Selling Buying & Moving House...Aaarrrgghh

The two times I've sold & bought, I've sold first and moved into rented for a few months to get the right property. Worked for me both times, but then I've always been mighty suspicious of the one-go sell->buy process, and equally sceptical about giving in to perceived market pressure. More important to get the sale done and buy the right house. 

Some people seem to sell and buy houses more often than I change underwear. I don't know how they cope with it. Very stressful, as you say. Lots of people with their hands out for a slice of the transaction.

Keeping fingers crossed.

I intensely dislike moving. The worst was moving from one country to another - done it 4 times....

Our first move in 20 years...Out in one of the boxes next time!

Got an ‘economy’ pack and removal service. Guy turns up this morning with his pregnant wife and surly twenty-something son...but hey, locust-like, they have packed nearly everything away!

G

I'm definitely leaving my house feet first. I hope the grieving relict can get a fair price for the black boxes.

Those photos in "Stuff I Love"--is that where you're going, or is that what you're leaving?

JRHardee posted:

I'm definitely leaving my house feet first. I hope the grieving relict can get a fair price for the black boxes.

Those photos in "Stuff I Love"--is that where you're going, or is that what you're leaving?

Neither sadly...houses I design for richer folks than us!

G

Good Luck Graemeh I did it once and stayed put.

Thanks...Surrounded by boxes now for the big move tomorrow. How will the kit sound in the new room I wonder?

G

Good luck, Graeme. House moves are notoriously stressful but once in and settled the pain eases and memories fade. You'll be able to laugh about it eventually.  

Thanks...we’re not moving far so my daughter had a sneaky walk past the new place. The present owners are removing stuff it seems. 

Virgin Media engineer coming on Saturday afternoon so hopefully able to get the naim up and running asap.

G

We're in! 7:00pm tonight so a bit after the promised 'noon'...which box are the glasses in I wonder...

G

Surely the priority is the box with the Scotch in it, Graeme? Anyway, nice to know that you're in.  A mixture of relief and growing excitement I suspect.

M 

Congratulations on you move, I went through the process this time last year after 16 years in our previous home.

It's definitely a stressful business... 

I needed a small mortgage, but the process in obtaining said small mortgage was extremely frustrating, the mortgage company wanted to know every last detail, how many toilet rolls you use in a week!! How many times you have a coffee at Costa during the month!!! Ect ect  ridiculous process 

Our removal company turned up with the wrong size van, which meant instead of being out of our house by 2pm it was closer to 6pm, I received a call from purchasers solicitors with penalty threats for being late, although they were not moving in until 3 days later.

Normally I am very laid back, but I'm  sure the process has aged me 10 years....

Fortunately I have an extremely helpful son in law (finkfan) , who helped move all my Naim boxes and helped in numerous other ways....

Safe to say it's been a good move....and certainly no desire to repeat the process any time soon.

Enjoy unpacking all those boxes...hopefully you have found the box with the wine glass's in..

Congrats on your new home, get those black boxes plugged in & warming through & a bottle of something open...

wenger2015 posted:

Congratulations on you move, I went through the process this time last year after 16 years in our previous home.

It's definitely a stressful business... 

I needed a small mortgage, but the process in obtaining said small mortgage was extremely frustrating, the mortgage company wanted to know every last detail, how many toilet rolls you use in a week!! How many times you have a coffee at Costa during the month!!! Ect ect  ridiculous process 

Our removal company turned up with the wrong size van, which meant instead of being out of our house by 2pm it was closer to 6pm, I received a call from purchasers solicitors with penalty threats for being late, although they were not moving in until 3 days later.

Normally I am very laid back, but I'm  sure the process has aged me 10 years....

Fortunately I have an extremely helpful son in law (finkfan) , who helped move all my Naim boxes and helped in numerous other ways....

Safe to say it's been a good move....and certainly no desire to repeat the process any time soon.

Enjoy unpacking all those boxes...hopefully you have found the box with the wine glass's in..

Thanks and this mirrors our scenario almost exactly wenger2015...It’s life shortening!

G

NFG posted:

Congrats on your new home, get those black boxes plugged in & warming through & a bottle of something open...

Thanks NFG!

Super helpful Virgin Media engineer has just left - Best £20 I’ve ever spent! T’internet and wifi all up and running.

Now time for some smaller speakers that fit the room...White Proac T10 high on my list.

Champagne in fridge!

G

This new Superhub has much better wifi - Naim app up and running with the 272/250Dr playing (temporarily) into a pair of tiny Denon (Mission) ‘speakers perched on the fireplace.

Sounds just a wee bit terrible...

G

GraemeH posted:

This new Superhub has much better wifi - Naim app up and running with the 272/250Dr playing (temporarily) into a pair of tiny Denon (Mission) ‘speakers perched on the fireplace.

Sounds just a wee bit terrible...

G

If you have a glass or 3 of wine, it will most likely sound much better.....

I don't envy you the stress of the suddenly threatened delay to posession - that is certainly something you could have done without. Sounds like the worst is over, now comes the pleasure(!) of unpacking boxes, and wondering where to put things. My priority is always beds, toiletries and enough clothes for the next couple of days, essential kitchen things, and getting the hifi set up, even if only a temporary setup (and sorting kids when they were children).

I've moved home 11 times since first setting up my own home, with involving 7 house purchases. Moving has increased in stress as time has gone by, the last two being particularly fraught - in  part at least due to by then having children, though on the last occasion mainly due to the removal company under-estimating the task, so we were rushing to get everything out, with the incoming purchaser sitting outside for an hour waiting! At the opposite end of the scale, on one occasion I had the luxury of a property overlap, which made it very easy. 

I can see the attraction of moving into rented accomodation while looking for somewhere, but it has significant negative as well - double the removal effort, or living without much of my stuff for an extended period, as well as the monetary cost. But the biggest difficulty in moving house is finding somewhere that meets my requirements, which can take a long time - which eitherr means potentially a long time in rented accomodation, or an inability to commit to sale of my existing house, which then becomes a significant pressure (unless able to afford an overlap). Maybe the rental idea is better - but a room suitable as a music room is always a fundamental requirement.

Thanks for the shared pain stories.

It’s slowly beginning to feel more like our place...choons certainly help. Still boxes piled high like a hoarders paradise though.

G

Congratulations on the move, Graeme. We've had quite stressful moments in both our last two moves, mostly associated with timing and especially solicitors. Now, thankfully, that has all faded into distant memory. One of the positives of moving house though is the opportunity to chuck out some stuff you don't really need. It's quite therapeutic too, I find.

Clive B posted:

...One of the positives of moving house though is the opportunity to chuck out some stuff you don't really need. It's quite therapeutic too, I find.

I swear I had a wife in my last house...(Joke, we are 26 years happy this year!)

G

We ended up filling two skips, with a various assortment of stuff either kept in the attic or garage or shed, I'm embarrassed to say some of the attic boxes had not been touched from out previous move 16 years ago.... 

as Clive B posted it was quite therapeutic 

I’m pretty good at chucking stuff out but my wife is quite the opposite. We’ve brought too much stuff and also have stuff in storage!  The travel cot in the loft was a concerning find...

G

We've moved two years ago - same building, just two floors down. Some stuff is still in storage. And actually I can no longer recall what's there...

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