Saturday 30th July 2011
I guess I got some of my wish last weekend, Australia won the Rugby, Cadel Evans won the Tour de France and our house buyers were successful in selling their own house at auction. You would think I’d be ecstatic, but being a grumpy old man I’m never happy. Monday, we had been led to believe that if the buyers sold their house on Saturday they were going to bring forward the finance approval to purchase our place to Monday. Well the bank decided they wanted a valuation, standard procedure you say, then why the bloody hell didn’t they organise it early in the contract, you know how long winded the banks are these days giving approvals, anything from 2 – 4 weeks or more. Come Wednesday I couldn’t contain myself any longer and phoned our real estate agent to have a big whinge that the bank was running out of time to have a valuation. At least I didn’t open my big mouth and make a goose of myself, just a concerned enquiry, Steve our real estate guru said, “not a problem they did a drive by analysis earlier in the week” !!!!! I hope no-one got billed too much for that one. Then he informed me the financial broker had sent him an email to say financial approval was expected tomorrow Thursday at 5.00pm, that would be nice but 14 business days from contract signing wasn’t until the following week I told him, “Oh it looks like they were able to bring it forward”, he said. Thursday pm Steve’s on the phone, “you were right the bank has said to back off it’s not due until the next week”. Obviously Ray Whites finance broker didn’t read the contract properly, but they assured us it will definitely go through. Ever heard of the saying “It’s not over until the fat lady sings”. You wonder why I am grumpy, well I haven’t stabbed anyone yet.
Oh that feels better I think I’ll start packing to hell with it.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Saturday 23rd July 2001
23rd July 2011
So far so good as they say, we appear to have survived another building and pest inspection by two different companies this time, both extremely thorough in their particular pursuits. Although it only took about one hour twenty it seemed to go on for hours it’s quite nerve wracking especially when you see all of the gadgets they start using and the thumping of walls that go on. I’m sure the pest inspector was x-raying the house with one instrument; I think someone suggested it was thermal imaging, anyway they both said there were no problems so I trust their reports will be favourable and we should hear officially Monday.
Talking to the agent it appears the purchaser has had a lot of interest in their own house sale with something like 70 groups having been through on open days, looking at the ads the house fits in to the first home buyer price range so they are expecting a good result from their auction being held around mid-day today. If a sale is successful either today or within a few days of the auction the purchaser has agreed to change the settlement of our sale to 30 days, that will suit us fine.
Just for those who aren’t as fortunate as us to live in this great country particularly Queensland in winter, we are currently enjoying that iconic Queensland winter weather of cool nights, cloudless blue skies and lovely warm days. Although last week wasn’t too great with the strong south westerly’s blowing, the temps were a bit ordinary in exposed places.
I’ll finish on a positive note. I have just had a call from our real-estate guru to inform me today’s open house resulted in someone very keen and wanting contact if our current contract crashes. Better still the auction I mention earlier in this pre-amble, was successful and our buyers house sold, they are going to see what they can do about shortening the contract period with us on Monday, sounds good to me.
All we need now is for the Wallabies to beat South Africa tonight and Cadel Evans win the Tour de France and it will be a most satisfying day.
Happy Days
So far so good as they say, we appear to have survived another building and pest inspection by two different companies this time, both extremely thorough in their particular pursuits. Although it only took about one hour twenty it seemed to go on for hours it’s quite nerve wracking especially when you see all of the gadgets they start using and the thumping of walls that go on. I’m sure the pest inspector was x-raying the house with one instrument; I think someone suggested it was thermal imaging, anyway they both said there were no problems so I trust their reports will be favourable and we should hear officially Monday.
Talking to the agent it appears the purchaser has had a lot of interest in their own house sale with something like 70 groups having been through on open days, looking at the ads the house fits in to the first home buyer price range so they are expecting a good result from their auction being held around mid-day today. If a sale is successful either today or within a few days of the auction the purchaser has agreed to change the settlement of our sale to 30 days, that will suit us fine.
Just for those who aren’t as fortunate as us to live in this great country particularly Queensland in winter, we are currently enjoying that iconic Queensland winter weather of cool nights, cloudless blue skies and lovely warm days. Although last week wasn’t too great with the strong south westerly’s blowing, the temps were a bit ordinary in exposed places.
