I can imagine you're all on the edge of your seat, screaming at your monitors for more information on, surely, the most depressingly convoluted house move in the history of Estate Agency - our purchase of Brynmede (qv). Eh? Oh.
I will not bore you with details - trust me, they are stultifying in the extreme. Suffice to say, that after the issues brought to our attention by the survey (damp, wet/dry rot, woodworm, etc) had been demonstrated to be acceptably small risks for us, a whole new swathe of issues arose in our solicitor's searches - specifically relating to the septic tank that is used by the house (and some others) and, more damagingly, to a piece of land in front of the garage entrance that is not, according to the Land Registry, part of the registered plot we're buying.
The protracted nature of these delays (it's now been over 3 months since we had our offer accepted), along with the fact that there is neither an end in sight or indeed, any guarantee that matters will be settled to our satisfaction, has meant that we've decided to withdraw our offer on Brynmede.
Quite simply, we're running out of time before my course starts and we, ideally, need to be settled in (somewhere) within the next 4-6 weeks tops. With that in mind, we couldn't risk getting the shaft (sorry if I'm drifting into legalese) with Brynmede so we bailed for what, on paper, seems to be a simpler (and, concomitantly, a quicker) option...
We've now had an offer accepted on this house. It's considerably less quirky; it's been renovated; it's on mains water/gas/electricity/etc; it's in the middle of a village. Let's be honest, it's the "safe" choice but I'm at ease with that - the compromises we had to make with Brynmede have been resolved and replaced with alternate compromises; c'est la vie. Most importantly, for the first time in a long time I can foresee less hassle on the horizon (famous last words).
Easily the most dull blog entry that I've posted thusfar - apologies for that. Now it's clear to me why I've been avoiding writing it for so long.
(* no prize to offer if you can spot the origin of my quote but some kudos...)
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2 comments:
tooty bumrag on the old place and sorry it's been such a long arse-acheing hassle but the new place looks absolutely marvellous and i mean that in absolute terms not in some poxy relative way.
Thanks for the facebook invite. I'm not sure how good I'm going to be at that stuff - given that most of the people I would like to be in contact with are probably not interested or even aware of the phenomenon. And that I am generally crap at online social networking. But we'll see.
Tell me more about your teaching practice.
Jim
I shall be in touch, x.
KKP
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