touch wood but

[nervousal]

Finally something seems to be going right. We've just accepted an offer on our house - survey done today and clean offer made and accepted, and we've just made a full asking price offer on another house. Now - how on earth do you manage to get the completion dates the same on both????

Your solicitor/estate agents handle it all for you. You agree a date when you would ideally like to move (say, week after Easter) then sit back and watch it pass by as everyone argues about whose responsibility it is to maintain the drains...

It is fiendishly frustrating and you cannot believe that you are paying all this money for other people to arse you around but it does get sorted in the end. Just lots and lots of patience needed.

Good luck.

patience? patience? Damn - the one thing I don't have! Anyway - should get the results of survey we've had done on house we're buying today - so hopefully will be able to put in a clean offer later today.

well - the survey on house we want to buy came back with a valuation well under what we offered - so we've gone back with a lower offer. Pretty sure they won't accept it. I'm prepared to go with our original offer, but DP won't. fingers crossed again!

nope -they want full asking price - so guess we're back hunting again.

No point paying over the odds for a house - unless you have very, very specific tastes, something just as nice always comes along in the end.