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[gilz82]

In England do you know what other people bid? Typically here you bid x but tell your estate agent what the maximum you would go to is. The bid up to your maximum and then the seller picks someone based on money and time to complete the sale. Once your offer is accepted it's a binding agreement so no backing out without a lot of hassle for both parties.

Years ago you'd expect to pay a lot more than asking price here. For example when my OH sold his house it was offers over £75,000 and it sold for £97,000. Now a lot of houses here are selling for fixed price or offers in the region which is much more fluid a concept than offers over.

In my personal experience if you have bid up to your limit estate agents and lawyers tend to have quiet words with each other about where the bids are in an attempt to help you.

Also it never hurts to just ask outright what the sellers actually what to achieve price wise if they are at the viewing. I asked outright when I bought my flat, she told me I offered her just under and it was accepted all within 6 hours of the property going on the market.

 

[PeanutBean]

Whilst the competitive bit in Scotland is a bit scary the England system is no better. We get gazumping which is when a vendor accepts an offer then later encourages higher offers and ditches the first buyer in favour of one. There's no binding contract until the exchange of contracts which might only be days before completion so lots of money on solicitors, searches, removal agents, valuations, etc might have been spent by the buyer. Of course the flip side in Scotland is what happens after a bid is accepted then the house turns out to have major structural issues that drastically reduce its value. Does the sake still have to go through at the original offer

Not moving soon but want to be vaguely prepared for a different system.

Tas we've been doing up the house the whole 4 years we've lived here. We did most if the loft work last summer after my parents downsized and gave us all some money. We're in negative equity or close to without a third bedroom confirmed, courtesy of the housing crash and us having to buy 100% when they were at their peak.

 

[NOMORENUMBERS]

gosh it all sounds so simple but incredibly complicated all at the same time lol lol

pb that kid sounds like a nightmare! i would have snapped at some point and would have had to have say do you mind could you please take your child away from mine can you not see he is being violent to him! grrrrrrrr!

I really really really quite fancy being a little bit tipsy right now, you know when you just want to relax, unwind a bit and get a bit silly on the champers . . . in so much pain! But nay can not bring myself to drink anything despite being a little low on iron and being told champers has more iron in it than guiness! doi!

 

[PeanutBean]

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[gilz82]

Peanut any offers are subject to survey plus the system is totally different now to a few years ago. It used to be the buyers responsibility to survey each property they put an offer in on. It was decided this was unfair as you may bid on several houses before buying therefore incurring huge cost. Now the seller has to get a home buyers report done which costs in the region of £1000. It is given to each prospective buyer. It's a full structural survey plus energy rating of the house etc so they structural aspect it covered.

What you were worried about didn't typically happen with the old system anyway as the process was, view the house, survey the house, make an offer. So the structure of the house was already verified or problems identified. What the new system does limit is scoe to barter based on any identified problems. As the seller provides the report they will say that the price already accommodates for any required work etc.

 

[PeanutBean]

Thanks Gilz, that sounds much better. Getting all excited now and it'll be at least 2 years before we can think of moving, then it'll still depend on jobs and DH's writing success etc etc...

 

[tas1]

First pair!
We're been doing our house up to but not to your extreme,we have run out of money and only room that needs sorting is our room typical lol and we wanna sort the garden out we got our fence done last year but we wanna do the patio area!

I'm watching Peter Andre I love it! Caden use to say daddy when he saw Peter in a magazine so I never corrected him lol I've told Caden if we ever see Peter Andre to say daddy to him lol

Xx

 

[madcatwoman]

tas, the peter andre docus are my guilty pleasure!

 

[tas1]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one,my OH thinks I'm sad! He gets me all teary on every programme! How sad am I when it was Peter and katies last episode and they said they had split up etc I cried lol

Xx

 

[madcatwoman]

i couldnt stand katie!,he was far too nice for her!

 

[tas1]

He is but I think I was sad coz he was sad and for the kids too! He is yummy though and junior is so gorgeous he's gonna be a heart breaker

Xx

 

[madcatwoman]

Morning all
tas, i guess it could be a front, although i doubt it, but he does seem like a nice guy doesnt he, i think princess is such a pretty little girl too!.

well, up at 5, Bailey seems to favour and is stuck on 5 am these days

should get my blood results this afternoon, so i hope theres something that they can dose me up on and wake me up!!

