We met with the lady that looks after the house we are renting in Hamilton this weekend.
We have officially signed all the papers, so the house is now ours, well apart from meeting to get the keys from her in 2 weeks time.
We don't actually want the place until Sept 29, so we really couldn't get the keys 2 weeks early and not pay rent for the place, but hey it suits us as we don't need the place before then.
So all is going good.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Moving
We have the daunting task ahead of us of packing up our home and moving it over 100 kms south.
The thought of doing this, with 2 boys, is very daunting and I know it will take a very long time just doing it at night! Only time when they won't bug me and I can get it done in peace.
So we got some quotes from different companies about their services and what they could offer us.
You had the plain simple movers, who would come and take everything you had packed, load it into a van, drive it to Hamilton and then empty out into your house the other end, all in one day and no nice stuff along the way. Pretty basic for $1200.
This is how we thought we might do it, cheap and simple.
Then just for a laugh we got someone to come and give us a quote from a very nice company who would give you the pleasure of packing up your house for you, yes that is right, they would come in and spend the whole day individually wrapping your glasses and ornaments, and would even wrap your larger furniture items so they don't get damaged!
They would then load the truck and deliver it to Hamilton and then empty the boxes and put it all away and remove all rubbish.
So that means how the unit in the dinning room looked in Auckland is how it will look in Hamilton when they have finished.
WOW, we thought, but yea how much would that all cost??
I was thinking maybe $5000+?
$3000 all up...can you believe that, no I couldn't either, so I called and checked and discussed what this cost meant and yep that is all correct.
So guess which company we are going with?
You got it, the relaxing do nothing service, I am very happy to let them come in and do it all.
That means that I have all those nights in October when I thought I would be packing to just concentrate on the boys and making sure things are tidy ready for the packers.
The thought of doing this, with 2 boys, is very daunting and I know it will take a very long time just doing it at night! Only time when they won't bug me and I can get it done in peace.
So we got some quotes from different companies about their services and what they could offer us.
You had the plain simple movers, who would come and take everything you had packed, load it into a van, drive it to Hamilton and then empty out into your house the other end, all in one day and no nice stuff along the way. Pretty basic for $1200.
This is how we thought we might do it, cheap and simple.
Then just for a laugh we got someone to come and give us a quote from a very nice company who would give you the pleasure of packing up your house for you, yes that is right, they would come in and spend the whole day individually wrapping your glasses and ornaments, and would even wrap your larger furniture items so they don't get damaged!
They would then load the truck and deliver it to Hamilton and then empty the boxes and put it all away and remove all rubbish.
So that means how the unit in the dinning room looked in Auckland is how it will look in Hamilton when they have finished.
WOW, we thought, but yea how much would that all cost??
I was thinking maybe $5000+?
$3000 all up...can you believe that, no I couldn't either, so I called and checked and discussed what this cost meant and yep that is all correct.
So guess which company we are going with?
You got it, the relaxing do nothing service, I am very happy to let them come in and do it all.
That means that I have all those nights in October when I thought I would be packing to just concentrate on the boys and making sure things are tidy ready for the packers.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Unconditional
The Lawyer called today to say that we have had verbal announcement from the vendor's Lawyer to say everything is fine with the LIM Report and the Builder's Report so we have gone UNCONDITIONAL.
Yea, everything is flowing nicely.
Yea, everything is flowing nicely.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Some where to live
By 6.30 we still hadn't heard anything from the people about renting their house, so we called them.
She said that there were some students who were quite persistent, but her husband and other tenant (who had showed us the house to begin with) both liked us and so WE GOT IT!
So we have somewhere to live in Hamilton.
It is in Hamilton East, which is just across the river from the hospital, close to the Hamilton Gardens, a place I know we will spend a lot of time.
About 5 minutes from Pak n Save and 10 mins down the road from the Events Centre.
So overall we are very happy, still not sure where the chest freezer is going to fit, neither my sewing table?? But we will face all that when we move in, at least we have somewhere to live that is the most important part.
She said that there were some students who were quite persistent, but her husband and other tenant (who had showed us the house to begin with) both liked us and so WE GOT IT!
