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― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 27 September 2007 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh wow! Congratulations. Looks fantastic!
― kv_nol, Thursday, 27 September 2007 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
It looks great - and echo the congratulations.
Slightly envious that when I got my first flat in the 90s, I moved in with a CD/radio 'beatbox' and an air-mattress - no computers, no widescreen TV, no expensive stereo, no over-filled wine-rack.
― Bob Six, Thursday, 27 September 2007 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Nearly five years later, we're selling.
http://www.naomijryan.co.uk/content/sale/st-leonards6.ashx
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 14 April 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Good luck! I love maisonettes. Our experience with our crazy neighbours who share our building means we're determined to get an actual house next. Where are you looking to move to?
― kinder, Saturday, 14 April 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
Still in Exeter, and ideally just around the corner. We'll probably not be able to afford that, though, so will almost certainly head a mile or so further out.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 15 April 2012 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
Our wine rack was never that full again.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 15 April 2012 05:48 (twelve years ago) link
We got offered asking price. Which we didn't expect.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 19 April 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
Good stuff. Tbf, based on those pics you got the place looking great whilst you were there. How's the house search going?
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Thursday, 19 April 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
I like the idea of this thread as a form of time travel. If I read the whole thing I will know exactly how to buy a house in the UK in 2007.
― aonghus, Friday, 20 April 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
We've viewed six so far, with another five or six booked to view over the next few days. Em is in love with one of them but it's at the top of our budget... It is a very nice house though, and one we could stay in for a decade or more. It'd take teenage kids. (We have no kids right now!)
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 20 April 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
Just done various phonecalls and we've now officially accepted, providing we can find somewhere to bid on in a timely fashion! Which shoudn't be a problem.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 20 April 2012 09:07 (twelve years ago) link
Crazy madness.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 20 April 2012 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
Congratulations! Go for the one you love I reckon.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 20 April 2012 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
Oops, this whole thread is excellent, I'm all ashamed of my glib contribution now. Will memorise for future reference.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 20 April 2012 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
There's one more that I'm viewing tomorrow morning (Emma's working) which I've got high hopes for, but I've booked a second viewing on the one we fell in love with for Monday morning, and told them we've had an offer accepted. Which made the agent excited!
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 20 April 2012 09:36 (twelve years ago) link
But yeah, I reread much of this thread yesterday, and it is really awesome.
congrats
― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Friday, 20 April 2012 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
Just been re-reading loads of my posts on this thread from 5 years ago which I have no memory of making. In case anyone's been on tenterhooks for 5 years, I can reveal: my gamble on variable rates paid off massively as interest rates fell to the floor and stayed there, and Ned T Rifle was right - there was no way on earth they were ever going to rise to 10%.
― Let's Talk About Socks (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 20 April 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link