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Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: COSMIC CREEPERS on February 28, 2007, 19:04:29 PM
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please press paws for us
we have sold our lovely new house ( we have been here 4 yrs but we would love a bigger garden we are sacreficing a new house with a small garden )
we have found a house , it is not a big house it is detached 3 bed but the back garden is massive we really want it but have had one offer rejected and if we have this offer rejected then we cant afford to push to the full asking price :'(
we put the offer in at tea time today and havnt herd anything so please please press paws :doh:
i will be up wi stomach ach all night again :-[ :(
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fingers crossed for you X
where do you live, house prices around aberdeen are getting between 20-30+ % above the asking price :(
so for a medium sized 4 bed house (newish build) we'd be expecting to pay around 220 - 270+ ish K...and that would be more rooms but not a huge amount more square metres of living space than what we have already, I think our only option is going to be to build but finding a decent plot around where we want is going to be a nightmare for us.
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we live in barnsley in south yorks in a nice house wi on-suite downstaires loo and playroom , rooms are all big
but were not making much more than we bought it for . I am not working having 2 tiny tots but mi hubby is a engineer works all hours and goes to night school 3 times a wk untill 10pm doing an electricians course
we are moving as we are struggling here with the bills and the mortgage , we are managing but cant aford treats or holidays or to go out (ant been out wi hubby in 2 yrs , how sad is that ) and we want to enjoy these things while the children are little not when we retire
i have applied for loads of jobs but not more than 20 hours as i will only leave the children wi mi mum and mum in law
the house we have offered on is still detached and has 3 bed but needs loads of work but the back garden is great for the girls and the cats ( i want to make a cat run for mango )
if we get it, next yr we might have a little hol :)
we could stay here but be forever skint , its hard downsizing but we have to cut our cloth to our meens ;)
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Paws crossed for you ;D
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I have got my paws crossed for you. My mummy and daddy are trying to find a house at the moment so mummy said she is thinking of you.
Lots of love
Bilbo xxx
P.S: Can you tell us in the morning if there's any news as it's quite difficult to walk with my paws crossed.
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:rofl: i will let u know
i put the 1st offer in yestoday aft and i was up all night with stomach pain and hes doing the same again making us wait till tomorrow >:(
so ill be up again tonight no dout
thankyou all i hope your crossed paws work x
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Ooh fingers and paws crossed here!
I know it sounds stupid, but try and relax, stress is not good for you, and if our house buying is anything to go buy, it was the solicitors that were more stressfull than the bidding, but I really hope it goes well for you.
If it doesn't, call Channel 4 and get Kirsty & Phil to find something! (Can you tell I'm watching relocation, relocation :rofl:)
:luck:
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i was going to wach it but like the sixth sence wi colin fry its brill
and anyway it was paris this week and i deffo cant afford o parie :rofl: especially when im strugglin in barnsley :rofl:
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I think our only option is going to be to build but finding a decent plot around where we want is going to be a nightmare for us.
Does that mean we're aren't going to lose you to the middle East after all Lynn?
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Good luck. I know how it feels waiting to see of your offer has been accepted. :waiting:
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Fingers crossed Cosmic - may the stars be favourable..... ;) ;D
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rosella..um yes unfortunately it would appear so :'(
Dh is currently in process of changing jobs as he got sick to the back teeth being mucked around by present company lately...they were so sure he was going to be off to uae they put someone else in his position so he could learn the job before dh left...of course it would appear that we could be waiting long enough till he's needed out there (dont ask me, its complicated company stuff) and meantime he feels he's totally under utelised and getting no job satisfaction what so ever and its not viable to now demote the other guy >:( and give dh his proper job back..of course he says he wouldnt take it now anyway but he spend a few years doing such a fantastic job and many a high ranking client (from big oil companys) still contacting dh and requesting they deal with him and complaining that the new guy is waste of time and they are now not satisfied with the service being provided by dh company of work.. so of course he's put in a tricky situation of still wanting to go an extra length for the clients and he still is loyal to current company but of course the other bloke in his old postiion feels he now knows best etc and is very threatened by dh and wont accept advise etc ! Long and short of it is hubby just not happy now and he's been offered a job from one of that high ranking clients from another company LOL...poached i guess !! we're just waiting to hear what type of package new company are going to offer before finalising details etc.
