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Glad you enjoy it! I’m just worried it might be boring for some people if I go off topic. I usually edit out half of the video 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The fire is literally all I think about

Victorian houses are lovely! I bet they have the best memories there and don’t remember the cold. My son loves the space in the new house to run around in! The mess wasn’t ideal but we were able to get it mostly under control in a few days with some scrubbing and carpet cleaning. My hands were just sore for a few days!

They were behind the radiators. I think they must have been trying them and they fell down the back! 🫣

@ i look forward to see what you do with your new home 👍

Oh no. It seems okay for me!

Glad you're settling in...looking forward to seeing more of your beautiful home ❤....have a great new year

Thanks so much! I can’t wait to get stuck in. Hope you had a great Christmas too :(

Thank you! 😊 ❤️

Thank you! There’s another cat as well but he was hiding away 🥹

The whole system is such a mess! That’s such a long time to wait, I hope you get it sorted after Christmas!

Thanks so much! I lived in Leeds for about 8 years actually. I was in the Kirstall area :) You’re not too far from some lovely countryside villages I bet! Really enjoyed my time in Leeds, especially the bar/food scene when I was in my 20’s.

No, it was a local firm we have used before for our wills! I’ve heard awful things about online ones! I think the firm is generally okay but this particular solicitor is useless (trust pilot and Google reviews confirm this too).

@CorinneAtHome poor you...such a stress. Just such a shame that there isn't official monitoring on conveyancing procedures...I'm sure housing market could be more buoyant as obviously this is why buyers/ sellers pull out due to the friction and stress. However all is well that ends well.. beautiful home. Happy Christmas 🤶

@@themayalls5594 yeah it’s not good at all. We’ve already spoken with the director and will be making an official complaint as she’s done some pretty bad things I’ve not mentioned. Don’t expect anything of it but hope it can at least prevent others going through the same stress if she gets some feedback!

We’d love to make it into something like that! Not sure we get many tourists around here though!

Yeah it’s so nice to have a pantry! Needs organising though haha

Yes of course. We’re having help from an experienced family member to help install it! It’s only a temporary thing for now as when we fully renovate the bathrooms we will be probably adding tiles. But that’s going to be a slow, one by one process! We just need to get rid of the carpets!

Haha sorry. I have a gimbal somewhere I need to get up and running 😅

Thank you! We've got so much to do!! Don't know where to start but I do know I've got a lot to learn hahah.

Yes I have, it’s just to the left of the Welsh dresser in the kitchen :)

I hope so! Really hope he wants to learn an instrument ❤️

Very! So glad to put all the conveyancing behind me!

Thank you! We are lucky that we've had help from family to come and entertain our son so we can get on with stuff :)

Lovely house…….Nice big rooms.

Yeah, we’re in love with the size!

Thank you so much!! We are going to do a few things quickly but the rest we'll be seeing how we use each space before making changes.

Thanks so much! 😊 We were very lucky to find this house and the sellers wanted a quick sale so it was very well priced! Lots to do though so I’m a bit overwhelmed as well! Happy to have you follow the journey ❤️

There’s so many options! We were thinking of a couple of sitting chairs and a coffee table against the brick wall or something. We’re going to wait a while before deciding!

@CorinneAtHome definetly hun all takes time and money x

Lovely, the first house we were going to buy was in the east!

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Thank you! I’m really enjoying it so far and it’s starting to feel more like home already :)

Thank you so much! Hope you enjoy the rest of my videos!

It honestly felt like my world was imploding at the time!

It honestly felt like my world was imploding at the time!

@CorinneAtHome you did better than I would I am in acotland and people can move within 6/8 weeks so quick in scotland and way cheaper but offers over so a blind offer x

Thank you! I’ll give it a go. I did use some bleach spray and degreaser but it wasn’t neat.

Haha yeah it was not a good time 🙃

Thank you! Will do! I’ll be posting videos of the renovations we do :)

Yeah, it really is expensive! We did toy with the idea of an extension but the old house didn't have much space around it and it would have eaten into the garden. We won't be moving again though! This is actually only 3 bedrooms but the rooms are so big, and there are a couple mini rooms, the landings and the space above the garage. We could easily make a 4th bedroom on the landing if needed, or even extend it. We would only look into that if we had another child. Four cats is a lot, wowee!

I know right, I'm so pleased with this place, we were lucky to come across such a unique property!

Some of them cover the windows though!

Thank you :)

That's madness, with both of us they took it off the market once we confirmed our funds and sent our solicitors details! I wouldnt want to start paying for things like searches if it's still on the market!

@CorinneAtHome I had to stand my ground and tell them to put it back on the market jf the vendors having second thoughts. There was no chain our side so we were in a good position. It was also a difficult market so the estate agents couldn't play the old fear of loss game on me. I insisted they take it off all the portals and have it sold STC on their website before going any further. Everything was fine after that

@CorinneAtHome yeah I told them to put it back on the market if the vendors are having second thoughts. I imagine that's what was happening as estate agents aren't bothered about a few grand here or there. Makes no difference to their commission. I told them straight if they aren't committed, neither should we be

@ did you’ve the house in the end?

@@CorinneAtHome found something better. The positive of having a purchase fall through is you have everything lined up ( conveyancing lawyers, mortgage offers etc). All you need to be able to put serious offers on alternative houses and be in a good position

Oh gosh that sounds like a nightmare!!! How long do they expect it will take?