I’ll finish on a positive note. I have just had a call from our real-estate guru to inform me today’s open house resulted in someone very keen and wanting contact if our current contract crashes. Better still the auction I mention earlier in this pre-amble, was successful and our buyers house sold, they are going to see what they can do about shortening the contract period with us on Monday, sounds good to me.
All we need now is for the Wallabies to beat South Africa tonight and Cadel Evans win the Tour de France and it will be a most satisfying day.
Happy Days
Friday, July 15, 2011
15th July 2011
Here we go again. I’ve been delaying bringing this up to date until we had some activity with the house. I’m pleased to say we now have another contract signed although once again it will be a couple of weeks before it becomes un-conditional, ie pest and building inspection and finance approval. Always a wearisome period, not so much stressful but definitely in the back of your mind distracting you all the time. Another pain in the neck is the length of time for settlement 60 days, although if things go well for the buyer it could be sooner. They are auctioning their current home shortly and although the contract is not subject to them selling their house they understandably didn’t want to service two mortgages. So it will be a maximum of 60 days and should they be successful with a sale it could be sooner. Anyway it was worth agreeing to the clause as it gave us an opportunity to squeeze a bit more out of them.
Why do I always get the feeling agents are having two bob each way, I’m sure they tell the seller they can get the buyer up a bit and then go and tell the buyer they should be able to get the seller down a bit, strike a happy medium and pick up their meg- bucks commission without too much effort. Amazing how they can pluck comparisons out of the air, how this house was a bit cheaper but larger, and that one had a pool and a shed, and the other one had two of this and three of that, always a reason to consider reducing the price of your own home. To purloin the expression of a well known politician, “You know what?” I’m not interested in what they sold the other houses for. We only want one person to love our place and pay somewhere near what we want in the current market conditions. The good thing is we don’t have to catch a train but it would be nice to get it all over, so we can get on with our plans.
Geeze! Am I just a cynic or is the Pom coming out in me, I’d hate to be called a whinger so I had better stop now.
Daughter Lisa has taken Nancy off to see Dr. Zhivago tonight so I will be having one of my famous curries washed down with something nice and I shall watch whatever crap “I choose” tonight and when the Tour De France comes on at 10:00pm it will be loud enough to hear it.!!!!!!
Enough from this grumpy old man
cheers
Why do I always get the feeling agents are having two bob each way, I’m sure they tell the seller they can get the buyer up a bit and then go and tell the buyer they should be able to get the seller down a bit, strike a happy medium and pick up their meg- bucks commission without too much effort. Amazing how they can pluck comparisons out of the air, how this house was a bit cheaper but larger, and that one had a pool and a shed, and the other one had two of this and three of that, always a reason to consider reducing the price of your own home. To purloin the expression of a well known politician, “You know what?” I’m not interested in what they sold the other houses for. We only want one person to love our place and pay somewhere near what we want in the current market conditions. The good thing is we don’t have to catch a train but it would be nice to get it all over, so we can get on with our plans.
Geeze! Am I just a cynic or is the Pom coming out in me, I’d hate to be called a whinger so I had better stop now.
Daughter Lisa has taken Nancy off to see Dr. Zhivago tonight so I will be having one of my famous curries washed down with something nice and I shall watch whatever crap “I choose” tonight and when the Tour De France comes on at 10:00pm it will be loud enough to hear it.!!!!!!
Enough from this grumpy old man
cheers
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
6th July 2011
06/07/2011
I guess the term deflated is an understatement the way I feel right now, we have just been notified by our agent that the house contract has crashed. Unfortunately the young Chinese girl who was so keen on buying the place has finally been knocked back for finance. She has offered her building and pest inspection report to any prospective purchaser as a manner of apologising for mucking us around and taking so long, what a nice gesture, it’s a shame she missed out she would have made a lovely neighbour for our current good neighbours.
So, back to the drawing board. – Bugger!!!
I guess the term deflated is an understatement the way I feel right now, we have just been notified by our agent that the house contract has crashed. Unfortunately the young Chinese girl who was so keen on buying the place has finally been knocked back for finance. She has offered her building and pest inspection report to any prospective purchaser as a manner of apologising for mucking us around and taking so long, what a nice gesture, it’s a shame she missed out she would have made a lovely neighbour for our current good neighbours.
So, back to the drawing board. – Bugger!!!
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