Ramblings of a Disorientated Mind

The ramblings, and occasional sanities, of a 20-something geekess from the UK

House!!!!

on March 14, 2007

We got the place! We got the place!!! Wheeee! We got it :D :D:D!!!

Okay, now I’ve got that out of my system I’ll explain :)

Yonks ago [December in fact] Darkliquid and I signed up to this scheme that helps first time buyers get a foot on the property ladder. Basicaly it works by you buying a share in the property and the remainder is payed by the scheme, ie the goverment, and then you buy the rest of the property from the scheme when you can afford to and pay rent in the interim period.

About 4 weeks back, on Valentine’s Day, Dark and I went to view some properties being offered by this scheme. There were two two bed flats and two one bed flats, all of them really nice. However, there were loads of other couples that went to see them and we didn’t really entertain high hopes of getting one.

BUT!!!! Today, I got a call from Dark saying we’d gotten one!!!! And it was our first choice as well. The scheme have a ‘priority’ list, given to them by the local council, to say who should be considered for a property first, and apparently we were 5th on the list, very surprising to us, but kinda cool :)

So now all we have to do is go to another interview to discus payment etc, sort out a mortgage and it’s ours!!!!

Course, this kinda puts a kibosh on my plans to go traveling Europe this summer since we’re going to sink all our savings into the deposit, but I don’t care!!! My future housing worries are no more. And we can start looking for a dog too!!!

YAY YAY YAY YAY!!!!!!!

☮&♥


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5 Responses to “House!!!!”

  1. Babychaos says:

    That’s brilliant! What a great scheme, too. I bet you can’t wait to start nesting!

    Cheers

    BC

  2. jade says:

    sounds cool, hope everything goes well and you have fun looking for a dog :)

  3. Greg says:

    Grats, late as it is. But none the less yay!!!

  4. Ian says:

    A little late in responding (need to read this thing more often) but woohoo!! Congrats, guys! *hugs*

    Oh, and when you get round to getting a dog, what breed are you gonna get?

  5. druidx says:

    Well, even better news: we can have a two bed flat :)
    However slightly bad news: we can’t have a dog because of the ToC of the block of flats.

    It all sounds kinda complicated with solicitors and morgage lends and stuff, but Andy understands some of it and we have supportive parents so it’ll all be fine with that in mind :)

    Thanks guys :)