Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Back to the drawing board

Listening to: Van Halen on the radio

Offer on house accepted: good

Builders inspection report: Bad, bad, bad. Lots of expensive bad.

We will continue searching...........

This is a most learning experience :)

And draining for wives who do most of the phone work :(

5 comments:

2treesandahorse said...

I would say "it will all work out, it is all for a reason" but hey im not in your position, cause i know that would piss me off. I offer my highest hopes to you for finding the perfect place. Cause then we can all come round for a house warming!! yeah. You to are so grown up.

fish said...

So much for good omens... When I took the first call about the offer going through, 'Our House' was playing on the radio AND it was our 2 year anniversary. And it STILL fell through! :(

Hoping we find the one before Xmas so we can have a really big Christmas/housewarming party!!

Off-Black said...

Don't worry about it Trees I agree. That is my attitude as well.

d3vo said...

With my place (first time round) we adjusted the offer according to the value of the repairs which were principally wiring.

After settling I took a little time off work and got the wiring work done for 2.5 grand instead of the 5 grand that we had taken off the house price.

Who's your daddy??

(btw, buying and selling houses is a financial transaction, principally. They are so expensive this is a nature of necessity.)

fish said...

Nice D.

...which is all good IF you happen to have the $$$ to do that kinda thing. As we have a 100% mortgage, any discount to fix stuff is meaningless really. It just makes the repayments 50c less a month, rather than give us any money in the pocket to do said repairs.