Moving!!

Morning, not sure if I'm on correct thread, long story short can anyone give me pros and come of residential living, like a permanent home on a dedicated site. I have a dog and an 18 daughter, would they be allowed?
We are trying to sell our home atm and i fear this is all i would be able to afford.

Kimpayne, it would be a good idea to start your own thread about this.
You'd be more likely to get answers.
Sorry I don't know anything about your problem.

New thread Kimpayne will help. ?

Bazza sometimes these things are meant to be - I think it's great that you've taken the decision to let your sale go through. If your offer on the bungalow is not accepted then something better will come along and you will be in a better position to bargain with the seller. Twice we've had our house up for sale over the years and taken it off the market again - the last time 3 years ago as we just couldn't find the right area to move to. Thank goodness we did as we have now bought a bungalow back in our old home town we left 40 years ago and are in the process of renovating it. We still don't know if it's where we want to live permanently but as time goes on and having reconnected with family and friends there we can see this being the decision we make. It did take ages to go through though - the days of agreeing a sale and moving in only taking about 6 weeks seem to have long gone.

Good luck - I hope you find your dream home but if this one isn't it there will be one out there when the time is right.

bazza wouldn’t that be good!

Anyone moving home please learn from my experience. I went online in plenty of time to organise our postal redirection. I heard nothing from Royal Mail so went to the sorting office to ask and was told that they knew their were problems with doing it online. They suggested I call the number on the website which I did and spoke to nasty Nick who seemed to enjoy telling me that it had been blocked as RM already had my email address so they knew I was a fraud! He would have done it for me there and then but at an extra charge! I suggested that they could have written and told me but he said that would have alerted me that I was a fraud.

I went into a Post Office and did it manually but by that time it was too late to get in place before the move. I was very fortunate to live where the chaps at the sorting office are really kind and they did an unofficial hold on my post until the redirection came through.

You can download the form and take it into the PO but don't do it online under any circumstances. I don't even know why they had my email address!

Thanks everyone. I’ve just spoken to the agent and said if our offer was not accepted by tomorrow we will withdraw it. We’re not playing games, just had enough. And I do believe if it’s not meant to be, well it’s just not. Something out there has our name on it.

Thanks nonnie for your warning about post office. Will keep that in mind.

Had long chat with agent yesterday, the owners still hanging out for more money, so offer withdrawn. They have messed us about so much, goodness only knows what the whole buying process would have been like. So back to the drawing board. Apparently when school hols are over there are new houses coming on to the market, not convinced, but sometching out there has our names on it. Not stressing at the moment!

I have been wondering how you were getting on. Im sure you’ve made the right decision. For some reason they’re not serious about moving.

I’m on the hunt for a new place too.

Good luck!

Getting the timescales matched up, for selling one house and buying another, seems to be immensely difficult and stressful.
If I were moving, I think I'd prefer to sell my own property first, then rent while looking for a new one.

I'm glad you've disentangled yourselves from those "sellers" Bazza. They sounded like bad news.

Just about to put our property on the market. We’ve viewed a house that we really like but realistically we would not be in a position to buy even if they’d come down to our price. We just have to be positive and wait for that house that’s meant for us to come along. However, we would not be able to afford to rent in between selling and buying - that would take a serious chunk of our savings, not only in rent but also in storage fees.

You've done the right thing. We had an offer accepted and then nothing happened. Our buyers were in a hurry to move in and our estate agent talked us into looking at a house we hadn't considered. It wasn't in her area she was just being helpful. We move in next week and are so glad we dropped out of the other purchase. I am convinced that we got a good price for our new home because we had already exchanged contracts, I think we were too good to let go. We were very fortunate to buy from lovely people who could not have been kinder or more obliging.

To anyone who read my first post. I gave the sellers an ultimatum, and they refused our final offer, so we withdrew the offer. We then found something else which we actually preferred, put an offer in which was accepted. Two days later the agent got in touch again and said they were now willing to take our offer! I had huge satisfaction in saying which part of withdrawn offer didn’t they understand.

I wish I could say happy conclusion, but the couple in the new bungalow haven’t found anything. Our buyer is very keen to move in. I know nothing about rental. Obviously don’t want to spend a fortune on renting. We will not make anything from the move, with costs quite the reverse! Both our dd have offered shelter, but they don’t really have the room, and I think it would be v stessful for all of us!

I was vaguely thinking of a caravan but can’t find anything on line. Any suggestions?

I’m in my 13th home as we had to move across the country for my husbands work so I am an experienced buyer/seller.
My advice is rent, it means you are in a really good position to get the right house.
Don’t loose your buyer.
It is a far less frantic buying when you’re in rented accommodation, the main advantage being that you can get any work done in your new home at your leisure.

