Oh dear ... we are currently renting whilst waiting for our purchase to exchange ... but I digress. Start at the beginning.
Hubby was retrenched and quickly landed a new job inland in the mines. We sold our ppor and moved up. Currently renting.
Before the move we were looking to buy - having not rented for decades and not looking forward to the propect.
We looked at a few houses, found one that was oooooookay and under pressure from hubby I put in an offer. A week later a second agent took us to look at other houses, suggested we'd offered to much (which, after some research, we agree we did - although research really hard as nothing comparable) and I wasn't keen on it from the start - so pulled out.
Agent was furious as the vendors were so excited at a "sale" - and being the "new kid" agent in a town, where the existing agent (the second agent) has been for at least two generations and doesn't take well to "new kids" had been undermining potential sales.
Anyhow - we found a property thru the second agent that we like. The one we were going to build our eco house on. We knew it's near a small airfield but, the first day we looked at it, not a plane in sight for the hour or so we were there.
The next time we looked at it a couple of bi-planes silently whooshed overhead (really cool).
The next few times we walked over it to sus our building site etc there were a couple of planes doing circuits but livable.
Today - went to the property. Price agreed on, contracts drawn up but still not exchanged as vendor o/seas and uncontactable for last three weeks.
The planes were hideous. Incessant from 7am to after 4pm.
Helicopeters. Jets. Biplanes. Cessnanas. Taking off and landing constantly ... and the block is in the flight path where they gun the motors to gain height.
Pulling out - agent seriously not happy but there is no way we could live with that.
Wonder if the delay in exchange is the universe at work ... if we'd been able to exchange when we were ready 3 weeks ago, we'd be near settling and unable to pull out.
Hubby was retrenched and quickly landed a new job inland in the mines. We sold our ppor and moved up. Currently renting.
Before the move we were looking to buy - having not rented for decades and not looking forward to the propect.
We looked at a few houses, found one that was oooooookay and under pressure from hubby I put in an offer. A week later a second agent took us to look at other houses, suggested we'd offered to much (which, after some research, we agree we did - although research really hard as nothing comparable) and I wasn't keen on it from the start - so pulled out.
Agent was furious as the vendors were so excited at a "sale" - and being the "new kid" agent in a town, where the existing agent (the second agent) has been for at least two generations and doesn't take well to "new kids" had been undermining potential sales.
Anyhow - we found a property thru the second agent that we like. The one we were going to build our eco house on. We knew it's near a small airfield but, the first day we looked at it, not a plane in sight for the hour or so we were there.
The next time we looked at it a couple of bi-planes silently whooshed overhead (really cool).
The next few times we walked over it to sus our building site etc there were a couple of planes doing circuits but livable.
Today - went to the property. Price agreed on, contracts drawn up but still not exchanged as vendor o/seas and uncontactable for last three weeks.
The planes were hideous. Incessant from 7am to after 4pm.
Helicopeters. Jets. Biplanes. Cessnanas. Taking off and landing constantly ... and the block is in the flight path where they gun the motors to gain height.
Pulling out - agent seriously not happy but there is no way we could live with that.
Wonder if the delay in exchange is the universe at work ... if we'd been able to exchange when we were ready 3 weeks ago, we'd be near settling and unable to pull out.
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