Just putting this up as I know quite a few of you are interested, and I appreciate that :) , but this will save me typing similar replies to different people. Plus I cant; remember who I have updated on what, as I'm nto here that often at the mo.

was going to move to Brixham, but changed mind after 20 odd viewings due to price increases and location being a bit cut off. Not much use when on my own in the week without car, and Summer tourist traffic is horrendous. The large house with B&B potential is on the back burner for now. I'm plumping for Torquay, maybe Paignton, as better amenities and are easier to travel in and out of. George's sister lives in Torquay so we can go on the :cheers: together and it will help me to make contacts and friends. She's mad as a hatter! She might move in too. :o roflmao

I sold my house quickly stc and thought great! :ok: I set my sights on 3 houses - a 12 room characterful Vicotrian end of terrace in a tree lined road, quiet but walking distance of Torquay central. The pros are location, size and I can fill it with antiques and do it up, I do love antiques and I've been dying for a period interior design project. I could host to foreign students for cash. Downside is garden is lovely at front, so quaint and English, but back is crap and small. And staying in my flat in Brixham as I do, I like to wake up to the sea view. Anyway I was prepared to compromise until I saw a house in Paignton with stunning views, huge garden, stone wall boundary :wub: Downside was size, price and house and garden bastardised with too much decking and the house was white, spotlights, over neutralised as they say. Location not as prime, but I went for it. I was out bid. I'm upset but I wont; pay what they want. Just not worth it for us. :( I saw another sea view place in Babbacombe near Torquay. One thing I said I did not want was what George calls 'suburban bunglaow hell' - rows of small houses in a development. This house is a bit like that, but then it is also practical and the view is great. Nice garden with a sea view and not a bad size. Feels all too perfect and inflexible for me though, and no interior design project. :( Then again, it's a great loaction and a great view, :D might be a safer easier option. So back there to check these two over again tomorrow and hopefuly get a deal. :ok:

Meanwhile ..... DISASTER STRIKES! Those people buying my house have done nothing about it really, the survey is always happening tomorrow and never does. So I had a huge row with my agent Weds, I thought they were trying to pull out and said we were going back on the market just in case, for a higher price to ensure a good offer. My first first viewer made a reasonable offer, I've turned her down twice and now she is offering same as the other one. I think she is a good buyer, and her mortgage is sorted. Then my solictor phones and says the other people want to go ahead but the son is now buying and nto the mother! :wacko:

Well I just want to get one good buyer who is going to procede and I'm worried about what to do now. It's not moral to play two people off against each other, I was thinking fo going for the new one but worried she might pull out later. What a nightmare. :yikes:

Any advice would be appreciated. And I will keep you informed. And thanks to all those who have bene asking about my move and how things are going. :hug:

I've been on many family holidays to the area. We used to stay at Goodrington which is part of Paignton.

Do they still have those bumper boats at Brixham? Spent many happy hours as a child there :D

It's a nice area, although I can imagine it getting a bit mad in July/August.

I stayed in Goodrington a couple of years back in a flat. View over the sands, which we could walk to and a short walk to Paignton harbour. I like that part of Paignton, but it's very in demand and houses arent; on the market much, and those that are aren't cheap. Paignton is considered a bit down market and brash compared to Torquay and Brixham, but it doe shave the best beaches, you can actually have great wlaks down them and they are easy to get on to. That park in Goodrington is nice too. :) Not sure what these bumper boats in brixham are? All I've seen is ferries and fishing boats.

Thanks for the update SB. It all sounds like my idea of hell. Glad to see you are still managing to stay cheerful though it all. Hopefully one of the two houses you are going to check out again is going to be the one. Regarding the sale, I think I would be tempted to opt for the first viewer, as I don't like the sound of the current purchaser seeming somewhat indecisive to me, and the chopping and changing of the actual purchaser is also a pain. As you say, the first viewer seems genuine and has got her mortgage sorted, so I would give her the benefit of the doubt. Might just be down to gut feeling of course. Good luck :hug:

I think the bumper boats were a bit inland from the coast, there were go karts there as well I seem to remember but I was always too young to go on those :(

We used to stay in a hotel with the beach literally on the doorstep. It was great eating your breakfast watching the tractors on the beach clearing the seaweed every morning - and it had to be done every morning as well!

It's a nice beach at Goodrington - http://dirty.as.arizona.edu/~kgordon/galle...-2/DSCF0025.jpg - is that Brixham you can see in the distance at the top right of the photo?

