View Poll Results: Which is the most stressful event: Waiting to sell your house or waiting for a visa ?
Waiting to sell your house ?
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Which is the most stressful event: Waiting to sell your house or waiting for a visa ?
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Originally posted by pott
The people who have bought the house have bought the car aswell - we get to keep it till we leave. How cool is that!!
The people who have bought the house have bought the car aswell - we get to keep it till we leave. How cool is that!!
Have you checked your lottery tickets ?
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Originally posted by mashiraz
Can we also have options of:
neither were stressful (unlikely)
both as stressful as each other (absolutely!)
sorry to complicate your lovely poll,
Ta
Mash...
Can we also have options of:
neither were stressful (unlikely)
both as stressful as each other (absolutely!)
sorry to complicate your lovely poll,
Ta
Mash...
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Originally posted by Rudy
Hi Terry,
Well we're doing both so can we vote double STRESSSSSS!!!
It's a nightmare - makes you wanta screeeeeaaam!
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See you at the next Essex girls meet??
Hazel & Wayne
Hi Terry,
Well we're doing both so can we vote double STRESSSSSS!!!
It's a nightmare - makes you wanta screeeeeaaam!
:scared: :scared:
See you at the next Essex girls meet??
Hazel & Wayne
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Lottery tickets - Don't start.
We have always had the same numbers - which you don't forget. So when we move it would be just our luck for them to come up!!!
The worst part is that the mother -in- law knows the numbers and we would never live it down.
Never again would I start to play that again.
They are having most of our furniture and the goldfish, they even asked about the dog !!
Spooky!!
We have always had the same numbers - which you don't forget. So when we move it would be just our luck for them to come up!!!
The worst part is that the mother -in- law knows the numbers and we would never live it down.
Never again would I start to play that again.
They are having most of our furniture and the goldfish, they even asked about the dog !!
Spooky!!
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Originally posted by pott
Lottery tickets - Don't start.
We have always had the same numbers - which you don't forget. So when we move it would be just our luck for them to come up!!!
The worst part is that the mother -in- law knows the numbers and we would never live it down.
Never again would I start to play that again.
They are having most of our furniture and the goldfish, they even asked about the dog !!
Spooky!!
Lottery tickets - Don't start.
We have always had the same numbers - which you don't forget. So when we move it would be just our luck for them to come up!!!
The worst part is that the mother -in- law knows the numbers and we would never live it down.
Never again would I start to play that again.
They are having most of our furniture and the goldfish, they even asked about the dog !!
Spooky!!
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Originally posted by karawara88
Selling the car was more stressful than either of those.
Selling the car was more stressful than either of those.
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i agree, i was so upset selling my pride and joy.
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Well we are stressed waiting for the visa and stressed trying to decide whether or not to put the house on the market now. Crunch time this weekend I think re the house - afterall if we dont get the tick in the box we wont hang around anyway!
Red wine sales are increasing around here too!
Ho hum
Doreen
Red wine sales are increasing around here too!
Ho hum
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Originally posted by terryg
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Originally posted by terryg
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Does that answer your question?
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No No Buy Ours. I'ts got..... err doors and windows and err... bits...just buy it for god sake oh oh just remembered you can also have three kids as well. Now I can't say fairer than that can I?
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Originally posted by Sindy
No No Buy Ours. I'ts got..... err doors and windows and err... bits...just buy it for god sake oh oh just remembered you can also have three kids as well. Now I can't say fairer than that can I?
Bill
No No Buy Ours. I'ts got..... err doors and windows and err... bits...just buy it for god sake oh oh just remembered you can also have three kids as well. Now I can't say fairer than that can I?
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Thanks you have all made me feel so much better about the house selling process!!
I am dreading it already before we even put it on the market.
It will be much worse than getting the visa, that was the easy bit for us!
Only about 4 more weeks of 'House Doctoring' to go .. ho hum!
I am dreading it already before we even put it on the market.
It will be much worse than getting the visa, that was the easy bit for us!
Only about 4 more weeks of 'House Doctoring' to go .. ho hum!
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I would agree that selling the house is the harder out of the two as you are limited to what you can do. When waiting for the visa life still carries on as normal but waiting for a buyer is far more restricting ... can't book anything ... on tender hooks waiting to get going ......
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Originally posted by terryg
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My point is at least you know how long it takes to get a visa but some houses are just not selling - there is a mass of uncertainty out there
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