So we are off to do our landing in Canada on the 17th of September and our house is under offer at the moment. Everything is hopefully coming together so why is it that everything is breaking down?! I've got problems with my car, the dryer, the TV even the iron has broken. And now to top everything the boiler has packed up. Whatever next!

All those things would need to be replaced once you get here anyway. Perhaps they all realised their usefull days are coming to an end, and they lost the will to live

I think you're right Iain but can't they keep working just a little longer? Please?

And besides I can't ignore the boiler because not only do we still need it but so will the new owners of the house. Something else to pay out for... *sigh*

Just shelled out $6k for a new furnace and water heater myself. I share your pain (but at least i will get the benefit of the new one). Hopefully its something cheap and simple to fix.

So much for these things happening in threes eh?

Iain

Hello

Can share your sympathy, we have been in Canada for three months now, but we remember from February to May of this year just before we left england everything went wrong, it started in February when the boiler died, you remember when it was bitterly cold on the South Coast for a few weeks, well my husband spent a week repairing the boiler so as not to buy a new one, I would mention that he is a plumbing and heating engineer and between him and a friend, they got the boiler working, it took a week, then the nearly new dishwasher packed up and we never got it working again, the following week the television turned green, new tube... then to top it all, my husband's car needed to go into the garage. By this time it was early May and we wondered what could go wrong. You guessed it three days before we left, we lost the buyer for our house and had to start again, would you believe the new buyer has exchanged contracts only today...... with completion mid September and we have been paying the mortgage on it up until the present. Keep an eye on your buyer for your house........
Bye Little Hazel

I don't know really. It's an old combination boiler that is on it's last legs anyway. It's the kind that when we've had an engineer look at it before they always take a sharp intake of breath with a little shake of the head. I'm not optimistic.

Hi,

It's not just me then.

Actually the terrible thing about the boiler is that the buyers had arranged for it to be inspected and that had already put me on edge a little bit in case they were trying to get more off of the price. When we had people viewing the property we didn't try to hide the fact that the boiler was getting on a bit but it was working okay. Now though just before it's inspection it's packed up. I've an idea that the simple route is going to be a new boiler because with just a short time before we leave I don't want to lose these buyers!

You must be so relieved that your house is now close to completion. Allowing for the inevitable cost of continuing to pay the mortgage from overseas how straight forward was it for you to market the house from Canada? It's crossed my mind that we may have to do that.

Stephen

Glad I'm not flying on your plane! :scared:

lmao...richard, only you can say something like that!!!!!!!!!

That's a sure sign (an old irish saying).....that only good things are in your future......and it's time to move on.........

That is very true. I live life by the fact that when things go wrong like that, then it can only get better!!

Hello Stephen,

I would not advise marketing your house from Canada, as you saw we lost the buyer just before leaving as they suddenly could not get their mortgage. In hindsight what we should have done was sold the house much sooner and gone into rented accommodation. It has been a problem to sell because theie is such a small window of time in which to talk to people in the U.K. because of course the time difference, and if you get a buyer with a solicitor as stupid as the one our buyer has you waste a lot of time whilst they are on holiday off sick etc. and only after threatening to pull out of selling our house to the person have they been forced to exchange today...... with completion later this month. Do remember though to leave your solicitor with Power of Attorney other wise you waste more time trying to sign papers being posted back and forth. Also remember to state where you want your funds to go to as it they are put in a bank in U.K. we discovered that unless you are in U.K. to sign their release, you cannot move them. Found this out from Nationwide.... Hope this helps do let us know what happens and where are u coming to, we live in Vancouver.

You should go to your bank before you leave the country and sign the paperwork that allows them to accept instructions by fax. You have to do it in person.

Once that is done you can have the funds deposited there and then decide what to do with them.

Ouch.....how long have you had it for, and do you think you will have had to pay that much in the UK? That is a lot of money, that could have gone in a trust fund for the kid !