Yes that is brixham, the very tip of it is Berry HEad. It's beautiful there, there is a hotel that si hideously expensive and overpriced but I go there for food and drinks cos I can see the whole bay form the cliff edge garden and all the lights look lovely at night. There's a wooded nature reserve too, and if you walk down to the end of Berry Head it's a marvellous view and stunning cliff top scenery. I'll see if I can post a pic. :)

Your hotel may well me flats now. the place I staye din was a converted hotel. Most of them are getting converted ad there are not enough tourists to fill the hotels in paignton, or Torquay for that matter. Have to say there are few decent hotels in Paignton, even the best one is crap adn it's expensive. Palace, and it's a 3 star, no 5 stars there. it was home to the Singer family of sewing machine fame. :) I tend to self cater, I've had too many bad experinces in B&Bs with rock hard beds and mouldy shower rooms :( even soem of the hotels in Torbay that charge over 100 pounds pe rnight fro B&B arent; so great.

Thanks Mo, :hug: That's what George is saying. Only the first viewer is the dodgy one not the second, I think i explained this in confusing manner. the first viewer agreed to buy on 17th Macrh and are still dicking around. And it's odd that the son now wants to buy and yet he has NEVER seen the place. :rolleyes:

We had a viewer at 6 last night who wants to move her cos he was born in my road and his mum lives up the road, and I know her! :o Hasn't put an offer in though. What i hate most abotu this is that I have to take my agent's word for it abotu the buyers. he could be lying to me to get me to sell. half what he said about the first buyers wasnt; true so I wonder .... He was very meek yesterday when he came round, I threatened him with changing agents you see and also that I might have a private sale on the cards (not true:lol:) Well it worked cos he resold my house within 24 hours! roflmao Hes' the manager and I told him to send someone round who can actually SELL or I would sell it myself. He has a useless guy called Jimmy who couldn't sell water in a drought! roflmao I told him I wanted a saleperson who was postive, brimming with enthusiasm who coudl promote th epotential of this place.All hsi staf are crap really, I feel sorry for them cos I bet they maek no commission. I Always knwo when an offers coming as the the manager shows them round. He takes the best leads for himself of course. :rolleyes:

Torquay now eh :D

You should by the hotel from Fawlty Towers and you and George should run it :lol:

Unless you think you may be taken to the cleaners, a blast of openness might help.

You might let it be known to the maker of the first offer that you are getting frustrated with his delays and, whilst you are prepared to sell if he gets on with it, you are having to look after yourself by continuing to show people around and you may accept another offer.

I would not put it in terms that you have another higher offer - that will look like you are trying to gazump him and he may interpret it as weak or decide that you are the sort of person he does not want to do a deal with.

I would also tell the second person that if they get their act together you will sell to them quite happily.

In other words - if the second is prepared to make an offer they should probably consider themselves as being in a contracts race.

If you don't really trust your agent that makes life a whole lot more difficult. Poor you.

Here's the Berry Head Hotel, where I often drink outside or eat. great location, horendous prices (about 200 quid a night, and I stayed once and room was crap!), food is hit or miss and service can be slow. there is always a scene in the restaurant when we go there! Last tiem me and George's sister caused it! roflmao Great moules marinere though, huge bowl, piled high, for just 6.95. :)

http://www.berryheadhotel.com/


You can see the Berry Head peninsula if you look at one of the pics. One side faces Torquay and the other i think is Sharkham Point or St Mary's Bay.

http://www.countryside-trust.org.uk/berry_head.htm


I stayed here too. It's no cheap, the room was small, some of the food was nto as good as it shoudl have been but nice all the same, but it had character and the staff were absolutely fantastic to me. They will meet any special requirements you have, and when our car needed AA attention one morning, and I wa sin a hurry at breakfast cos I had to walk to town and then go view houses alone while Geroge waited for the AA, they got my breakfast out in 5 mins cos I was in a rush. And they let George some back for breakfast at 11.30 even though he was an hour and a half late. They did French food oen night and the bar maid gave us loads of free wine before our meals, we were pissed before we started! :D I left a staff tip, and I have never doen that before for hotel staff. You are right n the Quayside which is inice.

http://www.quaysidehotel.co.uk/welcome.html


I'll post some piccies of my flat when I've finished in it. There are some on lien but I don't want to reveal my address. :)

