House buying

[lnr]

I've wittered about it a bit in assorted comments and in person to a few people, so I figure I might as well mention it here. Mike and I have had an offer accepted on a house in Great Shelford. No idea how long it'll take to get to exchange (at this rate forever, we've been waiting a week for the mortgage application paperwork to arrive, and I've been told today they only posted it yesterday!) and until then I'm not counting my chickens, but still, we're cautiously excited.

I'd link you to the details but they've already pulled them from rightmove. 3 bedrooms. Concrete construction but very recently converted with a brick skin and cavity insulation with a 10 year guarantee. Very good decorative order throughout. 5 minutes from the station, but within cycle commuting distance for both of us. And with nice views over fields. The only snag is not enough garden and a new house going up next door, but you can't have everything.

If the paperwork doesn't arrive tomorrow though I think I will probably explode.

Comments

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Great Shelford is nice.

[emperor]

good luck...

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Yay for lnr and Mike's new house! Hope there's hardly any red tape and your move goes smoothly.

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Party!

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Oh, and be prepared for things to take much longer than you thought they would.

[simont]

Good luck!

Very good decorative order throughout

In that case you probably won't need my only serious piece of advice, which is that if you were planning to have major redecoration done before moving in you should seize the opportunity to get the electrics checked over before that happens...

[aldabra]

Excellent. Fingers crossed in your direction.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

I've already said congratulations, so what you need now is good luck!

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

Nice one, and best of luck!

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

W00t!

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to you and Mike!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Hurray, house! It sounds great, especially the view - you don't need so much garden when you live somewhere with a good view and plenty of pleasant places to walk. The people who move into the new house might turn out to be lovely, you never know.

[lnr]

Oh the people might well be nice, and I have no objection to having a house next door at all (there's one on the other side that's joined on :-) - the problem is with having *builders* next door, for however long it takes to turn what was a nice garden (which they had the cheek to have a photo of in the brochure!) into a house.

[lnr]

Yes, you'd think I'd know this from last time!

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the rest of the buying process, and try not to disappear off the face of the earth when you move out of Cambridge :-)

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Did the paperwork arrive? I hope so!

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Cool! :-)