The Potting Shed

Aqui · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject: I need a rant...

You don't need to read this, I just need to rant....

Several things are annoying me today....

I am so sick of cleaning and decorating. When T's here i spend all my time cleaning, until J wants me, then T has to leave the room as he's too much of a distraction. It feels like we've hardly seen each other lately.

I am sick of the smell of paint. I have gloss paint that will not come out of my hands and I have more grey hairs than when I started (although again, that's the gloss paint).

Our mortgage adviser (who is a friend of my parents) has annoyed me too as initially he said my passport would be fine as ID with marriage certificate as it's in my maiden name. Then he said it would probably be ok, but the lender might turn us down. Now he's saying I need to get it changed. If he'd said that at the beginning, we'd be on a lower rate now as I would've had time to get it sorted, but now we have to wait another month or hwever long.

I am currently painting the grouting in the bathroom as it just will not come clean. How ridiculous is that?

And I got some quotes for cleaning the hall carpet (to get the paint out of it, from previous decorating) - they say they cannot guarantee that the paint will come out, so we'd pay them and then have to clean it ourselves. So sod it.

I have no idea how much we might be offered for our house, considering the current climate which is entirely fabricated anyway. And therefore I don't know how much we can offer or what might be accepted. Part of me thinks we should just wait until the market settles. But who knows how long that'll take. We could still be living here when J leaves home.

And then there's thoughts of being stuck here with an energetic toddler running about the place. Then garden is just not big enough for the two of us.

We're so close to finishing the pre-putting-on-the-market spruce up, but every step we get closer, we seem to move two further away as I find something else we need to do. I just do not think anyone will want this place: the decoration is really tatty and the colours are all bright/dark - all the colours they say you shouldn't have when selling, the flat is damp (although I'm cleaning off and painting the evidence of this), and I just hate it right now.
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Bovey Belle · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

It does wear you down, but whatever you do you can't make a place absolutely perfect to sell. Someone is always going to come along and whilst they might say, oh I don't like that purple you have in there, there are others that will say gosh, I don't do magnolia - first thing we'd do is to paint it a different colour.

The housing market is in an odd state at the moment, but as "they" insist that prices are falling, perhaps a good idea to put it on the market and see if you attract any buyers, and then at least you will be making an effort. Folks may come along and put in a much lower offer, but then that's normally a base from which you work up, and it also gives you the same bargaining ploy when YOU go house-hunting.

You don't know until you try do you? I would hire a carpet cleaner and do the job yourself if no guarantees about the paint. We have an absolutely wonderful house, on the whole, but if you saw it when it was raining yesterday, with blocked guttering causing the water to spew down the walls as there was nowhere else for it to go (and no way can we reach one lot of guttering, it was a scaffold job to put it up there) you will know that no place is perfect. Give a couple of estate agents a call and see what they reckon. ((((HUGS))))
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nanny-now and forever · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject:

i agree with bovey.......you can't please all of the people all of the time...

apparently to sell your house you have to de-personalise, take everything of yourself away so tha tpeople can envisage their own stuff ....we couldn't do all that so we just painted every room in the house and wiated to see what would happen

it was a horrible time and i hated every moment of it

some people shouldn't even have bothered to have a look as they were clearly not looking for a house like mine

i really feel for you acqui and wish you all the luck in the world

but you won't know unless you try and you dont' want to end up saying "what if"

Kathy · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject:

I've never been in your position Aqui, but I can send (((((((HUGS)))))).

Becki · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject:

Have a

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browneyes · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:59 pm Post subject:

Aaaaaaaaaaaa never mind Aqui it will all turn out alright in the end

TheGirlsMum · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:30 am Post subject:

We only completed one room and then decided to slow down just like the market here.... there are soooooo many houses up for sale at the moment here that we are taking just one step at a time. You are right though you just complete one job and find hundreds of others.

You'll get there when the time is right for you.
Take an extra 5 minute sit down and deep breaths.
Take care.

Libby · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:20 am Post subject: Re: I need a rant...