Sound like the perfect "adoptive" parents for her if they love walking etc. I hope that they enjoy having her next weekend...How old is your dog?
There's a lot of people around Sam that wouldn't make the effort to even try and re-home their pets - so as upsetting as I know it is for you - at least you're showing how much you love her by trying to find her the best new home possible.....
You should be proud of yourself for that and for being such a big animal lover (i nearly forgot - apart from the 8 legged variety that is! )

I'll keep my fingerscrossed that they come home with an empty car for you!
I'll be praying for the same thing myself when Andy does our one. I wont be joining him - i too do not enjoy carboot sales!
I have to be careful with Andy though - i've often bagged stuff up and asked him next time he's passing a charity shop to drop the stuff in - but i know that he has took a bag to the dump on a trip there before instead!

I sorted all our paperwork earlier in the year - its surprising how it accumulates... We ended up with about 6 sacks full of shredded paper - the neighbours must have wondered what was going on when the bin bags went out that week!

We haven't heard anything from our EA this week - so no viewers this weekend. We cleaned the house from top to bottom yesterday morning just incase we did get any calls....but nothing .... There's quite a few for sale boards up in Romford at the moment - some of which are houses that have been up for a while...no-one seems to be dropping their asking prices around here yet though - so we're not sure what to do ... We may need to drop a little bit more just to get the viewers interested again... We'll need to have a good think at the end of this agents contract in 6 weeks time...we might even take the house off the market for a month or so and then try another agent. Really hard to know what to do for the best really...

Oh dear you poor thing! You sound like you need a big hug ((((((HUG))))). Emigrating sure is hard........tough decisions all round.

Hi Kerry - Just looking through realestate.com.au and the rentals available all over.... notice your old place is back on the books! Looks so different without all your stuff in there....
There seems to be quite a few rental properties about at the moment - more than there was last time i looked a good few week's back which is good i guess as more choice for anyone arriving soon....

ok guys & gals.... need a bit of advice here....
just reading up on the "news" and below is an extract on MSN about the current UK property/financial market which pretty much sums up all that's been said on the news and in the papers recently) :-

Recessions are not pleasant. But if you can hold onto your job (and the truth is that the majority of people do), and have a decent amount of equity in your home (or don't own a home at all), then if you can sit tight and save money, then there will be opportunities arising from all this. Because money is becoming harder to come by again, times are good for savers - banks are offering decent rates.

And anyone who is a homeowner, rather than an investor, should welcome falling prices in the longer run (assuming you are able to stay put through the harder times).
If the house you're living in falls in price by 20%, then more than likely the one you want to move to will see a similar fall. So if your £200,000 home falls to £160,000, then the £300,000 home you want to move to will fall to £240,000 - which saves you a bundle in stamp duty apart from anything else.
So perhaps people in pretty rural communities will be able to buy homes again for reasonable prices. Certainly, first-time buyers will be in a good position.
And one day, property will be ripe for investors once again. There's nothing wrong with buy-to-let as an investment class, it's just that for a long time it's been completely overvalued.
Author Fred Harrison, who was uncannily accurate in predicting that the property crash would start in 2008, reckons that property works on an 18-year cycle - four years of recession, with about 14 years of stable or rising prices.
So by Harrison's reckoning, property might be looking attractive again in say 2013, 2014? That's plenty of time to save up a nice deposit.



I know our house has only been up for sale for 5 1/2 weeks - and although we had viewers initially we've had none for the last two weeks...
Already dropped the price by just £2,500....but no other houses in the area seem to be dropping theirs yet, but perhaps no-one else is in a rush to sell?

Do we :-

1) sit tight for a bit and see what happens - perhaps take house off market in 6 week's time for a month or so and change agent?
2) drop the price now by about 5% ?
3) stay in the UK for a while longer and ride out the property price drop?
But then if the above comments are true - property increases may not happen again till 2013 - and we HAVE to be in Oz by March 2012.

What would you guys do????
I know property prices have dropped a little in Perth - but have been keeping an eye on the Tassie prices and they dont seem to have changed much - or have they also dropped a little?

thanks
Cathy

you can ignore my previous message everyone....... we have a viewer
booked in for this coming weekend - so maybe things aren't as bad as i've convinced myself they are!!!

Good luck with the viewer

With regards to dropping the price, we were advised by the agents not to drop as they said they were encouraging everyone to keep the prices up as if everyone started to drop, the market would just fall dramatically.
So who knows how accurate the prices are when the EAs are all working together to keep prices high
But they also did advise us to be realistic with any offers and be prepared to take a lower price (confused?, yes!)

Sam

Hi Sam - thanks for that..... I dont think i'll buy another property in Tas! Might just rent forever I dont think i've got the patience for property selling and all the rubbish that goes with it!
Hope the car boot sale went well yesterday and they came home with an empty car!

they're talking b*ll*cks really!

who's going to buy an overpriced asset in a steady/falling market?

you'd need your head examined.

if you want to sell, drop the price to generate some interest in those who are ready to part with some money.

Yep, quite agree,(estate agents have a lot to answer for!) we dropped, had a low offer, negotiated a bit more and hopefully will be exchanging contracts in a few weeks

Sam

Having rented and owned houses, I know which one I'd choose, I think its a hassle either way!

Car boot sale went OK, they sold lots, although still came home with quite a lot too, so I paid a few visits to the charity shop and the tip today! While they were setting up, some of the better stuff was nicked:curse:

Sam

I wont say i'm shocked by that - doesn't surprise me in this country at all!
Not since our kids christmas decs were stolen from right outside our front door!
Glad they managed to get rid of some stuff though....
Will be interesting when Andy does his - what he thinks he'll get a fiver for - i reckon he'll be lucky to get 50p or a £1 !!!! Have a feeling he'll come home quite frustrated - and knowing him via the local dump!

All the fun of the property market eh?

what do you think the state of play is with the tassie property market?

still holding up-three houses down our street recently sold within a week of going to market.

that's good....i must admit i hadn't seen much (if any) change in prices on realestate.com.au when looking at Tas properties recently...they all seem to be roughly the same price they were last year when we were looking as well.