My families adventure on the road to oz via Germany

Estate agents

This week has seen a rubbish EA come round and tell us no matter how much we do to the house it will only be worth around £110k. He reckons us having a down stairs bathroom will put people off. We have put a shower in our room and made a mini ensuite with the cleaver use of glass blocks.

Our house is an ex council house with 4 beds a large garden and only a few miles out of Durham. It has the benefit of being in the catchment area for one of the best senior schools in the area.

So far we have, put new electrics in, new centeral heating, 2x new cloak room suites, boarded the loft and put lighting and electric sockets as well as a velux window. Put a block paved new drive in, new kitchen complete with range cooker, re plastered the living room, stairs and the smallest bedroom.

We think he is talking rubbish and the next EA certainly convinced us of that.

He says without even finishing off the little jobs the house will be worth £115k.

So to finish off, we have to redecorate throughout, new bath and sink for the bathroom, new internal doors . Then we can expect at least £120k. A friend of mine is setting up his own landscape business , so ive asked if he will help me sort out the garden to make it look appealing to viewers, he can use our garden to take photos and help his client base. (This should keep our costs down).

The 2nd EA was impressed with what we have done so far and since he has sold loads of similar houses in our area i think we will go with him. As a back up im asking for a rental aprasial as well just incase the house does not sell in time for us to go to Germany.

So plan A is to sell and put the money once the mortgague is paid for into a saving account ready for the big move to oz.

Plan B is to rent the house out through a rental agencies and hopefully sell before we go to oz.

Hopefully we can get the rest of the house finished through buying at the sales that are still on.

Im trying to not get too stressed with all this.

Im nearly finished my latest assignment , once it has done i will start getting quotes in for plumbers and carpenters

hopefully the house will be finished in time to hit the spring market

EAs

11:00, Fri 19 January 2007 .. Posted by Tiggs+Graz

Last EA we had in said we had added about £10K to the value of our house - hope she is wrong seeing as we have spent about £30K! Adele x