Haha yeah I was just pottering about making zero progress!

Yeah! It just would have been a faff as we had the paint mixed ourselves like 4 years ago so not sure how we would go about claiming and getting it sorted in 3 days 😭😭

@@CorinneAtHome Could you have a sample pot mixed and just roll over the bleached bits?

@@katbar6066 we didn’t have time as this happened Monday afternoon and we moved in the Thursday 😭

Thank you! Our buyer has been amazingly understanding so she deserved something nice!

It's been a lot! Just need to get the move out of the way and then hopefully we can RELAX! Thankfully my husband is off work for Christmas when we move so we don't need to rush and sort things out. We'll be taking it slow because I just need a soft life please.

Thank you so much! It's so hard with solicitors, isn't it?! We picked a local firm that we also did our will with so had a positive experience with them, and our mortgage advisor and estate agents also rated them highly. There are two solicitors they have worked with from the firm in the past and they said they were great (and their trust pilot/google reviews are full of people praising them!). They hadn't heard of the one we had been allocated, despite her being senior. Shes got no positive reviews and two negative ones online... I think you're right that they may be overworked, but if that is the case the directors need to know the impact its having on the service. We felt we had to chase because it would often prompt her to send an email to our seller's solicitor to chase them, and our seller's solicitor was just as bad apparently. None of them did anything unless prompted and were all waiting for each other to make the next move! I hope you have a better time with your sale this time. Hopefully, it'll be a bit easier if it's your buyer as you will be the one doing most of the leg work such as replying to enquiries so can control that a bit more. It took us a day to reply to ours, but like two months for our sellers to reply to theirs! Are you far along in the process?

@@CorinneAtHome Wow it sounds like you've been super unlucky with your solicitor then. I'm a big fan of WFH but you do wonder if yours is taking the mick abit and they're not delivering the usual service. The whole industry needs a massive shake up with the solicitors and estate agents, I think a government supplied online portal showing the current progress on everything would be hugely beneficial to increase the transparency in the process hat is currently so sadly lacking. Fingers crossed it's smooth! We've currently sold, looking for somewhere to buy, did a 2nd viewing of somewhere this morning and potentially putting in an offer on it tomorrow. Somewhat naively if it's accepted we're hoping to have it sorted before the stamp duty increase in the new tax year, as that would add £6,250 to our sale and future purchase if we don't move by then.

@@TomSzczepanski I'm pro working from home as well but the issue we had was she wasn't working standard hours and we just didn't know when to expect her to reply to urgent emails. Or the time we had a phone call from the director as I couldn't get hold of her and the office was on a training day. The director said she was ill so working from home rather than being on the training day, but she told us she couldn't deal with our issue that day because the office was closed for a training day (not knowing I had spoken to the office!) so we just lost trust with her in general. Or when we get emails saying she cant do X because she's working from home, it's a bit frustrating. Working from home should only be an option if your workload/clients dont suffer, in my opinion! My friend recently bought and her solicitor used an online portal which showed the stage they were at in the process. It looked great! I can imagine if that was standard there would be people not updating it though. I think we should move to a system where you do the searches and survey as the seller and can just present the information to potential buyers! Fingers crossed you get your offer accepted and can get the ball rolling - is it the end of chain? Hopefully, you'll have an easier time than us, it seems we just had a series of bad luck. I won't be moving house again after this!!

@@CorinneAtHome Completely agree with you Corrine, if they can't deliver the service while working from home then they shouldn't be working from home, that's not your problem that is their problem. You are engaging the business to sort your affairs, not the person and they have to deliver the service! I own an accountancy business, we are a team of 8 and work from home three days a week and I'd never dare ever to say to a client that we can't do something for them because we're working from home! Totally agree on the searches & surveys, it's just common sense. I think they do something like that in Scotland already Thankfully our buyer has no property to sell and is a cash buyer, and the property we're looking to offer on has no chain too. Theoretically it would be straightforward............ I don't blame you, they do say moving house is the most stressful thing you can go through in life.

Thank you so much for the comment! I've tried many times to put it out of my mind, especially when I've been at bad point where I've had to try and emotionally shut off! Something always makes me think about it again. It's quite difficult to hand it over to the universe and let it go because the solicitors don't take any action until you pester them so we had to keep on top of things and keep communication to keep things going. The solicitors were talking to us a lot about our buyer and what we should do to push from our end. It's just so frustrating thinking how much time we've lost and the emotional energy spent, not to mention we would lose another £4000ish if it fell through as we still have to pay all the fees plus we have signed my son up to the local school there and done a lot of prepwork so it felt like we had to fight for it as the universe was on holiday or something haha! I'm going to film part two today and publish it on Sunday :)

Thank you! The first time we bought it wasn’t nearly as stressful. Being a first time buyer isn’t as bad because you aren’t trying to sell at the same time and that doubles the stress! I’m sure you’ll have a straightforward time when it happens for you :)

Hey, yes we could get one. Our issue was that the garage had already been built so they didn’t want to go back and knock one in. It’s easier when you guy a house that hasn’t been built yet then you can customise more. Otherwise they just build them as standard and sell them as is.

@@CorinneAtHomereally appreciate your response. Thank you!

Thank you! 😊🎄

Thank you!! 😊 Hopefully we’ll be in the new house soon and i can go crazy with the decorations soon!!! Most of them are all packed away 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

It’s a lovely house but we just outgrew it and would like a bigger garden.