Excited, so i thought i'd create a thread.
I moved out of my parents when i was 17 and in to a house with my best friend. It was a dive, but an awesome one. Moving out of home and in with your mates is going to be awesome, regardless of the house.
After living there for 2-3 years i moved out and into a nice 3 bed flat with other friends and had a full-time job less than 100 meters down the road. Best times of my life there, so much fun and so convenient. Rent was pretty much a steal, being on the high street of the town it was £250 each excluding bills etc.
I was there for another 3 years until i got cosy with my girlfriend and moved in with her, she has a shared ownership new-build 2 bed (1 bed with tiny storage room really....) flat in Stevenage. Very convenient but one of the worst places you could live around here, the only good thing is the convenience, train line, shops etc.
Nice place but we've outgrown it easily, the area is getting on my nipples and we have enough money for a 10% deposit on a £250K tops house.
We were after the usual;
3 bed Semi
Garage
Nice small town
We have just had an offer accepted on this
(Will get better pictures, but it's being taken off the market now so no use linking it.)
It's in the same town where i moved out from home so i'm familiar with the area as i spent 10 years of my child/teen-hood there.
We have viewed the house twice, with my parents on the second time. Always worth an extra set of eyes when viewing houses i tell you, they can see things you're not looking for. Loved the house on first viewing, already know a few things that we would like to do but really, we can move in and not decorate for ages.
The only thing we don't like is the lack of downstairs loo... which is ok because on the first viewing the owner showed us this massive under stairs cupboard and has some quotes on getting it converted into a cloakroom/toilet. Apart from that, there will be changes to the garden as i want some grass, that's no problem.
It's big, 1 bedroom more than required, easy access to loft for future expansion. Decent garage, 3 walls are internal so it's not freezing cold.
At the moment we've just got our mortgage in principle and an offer accepted and just confirmed with our shared ownership housing association that we want to sell and to put it on the market. The ball is rolling!
We're very excited and will keep you posted with pictures and the whole story.
EDIT 1: Original purchase failed, see post #64 onwards for this:
EDIT 2:
Offer accepted @ £245K
Completion date 19th July
Some Pictures:
http://imageshack.us/a/img27/3483/1frontofhouse.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img62/6905/2rearofhouse.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img27/3900/3backgarden.jpg
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I moved out of my parents when i was 17 and in to a house with my best friend. It was a dive, but an awesome one. Moving out of home and in with your mates is going to be awesome, regardless of the house.
After living there for 2-3 years i moved out and into a nice 3 bed flat with other friends and had a full-time job less than 100 meters down the road. Best times of my life there, so much fun and so convenient. Rent was pretty much a steal, being on the high street of the town it was £250 each excluding bills etc.
I was there for another 3 years until i got cosy with my girlfriend and moved in with her, she has a shared ownership new-build 2 bed (1 bed with tiny storage room really....) flat in Stevenage. Very convenient but one of the worst places you could live around here, the only good thing is the convenience, train line, shops etc.
Nice place but we've outgrown it easily, the area is getting on my nipples and we have enough money for a 10% deposit on a £250K tops house.
We were after the usual;
3 bed Semi
Garage
Nice small town
It's in the same town where i moved out from home so i'm familiar with the area as i spent 10 years of my child/teen-hood there.
The only thing we don't like is the lack of downstairs loo... which is ok because on the first viewing the owner showed us this massive under stairs cupboard and has some quotes on getting it converted into a cloakroom/toilet. Apart from that, there will be changes to the garden as i want some grass, that's no problem.
It's big, 1 bedroom more than required, easy access to loft for future expansion. Decent garage, 3 walls are internal so it's not freezing cold.
At the moment we've just got our mortgage in principle and an offer accepted and just confirmed with our shared ownership housing association that we want to sell and to put it on the market. The ball is rolling!
We're very excited and will keep you posted with pictures and the whole story.
EDIT 1: Original purchase failed, see post #64 onwards for this:
EDIT 2:
Offer accepted @ £245K
Completion date 19th July
Some Pictures:
http://imageshack.us/a/img27/3483/1frontofhouse.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img62/6905/2rearofhouse.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img27/3900/3backgarden.jpg
If the image is larger than 1280 pixels wide please resize, link only or put in spoiler tags. Thank you.
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