moving – The year for me!

Finally…

I am happy.

I am so happy.

We found a house!

A cute, modern, well-proportioned lovely little house that is in our budget (actually below) and is in the right area for us.

I moaned about the process in my last post, and it was incredibly painful. However, props to Catherine at our estate agents, who has been super helpful and easy to deal with throughout finding, putting in an offer and securing our house.

We move in at the beginning of march and I am very excited. I have already planned my room, gone a bit mad with the colour scheme etc, but who cares, I’m going to LOVE it.

I always get very carried away when moving house. I want everything to look perfect and be super cute, which makes me very excited for eventually having a house of my own. Which, to be honest, in this current climate and will my, less than fantastic savings ability, is looking a long long long way away.

Anyway, whether I buy a house in the next couple of years, or the next 10, I am sure I will be a mad man running around all the shops trying to create a perfect little bubble to live in.

I cannot wait.

Honestly.

Living in London is hard. Finding a house to live in in London, is even harder.

At the end of last year, I decided that it was time to leave my current house and move in with my sister and one of our friends. I’m not leaving because of any bad blood with my housemates, more that its time for a change. I have been through the process of looking for a house to rent before, and it is tough… like, unbelievably tough!

Scrolling through houses upon houses and flats upon flats only to find one and the estate agent tells you its gone is boring. And time consuming. We all have full time jobs and honestly, it feels like house hunting is another one.

The other problem with looking to rent in London is the landlord / agents complete lack of honesty it seems. The photos always look lovely and everything but you arrive and the house looks like a bomb site. We have seen a couple so far and the 3^rd room has always been tiny, and the places have generally been quite horrible.

Photos are fine but what I really want to see is a floor plan, that way at least you know if one room is going to be the size of Harry Potter’s!

Anyway, we have 6 viewings lined up this week and I am really really hoping one will work.

Will keep you posted…

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Tag: moving

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