Moving!

Moving day. I’m exhausted. We were up till late trying to get the last things packed, then I was up for 8am to get things moved downstairs. We hired a truck that came with two strong guys to lift, but it was charged by the hour and we really wanted to keep everything under 3hours. So we moved all the furniture outside

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I came to the house to let Nicks dad in so he could finish the painting in the laundry and Nick stayed with the furniture fending off vutlturistic garage salers. It wasn’t a garage sale! It was all our furniture we needed!

In the end we got all the furniture on and then off the truck at our new house in under 2hours!

The mover guys were amazing. Not only did they get the truck down our very long skinny drive but they were so efficient. Most things are set up now and unpacked, but theres still so much to do. 

The only major drama was the fridge. It was just too tall for the designated space. So out came to hack saw and down came the microwave shelf. Now Nick has somewhere to store his bottles of alcohol and fizzy and our fridge fits.

Finished.

Amazing. Everything is ready, we can move in tomorrow. That is if Nick ever packs.

We go the house cleaned and all the painting done. It’s just the laundry that needs finishing, but no rush.

Now I just need to pack, it’s going to be a long night.

Un-Conditional!

We went un-conditional! It's our house no one elses, all ours.

The agent said they've had so many calls, people wanting to see the house. It's been very popular, at least that's reassuring for re-sale.

I thought putting an offer in on a house was stressful, well I can now say getting all the conditions met is even more so.

We offered alot more than the rateable value of the house, so we were so worried our finance wouldn't come though. Lucky for us we found a very nice honest valuer .
The house value came up more than we had offered!

Our finance was accepted, our lawyer did the title search and all we had to do was wait for the LIM report.

We waited, and waited and waited. It finally came back on Tuesday, there were no problems and we were able to go un-conditional on Wednesday.

Settlement day is October 15th, so now I need to choose paint!

Exciting!

No I'm not just excited that my darling is working nights and I wont see him all weekend...actually thats not a happy thought at all! I am excited because finally everything is going right.

On Tuesday I was out of class, still feeling very despondent, yet starting to get back some detirmination. I was finding it hard to concentrate on my planning, so decided to search houses.

I found one that had just been listed, was under our budget, had 3 bedrooms and was in a nice area.
Soon as I got home I showed mum, who was very kind and rang up the agent for me while I made dinner.
We went to see the house Wednesday with Nicks dad and loved it.
Thursday we got the agent to drop off the papers so we could make an offer and arranged to go back with a friend of the family, who is a builder and dad on the Friday.

When we arrived we were suprised to see other people there, four other groups were seeing it at the same time. There was so much interest in the property. The agents told us that the offer they had said would be coming in, came in that afternoon. So it was going to be multiple offers. My heart sank. We've had bad experiences with multiple offers. We went home and got our offer sorted and handed it in.

The house went on the market Monday, we saw it Wednesday and by Friday there were three offers.

It was a very nerve racking hour and a half while we waited for news...
and finally the phone rang and we were told congratulations.

So we bought our very first house!