If you can get a caravan with heating and all mod cons in it, it will probably cost nearly as much as a decent rented house, plus the storage costs you will have to find.
if you don’t rent then you are likely to lose your buyer and have to start over again.
People who are able to complete quickly with no chain, are always in a good position to by.
Sounds as though the choice might be taken out of your hands, if your buyer finds something else. We didn’t stop looking at other properties until we exchanged on our preferred house, just in case.

Bazza We are renting unfurnished, having sold our last house and now just exchanged on the next one. Renting has taken much of the stress out of the buying process, but it was a bit hairy actually finding somewhere to rent. Many landlords were really looking for long term tenants particularly for decent sized houses.

For our last move we sold first then rented while we looked for somewhere to buy. Can honestly say it was the least stressful move ever and will always do this in future. Probably a bit more expensive but I value my health and sanity!

The value of a house is the price someone is prepared to pay for it. This bungalow has been on the market for a year and you, Bazza are the first to offer for it, so the price you offer is the market price for it. The fact that the sellers want a higher price so that they can buy a property each is irrelevant. No-one is going to pay more than the market price for their house just to make life easier for them.

Set the sellers an ultimatum. Exchange within a fortnight and out a month later. If they turn you down, pull out. There is no point hanging on hoping to buy a house the sellers are clearly not serious about selling.

In the meanwhile go ahead with your sale, move out into rented accommodation or sofa surf. If you lose your purchaser, you are right back to square one, needing to find a buyer and a bungalow. As a cash buyer you will easily be able to get a reduction on your future property that will cover these costs.

We were in this position some time ago when market was slow. We sold when we had a buyer and rented, then were able to look around at leisure and also haggle the price of property which we found as we were in an advantageous position. Hope it works out for you. MOnica is so right. A property is only worth what someone will pay, not what a vendor wants necessarily.

Bazza you'll just have to do the ultimatum thing and set a time-scale with the new vendors. Presumably there's no reason why they can't rent, to allow you to complete and move in, is there?
Good luck. It's 30 years since I last moved house, but it was a horrid, nail-biting, bluff-calling experience which I'm in no hurry to repeat.

It's not down to you to pay over the odds just so they can buy two houses.

I would rent for a while. As cash buyers you would be in a very strong position.

Feeling sorry for you Bazza.
We've just finished a move from France to England and it must have added 10 years onto my life.
The biggest worry was selling in France, which took a few years. Final agreement July last year. Then preparing to move, selling things etc.
We had intended to move into our own bungalow in SE England which we had rented out but the tenants wouldn't leave.
After 4 months of 'sofa surfing' we gave up on that idea and managed to buy very quickly a cheap little house up north. Where I come from. No chain and we had the cash TG.
Some say you end up in the home that's right for you.

We’re hopefully in the process of swapping our 3 bed detached house for a 3 bed detached bungalow. Our house went on the market on the Monday, buyer saw it Thursday, we saw hers Friday, job done.

My fingers and everything else are firmly crossed, could it possibly be that easy?

I personally would sell your home, then that's one thing already done.
Having sold you are in a really good position to purchase other properties which means you may get a better deal, more for your money. You are then the perfect purchaser.
Start looking for other properties but still keep the original one on the back boiler.
The couple who are selling clearly have problems but these are not your problems. This is a business transaction feeling sorry for them is not on the agenda, it's what is good for you and your husband.
Living for a short time with family and friends is not ideal but it won't last forever. Have a good sort out get rid of things and put the rest in storage.
That's my own personal opinion but what ever you do the best of luck.

This is my first ever post. I am sixty and was widowed fourteen and half years ago. I have a daughter and son both married and three grandsons. My husband wanted to make it to his forty seventh birthday he died four days later. Our children live in Liverpool. They both went to university there. I told them both if they could get jobs and a life they were to stay. Which they did. I stayed in the West Midlands . I helped my mom look after my dad until he died three years after my husband. I then looked after mom for ten years. She died last year. I put my house on the market in March and accepted an offer in June. In July I found a bungalow in Crosby to buy. Everything was going well. Contracts where due to exchange on 7th and complete on 14th. My buyers solicitor tried to contact her on the 7th and everyday. I was then told on the 12th she was pulling out. I was having all my furniture etc put into storage on 13th as my bungalow was two weeks at from completion. I was going to stay with my daughter . I have since found out that she went into rented accommodation on 7th. Which meant she had already organised it and must have known for weeks she was going to do this. How can anyone be so cruel. I haven't been this upset since my husband died. My house is back on the market but I have lost the bungalow. Has this happened to anyone else?