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Send us your vibes, we will make offer on house tomorrow

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eemie · 29/05/2009 23:37

We've seen house we could love. Under pressure, as landlady wants us out to put rental house back on market.

Will make offer tomorrow.

It's on at £450K. Agent says there have been 'lots of offers' turned down (it's been on for five weeks). One offer is acceptable but that buyer can't proceed till she sells. Agent hasn't said how much any of the offers is for.

We are your actual dream buyers - nothing to sell, huge deposit, credit checks and mortgage agreement all in place.

What would you do? Should I blatantly ask agent what she will sell for? We could pay asking price but it would be way out of whack for the street (according to Mouseprice) where the best price ever achieved was £430K.

DH can't stand the thought of bargaining and will be no help.

So it's all up to me - please hold my hand!

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LovingTheSunshine · 05/06/2009 21:26

Good luck Eemie, hope it all works out for you. We offered on a house today but I should get a good night sleep as am shattered from sleep deprivation from a 2 year old! Let us know how you get on....

LovingTheSunshine · 05/06/2009 21:27

Oh & I hope you are already enjoying that glass ort two of wine

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eemie · 05/06/2009 22:19

Three glasses to be honest. Going to bed now, going to offer on second house in the morning. Good luck with yours

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LovingtheSilverFox · 05/06/2009 22:30

Good luck to you both, we are also having the house search worries, although we keep seeing ones we love, but something isnt right, one last night had a train line along the end of the garden, one today, beautiful house, perfect size for us, wonderful, wouldn't even need to decorate, but garden too small. Will keep my fingers crossed for you if you cross them for us.

Am going to bed now, viewing 5 properties tomorrow. Let me know how you all get on!

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eemie · 06/06/2009 17:38

After another sleepless night and more discussion I put in our best offer on the East house today.

Both offers were then accepted.

We are proceeding with the East house and I'm delighted. It's better value and suits us better overall.

Dh took a little longer but can see how relieved I am.

We don't need to do anything to it.

Mortgage will be less than we're currently paying in rent.

Hosanna and halleluia

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slackrunner · 06/06/2009 18:45

That's brilliant news eemie. Sounds like you got the best house in the end - hurrah hurrah!

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eemie · 06/06/2009 20:37

I think dh has decided he's pleased - he went out to get curry and came back with champagne (and J2O for dd).

Dd delighted. My Mum very pleased too.

I can now enjoy our last few weeks in this house, and look forward to moving.

How have LovingtheSilverFox and LovingtheSunshine been getting on?

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Elibean · 06/06/2009 20:58

Congrats eemie, sounds like a great outcome

Enjoy the curry

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eemie · 08/06/2009 21:58

Update.

Recent timetable looks like this:-

April 08 - realise we need to move, just at the worst possible time;
Aug 08 - move to rented accommodation;
Jan 09 - we sell old house at knock-down price in biggest recession for 80 years;
May 09 - landlady announces she wants to sell rented house and we have to leave;
Last 3 weeks - we step up frantic house hunting, I sleep two to four hours a night;
Sat lunchtime (two days ago): our offers on two houses accepted - we go with more expensive (but better value and much nicer) house;
First thing today: e-mail informing us dh's firm will announce 100 redundancies on Tuesday (tomorrow);
Second thing today: e-mail inviting dh and one other person (the two most recent recruits) to a meeting one hour before tomorrow's team meeting.

Would you care to place your bets now?

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eemie · 08/06/2009 22:07

. help

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saggyhairyarse · 08/06/2009 22:14

Oh bugger, that is not looking good. Fingers crossed he is getting the inside info because he will be affected by the fallout?

bojangles · 08/06/2009 22:22

eemie - hope it isn't the bad news you are expecting but if it is then at least you will find out before committing yourself to the bigger mortgage - not much consolation I know. Could you move into another rented property?

Elibean · 08/06/2009 22:55

eemie

So hope its not as crap as it sounds. Where will it leave you if it is? Is another rental the best option for now, if so, d'you think?

Will be thinking of you tomorrow and hoping.

