Just signed some paperwork promising to purchase the ultimate purchase… a georgous house. Best of all comes the shopping for it. Yay!
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Category Archives: House & Home
House Hunting
As you may have realised we have been house hunting but it has been quite a ride. Bearing in mind the economic you would think that prices of houses would have dropped. Not so. Prices are higher than ever and people seem to be happier to leave the house on the market rather than drop the price. Some won’t even drop 1%. They think because a house has a clawfoot tub, magnolia decor and granite surfaces in the kitchen that they can ask for any price. We saw a house and they are asking for 580k in an area where the average price is 500k. Admittedly it is one of the larger houses but the rest are immaculate. This house has damp, rotting inbuilt fridges, missing cheap laminate etc.
A floral welcome
I am a bit sick of my garder or rather front yard looking so miserable. My plants are half dead and my front garden looks sad and weedful. I need to go shopping for some gardening tools, weed killer, pretty plant pots and some seeds and bulbs.
However I must be honest and admit that I am quite the opposite to being green fingered… perhaps black fingered is more like it! Still, I can try and worst case keep replacing the plants with ready flowering plants bought at the right time of year!
Cabin House
If I were crazy enough to buy a cabin house, then I think a Muskoka chair for us is a must. You can just imagine sitting outside on a warm summer evening and enjoying the view.
Why are you giggling?
Oh!! I see the flaw… “warm summer evening”!!
Still, a girl can dream. Perfect home, perfect view and warm summer evenings!
House Shopping
I am house shopping and getting so fed up. I subconsciously forget viewings and I cringe every time I go on estate agent websites. And most of all, I am simply fed up of seeing terrible houses. We have a decent budget but it still is not enough for the space we need. It makes me wonder what people with regular budgets afford! I have even gone as far as to consider buying some land and building or putting up a cabin or even some metal buildings but then again… I have a moment of reason and think for now I actually won’t shop for now. And for a shopaholic… that is sayng something.
Tenants
We have worked really hard to own a flat to rent out. Sadly it has really backfired because the tenants keep paying late if they pay at all and most often when they do, it is a fraction of what they owe us. The law sides with tenants and not owners which means that we are owed a bunch of money and we are stuck. I have been thinking of using a commercial collection agency but I am not sure if I can do that legally. C’est la vie Anglais!
House Houses but no home!
I wish I could say that I was going to get some don tomas cigars online to celebrate finding a house… but I won’t. We saw house after house after house. Houses in our price range, houses below our price range (is there such a thing?) and houses above our price range… and that is what we got houses! We sadly did not find a home.
There were things we liked in each property, some had a great view, others had all the required rooms, some had fabulous kitchens but none ticked all the boxes.
My problem is that with only a limited area and obviously a limited budget…. it is going to be though going but I might keep you updated (at least if I do find one!).
Money & Houses
Ever since I saw listings of houses in the states and the price of them, I cannot help but think about living there. I asked my hubby to look at some san diego jobs but he wasn’t having any of it! Shame.
Bearing in mind we are looking at houses here, half a million pounds buys nothing much. I never imagined owing half a million let alone owing a bank that much. Yet in America a quarter of a million dollars ( one hundred and fifty thousand pounds) buys a luxury house!
Does anyone realise we are talking MILLIONS!!!
Sinks
Isn’t it interesting how you rarely seem to find double bowl sinks any more. It seems like the 1 and a half bowl seems more popular. I grew up thinking it was luxurious to have a double bowl but in my kitchens, I never had more than a one and a half bowl. I have had 7 kitchens at least.
I keep thinking of my ideal kitchen and I think deciding would be dependant upon space. What is a must have would be a garbage waste disposal unit. I hate and I mean hate having to pick out left over cereal dumped in the sink. Mind you, I am grateful that my kids and hubby do take their breakfast items to the kitchen. 
TV’s
We saw some TV’s in the shops today, and we are still arguing over what to get. You see I would like one of these new 3d Tv’s but hubby says they are too new! He complains about HD TV’s because not everything is HD and when something is transmitted and is not HD, the visual is not so sharp. And then there is plasma versus LCD tvs and we still cannot come to any conclusion.
I think I am going to have to wait for our TV to die… and then we probably will have to wait for the kids tv to die and hopefully we then might come up with some agreement!