[bennett]

Hey Guys,
After an entire month of racing round the country looking for at houses I found one right under my nose. Sitting down after a bizzare day of wall to wall tuscan yellow paint with Mediterranean blue carpet and floral borders I was about to give up. My mother timidly approaches me with a nice cup of PG tips and asks if I had thought of buying their home!! After 43 years, four stories of mainly undecorated Victorian Hampstead house with very overgrown gardens has become too much for them, but the thought of selling and getting involved with the madness of the UK house selling system had been putting them off, not to mention the thought of 43 years of accumulated treasures

Its perfect, they sell without any stress, us buying means they don?t get ripped off by agents who tend to ignore early 1900's fireplaces, light switches, cornice, doorknobs and 12 foot ceilings to point out the lack of central heating and a DIY flat conversion, and the chip pan fire of 1980 where they just rebuilt a kitchen into another room It certainly had become to much for them, so its perfect all round. My Dad, finds it bloody amusing that we just agreed to the 2004 price for what he bought in 1961 With the house sorted we will totally restore the house and convert 2 flats off of the basement and ground floor which the plan is to let as luxury holiday accom or to business tenants. Leaving us with the top of the house to live in when in London. So that covers income too.
Thanks in advance