Mrs and Mrs Housebuyer (standing in our living room)
“It’s much bigger than our house, we haven’t got a separate dining room. With the extension I would definitely call it a four bedroom house rather than three.”
Mrs & Mrs Housebuyer (when the estate agents phone to see if they are interested)
“It’s about the same size of our present house. We are really looking for a four bedroom house”
Mr Housebuyer (in our kitchen)
“We would like a bigger kitchen but we could easily extend through to the extension”
Me: “You might have problems as that’s a supporting wall”
Mr Housebuyer “Not a problem at all, I could put in an RSJ and make a really great kitchen. It’s got loads of potential”
Mr Housebuyer (when the estate agents phone to see if they are interested)
“No, the kitchen’s too small”
Mr Housebuyer to the estate agent when cancelling a viewing
“I drove past last night and there’s not enough parking”
Well maybe not for a car dealership but we parked our camper van, our Volvo estate and my work Astra van in the front for a couple of years!
Well after the initial flurry of interest it has now gone rather quiet with no interest in the house for the past week. A couple came last weekend and were very impressed saying it ‘was just what they wanted’ but I suspect that they were not actually intending to buy but just seeing what is about. Their house (just up the road) doesn’t appear to be for sale. Guess we’ll just have to weather this sort of thing.
Real limbo time now. A few things left to do on the house but I can’t get motivated to do them. Keep looking at the estate agents sites in the Western Isles but all it does is make it worse! If only we had been sensible when we were young and saved our money instead of spending it!
Two weeks in and we haven’t sold the house yet! I know, I know, but now that’s it’s up for sale we just want to get out and get the van hired for the long trip north.
Seven viewings in the fist week and they (almost) all said the same thing - Lovely house, beautifully presented but there’s no central heating. So? Put the bloody central heating in then and knock the cost off the offer. I would jump at the chance of putting my own heating in rather than putting up with someone else’s radiators. Underfloor heating or skirting board heaters are far better options than trying to squeeze your furniture around inefficient radiators.
Anyway this evening we had a viewing from a lady and her son - she wants to buy a house for him to go to the local uni. Now if a young, strapping, student can’t cope without cushy central heating, lord knows what the future will bring. Thought we were supposed to be concerned about global warming anyway.
