MarkO

We've just found out we won on a house we bid on (closing date today).

Andy McCord

congratulations mate, did you get it for less or more than you thought?

Boro

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Surely he got it for the price he bid LOL

Nice1, was it much less than market value?

paulr

And what was you decision about the mountain bike job?

imlach

congrats.

Took us 13 months, and about 15 offers!! Great feeling when you pull it off (err...the house purchase that is!).

Is it a lovely victorian gaff?

paulr

Just a q about bidding.If the second highest bid was say £250,000 and you bid £350,000 does your bid come down to say 10k above theirs or do you have to pay the whole 350k.

What i mean is is it like ebay?

imlach

No - it is blind bidding - if you bid £350k and next bid was £250k, you pay £350k!

MarkO

We got it for what we bid, which was a bit more than the offers-over price. The fact that the 2nd-place bidder's bid was 'subject to survey' helped, apparently, so it must've been close (we've not asked what the margin was the we won by - since frankly it makes no odds, and if it's large it'll just be depressing ).

Re: the bike job, I've been working at the Hub bike shop since mid-August. Not doing the mechanic's job, but doing plenty of work on the bikes, and enjoying it immensely. The idea of going back to driving a desk in an IT job isn't particularly appealing right now, but luckily we will just about be able to afford the mortgage on the place we've just got without me needing to get a better-paid job.

alcazar

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Well done Mate, nice to see you posting on here again.
Alcazar

The_Gza

Good stuff Mark - sure I'll be down to pester you at The Hub at some point over the next few months

MarkO

Oh, and Imlach, you were asking if it's a victorian gaff...

It's a stone cottage c1880 with 3/4 of an acre of garden. Loads of character, and most importantly a coal fire in the lounge and a wood-burning stove in the kitchen. Don't think we could have handled another winter without a real fire.

imlach

MarkO - sounds great.

Tonight was the first night since Spring that the coal fire in the lounge went on again! It is lurvely!!!

Can never understand why people rip them out to replace with gas fires.....
Can't beat a real fire, and no hassle to clean really.......

barge

so where are the picturs then ?

MarkO

Pictures coming later.

barge

very nice

Scoobychick

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Sounds like my dream place you lucky bugger, congratulations

I love real fires, especially wood burners, the smell is just gorgeous

I lived in a very old stone cottage with open fires in the Yorkshire Dales once and it was fabulous. It had a beautiful stone window seat with open views right across to Pendle Hill, the only problem was the central heating ran off of a back boiler from the coal fire in the lounge so no fire, no heat, but I used to love getting up in the morning and lighting the fires.

Sal (hugely jealous )

MarkO

Yeah, it's got an open fire (with a backboiler which runs the heating) in the lounge, and a wood-burning stove in the kitchen which in future we might take out and replace with a range.

The back-boiler might be a PITA, but it'll be fun for the first winter, and if it's too much hassle we'll stick in some oil-fired CH later on or even some solar-powered malarky at the back of the garden (I gather you can get a grant to cover 50% of the cost...).

It's also got a private water supply (spring water on tap) and a septic tank, so there'll be no water rates to pay and a much smaller council tax. Which is nice.

imlach

MarkO - is it on the ESPC or anything?

MarkO

Imlach - YHM.