21st February 2012

So to today's update. The update is that there is no update. We had both expected a phone call regarding the outcome of the meeting that the guy had with the financial advisor, just to say either that he could not raise the funds or that he was not interested or that he was thinking about or at least something. This is what we are finding most frustrating, the not knowing what is happening. I am sure they are working hard on it but we do not see this, we do not know what they are doing, we do not know what they are saying, we do not know what they are thinking.

Another day passes and no more viewings are booked in. This is the agent who said " we will sell that in two weeks for you", this was the agent who said " we have loads of clients looking for properties like this" - Estate Agents I just don't trust a word they say.

Still I have kept up with plan for this week of not calling them. I was so tempted to call or email after 5pm to find out what happened but resisted. This week I am just going to see what happens. It is not easy though, I am one of those people who needs to know what is happening on a regular basis, but I suppose that from that comes expectations, and from that disappointment. Let's just leave it to them to contact me when there are viewings or progress. It's going to be hard.

Having said yesterday that we had changed the price down to "offers in excess of 240k" I received an email about an hour later. It made me smile, it was from the first Estate Agent we had engaged. It said " hi Paul, I see they have already reduced the price. You see the grass is not always greener on the other side. When you are ready we will be pleased to try again to sell your property"

Well yes to a degree the grass is not always greener, certainley in terms of selling, but the new agent go the for sale board up within 2 days, they pass messages on in the office and return your calls, they got 7 people through the door in the first week, compared to 2 that the other agent managed, so generally I am happy to have moved. You do not know how hard it was not to reply to his email. Twice I had it drafted, and twice I deleted it. If I need them again in the future I will be the one making contact.

Did try one more thing. Bit of a long shot. The owner of the property next door, who rents it out, left me his mobile number when he brought it in case of any trouble. He owns a number of properties. So last night I sent him a cheeky text, asking if he was looking for anymore properties as ours was up for sale. Don't expect a reply, but if you don't ask you don't get.

29th January 2012

Today it seemed more real than ever that we are moving. We started boxing up a lot of the things that are not required day to day and what we could do without until we rent up in Kings Lynn in the summer. These will go into storage, once we sell, along with the larger items and other pieces we do not need.

Today we filled 22 boxes and it still seems like we have not made a dent in it. We tackled Kirsty's room as well, that accounted for 7 boxes alone and you would still look at her room and think she had too much stuff.

Yesterday we received documents from the solicitors to start looking over and filling in, some are easy, others I will need to get advice on to understand, for example are we responsible for maintaining any services on our property? Does that include sewage and drains which I know go through our garden and onto shared driveway but is that what is meant.

Some of the things on the fittings we are leaving sheet are strange. Light switches, plug sockets etc, do people really take those things with them when they sell? Well we want be taking them.

Anyhow much of it is filled in, and with the non essential stuff packed up, the gardens and front of house cleaned yesterday, we can now get ready for the estate agent coming in a few weeks time and potential viewings as well. Exciting now, well sort of, I feel a lot of responsibility on my shoulders as the one who does the finances and form filling, I hope I make no mistakes.