A 5 bed (really 4+office) has popped up a couple streets over from us and it’s perfect. It ticks all the boxes, and is actually in our budget. We’ve been to view and loved it can really see us being there until kids go off to Uni etc.
The problem is we hadn’t planned on selling just yet (interest rates, the market, etc) we’d planned on another year in our current house. We occasionally look when bored and found this perfect house. We went along to viewing and at the end of the viewing my husband and I were standing across the road assessing the roof when a neighbor came out and told us a bit more about the couple who owned and what the road was like (his neighbour has owned their property from Plot in 1957!), he explained how the house was a lovely family home where they had raised a big family etc and he as a retire joiner had done some work in it.
buying this house means both my husband and I can walk to work, we don’t have to move our daughters school, the location is perfect for everything- transport/shops/parks. The house was previously up for sale but the sale fell through when the buyer couldn’t sell their house, it’s come back up reduced after being empty all winter. We tried to sell 18m ago and our chain collapsed on day of exchange (house was packed, daughter started in reception at new school, and I was heavily pregnant) so we are keen not to waste time and want to sell to a FTB so no chain as property is currently empty.
Now we’ve made an offer and have immediately booked ourselves in for valuation etc but if I wrote a letter explaining why we love the house and it fits our family is a good idea? I just went to secure our best chances of getting it, but know they could discount us as being unproceedable at the moment.