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So, bird may be taking up an opportunity to start up a new office for her company miles away from Nottingham up in the Lake District.
I'm not averse to the idea. Quite like it. I'd be nearer both seaside and mountains and given I spend most of my weekends trying to get close to either or, preferably, both then from a things-I-like-to-do standpoint it makes a lot of sense.
She'd get a hike in pay. I'd be f00king miles away from work (but that's a side issue).
So, I've been looking at properties. If I'm going to move I'm not going to move to some shithole. I'm going to buy a home, not a house.
Presuming financing is not going to be an issue (which it may well be, she's got most of a small mortgage left to pay on her current house and I'm self-employed - and neither of us are wanting to sell our respective houses, rather mine's rented and her's would get rented) then I don't think I'm getting ahead of myself looking.
And, somewhat annoyingly, I've found a flood-damaged grade II listed building that's up for auction. Ground floor needs tanking. Rest of the ground floor indoors needs doing up (unlikely that anything can be done externally as it's listed). It's about as energy inefficient as a house is able to be and I daresay insurance could be tricky short-term.
It's where I want it to be, it's the size I want it to be and it's the type of house I love at the top end of what I reckon we could afford.
So. Advice.
1) Am I mad?
2) Anyone experience of buying houses at auction?
3) Has anyone any experience with listed buildings / consents etc?
4) How much does it cost to tank a building?
5) Flood damage is due to a culvert that was blocked that highways agency is due to replace. What's the chances of insurance being totally f00ked?
6) What am I not thinking about?
Answers not on a postcard but in this thread please
I'm not averse to the idea. Quite like it. I'd be nearer both seaside and mountains and given I spend most of my weekends trying to get close to either or, preferably, both then from a things-I-like-to-do standpoint it makes a lot of sense.
She'd get a hike in pay. I'd be f00king miles away from work (but that's a side issue).
So, I've been looking at properties. If I'm going to move I'm not going to move to some shithole. I'm going to buy a home, not a house.
Presuming financing is not going to be an issue (which it may well be, she's got most of a small mortgage left to pay on her current house and I'm self-employed - and neither of us are wanting to sell our respective houses, rather mine's rented and her's would get rented) then I don't think I'm getting ahead of myself looking.
And, somewhat annoyingly, I've found a flood-damaged grade II listed building that's up for auction. Ground floor needs tanking. Rest of the ground floor indoors needs doing up (unlikely that anything can be done externally as it's listed). It's about as energy inefficient as a house is able to be and I daresay insurance could be tricky short-term.
It's where I want it to be, it's the size I want it to be and it's the type of house I love at the top end of what I reckon we could afford.
So. Advice.
1) Am I mad?
2) Anyone experience of buying houses at auction?
3) Has anyone any experience with listed buildings / consents etc?
4) How much does it cost to tank a building?
5) Flood damage is due to a culvert that was blocked that highways agency is due to replace. What's the chances of insurance being totally f00ked?
6) What am I not thinking about?
Answers not on a postcard but in this thread please