Friday morning. Breakfast hot chocolate. Yum.
When we began looking for plots of land to build our own little house on, I had said that ideally we would find something with a half built house on it that we could finish. The reason a half built house is a good option is that planning permission has already been granted so you save a lot of time by not having to do the paperwork. You have to make sure that the proper paperwork has indeed been done, and been done properly. It would come as no surprise to me if someone who had not followed the necessary procedures would try and sell a half built house to get rid of the can of worms he or she had opened. Neither would I be shocked to find that building plans had not been followed properly and it was now going to cost more to correct the mistake than build it correctly in the first place. In short, many things could have happened since the beginning of such a venture to make someone decide to stop building and give up their dream.
Suspicion is the modus operandi I have adopted. Because if I had bought some land and begun to build a house, I doubt very much that I would then change my mind. It might go on hold for a while until I saved some more money to keep going, but I wouldn´t just give up. The fact that we like the area, that it was ideally located, that there is a garden, albeit small, that this seemed to be, dare I say it, the perfect opportunity only made me more certain that something will go wrong.
We began looking for hitches and so far we haven´t encountered any. Everything we thought might be the thing to stop us in our tracks has been sorted out, or would never have been a problem in the first place. It is well within our budget and perhaps the icing on the cake is that we cold buy it outright with no loans or mortgages and still have money to get going on finishing it the way we want it.
I emailed the owner to ask him for copies of all the documents and plans. We had thought that this may be the first obstacle, that he wouldn´t have the documents, the whole thing was illegal, but he wrote back saying that everything would be with us the following day. He hasn´t sent them though. Do you think it´s a bit early to decide it´s all gone up in smoke? I mean it is twenty past eight on Friday morning. He said Thursday evening. That´s what? 12 hours late. Is that too short a time to write someone off as a crook?
Waiting. It´s not my strong point.
Oh. Hey hum. I shall drink more hot chocolate and eat more blackberries and try to do something other than stare at my email all day long.
Suspicion is the modus operandi I have adopted. Because if I had bought some land and begun to build a house, I doubt very much that I would then change my mind. It might go on hold for a while until I saved some more money to keep going, but I wouldn´t just give up. The fact that we like the area, that it was ideally located, that there is a garden, albeit small, that this seemed to be, dare I say it, the perfect opportunity only made me more certain that something will go wrong.
We began looking for hitches and so far we haven´t encountered any. Everything we thought might be the thing to stop us in our tracks has been sorted out, or would never have been a problem in the first place. It is well within our budget and perhaps the icing on the cake is that we cold buy it outright with no loans or mortgages and still have money to get going on finishing it the way we want it.
I emailed the owner to ask him for copies of all the documents and plans. We had thought that this may be the first obstacle, that he wouldn´t have the documents, the whole thing was illegal, but he wrote back saying that everything would be with us the following day. He hasn´t sent them though. Do you think it´s a bit early to decide it´s all gone up in smoke? I mean it is twenty past eight on Friday morning. He said Thursday evening. That´s what? 12 hours late. Is that too short a time to write someone off as a crook?
Waiting. It´s not my strong point.
Oh. Hey hum. I shall drink more hot chocolate and eat more blackberries and try to do something other than stare at my email all day long.
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