So, those of you in the know are aware that we spent the weekend looking at houses. Lots of them. 3 we had proper estate-agent viewings of, and we also went on a massive tour of Bristol during which we eliminated a vast number of neighbourhoods from our ‘possibilities’ list – a huge number of houses – and I discovered that projects are all that thrill me.
In the end we narrowed it down to a couple of areas – one of which we’d really like to live in, several of which we wish we could live in but are totally ridiculously unaffordable and from our selection of three houses, only one emerged as a possibility. It’s an exciting possibility, but it needs such vast utterly incomprehensible amounts of work that the only way to think about it is as ‘buying a shell’. The house is appaulingly filthy, the plaster is unsalvagable, and the layout of the house as it currently stands lacks finesse.
But it’s got a lot of potential.
But only if the owner will take vastly less than it’s on the market for. Frankly, it’s hugely overpriced considering it’s condition, and depressingly it doesn’t have a garage. There’s faint hope of a ‘sheltered area’ that could be organised, if the neighbours would allow occasional access – but it won’t ever be a proper garage. Anyhow, it lurks as a possibility, and we have a couple of others that are worthy of consideration.
It’s not like we’re in a hurry, neither of us has a job and the house isn’t on the market yet (tbh, seeing the perfect house would have been quite depressing – indeed we drove past the house I wanted (in Rudgeway) and that was a bit sad, because it is awesome). Anyhow, it’s all progress.
