The House Hunting Fiasco
House hunting, I thought it would be an enjoyable experience. How wrong I was. The first step to find the perfect house (which of course we were never going to find) was of course to find Jack and Emma! You would have thought that this would be quite an easy and stress free process, but nooo they were nowhere to be found. I rang their phones looked on msn, went round to Jacks, noone was there. I wasn't sure which room was Emma's so I took Claire with me and she helped me find it. They took ages to answer the door! Anyway, I finally found them and we went through the house database. It took hours, but by 9pm we had 6 houses lined up to visit the next day.
So we set off on Wednesday afternoon at 13.30 to visit the houses. We just made it in time to the first house where we were turned away because they only wanted to rent houses to single sex groups! How silly is that! Anyway, we therefore made our way to the next house on our list. We were standing in front f the door debating who was going to ring the doorbell when I got a call. It was he landlord telling us that the house had just been rented and so was no longer available. At this point we thought it was quite amusing that we hadn't seen any houses. We walked to the next house but had lots of time to spare, so we went to get a drink in the local pub. I stuck to lemonade! Anyway, we went to house no 3 and were told at the door by another group of students that the house had gone. We therefore returned to the pub because we had 1h30 to kill. This was the most enjoyable part of the day, we had another drink and played pool. Emma however then got a phone call telling her that house no5 had been rented. We made our way to house no4 and visited it. The first house of the day! The house was nice but the small bedroom wasn't, it had an en suite in it, well a toilet and sink and the bed in there was tiny! There was no oven in the kitchen either which was a little strange. (The landlady was French though! but I didn't tell her I was too) We proceeded to house no6, the last house of the day. It was really nice, the only problem being location. It is a little far from uni, and although there is a direct bus into university in the morning, in the evening you have to take 2 buses to get back.
Well we slept on it, and decided that house no6 was the house for us! Now we just have to hand over a couple of thousand pounds worth of post dated checks and all will be done. Arghhh!
Wish me luck!
So we set off on Wednesday afternoon at 13.30 to visit the houses. We just made it in time to the first house where we were turned away because they only wanted to rent houses to single sex groups! How silly is that! Anyway, we therefore made our way to the next house on our list. We were standing in front f the door debating who was going to ring the doorbell when I got a call. It was he landlord telling us that the house had just been rented and so was no longer available. At this point we thought it was quite amusing that we hadn't seen any houses. We walked to the next house but had lots of time to spare, so we went to get a drink in the local pub. I stuck to lemonade! Anyway, we went to house no 3 and were told at the door by another group of students that the house had gone. We therefore returned to the pub because we had 1h30 to kill. This was the most enjoyable part of the day, we had another drink and played pool. Emma however then got a phone call telling her that house no5 had been rented. We made our way to house no4 and visited it. The first house of the day! The house was nice but the small bedroom wasn't, it had an en suite in it, well a toilet and sink and the bed in there was tiny! There was no oven in the kitchen either which was a little strange. (The landlady was French though! but I didn't tell her I was too) We proceeded to house no6, the last house of the day. It was really nice, the only problem being location. It is a little far from uni, and although there is a direct bus into university in the morning, in the evening you have to take 2 buses to get back.
Well we slept on it, and decided that house no6 was the house for us! Now we just have to hand over a couple of thousand pounds worth of post dated checks and all will be done. Arghhh!
Wish me luck!
posted by sophie at
1:26 pm
3 Comments:
Good Luck! :)
xxx
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sarah hb, at 2/20/2005 3:54 pm
Thank you! Well have handed over the checks now and signed the contract. So we have the house for certain. Jenny is coming down this weekend to view the house, sign the contract and to pay her share of the deposit.
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sophie, at 2/21/2005 1:06 pm
single sex groups? wtf?
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Anonymous, at 2/21/2005 4:50 pm
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