Looks very nice. I said before that it's such a nice part of the country, I love Devon/Dorset etc. :D

roflmao I stayed there. here it is ......

http://www.seasidehistory.co.uk/gleneagles...el_torquay.html

It did not look like this when I stayed, but they just spent I think about 15m on reburbishment, it was a private run hotel - a guy called Mr MArks, but he sold it to a chain :( We did have the nice view mind.
http://www.hotel-gleneagles.com/rooms/

When I stayed it was quite bizarre. They paid a lot of attention to detail, but they kept cocking things up! They also did as they felt like. the bar was open al night they said, but onyl when the porter could be arsed. They seemed to play musical chairs with rooms. We stayed a week and had to have 3 different rooms. roflmao The restaurant manager was this very camp gay man who really looked after us. he said we could have breakfast in bed if we wanted, so we agree. But he never told us when it was comign and burst in the room with another guy without letting us get up and dressed and stood chatting to us about how lovely the eggs were while we were hidign under the duvet! roflmao He also fancied the kitchen hand and kept flirting outrageously with him. And every time he went in the kitchen we heard pans fling and arguments! roflmao And their toaster keot breakign down at breakfast causing delays. :wacko: It was a bit old fashioned and old person's place for me, but we had a right laugh. Except for the fact that the record breaking temperatures hit us and the pool was heated despite the 30 degree heat, and the damned fountain was noisy and they could not turn it off. it was outside my room! :wacko: We had drinks with the restaurant manager a few times, he was a really good laugh though. He got in troubel for fraternaising with guests though leading to a huge dramitic arguement in the entertainments lounge. Quality roflmao

You cant; trust any agent though eh?! :wacko: My agent hates me, but the way I see it he will get about 4k out of me for a few hours work so I am going to make him bloody work for me. He's scared of em though, i can tell! He thought he'd got an easy deal as he was delaign with me not my partner, so the 'womn' of the house and the pushover. How wrong he was! roflmao he kees callign me Mrs and I told him to call me Louise, and I'm not bloody married either. :rolleyes:

You are right, and this is more or less what we just decided to do. In fact 2 days back I said to get the house back on until these buyers move their asses. They are moving, but have changed the name of their buyer so George thinks we should get rid of them now if the other lady is serious. I'm gonna ask the agent now to confirm if she can get her survey done next week and take it from there. She did seem a serious buyer and knew what she was doing. We might keep it on the market though until she does her survey, or impose a deadline for this after which it goes back on the market. I've jusy organised my deeds transfer, so much to do. :wacko: I'm nto that stressed mind, surprisingly! It's just that I was nervous abotu moving, and I now know it's wat i really want so just wanting to get on really. And get down for the summer to maximise those beaches and possibly boating opportunites. :)

Just try and stay in touch when the move goes ok ;)

Of course I will. :hug: Once I'v emoved I can get back on here more often! :D

Anyway I'm off for the week, so I'll see you all on the 14ht or thereabouts. :D

Probably missed you SB but just wanted to say thanks for the update - am sorry its turning into such a mare for you though hun :hug:

re your buyers - I dont think I would trust the first ones - theres something that just doesnt sound right about them - hard to tell without actually knowing why they were delaying, but like you, the idea of the son wanting to buy without even seeing the place sounds a little bit odd...

as for what you buy - well, you seem like a gal who knows what she wants and I think if you settle for less you will be getting itchy feet very soon and with all the stress involved in moving, you probably only want to do this once - or at least, not do it again for a very long time, so, though it may be a pain, keep looking and be one hundred - or at least in the 90s - percent happy :)

I wish you luck with it though - it sounds lovely - and has made me think somewhat wistfully bout moving myself - but that wont be for a while - I dont want to uproot the Peblettes - hated that as a child myself. But one day.... :)

Keep the updates coming hun :hug:

The idea of moving horrifies me - I have been in the same house for the last 22 years (well more than half my life) and all I ever did was buy the other half of it when it came up for sale to make a whole. I had to deal with a very devious agent for the vendor over a period of about 3 months. That whole business nearly killed me (along with a truly terrifying x6 mortgage to gross earnings ratio :yikes: ) and I did not sleep for about 4 months after it had all gone through. However, the silver lining is that now, 5 years later, I am jolly glad I did it (so too are mrs. star and the starlet).

So, try and chisel me out of that joint and I would kill you....

