Tags: moving, house stuff
Date: 06 September 2011 20:41:35
It would seem that we're about to buy a house! Having met up with a few people at Greenbelt who I assumed would have known, I realised the result of blogging less is that news just doesn't get out. I had been meaning to write this when we found the house, but ah well, better late than never.
We'd been talking about moving for a while- wanting (or needing in my case) to get out of London, to somewhere with more space, a garden, and where achieving these things wasn't impossibly expensive. We'd decided Reading would make the most sense- reasonably easy commutes, well located, and I knew it a bit from working there.
So in June we went for a day to have a look around. Not to look at houses, just to look. Except there was this one we'd seen that just looked perfect in the photos- right part of town, well looked after. And I loved the garden! Well, it can't hurt we thought, just to give us an idea, we're only looking. There's bound to be a catch. But there wasn't. We went from room to room getting more and more excited, and just walked out wondering if it was crazy to go for the first house you see..
Three days later we'd had an offer accepted and done a speedy mortgage application! And suddenly had to find out what all these terms meant. Someone should write a dictionary. The last few months have been a blur of solicitors, paperwork and mortgage related jargon. But finally today the deposit has been paid and now we're just waiting for the mythical exchange of contracts- this is the point at which we realise why everyone complains about solicitors. We're currently in some kind of limbo waiting for the sellers solicitors to get their act together.
The strange thing about this happening so quickly is there's very little time to think about how big a decision it is, and also not much tome to get used to it. Right now it's just very exciting!