Good news my friends - the house is SOLD! How things can just turn on a pin. Last week I was in an anxiety spiral wondering how we were going to pay this stupid mortgage and afford to eat and now we have 30 days to settle.
Basically on Friday, as I was driving up with my nephew and bro in law to meet the rest of the family for a weekend away, Jamie rang to say we had an offer on the house.
It was reasonable, we supposed, but we did want her to up it at least 20 k so we could almost break even. We were prepared to take a cut because we needed to just get on with life, but were kinda disappointed as the offer was under the bottom of our range.
Then, would you believe it, a guy that low balled us three months ago rang our agent and upped his offer to the low end of our range. Why he waited so long is beyond me. He was annoyed at our agent for apparently not getting back to him weeks ago, but she had, over and over, with a call log to prove it. Anyway he said no conditions - he had already had paid for a building report - and 60 day settlement.
This caused our original woman to up her offer and remove her conditions...that is, we wouldn't need the drama of getting a building report where we had no idea whether a builder would be picky or not and whether she'd use any flaws to lower the price.
He counters, she countered, and in the end he just hadn't got back to the agent by the end of Sunday and we thought the offer from her was good enough, and we thought he was a twat. I mean had he got back with more money we may have considered it but we got 20 k over what we were happy with amd toward the higher end of our range.
I can't believe we will be out of the old house and fully into the new by December. There's still a lot to do - I mean I don't even have a plumbed in kitchen yet - but it's not as if I haven't camped out before in a house, making do!
Thanks to everyone on Hive with their wise and encouraging words as I had my anxious meltdowns. It's the end of an era and I'll miss the garden, but ultimately this downsize to the coast is a good decision for us and I'm looking forward to creating a beautiful space to enjoy the next twenty years, should life permit.
Woo hoo!! 馃帀
