First time buy, excitement and worry.What is your advice or story?
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Built my first house aged 26.
It was a site that had an old steel framed plumbers workshop, situated in a terraced area, with 20 years crap inside.
knocked that down and built 2 houses on it which was a big mistake as it was only really big enough for one plot.
It left me short of space and I couldn't even get a small direct block delivery, so I had to cart blocks to the site twice a day for the brickies by tractor and trailer.
Also the water connection took forever and it was next to a school which was health and safety nightmare.
I certainly learned a lot from that site.
I wouldn't even contemplate the hassle of such a site now but it was what I could afford and was a fantastic springboard to the property ladder.
Good luck OP.
It was a site that had an old steel framed plumbers workshop, situated in a terraced area, with 20 years crap inside.
knocked that down and built 2 houses on it which was a big mistake as it was only really big enough for one plot.
It left me short of space and I couldn't even get a small direct block delivery, so I had to cart blocks to the site twice a day for the brickies by tractor and trailer.
Also the water connection took forever and it was next to a school which was health and safety nightmare.
I certainly learned a lot from that site.
I wouldn't even contemplate the hassle of such a site now but it was what I could afford and was a fantastic springboard to the property ladder.
Good luck OP.
Wow, congrats though on building your first house, that is impressive, some day I would love to do that but of course i'm in no position to do that at the moment.
The last few days have been busy. We put in our offer, it was accepted, we went to Natwest on Wednesday and applied for the mortgage. We paid the solicitors on Wednesday and asked them to start searches. Today (Thursday), the valuation has happened but we don't yet know the result, and searches have begun (We had to fill in a huge number of forms). We are aiming for an exchange date of a week tomorrow having asked everyone to communicate via email rather than post where possible and making sure we give everyone everything they need.
We also have a plasterer booked to view on Saturday with us to try to get quotes on how much it will cost to re-plaster a lot of the house.
I'll let you know how it goes!
The last few days have been busy. We put in our offer, it was accepted, we went to Natwest on Wednesday and applied for the mortgage. We paid the solicitors on Wednesday and asked them to start searches. Today (Thursday), the valuation has happened but we don't yet know the result, and searches have begun (We had to fill in a huge number of forms). We are aiming for an exchange date of a week tomorrow having asked everyone to communicate via email rather than post where possible and making sure we give everyone everything they need.
We also have a plasterer booked to view on Saturday with us to try to get quotes on how much it will cost to re-plaster a lot of the house.
I'll let you know how it goes!
We bought it and exchanged within 10 days of our offer being accepted! Wow it's been busy! We get the keys (complete) on the 28th, so not long to go now. We got it at £56,500, it sold in 2007 for £85,000 and was on a couple of months ago at £65,000 (By the bank as a repo), before they reduced to £55,000 but there was another person interested. I think if it was done up nicely it might fetch around £65,000 but it's a home rather than an investment (it's just good to know we shouldn't lose money on it).
The link has actually been removed from Zoopla and Rightmove now, but I do have an old archived link of when they tried to rent it (Jan). Here is the property:
http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/47-bells-lane/nottingham/ng8-6ex/16142581
What do you think the first thing you would do would be?
The link has actually been removed from Zoopla and Rightmove now, but I do have an old archived link of when they tried to rent it (Jan). Here is the property:
http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/47-bells-lane/nottingham/ng8-6ex/16142581
What do you think the first thing you would do would be?
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Hi, I'm on my phone so please excuse any typos in this post.
Both the gas and electricity are on key metres which works out well for us because we can use those until we finally move into the property when we will transfer our existing contract to it. With it being a repossession we don't really know what works and what doesn't. As they tried to rent it out we expect things should be ok but we don't want to assume. When we connect the electricity, I would expect the first thing that will happen will be the house alarm will go off. We have no reset key etc so that will be problem #1. Then, before we connect the gas I will check where the cooker was removed to make sure it was not a gas cooker or that it's been left open. Is there anything else I should be doing before connecting the gas and electricity?
I have the model of the alarm so I will search around to see if I can find a way to reset it, I'm not sure how much success I will have, what do people usually do?
Thanks,
Both the gas and electricity are on key metres which works out well for us because we can use those until we finally move into the property when we will transfer our existing contract to it. With it being a repossession we don't really know what works and what doesn't. As they tried to rent it out we expect things should be ok but we don't want to assume. When we connect the electricity, I would expect the first thing that will happen will be the house alarm will go off. We have no reset key etc so that will be problem #1. Then, before we connect the gas I will check where the cooker was removed to make sure it was not a gas cooker or that it's been left open. Is there anything else I should be doing before connecting the gas and electricity?
I have the model of the alarm so I will search around to see if I can find a way to reset it, I'm not sure how much success I will have, what do people usually do?
Thanks,