Mummy in the foothills

You're right Don. Thanks. Life is too short to worry about these things, I'll be happy to be home even if we only break even on the house, which is looking more and more like reality for us.

Celticspirit

What a shame Rodney. Before I remarried, my husband to be had mild asthma and was afraid to be around my dogs. I had quite a few......maybe five Chihuahuas at the time. I had a litter once in a while as I loved the babies in the house and I also exhibited as was my hobby. He has not had a single issue living with dogs but will get a little wheezy if he comes to a dog show where there could be hundreds or thousands of dogs unless it is held outside.
Obviously the smaller the dog the less the dander. You got good adviice here about the more hyper allergenic dogs. My pick would be a Havanese but they do require brushing daily. They have wonderful temperaments.

sallysimmons

That's beautiful. If it's only £350,000 it must either be somewhere out of the way, or be quite small. But I definitely wouldn't say no if someone was giving it to me for free. Love those beams and the fireplace.

By the way, I saw New Maldon on 'Flat Pack Homes' the other day. Some couple were building an extension of the back of a little Victorian terrace. They didn't show much though. When do you move?

Beedubya

Only trouble Sally is you have to buy 21 copies of the Daily Fail to get the coupons to emter, I only buy a copy about once every 3 months if there is a story of interest that catches my eye (Robert Wagner/Natalie Wood) I did not buy it yesterday to get the free Cliff Richard Christmas CD ha ha!!

Not that much to see in New Maldon, it's really just an average little town, of course the biggest draw for me is to get myself of this awful situation I am in.....plus it's 1/2 hour on the train from London Victoria.

I don't have an actual start date as such, but I have still handed in my notice on my job and flat.

The area manager knows my situation (like I have to give a months notice on the flat so that will take it to December 18th and I will have to pay out dead money) so it just depends on how quickly the head office are at doing things, well it does seem to move slowly in these big companies.......but by *my* calendar it will be December 12th. They said there should be no problem if my references all come through OK, so I have threatened the 2 personal referees!!!

I have quite a lot to do in between leaving the old job and starting the new one and FINALLY I will be able to get my stuff from Australia that's in storage, well it's not much but it is MINE!! The sister I stayed with when I first came back said I can stay with her in my interim time, soooo.......I will be on the move again in a few weeks and like you said I will stick it out for a few years and look for somewhere more in line with what I want...........whatever that might be. Anyway who knows where any of us will end up, I could meet the man of my dreams or win the Lottery.

cheers

What is the name of the site I need to go to to pickup BBCTV?
I somehow lost the link.

Beedubya

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

cheers

Could you still hear from your #1 choice?

cheers

Thanks but I need the scrambler to access BBC

fulwood

I use expatshield. But am looking into what Sallysimmons does which is for about 10 dollars a months she subscribes to UK television stations. Or something to that effect.

bandrui

Cheers, on another thread recently I saw that on the Mozilla Firefox browser there is an add-on called "Stealth" that allows you to access any UK sites including Iplayer. It was so easy to do... took seconds... and it's free!

It puts a little icon on the toolbar that you just click on or off as needed. If you don't have the Firefox browser, just download it. I keep both that and IE around anyway. It's a good browser. Hate IE8. Wish I had never upgraded.

bandrui

Bee, that's twice you have got to me today. Want to see a grown woman cry?

Only problem... the deadline was Sept 16, 2011 else I was going to research the keywords and enter. Can we be a bit more timely next time please .

bandrui

Gab, I really feel for you. I have been through this during the Alberta boom & bust days.

I think I am going to try going it alone initially. I've done it before, both buy and sell without a realtor. The paperwork is easy and anyway, any lawyer can do that. I have not been very impressed with the amount of effort Salt Spring realtors put into it, especially considering the massive amount they receive, though there is a company called 1% Realty that has been doing quite well.
They have just (last year) changed Canadian real estate regs to allow homeowners to list on MLS without a realtor.
I am ploughing through a couple of books on getting a house ready for sale and one of them, unbeknownst to me when I took them out of the library, is on going it alone.
I would put an ad in the Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle papers and a couple in Van recently had instant success by distributing a flyer offering a finder's reward. I also feel that, as owners, we are in the best position to point out the strengths of our property.
Having said this, I would make this a time-limited trial and go with a realtor if it was not successful. I interview realtors to gain their perspective on the sale and immediately eliminate those who come up with all the negatives and reasons why it may be hard to sell. My theory is that if they feel that way, they are not going to be able to sell it.

Like MITF (can't bring myself to call you Mummy ), every house here is completely different so it's quite difficult to judge what the selling price should be but shall have to research to come up with that. Neighbourhoods mean nothing here. One of my neighbours is rock star Randy Bachman of The Guess Who but I seriously doubt that his property is a comparable .

Beedubya

Well I suppose if the other contender doesn't take the job.........there was one interview for 2 jobs, both developments in the same road and practically just across the road from each other.............so who knows?

Beedubya

Well that's strange must be a typo as I only bought the paper yesterday......hang on I will check...........December 23rd it says in the paper.

Anyway you would need 21 coupons so that means you will have to buy 21 Daily Fail's and after that amount of negativity and doom and gloom you would feel like topping yourself.

bandrui

That's weird. If you follow your link, half way down the page it says all entries must be received by Sept 16, 2011. yet the date at the top is Nov 21, 2011. That's the Daily Mail for you.

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