so yep reckon your stuck with me and im stuck with oh so not sunny ne scotland LOL
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Good luck Cosmic! - been there a few times so I know what its like - hope your offer has been accepted now :luck:
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Fingers crossed :luck:
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WE HAD OUR OFFER ACCEPTED ;D THANKYOU ALL SO MUCH YOUR CROSSED PAWS WORKED AGAIN
we had to up are offer by anouther five hundred quid but it was finally accepted ( it had been going on scince mon so we are relieved) just hope our mortgage goes through alright now i,m sure it will but we wont find out till mon so cross your paws again you lucky lot ;)
THANKYOU X
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Woo Hoo congratulations :)
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:yayyy: :yayyy: :yayyy: :yayyy: :yayyy: What a relief eh? - now the fun really begins!!!
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Brilliant news Cosmic :attention: :attention: :Party 3:
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so for a medium sized 4 bed house (newish build) we'd be expecting to pay around 220 - 270+ ish K...
Flipping 'Eck i am living in the wrong part of the country (but i knew that lol)
For 220 - 270K here you would get a 2 bed semi !!!!!!
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great news ;D
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For 220 - 270K here you would get a 2 bed semi !!!!!!
If it makes folks feel better (and it should, if you don't have to live here) £270k currently gets purchasers a one bedroom flat in Fulham. Although I've noticed that people are paying much more than that for one bedroom flats too; not sure what you could get for £220k here...
Daft, isn't it?
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the worlds gone mad :evillaugh:
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Yippeeee Cosmic! :drink:
:luck: for the mortgage application
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Fingers and paws crossed here that the mortgage applications has the desired result and Mango gets her large garden!
House prices depress me a lot, particularly my failure to get on the property ladder. If you're a single person it's so hard with only one salary. Even though I'm on an above average salary, 3 times that wouldn't buy me a garden shed around here :(
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Think the way house prices have gone up this last five years is sheer lunacy. We moved in 2001 - sold our last two bedoomed terraced (ex pit house) for £27,950.00. We'd lived there 19 years and bought it for £15,800.
It sold again last August for £110,000. I think it just puts people further and further away from being able to afford a reasonable property to live in. Renting's fine if you want to rent, and I know some people prefer it, but choice is good
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I know Sue - it's madness. I was reading recently in a local paper about some houses near me. They're mainly tereraced houses and about 6/7 years ago they went for about £50000 (and if I'd got my financial act together then I probably could have afforded one) - now most of them go for over £200000.
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For 220 - 270K here you would get a 2 bed semi !!!!!!
If it makes folks feel better (and it should, if you don't have to live here) £270k currently gets purchasers a one bedroom flat in Fulham. Although I've noticed that people are paying much more than that for one bedroom flats too; not sure what you could get for £220k here...
Daft, isn't it?
A flat in Fulham is on my list of things to buy when I'm stinkingly rich - (cos I want to be near the football)
It's weird that I'm the first generation of my family (in over 200 years) that can't afford to live there! It's always been a working class area.
Anyway, Congrats Cosmic, hope the rest of the move goes smoothly :luck:
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congrats cosmic on your offer being accepted.
now onto this house prices.... i knew it was alot dearer down that way but hells bells..what do folk do ?? i mean yes your wages are probably slightly higher in leu but surely there isnt that much of a difference.
how do peeps get morgages for such huge amounts and still be able to live ?
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A flat in Fulham is on my list of things to buy when I'm stinkingly rich - (cos I want to be near the football)
Yes, from our back garden we can tell the score at either Chelsea or Fulham (depending who's playing) by the cheers and groans from the crowd :rofl:
now onto this house prices.... i knew it was alot dearer down that way but hells bells..what do folk do ?? how do peeps get morgages for such huge amounts and still be able to live ?
I think a lot of the young folk share interest-only mortgages?
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ive heard of that morgage sharing but what about the familys in their late twenties/thirties with the 2.4 children ??? i guess the wife will often be forced to work but then by the time childcare is paid her wages wont be massive (in normal job roles)
jees what a state of affairs and i cant understand why house prices have risen so much anyway..i dont understand all that economy stuff at the best of times but seems to me if folk refused to pay the prices then surely nationwide the prices would have to drop abit or is that just pie in the sky??
