Fortunately there are a couple of sites that you can put in specifics and it won't throw too much at you that's inappropriate! You can narrow down ones that are detached, semi-detached, with parking, gardens and things like that as well as drawing an area you want to live in. Unfortunately it's only as good as the information put in by the Estate Agent, which at times can be pretty bad but on the other hand, Zoopla lets you 'hide' properties from sight, so you can get rid of terrible matches.
I spent a couple of months looking around with a particular price bracket in mind, but then by upping it a teeny tiny bit I found loads more suitable properties!!
We went and looked around one - an old stables that had been converted into a cute little detached cottage. It had rooms off the side of everywhere and the bedrooms had rafters and the lounge was HUGE with a cool hearth in it. We liked to so much that my mum and dad went around without us and gave us a thumbs-up, with the proviso that we looked around some others.
So we took them with us on a Sunday and looked around 3 others. And fell in love with a little white detached bungalow. It has been recently refurbished, it's got a brand new kitchen and bathroom and the garden is just grass with no borders so it's CRYING out for me!!
We put in a cheeky offer, got rejected so we've put in a real one and things are going through!! It's so bloody scary and nothing much else has happened other than mortgage application and acceptance. I could really do with your posts about how simple it is without a chain and how we'll be in by February, please!
(or you can leave me horror stories, and steal my sanity, but tbqh there's not much of that left anyway!)
I'll leave you there, no more boring house stuff for a while until something happens, but that's the back story, so when I start moaning you'll have some idea about what on earth is going on.
Here is my other girl cat, Gamora, attacking my Frankenstein's Monster Manicure.
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