So we have somewhere to live in Hamilton.
It is in Hamilton East, which is just across the river from the hospital, close to the Hamilton Gardens, a place I know we will spend a lot of time.
About 5 minutes from Pak n Save and 10 mins down the road from the Events Centre.
So overall we are very happy, still not sure where the chest freezer is going to fit, neither my sewing table?? But we will face all that when we move in, at least we have somewhere to live that is the most important part.
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Renting a House
So we spent Thursday evening checking out Trade Me website for all the rental porperties in Hamilton.
We called the people about the ones we liked and we were successful in setting up about 3 viewings for saturday morning.
On Friday evening we double checked the web for any late postings, got a few calls from people we had left messages with and by Saturday morning we had 5 places to view.
So we travelled to Hamilton first thing Saturday morning and it was a good journey, apart from the part where Alex got all antsy in his seat and then threw up 10 minutes outside of Hamilton.
Yes I had taken a complete change of clothes for them both, but didn't think we would be using them within the first 2 hours!
Anyway, we successfully arrived at the first property and found a very nice old villa.
Lovely big bedrooms, new bathroom and kitchen and a huge barn like garage with so much storage.
Little things that bugged us was that there was no power sockets in one of the bedrooms! not sure on that one and also the lounge had some fixed benches in it with red cushions, this would make it very difficult to fit our furniture in.
So we left to view another, and told them we would call if interested further.
On driving to the next house we were able to drive past one of the other ones to view and called the guy and cancelled as it was not suitable.
The next house was ok, nice 4 bedrooms, but old and would have bugged me because it felt like the whole place just needed a good paint, and I don't think it was going to happen soon, so that one was off.
Someone from my Antenatal Coffee group has also just moved to Hamilton so we went and visited her after we had had a picnic lunch in the park.
Great to catch up with someone you know and I think she loved having someone just drop by, as she said, there is no one to just drop by at the moment.
Then we zoomed back down to view the last 2 houses, which were in the same street actually.
The first one was nice. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, lounge and a seperate dining come sitting area. Nice fenced garden and generally clean with carpet throughout.
We both liked this one and actually spent 10 minutes trying to work out where we would put things.
The other one in the same street was no good, dark and small with only really 2 bedrooms and a small study, although they said it was 3 bedrooms! Yea right as long as it was only a small person sleeping in there.
So we went back up to the other house and called the owners to say we wanted it.
The guy came out, let us have another look through and got us to fill out the papers, happily accepted a cheque for 6 weeks rent and then said he would have to give us a definite answer on Sunday when his wife was back because she was the one who dealt with this side of things, they have 5 rental properties.
So we drove away knowing that probably about 80% chance of it being ours.
So fingers and toes crossed they got in touch and let us have the place.
We called the people about the ones we liked and we were successful in setting up about 3 viewings for saturday morning.
On Friday evening we double checked the web for any late postings, got a few calls from people we had left messages with and by Saturday morning we had 5 places to view.
So we travelled to Hamilton first thing Saturday morning and it was a good journey, apart from the part where Alex got all antsy in his seat and then threw up 10 minutes outside of Hamilton.
Yes I had taken a complete change of clothes for them both, but didn't think we would be using them within the first 2 hours!
Anyway, we successfully arrived at the first property and found a very nice old villa.
Lovely big bedrooms, new bathroom and kitchen and a huge barn like garage with so much storage.
Little things that bugged us was that there was no power sockets in one of the bedrooms! not sure on that one and also the lounge had some fixed benches in it with red cushions, this would make it very difficult to fit our furniture in.
So we left to view another, and told them we would call if interested further.
On driving to the next house we were able to drive past one of the other ones to view and called the guy and cancelled as it was not suitable.
The next house was ok, nice 4 bedrooms, but old and would have bugged me because it felt like the whole place just needed a good paint, and I don't think it was going to happen soon, so that one was off.
Someone from my Antenatal Coffee group has also just moved to Hamilton so we went and visited her after we had had a picnic lunch in the park.