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Good luck! :D
I have dreams of me and bf owning our own house with a huge garden for kitties one day, but it seems to get more and more impossible as time goes by!
Someday :innocent:
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so yep reckon your stuck with me and im stuck with oh so not sunny ne scotland LOL
Delighted to hear we are stuck with you Lynn but must be unnerving time for your hubby. Hope he doesn't ruin your spare time whingeing on about it like my OH does. My OH has been complaining about him being about to lose or change his job for the last 17 years. I try and fluffybanana a deaf un but difficult sometimes. He's been in London all week so my peace is due to be disturbed again before 7pm. He will open the door and shout "are you ready?" so we can go to pub immediately for the latest whinge to start. I've missed him really ;)
House prices... well we are 3 bed end of terrace in rather nice part of Brum (yes that's right Brum has some lovely spots thank you). Our terraced neighbours are putting their house on market in a week or so for £375,000 B***** Nora! We could sell of course but I would not want to live anywhere else. Idea is for me to leave in a box one day
Many congrats Cosmic on offer being accepted. Hope you will be as happy in your new home as we have been here.
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Fingers crossed for the mortgage going through OK, Cosmic - let us know when you hear!
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today we have cleaned out our loft and our utility room and the garden shed
we are now sat in a living room full of things to go to the dump in the morn and the garden is full of things to go too and im knackered
i cant believe how much rubbish we have
horded over the last 5 yrs :sick:
is the packing next :Crazy:
and im panicking over the mortgage going through mon :-:
it is nice to have a good clear out and a fresh start though , and mango an moomin are having fun jumping in and around the bags and boxes :wow: my friends call me ms bouquet so theres nothing normally out of place for them to jump all over , they think it is great
please keep your paws crossed for monday for us , you lucky lot xx
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was it good news today cosmic ??
hubby and me spent all weekend scouring the web for decent plots near to us..we could get but its connor schooling with his wee probs is my dilema, whether we should move him or not..if we keep him at the current school which to be honest im hoping for (rightly or wrongly im not too sure) then we could be looking for a long time groan...but we have seen a house we really like the design of ;D, not a fancy house but a nice one. of course we have no idea how to finance this yet LOL or where we'd stay or anyting like that so i suppose some financial advise would be best before we make any other plans LOL
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int it awfull :Crazy:
well the financial advisor rang at 5.45 pm and said that our mort application has been refered so he will have to talk to someone tomorrow :scared: thats anouther night with no sleep he did say that it was a good thing that they hadnt said no and that it might be just to ask a few questions :scared:
we have got the 7 grand reserve but we need all of that money fo the prop :(
ill see ehat tomorrow brings :doh: just hope i done have to wait all day :sick:
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poor you cosmic but hopefully the sun will shine for you tomorrow, we're the same waiting to hear what this new company are going to offer dh as to whether he accepts it or not.
ps what was / is the prop ?
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I hope it goes well for you ;D
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got fingers crossed Cosmic
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we got the mortgage ;D
we are moving from a 3 bed detached wi playroom massive kitchen diner big room and en suite and downstairs loo
to a
3 bed detached 5 mins away small kitchen living room diner no en suit no down stairs loo no playroom but it has a massive garden for my cattery and the kids will love it and we wil be dept free and have 7 grand to do it up so we will be happier in the long run
i am relieved thankyou all for your crossed paws and well whishes
its not all over till the contracts are exchanged though :sick:
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great news cosmic, it sounds fantastic
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congrats cosmic..we're hoping to do the exact opposite of what you doing LOL..altho we've got a massive garden here has our land (inc the bit the house takes up lol) is nearly half an acre anyway...the country has some pros aswell as the negs i guess but i cant wait till i have a SEPARATE dining room / playroom / family room / extra loo's LOL LOL :rofl: :rofl:
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Well done Cosmic! I can uncross my toes now :rofl:
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we lived in a tiny 2 bed hose and i dreamed of extra loos playroom en suit ... it all comes wi a massive mort and its not all it cracked up to be
we stay in our house miserable most of the time and wi a 2 and 4 yr old we would rather have the nice fun hols and a bit of extra cash ;)
we will still have a lovely house, a home is what u make it ;)
will miss the extra loos though :evillaugh: then again who needs 3
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lynn , what happend wi that house you liked the design of ?
are you selling yours or having 2 ;D
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Great that the next sep is done but as you say its not over till you exchange contracts ;D
In my case that wasnt the end of it either, cos the day we set off on the trk acrosss country from London to Wales, a phone call came in from my solicitor as we just hit the M4, that the person who had messed me around for over two months on top of 4 months when he stopped someone else buying, had said he didnt have the money. My furniture was also on route as it had left the day before.