Thanks for the advice Pebs :hug: I do knwo what i want but finding exactly what I want is difficult in a pressured timescale and budget. I did find it, but it fell through - I will do an update below. :)

I have totally destroyed those dodgy buyers off now, I've sinstructed my solicitor to get the contracts back off them adn tell them to bugge roff basically. they say they started paying out for searches, but tough. it onyl took them 8 weeks :rolleyes: Anyway the main problem is that 8 weeks down the line we have legally confirmed that they dont; have a mortgage yet, so they can bloody well go screw as far as I'm concerned bunch of time wasters. They've probabaly cost me a deal thsi week tbh.

Anyway next UPDATE .....

I was very optimistic at the start of the week with a couple if properties in mind and under offer and a couple of really good new ones to see. It was however a total emotional rollercoaster for me, I don't recall having such a miserable day of crying my eyes out for many years, nor such a happy day of exvitement and hopes either. In fact George and I nearly split up in the mayhem :o :( :blink: Did us good in a way, things are better than ever now bizarrely :blink: roflmao

Well on day one I find a property in what I orignally deemed as too suburban and far from town. It was however my ideal home - HUGE garden backing onto some woodland, 1930s Lloyd built with the bay windows, stained glass, and original fireplaces etc which I love being a big Art Deco fan. The house needed some work but not too much, and I saw the garden and surrounding land with endless possiblities. Flower beds, orchards, ponds, veg patch, even swimming pools, summer house etc - it was all possible and loads of wildlife too. :D And enough land to park a boat :wub: Well I nearly fainted in excitement. But there were about 30 folks viewing at the same time so this was gonna be in demand alright. Anyway having established that the local pub was fab and asking people in the street what it was like in that area, I discovered this was in demand with locals who want to be slightly out of town and yet great buses and trains to get in, plus great schools making it easy to sell on later. I put in an offer, was told to bugger off. By 5 o'clock I went full asking price, stuff it it was still cheap and I wanted it badly. Then they told me I'd have to wait until Tuesday as it was bank holiday for an answer. :yikes:

Tuesday comes and at 9.01 am I was up on the balcony, pacing about and watching the harbour and the phone rings. Offer rejected, loads of interest, sealed offers in envelopes and a letter to sell yourself as a buyer were needed by 12 noon the next day. Next morring we were sat in a car park in Babbacombe and still deliberating the price with 10 mins to spare. We went a fair bit over asking price, but not so far as to be conned and George ran to the agents with the envelope in hand. On his return we had a huge argument over the price we'd submitted and when that was all over we went back and anxiously got on with things. It took two days to get an asnwer, they rejected our offer as our position wasn't as strong as another buyer as their sale had proceeded almost to exchange. This is the first time I've had to do sealed bids and beleive me with over 10 interested parties I was gutted to be told we had come second. I felt fien for an hour then couldn't stop crying for most of the day, and the next. Pathetic I know but it really got me. :( :( :( Also it was our last week there, six weeks of hunting and changing areas half way through and ending up with nothing was draining indeed.

Anyway I decided I'd got a nice place in hadn as the Victorain oen we saw was still on the market. They rejected my offers before, but said they would take a certain figure that seemed OK, adn we were going back next day to assess the work involved as it did need a lot. I'd tried to go back there a couple of days before but the agent failed to turn up. :angry: I rang to confirm my Friday am appointment adn they told me that they'd just sodl to a higher offer. That was the final straw, I's just had it by then.

Next day I decide best get back on the horse as it were and consider other options, but there was little to see and I upped an offer on a previous one with great sea views albeit small and modern, but the tight fisted buggers said no. Only a few grand off asking price too. :angry: George wasn't happy to give full AP as it was takign the mick and they had not even found a house to move to yet.

I then had an idea ........ and I'll continue in another post as it's a bloody long story! roflmao

Ok, as someone asked here's the next installment. Please excsue my typos I've had a few budvars, dont; tell Geroge though. ;) roflmao

