The nervous wait to exchange....

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Eventually got the forms back from the sellers - 2 months after offer, the first stage is eventually done. Now on to what is usually the longest stage, please be quick!
 
We finally completed yesterday. Didn't get the keys until nearly half 4 thanks to solicitors being solicitors.

This house is very much a project and we've been flat out since we got here! En suite basin drain was clogged with hair and cigarette ash... Got to love the weird **** that some people do.

The next adventure begins. Good luck to everyone else in their endeavours!
 
Viewed a lovely house today, with lots of potential. Just two set backs which ultimately put us off it. It's proximity to the main road through village, it's literally right next to it. And the steepness of the drive, nearly bottomed out the M2 getting up it, and it would be a nightmare in the winter. Shame really, was a loved house with huge extension potential.

Can't really tell how bad the drive is, I guess it could be levelled off but still doesn't move the house away from the road, with a dog and child, plus the noise I think it would annoy us.

 
ChrisD. said:
Viewed a lovely house today, with lots of potential. Just two set backs which ultimately put us off it. It's proximity to the main road through village, it's literally right next to it. And the steepness of the drive, nearly bottomed out the M2 getting up it, and it would be a nightmare in the winter. Shame really, was a loved house with huge extension potential.

Can't really tell how bad the drive is, I guess it could be levelled off but still doesn't move the house away from the road, with a dog and child, plus the noise I think it would annoy us.
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Steep driveways have put me off a few properties, although these were sloping down towards the house. At one in particular (where the house was significantly lower than the main road and down some steps from the end of the drive) it felt as though a parking mistake or handbrake failure would result in having a car through the living room window.

Currently got an offer in on a house that has a flat, gravelled parking area and steps up to the front door.
 
ChrisD. said:
Viewed a lovely house today, with lots of potential. Just two set backs which ultimately put us off it. It's proximity to the main road through village, it's literally right next to it. And the steepness of the drive, nearly bottomed out the M2 getting up it, and it would be a nightmare in the winter. Shame really, was a loved house with huge extension potential.

Can't really tell how bad the drive is, I guess it could be levelled off but still doesn't move the house away from the road, with a dog and child, plus the noise I think it would annoy us.
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Yeah, I really don't want to live on a main road. I get ****** off enough with the ***** that come past our road in their obnoxiously noise cars/bikes and we aren't near a particularly busy road. No idea why noise pollution from cars is tolerated when there is no need for it.
 
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fez said:
Yeah, I really don't want to live on a main road. I get ****** off enough with the ***** that come past our road in their obnoxiously noise cars/bikes and we aren't near a particularly busy road. No idea why noise pollution from cars is tolerated when there is no need for it.
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You don't appreciate a Civic with a huge fart cannon? :D
 
fez said:
Oh no, I love it when I can hear a car or motorbike when its still 1km away in the middle of summer when I am trying to sleep.
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BWAAAAAAAAP, BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAP, BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPP.

I hope this triggers some kind of PTSD...

As a side note: I hate Civics with fart cannons, just for the record.
 
Thread title is legit! Gave solicitor thumbs up this morning to exchange with everyone else having already expected exchange today. Now waiting to hear it's actually done. Tense!

Aaannnddd done. Completion in a couple of weeks. Can finally relax :D
 
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ChrisD. said:
Viewed a lovely house today, with lots of potential. Just two set backs which ultimately put us off it. It's proximity to the main road through village, it's literally right next to it. And the steepness of the drive, nearly bottomed out the M2 getting up it, and it would be a nightmare in the winter. Shame really, was a loved house with huge extension potential.

Can't really tell how bad the drive is, I guess it could be levelled off but still doesn't move the house away from the road, with a dog and child, plus the noise I think it would annoy us.

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Looks OK, road noise you get used to. I thought you must have moved previously similar time to me about 4 years ago?
 
Buffman said:
Looks OK, road noise you get used to.
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Have you experienced going from a quiet road to living on a noisy main road?

I've always preferred quiet side streets. When viewing houses I have certainly discounted them when I've realised just how intrusive traffic noise can be from a thundering A road or dual carriageway. Especially when you can still hear it with the windows closed, let alone when "relaxing" in the garden.
 
Mr Badger said:
Have you experienced going from a quiet road to living on a noisy main road?

I've always preferred quiet side streets. When viewing houses I have certainly discounted them when I've realised just how intrusive traffic noise can be from a thundering A road or dual carriageway. Especially when you can still hear it with the windows closed, let alone when "relaxing" in the garden.
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We are busy twice a day, 8.30 to 9.00 and 3.00 to 3.30, the chattering of birds eclipsed by parents and their transport. Otherwise it is a quiet estate road with a primary school at one end and an academy at the other.
 
Mr Badger said:
Have you experienced going from a quiet road to living on a noisy main road?

I've always preferred quiet side streets. When viewing houses I have certainly discounted them when I've realised just how intrusive traffic noise can be from a thundering A road or dual carriageway. Especially when you can still hear it with the windows closed, let alone when "relaxing" in the garden.
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Mines a 30mph road but yes busy road and never had before. I did buy acoustic glass where I could and the house is offset from the road by 10m or so.
 
Exchanged on Fri, approx 5 days of relentless packing, sorting, loading, unloading but managed it all by 3pm today at which point the solicitors phone call came through saying completion done. Timing could not have been better.
 
So we're back to square 1 re. finding a house. Surveyors report on the house we put an offer in, pretty much settled us pulling out. Chimney repairs £6-7k, new oil boiler £5-6k, re-render front of house, maybe up to £12k.

Looking at two more houses at the weekend.
 
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