I arrived in the agents office in Wales around 1500, my furniture was outside the new property and I was on phone with solicitors and agents till 1700 when it was finally sorted, then I couldnt move in cos the guy had had to send the vehicles moving him away. I did not gain possesion til midnight on the monday cos couldnt get the guy out and had to stay over the weekend with a friend.
jhalf of my stuff was in my friends basement and it took another month before I could get them to bring it over and all my stuff in the house was crammed floor to ceiling and wall to wall in what is now the study, plus some stuff was in a shed.
Now I am here I have a nasty neighbour and lot of locals are anti english! Ohhhhhhhhhhhh and it never stops flaming raining.
So Cosmic, I think 5mins down your road, sounds wonderful and I wish you no nightmares and a plain sailing move ;D
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ohhh gill what a nightmare
what about the poor cats
even though we are going 5 mins away we have to putmoomin and mango in the cattery as we have to have the house plastered from top to bottom ( its a fab one though and woman is lovely )
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It was Cosmic and I only had Kocka then and she died 6 months later, I think it helped to kill her :'( :'( :'(
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cosmic, yep we still love the design of that house and have high hopes. of course this isnt something that will commence immediately as i said find where to build it will be the biggest stumbling block (esp one where we'll get planning permision granted). We dont really want the hassle/inconvenience to be honest but its the only way we will be able to afford a decent sized house (well around the size we want) and with a layout we kinda of want and be able to afford it.
At the moment it seems like a huge mountain but then SO MANY others do it round here we keep telling ourselves if they can why cant we, hey you never know in a couple of years i might be able to invite you all to a house warming party ;D
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gill thats terrible :(
lynne - nothing is impossible i want a better quality of life , ian works all hours and hardly sees the girls we want to emmigrate to Australia so as were getting a bargine with the new house and can see the potential one day we might get there were only 28 yrs
everyone has a dream
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yes cosmic, australia is meant to be pretty good school wise etc and they have i think reduced the points you need to go (emmigration to certain countries work on a point scoring) canada being one of the lowest so easiest places to get into .
We would like to aswell, almost did through hubbys work but since he's changing jobs we'll be here for the forseeable future.
What does your hubby do ? any chance of you getting an ex pat post through his work ?
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he works for mi dad :shy:
he fits , installs , mends petrol stations pumps underground and electrical equiptment he is a engineer and he goes to night school as well as he is training to be a sparkie , he has done 2 yrs and has distinctions up to now , he only has a yr left
oh i thought the house showing was all over but the estate agent has just rang to say that our buyers want to come and measure up tomorrow >:( i have to go through the house tidying again and we have boxes everywere >:( and we wanted to go shopping for mi daughters bday pressie
why cant they just wait till they move in , we are .
i hate this moving house lark :(
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Never mind Cosmic - it's a good sign - shows they're keen. It's all good karma.... ;D
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yep i know , but the house 2 doors down the same as ars has now gone up for sale at the same price so we didnt want them to see it
although ours is probably nicer inside :evillaugh: mi hubby said i have to stop been catty ( get it catty :rofl: ) ignor me its been a long day with a teething 1 yr old
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could they still back out if they wanted to cosmic ?? england has something called gazumping dont you ??
we dont have that here, once you've put in your offer and that gets accepted etc your legally bound.
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its terrible lynn they can back out right up to the exchanging contracts ( thats the last min ) even when you have paid for serch fees and that
gerzumping is when - you offer is accepted and someone eles offers more and they end up getting it ( it can be over the asking price )
its better in scotland cause once you accept a offer its basically yours , here its not set in stone untill everything is tied up and you have the keys