 

[tas1]

Morning

Fingers crossed madcat! How you feeling now your taking your vits?

Well we all slept in til 9.15am can't believe coz Caleb feel asleep on his 8pm feed so he's had over 12 hrs sleep! Wow!!

I think Peter is a really nice guy and princess has grown into a pretty girl when she was first born she was and still is totally different to junior!

What to do today?!? Weather doesn't look good hopefully will be ok for us to go to park!

Xx

 

[madcatwoman]

Well, i was about to set off to the park but then bailey had a crying fit, which turned into sleepy time, so hes asleep at the moment. The weather here is superb, blue skies,warm sunshine, glorious!.

I dont feel quite so bad thanks, i am on the vits now, if i stop and sit down the tiredness hits me like a brick and i feel like i cant do anything again-litterally,but once ive heaved myself back to my feet and got going again i feel ok, its weird, so im trying to just keep on going!.

 

[Ozzieshunni]

Welp, Mr. Alex is 12lbs 1oz!!!!

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

Hi Ladies :wave:

Just catching up was MIA yesterday

for fitting back in pre-preg pants Peanut and well done Byron I agree I also dont interfer with other peoples parenting however I too have experienced parents totally lack of skills to reprimand their misbeahaving child Its a bit sad really because I have seen parents sit and just totally ignore their child which is probably why they are acting like that in the first place .... attention seeking

and yeah for weight loss Tas any weight loss is better than one imo

Well done Abby on the sleeping

madcat hope you get your results sharpish and well done for getting out and about even though you feel crap

Ozzie Charlie is at `wonder week 12` and we are experiencing the three c`s ... clingy, cranky and crying so I know how you feel and Alex now weighs more than Charlie

Apologises if I have missed anything

In madlyland we have a growth spurt and a grizzly Charlie bear we also have a Oliver not sure if its a bug or something didnt agree with him yesterday food wise he was only the once but it was mega sickness so we cancelled lunch out with FIL and are indoors all day we have re-arranged for tomorrow Oliver pending DH is off work now until Monday but so far we are indoors so kinda boring really I am still full of cold and have horrendous tail bone pain which seems to be getting worse am wondering if I have dislogded or damaged something during labour with all the frantic mega pushing and shoving I did its certainly not improving and the only time it doesnt hurt is when I am walking

 

[madcatwoman]

bloody hell ozzie what are you feeding him on?!! bailey is now 13lb something... !


Well i am suprised. my FBC(full blood count) has come back normal!. i had to ask the woman to repeat herself!. ive just walked back from the beach and worried i might not make it lol!. It must be one of my chronic tired phases that ive gone thru before and had tests done.Just not great when you have a little person to think of. Oh well, will just carry on taking my vits i guess.

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

madcat I would be inclined to go back to the Drs for further tests honestly if you really arent feeling well there has to be a reason

meant to add pete is also a guilty pleasure of mine despite DHs complaining

oh and I am to go to court and give evidence against that man who beat his partner in our street infront of his kids at the weekend am not sure how I feel about the whole thing tbh I will do whats right but the whole thing has me nervous if I am honest

 

[madcatwoman]

thanks madly. I felt sure id be anemic,i'll give it a week and if theres no improvement then iguess i'll have to go back again
I have had this before however, twice infact, i even started talking to a friend who has ME for information at one point but in the end i bounced back again, at that point i was having underactive thyroid tests, which were all fine. Maybe it is just all the early mornings? maybe i should be going to bed earlier than 10

Your tail bone sounds dead sore madly, i know how bad mine got, i couldnt sit properly anywhere, not even on a seat with a great big pilliow on it!. Maybe labour did do something to it in the end??.
I hope oliver is feeling better
Bailey has been a bit of a cry baby this PM, i think its the heat, ive stripped him down anyway, and 'finally'got hi to sleep

 

[molly85]

MEN! Need I say more less sleep for abby last night but I don't thinkit was her sleeping pattern.

Peanut Guzzumping is now illegal here if a seller won't take a house off the maket once they have accepted your offer don't carry on til it's off the market thefirst house we went to buy they didn't remove from the market then a bidding war was suggested we neededa mortgage etc so so nope not going there.

Madly having had to give evidence about 5 years ago they keps me safe squirreled away in my own room then I was forst on the stand and out of there. They do pay exspences though which is nice