[marcia]

After searching the Manawatu for our dream home we have at last found it!! :clap

It doesn't quite tick all the boxes, (it does for me but not Kev!) It has a gas hob, infinity gas hot water, gas heating, and best of all a hand basin in the house toilet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:laugh It is only an acre - Kev would have like more, and it hasn't got a separate workshop, but we could put one on the paddock at the back at a later date.

We put in an offer on Tuesday afternoon, which was rejected, but that evening we sat around the table with the owners and the estate agent and negotiated a price. This is unusual for NZ, but the people are from Singapore, and Kev had been up at different times of the day to see what it was like, and chatted to the owners quite alot, and built up a rapour with them, so i think this made it easier to negotiate it with them.

Anyway, we had our builder friend have a look at it this week, and its fine, it was only built in 2004 so we didn't expect there to be any big problems, we are just waiting for the Lim report from the council now and then we will go unconditional. If everything goes to plan we will be moving in on 2nd April.

In true 'cat in the hat' style I can honestly say 'I'm sooooooooooooo excited!'

They are still advertising the property until it goes unconditional, and doing an open home this weekend :exit , but unlike in the uk we can't be gazumped. If someone comes with an offer the vendors like better than ours, we have 3 working days to go unconditional, so we can still have have it even if someone comes with $100,000 more than us!

Anyway heres the link to the property, it is still advertised on Trade me at the moment. Put your sunglasses on before viewing, the colours are pretty bright!!!

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Property/Residential-Property/Houses-for-sale/auction-89492837.htm?key=42301

[Andy-Dee]

Gosh Marcia.... its FAB :clap :clap

Good for you - hope you'll be very happy there.
D & A

[victoria]

Thank you for sharing your new home with us. OMG!!! What a breathtaking spectacular place. All the best for the future to you & yours
Vicky

[LesleyS]

Congratualtions Marcia - thats great news for you and your family the house looks amazing!!!

[wiki]

Utterly gorgeous. I love the kitchen - not sure about the kitchen opening onto the billards room, but I'm sure you'll be reconsidering that design concept hehe.

Best of luck with the final bits of paper work!

[StevieD]

Fab Marcia - Good luck with yours it is fabuloso. Very tired and off to bed :(

Steve

[Angelonthemove]

I am so jealous its fabulous. Fingers crossed you get that dream house. Keep us posted

[Kim39]

Very nice lass. Can see Kev getting under UK64 to do the oil change where that snooker table is......come on plenty of room for him to do it there;)

Kim

[jubjub]

Marcia, that looks lovely.... I love the bedroom with the bed up the top of the steps!

Hope it all goes through for you

[Carey]

WOW ! What a house...good luck your story is an inspiration to us!
Carey

[leachio]

Good lordy lord its HUGE and gorgeous and HUGE and fabulous and ever so slightly HUGE

Congrats guys :raebanana :raebanana

Amanda x

[vixxann]

What a truly fab house - hope everything runs smoothly for you guys and you get in there soon :raebanana

[alan999]

That looks really special. Hope all goes well for you.

Alan

[Helsandfamily]

Wow - Looks fab - more like a hotel!!

Good Luck

hels :)

[Myrkk]

WOOWWWW that is gorgeous.

Not sure what you mean by the unconditional thing though. Could you explain it a bit more?

[marcia]

WOOWWWW that is gorgeous.

Not sure what you mean by the unconditional thing though. Could you explain it a bit more?


Ok totally different here the house buying process, a bit like the system in scotland I believe.

Anyway first you put in your offer in writing and signed, and you put on certain conditions, like subject to a satisfactory (to us) builers report, a LIM report fro mthe council, subject to our own finance, etc etc, once the offer is accepted, and this can take a while going backwards and forwards with crossings out etc - we actually sat around a table and did it but this isn't the norm here. So you agree a price and all parties sign. You then have to get the builders report etc done, and once all the conditions are met, you go unconditional, which also means you have to pay over a deposit anywhere between 5 -10 % of the purchase price. You then have a completion date and the balance of the money has to be paid by then.

Hope this helps to make it a bit clearer - it is actually easier to understand once you go through the process - it baffled me at first too!

[marcia]

Ooops

Forgot to say thatnks everyone for the nice comments - we obviously think its lovely but glad to know others do too! :D

[K&CS]

It looks beautiful Marcia. Hope it all goes smoothely for you!

Kate x

[gil]

Marcia, I must be going senile, I looked at the link and was bowled over, the house is GORGEOUS! I thought I'd posted to that effect, but apparently not! How is it progressing?

Gil
x

[marcia]

Kev just picked up our LIM report this tea time - looks all ok to me, but hey what the heck do i know :D , taking it in to the solicitors tomorrow and let them check it over, then if they say ok we will be going unconditional! :clap

[Paul]

Wow - that is a real nice house !!
They say size isn't everything but hey I'm impressed!!!!

Best of luck to you all

[ellenmelon]

any news marcia? i hope you get it! :)

[pinkpiggy]

Marcia

Just came across this thread (while I'm trying out the new laptop). It's gorgeous, HUGE but gorgeous. If you complete on 2 April you will be completing on Dylan's birthday!

Good luck and hope everything goes smoothly. :D

[Myrkk]

cheers for explaining marcia, that helps greatly.

Hope the move in goes smoothly :)

[marcia]

Well we went unconditional today folks on the house - the solicitor faxed the papers over for me to sign, she only needed one signature, I rang Kev and read it all out to him - saying 'are you sure its ok, you really want me to sign!!!!' Gulp!! Anyway i signed it faxed it back, then went to the bank for the bankers draft to pay the deposit.

We are really glad we got in quickly at the beginning before the estate agent had chance to do her first open home, there has been lots of interest in it, and the estate agents said yesterday they thought they would have been able to get a lot more than we paid!! The problem was another agent had been trying to sell it, but had no luck, over priced and really bad photos, the owners had been trying to sell for about 5 months when we came along and saw it before it even went on the market offically, so they were really happy to get someone who was interested and in a position to buy straight away as they are going back to Singapore due to the mans work.

So I think we have got a really good deal - roll on the 2nd April!! :nice1

[gil]

Brilliant news Marcia! Must be a lovely feeling. Can't wait until we can go unconditional - building report due tomorow!
Well done you, you'll be in for Easter,
Gil
xx

[Singel]

Congrats Marcia, finally you got a place where you could call "Home-Sweet-Home" :yes

More dancing bananas :raebanana :raebanana

Gil, keep fingers crossed that everything went well with your house buying :nice1

[Marie P]

Fantastic news Marcia and Kev :clap

Get packing boxes again :laugh

Marie x

[zardell]

Excellent news...........

HAPPY NEW HOME.

Hey Kev, good job it was Marcia's 'favourite' !!

:D

Julie

xx

[sizzlingbadger]

Congratulations :clap

Hope you guys have happy times in your new home :cheers

[pinkpiggy]

Oh well done, Marcia & Kev. :clap

I bet you are so excited and can't wait to get into your new home. Yay!!:D

[Brijan]

Congratulations, cool looking house
Hope you are happy there
Brian and Jan:raebanana :raebanana