There is another reason why I bought some hanging baskets a few weeks back, and that was to help spruce up the appearance of the house, as this week we put it on the market!
Olga and I have been working together at home since March, and we've decided that we would like some more space, especially so we can separate our working and living environments. Because we work from home, we're not tied down so tightly about living close to a particular location, we just need to be within a couple of hours drive of Heathrow and the Reading area, where some of our bosses live for the odd time when we need to meet up. This means we can cast our net quite wide when it comes to looking for somewhere new to live. We like the area we are in now, the countryside is lovely and only a few minutes drive from home, and it's very easy to get to London and Heathrow, but we have an opportunity now to get "more for our money" by looking for a place further away from London. We're in no rush to sell up, and we're not going to give the house away for silly money, so we're content to let this drag on if needed. However, if someone was to come along and really like the place and offers us something sensible, we'll take it. Our chances will be helped because we're going to rent for a while, to remove the concern of a long chain in the buying/selling process, and give us time to look for the "perfect" next house to buy, and then we'd not be held back in our own chain.
It also makes sense to do this now while Luda is here, she's brilliant at keeping the house clean and tidy while Olga and I are working, and can take the dogs out during viewings! Should it drag on past late September when she has to go back to Russia, hopefully by then Olga and I will be in the habit of living in a clean and minimalist house! We've rented a storage unit and have moved a lot of the unnecessary "stuff" into it, and will continue to do so until we're left with the bare minimum at home.
Personally I expect this to take some time, but we live in a desirable location, the house is in good condition and we've made a lot of improvements to it, and we'll have no onward chain, so you just never know, we might just get lucky and it could be sorted in weeks :-)
Olga and I have been working together at home since March, and we've decided that we would like some more space, especially so we can separate our working and living environments. Because we work from home, we're not tied down so tightly about living close to a particular location, we just need to be within a couple of hours drive of Heathrow and the Reading area, where some of our bosses live for the odd time when we need to meet up. This means we can cast our net quite wide when it comes to looking for somewhere new to live. We like the area we are in now, the countryside is lovely and only a few minutes drive from home, and it's very easy to get to London and Heathrow, but we have an opportunity now to get "more for our money" by looking for a place further away from London. We're in no rush to sell up, and we're not going to give the house away for silly money, so we're content to let this drag on if needed. However, if someone was to come along and really like the place and offers us something sensible, we'll take it. Our chances will be helped because we're going to rent for a while, to remove the concern of a long chain in the buying/selling process, and give us time to look for the "perfect" next house to buy, and then we'd not be held back in our own chain.
It also makes sense to do this now while Luda is here, she's brilliant at keeping the house clean and tidy while Olga and I are working, and can take the dogs out during viewings! Should it drag on past late September when she has to go back to Russia, hopefully by then Olga and I will be in the habit of living in a clean and minimalist house! We've rented a storage unit and have moved a lot of the unnecessary "stuff" into it, and will continue to do so until we're left with the bare minimum at home.
Personally I expect this to take some time, but we live in a desirable location, the house is in good condition and we've made a lot of improvements to it, and we'll have no onward chain, so you just never know, we might just get lucky and it could be sorted in weeks :-)
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