I'm really lucky that Lucy has been through this before, meaning that meeting about mortgages and estate agent jargon aren't completely alien to us. She has tried to teach me (when I'm awake enough to listen! oops), but overall I think we know what we're doing.
It's just everyone else now.
Because we've been wanting to move for a long time now, and Lucy has a bit of a summer break from her job, she's had quite a lot of time to prepare for the move. Everything had been organised, so much so that we actually made an offer on a house about a week after we had met with our estate agents. Unfortunately this was rejected, and it's hard not to feel like there are so many things in the big chain that are out of your control. When you're having to remind professionals to do things they were supposed to do three weeks ago, and you haven't had anyone view your house, you feel very dependent on others to be able to change your life!
It was seeming a bit too simple! Hopefully we wont have any horror stories you hear about, (even the move into our current flat took 3 months longer than expected...), and if we keep organised then this wont delay us any more than is necessary.
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