Holy moly

I cannot take much more.

No really

My limited erudition has gone and left me.

We have agreed to sell

Ahh but we have not quite agreed to buy.

So as it stands we will be out of here in mid October.

But we will not have anywhere to live.


Anyone know a good campsite?


Rhys



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The significance of sandals.

Sandals are great things; light, comfortable, easily thrown on, don't fill with sand, save on washing socks, mind you she says I do that anyway. Change socks when they go to holes...

Sandals are a symbol of summer, you know the summer is here when I get my sandals out; when I casually walk across the grass fields. There is something nice and light and free.

So tomorrow I go into trainers, it might well just be the start of september but the fire is lit in the living room another of our annual rituals.

Time for trainers, boots come next.

Stess is getting us both now, she has retired to the bath and I am siting here contemplating the corkscrew.

I will be glad to get this house selling done.

teeeenshun

The suspense here is killing.

I have the inastate agent off trying to get a price knocked down.

Then I have another inastate agent with another property we might here about soon, certainly the vendor has taken a break from chasing Kangaroos to give him a bell.

Then this morning by accident the management and I stumbled across another house.

It would really be camping out for us for a while if we went there, really basic with a capital "really". More like a rebuild he started half a dozen different projects on and finished none of them.


Would have to be bloody careful around social services too, make sure it's my own kids who are living in the caravan, then of course you would have the looked after kids complaining that they were not!!

But they say location is all the this is in the right location and might even be close to the right price.

Now I find this sort of thing both hard and a little bit exciting, Adrenaline junkie that I am.

Management cannot handle it at all. I am my usual serene easy to live with self, she is close to rabid.....

Selling a house, bring on the valium...

So of course it's now our turn.

I have to go and buy a house, this is actually not so bad. I know what I want and what I want to pay.

We have had one house in mind for a while and the price is moving towards the area of right. So yesterday afternoon I put in a bid and sat back. Turns out the vendor has flown the country and moved back to Oz where her current address is a camper van. "A camper Van OZ". I can anticpate a problem sending her a letter....

So anyway much talking to ourselves, a quick drive round to look at a few others from over the garden wall and well I made an offer on another house. But this one has been on for over a year and the asking price reflects values when it went on.

I had the kind of conversation with the inastate agent they really hate. You know:

R: "I don't want a huge protracted negociation, you need to get the most money for your client but you don;t want them sat there for 5 years waiting to sell either."

A: "Quite"

So far so good.

R: "There's no point wasting each others time, it was on for 450 (Thousand) that means you thought it was worth 425 personally I think that was a bit strong too, and that was last year so since then the market has shifted, 350 would be realistic so if I offer 370 that would be top money"

A"This is no way enough and an offer has to start with 4."

R: Laughs.

A: "In fact the client wants closer to 425."

R: "I want to sell my scrap rover car for 4000 pounds too. Do you really want a sale?"

A: "yes but...."

R: "And you have had lots of offers of that sort of money?"

A: "No but....."

R: "And there have been loads of viewings at that money?"

A: "There have been a few"

R: "Really? When I phoned last week and said I had viewed the place they asked me if I was Mr H or Mr Sims. That would make errh 2"

A: "Yes but"

R: "So really when I said that 450 was a bit strong back in June when I viewed I was not too far out"

A: "well, perhaps it was."

R: "So I suppose your client needs to decide if they want to sell now or wait 4 or 5 years for the market to recover."

A: "They would accept 425."

R: "I bet they would, in the current market, if I was them I bite my hands off! I have offered 370 and that is all I will go to"

A "But the offer really has to start with 4 to be seriously considered"

R: "I am not a charitable grant giving body I can only offer what it's worth"

etc etc.

But this is the rub, things must be a bit desperate, I was chatting to my estate agent and explained the situation to him. How I cannot accept the other guys offer till I have somewhere to go, I cannot camp in December. So the estate agent who is selling for me has offered to see what he can negociate with the other estate agent who is selling to me.

Things must be tight in for inastate agents....

R

Strange old world

The Americans are indulging in self congratulation at how well and despite the village idiot they managed to cope with the threat of Gustav. They have 80 helicopters on standby.

Meanwhile in India they are screaming out for help for boats and helicopters without either people are going to die and have been dying.

Funny innit, still it could be worse, if they had oil India would probably have been invaded.

Strange times we live in though.

Russia goes steaming into Georgia in defence of it's gas pipelines and suddenly such actions are illegal. And MR Brown is very upset.

Would that not have made our little land grab to stop Saddam trading his oil in Euros a weee bit illegal too.

Mind you had Saddam really started to trade oil in Euros, then the Dollar would have been worth less than toilet roll and the whole world economic edifice collapsed a whole lot sooner.

God I hope I can swing this house deal.

R

Offer offer cash in the coffer - maybe....

Now, I am not entirely clear who reads this so I will be a bit circumspect.

We have now had a credible offer, fair old whack off the asking price but it is do able.

Do able in that if we can cut a deal on the other house we have in mind the arithmetic will work.

Ohh deary deary, we will not know that till tomorrow.

Management has gone out to buy clothes for the kids leaving me here biting my nails.

I am either excited or need valium. Think I might need to use the corkscrew later.

R

The games people play......

OK I confess I am still in bed.

I know, I know, I should be out of bed and doing things.

It's 9.20 and all I have managed so far is drink a cup of coffee.

Inastate agent calls, mysteriously he wants to see me in the office at 11.30 and he won't say why.

The games people play.....

Best you all come back and see what he said.

Management is getting very jumpy - but, she won't come with me.