Right long story but the couple who own the house that we had agreed to buy are getting divorced and the woman is refusing to move out into rented accomodation until she has a financial settlement in place - her legal team told her that this is the only way to ensure she gets as much as she can out of her extrordinarily wealthy husband - she has kids from ages 9 up and says that she would not ever put them in rented accomodation - although we will now have to go into rented (thats another story) because they didn;t tell us until we were ready to exchange that they were not going to be able to exchange yet!!!
Last night we saw another house - 30 minutes away from where we live att he moment - is in a nice village and house is much better than previous house we were going to buy but we are now in a predicament of having to find somewhere to live for maybe 2 - 4 weeks - I have said that we should ask DHs parents but he doesn't want to and that it would just be a nightmare - I can't see why but there you go - our only other option is to rent but the only rentals I can find are for a minimum of 6 months and the house we are now buying could be empty in 4 and the sale could be completed in 6 to 8. The people who are buying our house will not hang around for too much longer even so we could stall them for 4 weeks our solicitor thinks but what do we do till then:
Rent somewhere big enough for us and our stuff (2 adults & 2 kids and 3 bed house worth of belongings as well as garden toys and furniture) knowing that we could be out in 2 months but have to pay for 6??
Maybe ask the guy who is selling us his house if we could rent it as soon as the tenants have moved out but have to have it carpeted and decorated around us - I know he would probably be told not to do this but thought we could give it a try - we would be cash buyers and could have an exchange date by then??
Or stall this and then go to In Laws for 2 - 4 weeks with DH being thoroughly miserable but having to put everything into storage (could ask man who is selling us his house if we could just move belongings in of course??) - storge is sooo expensive though and we would be stuck not being able to get anything out because that just costs more.
I really really do not know what we are going to do - have a new job as well as 2 DCs to cope with changing nursery and schools also as too far from school DD goes to now to get her there each day???
Sorry this is long but I thought maybe someone would have an empty house int he Chilsehurst/Bromley area that they could let us have for a few weeks and would love to rent it to us - or some clever sod could come up with another solution to our problem??
Many thanks for getting this far and all suggestions will be read and considered and probably dismissed by DH anyway?????