This was the view from the property we viewed in Mid-Wales yesterday. Fabulous. Property fabulous, BUT it was cheek by jowl with others of its kind and we didn't feel happy about being an old couple (in years) compared with the younger dynamic there, still with children. We'd have been like the Beverley Hillbillies I reckon! Plus running costs there much higher than here in Carms (Council Tax was top band and 1/3 higher).
2nd property - had the space but not the layout. A shame, as it had a nice feel, but they had done the wide-angle lens with the house and the kitchen was a tad tight. An extension hadn't been thought out and they had lost 3 usable rooms by not planning the layout. So you had three big halls that you could mainly just walk through.
3rd one - well, the agent had been hard at work doing a cosmetic job on parts of this too and apparently even gardens can be enhanced with the right camera setting. The wonderful kitchen extension was like a large greenhouse close-to, and the owner admitted it couldn't be used in winter as it got too cold. It was all fur coat and no knickers, sadly, and could easily become a money pit. I won't go into details but don't want to identify it. If we had £50K to hand after buying it, we might have offered but she wouldn't budge a penny on the price (though that had been "offers around" not offers over). Since we are cash buyers, that is normally a good bargaining position but this woman obviously didn't want to sell that much. . . Another property we were going to view next week is now under offer and I am having nightmares, literally.
Sorry about the photo - it was taken from a moving car. The scenery was stunning.
Our cracked car window gets fixed tomorrow - another drain on the economy - and we also have to have our water supply tested . . . We are suddenly COMPLETELY out of heating oil - since I am sure we had hardly used any from when I looked a couple of weeks ago, a bit worried that someone came and removed it all - there are bods who do this and of course, it looks like you are having it delivered and not SUCKED OUT!
