Roo
17-06-2006, 08:26pm
And now having a bit of a panic about it!! Not sure if this is the best place to post this as still finding my way around, so apologies if I've missed the 'buying and selling houses' forum!! :wink:
It's top of our budget, and an older house so in the future will potentially need work (is all fine and good nick now though, so nothing that needs doing urgently - but at some point will need new windows, new boiler, etc). Overall though cosmetically it's fine so no mad decorating sprees needed, it's in the perfect location (within minutes walking from the best local primary school,and also within minutes walking from my work :smile: ), has *5* bedrooms :faint: and a fantastic garden. So in short it's great - just right at the top of our budget. It's only just come on at the current price - was on for £50k more a while back, so a big reduction and not surprisingly has had a LOT of interest, the people who viewed today before us phoned immediately to ask if any offers had been put forward (they hadn't), so we did the same and on learning no offers we offered the asking price there and then! Got to wait and see what the vendors say. If it gets into a bidding war then we've got a lovely 2nd choice we'd go for, so we're not too worried about that, as we can't afford any more so that's it, end of story. Just a bit scared of getting gazumped at a later stage or something horrific. Plus obviously got to wait and see if they accept the offer to start off with. And the the fear that we'll be biting off more than we can chew if things go wrong and the place needs £££ spent on it in the short-term (which obviously it doesn't look like it does).
Oh, just need to say ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH and then take a deep breath. All too stressful!!!
It's top of our budget, and an older house so in the future will potentially need work (is all fine and good nick now though, so nothing that needs doing urgently - but at some point will need new windows, new boiler, etc). Overall though cosmetically it's fine so no mad decorating sprees needed, it's in the perfect location (within minutes walking from the best local primary school,and also within minutes walking from my work :smile: ), has *5* bedrooms :faint: and a fantastic garden. So in short it's great - just right at the top of our budget. It's only just come on at the current price - was on for £50k more a while back, so a big reduction and not surprisingly has had a LOT of interest, the people who viewed today before us phoned immediately to ask if any offers had been put forward (they hadn't), so we did the same and on learning no offers we offered the asking price there and then! Got to wait and see what the vendors say. If it gets into a bidding war then we've got a lovely 2nd choice we'd go for, so we're not too worried about that, as we can't afford any more so that's it, end of story. Just a bit scared of getting gazumped at a later stage or something horrific. Plus obviously got to wait and see if they accept the offer to start off with. And the the fear that we'll be biting off more than we can chew if things go wrong and the place needs £££ spent on it in the short-term (which obviously it doesn't look like it does).
Oh, just need to say ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH and then take a deep breath. All too stressful!!!