Thursday 18 July 2013

Progress!!!!

Ashford Parish Church
Well, the last month and a half have been pretty tough going. We still had a steady flow of viewers but no-one seemed to want to put in an offer. With my "job seekers allowance" rapidly coming to an end things were starting to look slightly desperate with financial limitations being added to the stress of not seeing an end to our situation. Leaving Ashford looked along way off.
Just making sure the house ad garden was spick-and-span was becoming a real chore and I was becoming increasingly restless around the house and finding it difficult to concentrate on anything apart from willing the phone to ring. Even my beloved guitars were being neglected.
Then, out of the blue the middle of last week, the tide began to turn.
We had a viewer last Tuesday who obviously wanted the place badly. He had grand plans to keep birds of prey and the house and garden suited his purpose perfectly. They were young, but you got the impression that the price wasn't a problem. So you can imagine our disappointment when they put in an offer a full 30 grand bellow the asking price. But we thought we'd end up agreeing a price somewhere in the middle and all parties would be happy..........Wrong.
They did up the anti but only by 5 grand and said that was as high as they would go. So we had a weekend agonising over weather we could take the hit and so put an end to the saga. In the end we decided to give it a week, and if there was still no interest we would, (working on the premise  happiness is more important than money) begrudgingly, concede and get on with life.............This turned out to be one of our better ideas.
Along came a wonderful lady that quite obviously felt exactly the same about the house as we did fifteen years ago. When she asked if we'd had any interest I told her of the low bid on the table and that we were going to run with it unless another one came along by the weekend. She told me not to agree to anything and she would bring hubby round that evening. Next day we had a very nice offer on the table to which we said YES PLEASE!
Now I know that nothing is over 'till the fat lady sings, (this particular fat lady being "exchange of contracts") but at least we can see a light at the end of the tunnel, and we can begin to look at French properties and plan another viewing trip in August.
Our lovely buyer is off to Marmaras for a holiday and we told her all about Turunc, so if any of my Turkish friends read this look out for an English couple who are excited about a new home, be extra nice to them they might  be our newest friends.