Anyway the day I saw dream home I viewed another house in a less desirable but seemingly rather pleasant location. Not a posh road as such, but I'm nto used to posh so it felt quite homely to me. The houses at the top where this one was was nice enough, adn it was a nice 30s semi with 4 beds, really nice kitchen overlooking the garden, large diner and lounge, very light adn airy as I love and a huge garden. Bit concretey but potential to dig up and replant. Quiet, garage, adn a rather nice distant sea and country view. We dismissed it in favour of the other one and left it. When we did tno get the other though I woke up dreaming abotu this house and had o view a second time. We went roudn there and both loved it. we coudl see the area was not as good but it was Ok nonethless and George realyl started to like it. A bit cheaper than we had expected too. So I put in an offer on Saturday. They wanted 235k, i offered 223k. They said bugger off, I said fair enough (I wanted 228k) and we offered 225k. they said they wanted 30k, we said onyl if you pay th stamp duty which meant a real terms sale of 27, 700. they said no. I urged them to consider again, said our postion was goood to move quick and that they would benefit so we should get a discount offf this 230k figure they wanted. I had a phonecall toady sayign that they wanted 229k. I said 228k final offer, they agreed. So Yayyyyyyy, or so it seemed.......

Well we knew this wasn't a dead posh area and our sister in law's ma lived nearby and so re assumed it was OK in the less posh bit nearby. We heard the neighbour was a solictor and also the other a builder. Looked like an average area to me and so fine. And a nice big park and school playing field to walk on nearby. However, I did loads of house detective stuff toady adn called up a few contacts. The one place NOT to live is Hele, this place borders it and there ha sbeen loads fo trouble round the corner and my fear is that it could spread to my doorstep. The school really is the crappiest in town and no one wants to live near it or send their kids there so ti seems. George's sister wont; move in there and says there are druggies in the park at night, and my research confirmed the abundanc eof needles in the woods.! :yikes: I notice an awful lot fo residential businessess in the road, inc my very own neighbour - inc builders, plumbers, cleaners, sound systems and coach travel. I've had the biggest neighbour disputes over businesses interfering with my peace and quiet in the past in my last 2 houses and dont; want it again. Nothign against in in principle but ....... Now I coudl put up with tings and see what happens, but is doubt I will sell up easily there. It's a lovely hoem but one of the most expenisve there, so those who want to live there wont; afford it.

Now having spoken to the family and stuff, who have a vested interest with cash and movign there too, I've been told to pull out. Shame as I felt happy after last week's dissappointments and this home seemed to tick every box but I'm going to pull out tomorrow first thing after what I've discovered today. And what is even more spooky - Hele is nearby and considered rough, the people sellign the house are called Mr and Mrs ........ HELE!!!!! :yikes: roflmao I reckon that is a big sign nto to buy so I'm out of this one.

So the summary is that SB finds nic ehouse, gets offer accepted then has to pull out! Great. This is driving me insane. roflmao

Anyway, saw a new house on today, looks great. Know where it is, I'm gonna offer tommorrow on it without even viewing and send Geroge's sister round there to view. roflmao I can always pull out, but it does look rather good. Never offered on a house I never saw before , must be going crazy. :D

Sounds interesting, although Im sure you must be fed up by now and just want to move in!

*offers UL Budvar*

SB hun :hug: you're really going through it with this one. Our horror story was selling a house - at the depth of the slump in the early 90's it took us 18 months and all the while I was commuting from Worcester to Maidenhead every day.

We also had one of the sealed bids to go through, but the buyer was such an obvious greedy sod that we pulled out and told the estate agent why - he looked very crestfallen and said that lots of other buyers had done the same for exactly the same reason - the sellers were total see you next tuesdays!!

Don't lose heart SB, there is the perfect house there for you... Just may take a while longer to find it that's all

:hug: :hug: :kiss2:

All the best with it SB - the board has certainly missed your dynamism! :)

Thanks Sam :hug: Unfortunately all my dynamism has been thrown into a fruitless house hunt! Serena is right, I just want to bloody move somewhere. I cleared my house out in March, I've got boxes ready to go and given as we hardly have any furntiure or posessions worth taking, the move should be quick and cheap! roflmao

I've already left this area in my head. I've even jacked in my Avon round :D and I've made plans as to how to get some cash in when I do move. Hosting foreign students is one option, and they are REALLY desperate for hosts so they will even take moi. :D You get about 200 quid a week for each one! My job is to give them a few meals and introduce them to English culture, so I'll take them down the pub then! roflmao Apparently they are supposed to pull their weight in the house, so that's the cleaning and shopping taken care of! roflmao There's plenty of voluntary work to get me back into what i used to do for charity, i.e. advocate/support worker for disabled people, learning difficulties and mental health which i miss like hell, and I've even made a few contacts that will offer me some seasonal work in hotel/restaurants, which I really don't mind doing casually at all for the fun and a few extra quid.

