Aaargh, indecisive rant after attending 'open house' viewing

[Elibean]

We're on the brink of exchange (I hope) on our property, and are planning on moving into a rental while we look for, buy, and do up/modernize our next permanent home.

This morning we went to an 'open house' and there were 13 other couples/families there too. Its a fairly rare opportunity to buy a house in our area for reasonable amount, and extend/modernize to exactly what we want - and its comfortably within our budget, for once.

Loved the garden, liked the basic footprint of the house, loads of scope for extension. On the negative side, the location is only 'ok' and the house on the outside is downright ugly. We could make it less ugly, but not sure we could make it pretty..

dh thinks we should make an offer. I think we could make an offer, but have a niggle saying 'what if something similar but in slightly better location/prettier comes along in 6 months' time?'. Is this just fear of committment (my speciality) or should we hold off?!?

I know no one can decide for me...just really need to brainstorm. And there may be heaps of offers on it, given the interest we saw today, so not a sure thing anyway...

a builder told me that cedar works best in canada, extremes of temp. here it rots.

Really?there are houses near me that have been there years and it looks amazing!I suppose it could be treated.My parents have a strip of it on their house and it looks fine too.Maybe by the sea is ok

All very reassuring

Noddy, I had a look at some online - its pretty, can imagine it would look great, but not in the road we're looking at, I don't think. It would be the only house in the area with wooden cladding.

Rendered and painted, or simply painted, I think would be fine - its just rather ugly greyish 30s brick (as opposed to the mellow Edwardian brick we have atm).

dh drove down there this pm and saw lots of other houses had extended their roofs over the boxy extension, so am far more hopeful! Wonder if we'll get it...

apparently, or so the builder told me. they're only guaranteed for 25 years in this country and then yuck. we neither get hot enough nor cold enough, apparently. (but i'll have to stick around on here for the next quarter century for you to prove me wrong. )