LovingTheSunshine · 08/06/2009 23:03

Congrats on the house, eemie but I am so very sorry you have added stress with your DH's job situation. Will be keeping everything crossed for you hun.

iheartdusty · 08/06/2009 23:20

by the way, where did the '10 weeks to move' thing come from?

you don't have to move until landlady gets a court order and then a bailiffs' warrant for eviction - not ideal, I know, but you can add about 3-6 weeks at each stage. You would end up paying legal costs at each stage, but probably less than £250 at the first and another £200 at the second stage. Could be worth it if you really need the breathing space.

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eemie · 09/06/2009 09:36

Thanks all. He is in conference call meeting now. Thanks for legal advice too Iheartdusty.

Mortgage affordable on my salary - we have been very cautious. I think we could manage and it would be in our best interests to proceed.

The possibility of redundancy is ever present for dh (but remote for me) and I think we need a settled home more than we need money in the bank.

News soon, sitting here crossing everything I've got two of and humming 'Che sera sera'

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queenrollo · 09/06/2009 11:32

fingers crossed for you x

LovingtheSilverFox · 09/06/2009 21:48

Sorry, only just got five minutes to log on here.

eemie, but for the house. I hope things are ok, have crossed everything here for you, and showed my 3 year old what crossed fingers means, so she is now doing that, trying to prevent us taking her to bed!

After a huge amount of property fatigue we saw one house on Friday we liked, so put a cheeky offer on it (call it house A). First house we saw on Saturday we loved, put in a reasonable offer (call it house B). Found out yesterday afternoon that offer on house B had been accepted, yeah! Then found out today that the offer had been accepted on house A! We are going with house B because decor wise we wouldn't need to do anything, the garden is a great size and its in a good school catchment area. The other house we would need to completely redecorate and the school catchment isn't as good. Just have to move things along quickly to ensure someone doesn't grab it with a higher offer.

Let me know how things are going guys x

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eemie · 10/06/2009 00:28

Dh and his team mate were told one of them will be made redundant and the decision will be made in two weeks, based on two criteria. One of the criteria favours dh, the other one doesn't.

We are trying to get our heads round it.

I haven't cancelled the survey...

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LovingtheSilverFox · 10/06/2009 14:58

Hi eemie

Still thinking of you. If you can manage, as you said before security at home would probably be really good right now, especially as your DH's job could be rocky.

We found out today that there have been two higher offers on the house we like, we have had to match them. DH says "best and final" and DH can be very stubborn when he wants to be. Just hope that no one goes any higher, otherwise we are back to trawling the estate agents.

Let me know what is happening x

slackrunner · 10/06/2009 22:22

Oh eeemie - poor you - what a rollercoaster to be on. I have everything crossed for you about the job and the house.

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eemie · 11/06/2009 17:53

We haven't got survey yet but have decided definitely going ahead if all's well with it.

Took dh dd and Mum for a long look at the house today. It's every bit as good as I remembered. Mum and dd loved it, I loved it. Dh looked carefully at lots of detail and is also happy.

Looking forward to moving now. Vendor came back while we were there and said very happy to move out quickly, already done the paperwork and sent to solicitor etc.

Got a little more sleep last night. Don't regret passing on cheaper house. This one much better for us.

Agent says we have set record for getting survey done within four days of our offer being accepted.

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eemie · 11/06/2009 20:11

LovingtheSilverFox and LovingtheSunshine - any news?

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LovingTheSunshine · 11/06/2009 23:04

Hi eemie, I am so sorry to hear about your DH hun & will be thinking positive thoughts for him. That is great news on the house, you must be thrilled We didn't get the house as the other party (we offered the samee amount) are in a better position than we are as have no chain. Oh, well!

Fingers crossed for you - let us know how your DH gets on idc x

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eemie · 12/06/2009 22:55

Dh not sleeping so well now! But doing serious research on alternative work and getting quite interested.

I'm expending some of my sleepless hours on additional work to top up the bank account.

Awaiting survey with interest. What do you do if the valuation doesn't match what you're paying? Can't remember what happened with our last house - isn't it funny - you'd think these details would be indelibly etched on your brain

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