We bought a house!
Oct. 26th, 2008 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msss*drumroll*
The search is over! Eric and I signed a contract yesterday to buy a lovely little house, about a kilometre away from here. It's a fully detached, 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom home, built about 1991. There's a neat little courtyard at the back, plus a proper front garden facing north (which is good because we're in the southern hemisphere). It's all there - big windows, walk in robe, air conditioning, ducted heating, gas kitchen. The owners have moved into assisted living communities, so they were happy to sell, even though we offered a lower price than they were asking. So for around the same price as the units that we were looking at (150 sqm, buildings with common walls and home owner association), we've managed to snag half a full house block (327 sqm) with its own street frontage and a nice house on it.
It's exactly what we wanted (and were having vast amounts of trouble finding). We settle in a month and a half. We're ecstatic.
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Other things achieved this weekend by Mel: lots of dishes, lots of laundry, first ripe blueberries of the season, first ripe strawberry ever, half a dozen buckets of water for the garden (as per water restrictions), hour and a half hike with work colleagues in another bit of the Dandenongs, relocation of fish tank, quote for fish tank stand.
Things achieved by Eric: dusting, vacuuming and cleaning the living room and entry way; mad shopping on Saturday (busy day at market) in order to fit in Sunday's walk, driving of Mel to the said walk, ceremonial disposal of six months of accumulated real estate brochures, cleaning of dustbins, clean bedsheets.
The search is over! Eric and I signed a contract yesterday to buy a lovely little house, about a kilometre away from here. It's a fully detached, 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom home, built about 1991. There's a neat little courtyard at the back, plus a proper front garden facing north (which is good because we're in the southern hemisphere). It's all there - big windows, walk in robe, air conditioning, ducted heating, gas kitchen. The owners have moved into assisted living communities, so they were happy to sell, even though we offered a lower price than they were asking. So for around the same price as the units that we were looking at (150 sqm, buildings with common walls and home owner association), we've managed to snag half a full house block (327 sqm) with its own street frontage and a nice house on it.
It's exactly what we wanted (and were having vast amounts of trouble finding). We settle in a month and a half. We're ecstatic.
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Other things achieved this weekend by Mel: lots of dishes, lots of laundry, first ripe blueberries of the season, first ripe strawberry ever, half a dozen buckets of water for the garden (as per water restrictions), hour and a half hike with work colleagues in another bit of the Dandenongs, relocation of fish tank, quote for fish tank stand.
Things achieved by Eric: dusting, vacuuming and cleaning the living room and entry way; mad shopping on Saturday (busy day at market) in order to fit in Sunday's walk, driving of Mel to the said walk, ceremonial disposal of six months of accumulated real estate brochures, cleaning of dustbins, clean bedsheets.
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Date: 2008-10-26 10:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-28 04:31 am (UTC)How are your renovations going?
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Date: 2008-10-26 11:06 am (UTC)Congratulations!!
good luck with the whole process!
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Date: 2008-10-28 04:36 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-26 08:26 pm (UTC)Garden facing north eh? .... Hmmm ...sounds like prime rose planting territory! MWAAHAHAHAHA
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Date: 2008-10-28 04:50 am (UTC)I also have a few cuttings to plant out, roses and rosemary and other things, so I'm looking forward to getting into my new garden. And I think I may have finally achieved basil seedlings.
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Date: 2008-10-28 10:12 am (UTC)Get as much out now as you can ..... Before it gets *really* hot.
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Date: 2008-10-26 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-27 12:04 am (UTC)J
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Date: 2008-10-28 04:55 am (UTC)Thank you. :)
You'll be home for Christmas...
Date: 2008-10-27 05:06 am (UTC)And you have an actual garden, which must make you very happy indeed!
love
Catherine
Re: You'll be home for Christmas...
Date: 2008-10-28 04:56 am (UTC)Oh, yes, it does make me happy. I now have somewhere to put all these plants... or at least, I will in December...
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