Jenuall wrote:Moggy wrote:Jenuall wrote:Moggy wrote:andretmzt wrote:I'm moving to Southampton for work in late October and about this time last week I was planning on renting with my partner as I thought I'd have a hand with rent from my company. Had a chat with the work guy and it turns out my company won't help (why didn't you say that before you tosser, I have wasted over a month planning to rent
). So instead of viewing houses to rent on Monday, I had to call all the estate agents and tell them I now want to buy and two days later I am about to put an offer in on a house and I still have no strawberry floating clue what I am doing. Got a solicitor, got a financial adviser, got the estate agent....I don't need anything else right?
To think I was happy to just rent a week ago and now I'm about to go buy a bloody house. Most I have ever spent on a single thing is £2000....
I bought my flat back in 2011 and I had no idea what I was doing. We looked at a few places, put an offer in, got a mortgage broker and solicitor and then it just sort of happened. Be prepared for a lot of delays and frustrations though, solicitors do not work quickly!!
I dread moving as I have no strawberry floating idea how to sell a place and buy a place at the same time. I am sure it’ll work out but it just sounds horribly stressful.
I'm sure there are people who have a great experience with it, but for me the move we made at the end of last year/start of this year was absolutely the most stressful experience of my life!
I am going to die in this house as I have zero appetite for going through that gooseberry fool again!
I was lucky before as I was renting a flat a 5 minute walk away from the one I bought and the flat I bought was empty so there was no chain.
Now when I move I will have to first fight or give in to the landlords of the building my flat is in (a very long running and bitter dispute!), then find somewhere out of the city, find somebody to buy my flat and then go through all of the stress of selling/buying/moving. I absolutely dread the whole idea of it.
Still it will be better in the long run so I really should get my finger out and start the process.
Has there been any more developments with your ongoing dispute? Seems like a right pain in the ass that one!
Yeah our first move was from a rented flat to a new build house just round the corner so there was very little stress - no property to sell, no chain to worry about, less stuff to move so no need for movers etc. It was bliss in comparison to the recent move!
My dispute seems to have just settled back down to where it has been for the last few years. After they served the forfeiture notice at the end of last year (and then strawberry floated themselves over by sending an invoice after it!) me and the lady upstairs saw a solicitor who agreed with us on every point, but warned us that going to court is very expensive. We would probably win, but probably isn’t really very reassuring when thousands of pounds are at risk.
It’s been nothing but stress, I would never buy a leasehold again and would advise other people to avoid it. There is way too much power in the hands of landlords and property management companies.
I figure I am going to just have to pay them in the end, but am avoiding it until I have to do it. Before I seriously look at moving I will probably try writing to them with a “I disagree with what you claim is owed but will settle out of court for 50%” letter and hope they go for it. The wankers.