Going to view a house today that I want badly !

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Gorgeous 1930s detached house, needs alot of modernising, huge garden, big drive and garage. It's on a main road into town but all the houses on this road are the same and just so lovely to look at.
We are not on the market yet but plan to get the same estate agents to list us asap. We need to move, we've outgrew this house in the last two years.
They want £450k. It was reduced in October.
Feedback has been the main road putting people off and also the work that will need doing.
How can we up our chances ?
We can probably go upto £430k but that would be the maximum.

I would offer 435k best and final. Another 5k up from what your BIL said is neither here nor there for a forever home opposite a secondary your DCs can skip across to in the future, have friends round after school, zero stress. Just live with the decor for longer, not a big deal as long as structurally sound though and no damp issues.

I don’t think dh would do it to be honest.

It’s true though, always admired houses like this, love them.

Autistic or not sometimes we just see a House and know we would love it!! I don't think there's anything wrong with that, then you went to see it and got a really good feeling from it, as many of us do autistic or not. Then we work out how the hell we're going to get the house, quite focused on it, autistic or not.

I can see what Araminta is saying about 5K not really making much difference on a forever home and maybe just it meaning the difference of waiting a little longer to do some things however in this case he is overpriced your brother-in-law hasn't even been inside the house and I think give the guy an inch and he will take a mile, your offer was a fair one, it's been on the market over a year, I don't think 5K is going to make the difference between his wife and daughters making him see sense and not in this particular sale.

I can understand your husband not wanting to offer more and I agree with him, just hold tight. The bloke will either see sense or he won't and this house will become yours or it won't and if it doesn't become yours, it wasn't meant to be and you will find another house you like. It will have other pros and cons, but life will move on and so will you?

I would just do as you have done leave the offer on the table and keep looking, we're going into spring so you never know what's going to come on the market and if you find something you like (but maybe not quite as much) you can give him a timeframe to accept your offer before you take it off the table.

It's the time of year when lots more comes on the market, so just see how things go and see how your place goes when it gets on the market 🤗

Get your hpus on the market asap.

Of course you can view. I have done so myself

you could easily be ynder offer in less than2 weeks

Found it, lovely home with bags of potential, lots to do (and lots to spend). Don’t worry, I live absolutely nowhere near you and my next home will be a bungalow!

Given your house isn’t on the market yet, I’m guessing this house was very early on in your search. Even the only property you have viewed?

Thank goodness!

A house that has sat there for a year is not one to get particularly excited about

let alone one opposite a huge secondary and with a very aged couple in ill health who patently want to spend the winter of their lives in their home and would make any selling process an utter ball ache.

added to which I don’t get the impression you have viewed any other properties OP?

Hi, the secondary school honestly don’t bother us, it’s right across the road yes but it is set right back behind a huge car park, and it’d only be the mornings and when school ends when there is any noise. We have 2 under 3 so we are used to noise 😁

We have looked at a couple others, one just this morning actually ! Didn’t like it 🤦‍♀️

& I don't get the impression you read the thread, not even all of the OP's posts.

Is the school opposite a secondary? Yes

has the house languished for a year? Yes

is the house currently populated by an very aged couple in ill health who, despite already having another property ready and waiting for them, seem very reluctant to leave? Yes

has the op confirmed that this property was very early on in their hunt? Yes “couple of properties”, one of which was yesterday.

so enlighten me @SpringIsSpringing25 ?

She is excited about this house, she knows it's been on the market a year, she's getting it checked out, and it's not for you to say he shouldn't be getting excited by it.

she knows it's opposite at school, she knows the school, she's quite happy being opposite to her. It's not a negative it wouldn't be to me either..

yes, the husband does seem reluctant to move, the wife does not, so??

it's not compulsory to view hundreds of properties.

you seem to have noted a few of the issues other people might have, but not the fact that the OP has already responded to people bringing them up and isn't bothered by them herself and as they're the ones that would like to buy it....

I found the house I think on rightmove. I don't know the area but it's nice, I understand the appeal, sounds like they're somewhat reluctant to budge though. As an aside there is another thread running currently which contains a picture from the right move listing, asking about wobberly lines on a ceiling. Wonder if OP name changed or if someone else interested....

No it’s me 😆 I’m a serial name changer!!

All of this ! Thank you

Just curious that if the house has been on the market for a year, have you been waiting to go for it now thinking you stand a much better chance of getting it at a better price (don’t blame you) or had you only just starting to look for a house and then saw this one?

No hadn’t waited, I’ve been on and off Rightmove for a while and saw it on there before, but never actually clicked on to it!

What thread? There’s another thread about this particular property?

Yea, a thread asking about wobberly lines on a ceiling. It has a picture in it which is from the right move listing for the property the OP is interested in. I thought maybe someone else was interested but it turns out it is the OP under a different name!

Ah yes just come across it
also one from the OP not being able to get head around EA fees…. You need to share some of this with your DH OP!!!

Oh I have ! After I posted we went trough it together and I’m not confused anymore