I'm trying to balance my overwhelming desire to move asap though so as I don't make a huge mistake with what I buy. But I soooo want to move now. If I dotn't go soon I will go off the idea and end up staying here. I even looked at rentals down there but really noo too good.

We've got a couple of spare rooms SB - and a Fridge and cupboards full of booze! :D

Thanks for your encouragement Lex :hug: :hug: :hug:

Your story sounds terrible, not sure I could have coped with that. My trouble seems to be not selling my house cos I've done that twice over and very quickly, but buying. Partly our fault because me and George are both a bit committment phobic when it comes to huge purchases (plus he is tight fisted just like his dad! :D ) For a while we were hoping to be wowed by houses. we certainyl saw wow factors, but also huge downsides. And when I went sensible on house choices Geroge got rather bored and slagged them all off! he's regretting it nwo though that such houses have sold and were safe bets, but we've learn a lot form this so really it has probably been a good experince for us both. Plus I've seen abotu 40 odd houses and I've only really hated a couple, so it's been interesting to see what is out there.

We've learnt a lot about the areas to live in and what each is like and what kind of houses to expect for each area and price, so it's gonna make things easier. :ok: Dont; forget when we went down there we'd only got tourist knowledge and had nto viewed anything for about 4 years.
The way things are going I might even get a job with an estate agent, in fact one offered me a Saturday job a few weeks back roflmao

In fact at some point I must tell a few tales of house viewings that were fun or went hideously wrong and post some pics. :)

OK then, will 30 quid a week cover it? I drive a very hard bargain! roflmao

That's just to cover the aclohol roflmao

OK, deal cos I will drink at least 50 quid's worth I reckon! roflmao

:o roflmao

me and my parents moved house two weeks ago, we did get the keys for the new house till 3.20pm :yikes: but where in and sorted now :)

hope things start getting better for you SB :hug:

Thanks BC :hug: Glad your move got sorted, albeit late. I remember when we moved here, first and only house we've ever bought. They kept changing the draft completion date just as we were about to move. I was so stressed. When we moved in, I was at work and had to pick up the keys on my way in. they were nto ready, and I was realyl panicing. I got them in the afternoon, had to nip out from work, coem roudn here and check the place then go back to work. The house stank of damp and dogs, as it was high summer and we'd had really hto humid weather and loads fo thunder storms. I thought :yikes: what have I bought? But it was Ok once we'd fumigated the place and sorted the damp areas!

Hey saw you on facebook BC! :D

Sorry SB was tied up yesterday with IT guy :blink: so only just seen this.

*offers SB UL Janx x 3*
Crikey you could write a book on all the events of the past few months. At least you had the sense to check out the area fully with this last house and yes you iwll find the right HOME :hug:

God, just think if you had moved in and then started hearing negative comments about the area and neigbouring areas, that would have been devastating. Sounds to me like you are pretty much doing everything right, and there was nothing wrong in perhaps being over cautious in the early days, you have learnt a lot from it.

Good luck and don't lose heart :kiss2: :D Besides I am looking forward to the mother of all moving in parties later this year. :D :clap: :yahoo: :party:

Thanks Mo :hug: :hug: :hug: I am going to have such a moving in party I tell you, and you'll of course be on the list so get your limo ready. B)

Tbh I knew the area wasnt; all that, but I thought it was just average, a bit like where I have lived all the time really. There were council homes round the corner, but then to me that doesn't mean all bad. My home is ex-council now, and I was born in a post war ouncil house so I'm no snob. Thing is though, the area is rather deprived and it's where everyone goes that has nowhere better to go. Now where the house is is lovely, all 30s built and quiet, very respectable. But you have the estate and the school in walking distance so best be on the safe side. Besides I would not feel safe gong out at night alone, so best nto move if you have reservations.

So you were tied up with the It man? Sound fun, was he any good? roflmao

:huh: She's supposed to be concentrating on her house hunting.

I'm trying to work out what the phrase "tied up" is hiding! :D

Btw, SB, I see a lot of comments about "pulling out", and aside from the various crude jokes I could make, is there not some financial penalty for that? Here, if you make an offer on a house, you're generally expected to put down some "earnest money" that you don't necessarily get back if you pull out of the deal.

i'm amazed you resisted the crude joke, trouble!

roflmao Yeah well it's him that put me off my stride when I was measuring up the bedroom. Don't tell geroge now will you. ;) :D