 · 11/02/2017 17:31

Notanother, the flat they have agreed to sell has tenants who are contracted to be there until then. Its a real shame as they seemed so nice

ocelot41 · 11/02/2017 17:36

Dont suppose any MNetters are looking to buy around Sarf London are they? If so please message me and I will send you a link to lovely Edwardian chainfree hoos! (Would love to sell to nice MNetter rather than people like the last lot of buyers - led us on until exchange day and then dumped us after a whole lot of drama over nothing Sad

littlemissM92 · 11/02/2017 17:41

It's so stressful

Beckyb1 · 11/02/2017 17:41

I don't live in London but am a nosey sod so if you wanted to send a link to a nosey mnetter I would love to see it... Grin

ocelot41 · 11/02/2017 17:53

Nosy away BeckyB! www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44109234.html

HalleLouja · 11/02/2017 18:01

Lovely house Ocelot really beautiful.

littlemiss I find it too stressful. Though we do have a second viewing tomorrow I am not convinced.

littlemissM92 · 11/02/2017 18:03

Your house is stunning ! Why are u moving?!

I know i can't lie I'm getting abit panicky but hoping so bad that March will bring some options x

sparechange · 11/02/2017 18:09

Hello, can I join you all please..?

DH and I have found our dream dream house so hurried ours on the market last week.

First day of viewings today and some more on Monday but we've been warned by the agent(s) that's it's a slow market, and the vendors of the house we want will only entertain an offer from us when we have a buyer

It's all far too stressful for something we've done on a whim!

littlemissM92 · 11/02/2017 18:22

Sparechange I feel your pain I feel like 'the one that got away' was one we viewed before we had an offer and we couldn't get to it in time I check every day if it's fallen through which 2 in our area have done today!

ocelot41 · 11/02/2017 18:23

Aw thanks littlemiss, that's really encouraging. Got my dream job in Scotland!

ocelot41 · 11/02/2017 18:42

Really sorry to LittleMiss and Spare - it is so hard to see the house you really want go by you. I am not looking now, because it just adds to the stress. We have had two fails sales now - both Brexit related - so I am trying to be Zen and settle in for the long haul. ..All WILL be well ommmmm.....

ocelot41 · 11/02/2017 18:43

Patience is certainly the name of the game right now

Notanotherpawpatrol · 11/02/2017 19:07

Right ladies, I need your thoughts! Baby is coming in 8 weeks time. I need to start planning for the fact the house may not be sold. In the loft, I have a gorgeous white rocking crib that my other 3 all used. It fits nicely in our room, with space to walk around it, however it will probably make the room look crowded.
Do I set up the crib (on the photo it will be right there as you walk in) or do I buy a moses basket and stand, rearrange the boxes under the bed and make room to slide it under there for house viewings? I'm thinking moses basket is the better option? What do you think?
(There's nowhere else in the rest of the house it would look ok. It won't fit in either of the kids rooms - hense the need to move!)

A 'waiting for viewings and offers' support group?
Notanotherpawpatrol · 11/02/2017 19:08

...7 weeks Shock baby will be here in 7 weeks!!

ocelot41 · 11/02/2017 19:26

Wow, you are going through house viewings at the same time as having a baby! Crikey you are TOUGH! I would say Moses basket tbh
..

Notanotherpawpatrol · 11/02/2017 20:17

We suddenly realised we had nowhere to put the baby so it was time to move! We should have done all this when we first found out we were expecting. I'm hoping we sell in the next couple of weeks, our area is very popular and we have an open house booked next weekend. I just want to be prepared incase we don't!

ocelot41 · 11/02/2017 20:38

Good luck notanother. A different option could be one of those side car things you bolt on to the base of your bed. Can't remember what they are called but a friend of mine had one and she said they were great!

Beckyb1 · 11/02/2017 20:45

Beautiful house. It's stunning!!! ocelot

sparechange · 11/02/2017 20:46

We have no back up plan if we don't get the one we like. We've looked at loads more to sanity check that we haven't just fallen for the first one we saw and nothing else comes close

So if that house goes to someone else, do we take the house off the market (and piss the agents off) or just ride it out and hope something else comes up?
We don't need to move, which is making it so hard. We've just seen something that ticks all our 'forever home' boxes and is affordable which nothing else we've seen can do Sad

ocelot41 · 11/02/2017 21:21

Thanks Beckyb. We saved and worked so hard to do it up and then Brexit happened. FUCK. I really hope you get your dream home spare.

HalleLouja · 12/02/2017 19:15

sparechange we have found somewhere that ticks all our boxes. We are tempted to take it off the market as selling is just so stressful but feel like we should just hold out for this house we have seen. Sod the agents. To be fair we did have another house we liked a lot but that has sold and no other house matches this one we now want.

So the people who came for a third second viewing. I do think they love our house but not sure if they will put an offer as need to build a workshop to put in motorbikes and a ramp etc to the bottom of the garden. If they do offer I think it will be a lot less than we want. Shame as they are a lovely couple.

littlemissM92 · 12/02/2017 19:35

Can I ask have any of you been in the situation where your partner would of offered on a house immediately (fell in love with it ) and you felt the opposite ?! I've had a little cry tonight as we were in that situation today I just wish it was easier or I wish I liked it the same as he did but I don't :(

ocelot41 · 12/02/2017 19:39

Oh that sounds really hard LittleMiss. Sorry Sad

Notanotherpawpatrol · 12/02/2017 20:43

Yes, one house we looked at, husband loved it, I didn't. It had a gorgeous garden, beautiful views, in the perfect location. Kitchen and dining room were really big, the kids rooms were perfect. But the living room was tiny as was the master and the 3rd bedroom. There was also a gally type study that was just dark and all wrong. Dh said the positives out weighed the negatives, but I really don't think so!
We agreed to write off the property all together. Then there was another I loved but he didn't. Again we wrote it off. A house is so expensive, it needs to be a joint decision. We both have to love it.

littlemissM92 · 12/02/2017 21:05

Completely agree and he seems
To be abit happier i can see his points for liking it completely but he wouldn't entertain my
Reasons
Form not doing I think he thinks we can't be so picky and we are under pressure but I've sAid I'm
Confident through March there will be an influx on spring houses ( fingers bloody crossed I'm right)

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