We did try before, back in 2007 or 2008, but, although the house was up for sale for several weeks, we had not a single viewer.
Fast forward to February 2022, and we tried again. This time the sign blew off within a couple of days, thanks for the storms we were having at that time, but that didn't matter because we had a committed buyer at the end of the first day's viewing. We were certainly not the only sellers who had that experience either. It seemed as if the housing market had gone berserk post Covid, which worked to our advantage as sellers, but of course, made buying a little more complicated.
We are not quite at the end of this journey yet and we have had some hiccups along the way and I would certainly agree that moving house is one of the more stressful experiences of life, particularly when you have one person in the household who has the equivalent of a small factory in 'stuff' to move and who requires a garage or other form of workshop-type building in which to house it.
Travelling light and minimalism are totally alien concepts to Keith, as I think we have established in the past.
So, our next issue was to find a house to buy in the north east, somewhere in Claire's region, which meant a few trips up there, but also, judicious use of our 'secret weapon', aka Claire, who went beyond the call of duty and volunteered to book herself in for initial viewings to several of the properties we were interested in. Each time she did this, the house owners very kindly allowed her to fire up FaceTime on her phone and we were able to see what she was seeing and ask questions if we needed to.
Whatever did we do without modern technology?
I can confirm that Keith, Claire and I spent many hours every day trawling through houses on the internet and many texts and emails were flying between us with links to said houses. Many 'animated discussions' were had, usually around Claire's local knowledge and dismissal of certain local areas. Many viewings were undertaken, by Claire and by us and many houses were crossed off the list for various reasons but eventually, one was found which seemed to tick the boxes...
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Oh, that's intriguing! May we assume that you are referring to the north east of England and not the north east of Wales where the great city of Wrexham is already sprawling like Los Angeles.
You may indeed, YP.
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