Great to catch up with someone you know and I think she loved having someone just drop by, as she said, there is no one to just drop by at the moment.
Then we zoomed back down to view the last 2 houses, which were in the same street actually.
The first one was nice. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, lounge and a seperate dining come sitting area. Nice fenced garden and generally clean with carpet throughout.
We both liked this one and actually spent 10 minutes trying to work out where we would put things.
The other one in the same street was no good, dark and small with only really 2 bedrooms and a small study, although they said it was 3 bedrooms! Yea right as long as it was only a small person sleeping in there.
So we went back up to the other house and called the owners to say we wanted it.
The guy came out, let us have another look through and got us to fill out the papers, happily accepted a cheque for 6 weeks rent and then said he would have to give us a definite answer on Sunday when his wife was back because she was the one who dealt with this side of things, they have 5 rental properties.
So we drove away knowing that probably about 80% chance of it being ours.
So fingers and toes crossed they got in touch and let us have the place.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
LIM Report
When ever you see things about stress, there always seems to be a list of the "10 most stressful things"
Sometimes I have looked at these and thought, yea right, it might be slightly annoying but can you really call that stressful....?
One of the top 10 things is......Selling / Buying a house!
And after this last 2 or 3 days I have to admit I will agree with everyone in the whole world now.
Even though we have had no worries, we know there is nothing wrong with the house and we were not bothered by the 7 working day wait to go unconditional, there have been moments when it all just got too much, ok some of this does have to do with my impatientness (not sure on the spelling but you get my drift!) where I would just like things to happen now and can't understand why others don't feel the same way?
So our Lawyer calls today to inform us that they still haven't heard anything from the vendor about the LIM Report, and that as a condition of sale they may come back to us and ask us to sort out the council?!
So with my impatience streak, I decide why wait till they ask, let's get it done now.
So I did...
Not sure if the nice lady at the council will ever be the same again, although I did keep saying that I know it wasn't her directly but the company she worked for.
Anyway, I called and explained that our vendor's had applied for a LIM report and that it was blank.
She asked for the details and then explained that that was correct.
I explained that it was not correct.
She got confused and so I had to explain about the numbering, so she looked up the other house and low and behold there was our history.
Now unfortunately it took rather a lot to get this poor woman to understand what I was talking about when I kept telling her that that was our history, it was our house that had been there for over 70 years and that that was our history that should be connected to our house for our LIM Report.
Unfortunately I got very frustrated and very upset and scared the poor woman half to death by crying over the phone!
Funny thing is though....it worked!
She past our details on to another person in the correct department and 1 1/2 hours later our vendor's Lawyer had the new LIM Report with all the correct consents and reports etc that should have been there in the first place and it was all done correctly so in future years this will never happen again and it was all done free of charge, no extra charge for reissuing the LIM Report.
205a does exist and will continue to exist for a while longer.
Sometimes I have looked at these and thought, yea right, it might be slightly annoying but can you really call that stressful....?
One of the top 10 things is......Selling / Buying a house!
And after this last 2 or 3 days I have to admit I will agree with everyone in the whole world now.
Even though we have had no worries, we know there is nothing wrong with the house and we were not bothered by the 7 working day wait to go unconditional, there have been moments when it all just got too much, ok some of this does have to do with my impatientness (not sure on the spelling but you get my drift!) where I would just like things to happen now and can't understand why others don't feel the same way?
So our Lawyer calls today to inform us that they still haven't heard anything from the vendor about the LIM Report, and that as a condition of sale they may come back to us and ask us to sort out the council?!
So with my impatience streak, I decide why wait till they ask, let's get it done now.
So I did...
Not sure if the nice lady at the council will ever be the same again, although I did keep saying that I know it wasn't her directly but the company she worked for.
Anyway, I called and explained that our vendor's had applied for a LIM report and that it was blank.
She asked for the details and then explained that that was correct.
I explained that it was not correct.
She got confused and so I had to explain about the numbering, so she looked up the other house and low and behold there was our history.
Now unfortunately it took rather a lot to get this poor woman to understand what I was talking about when I kept telling her that that was our history, it was our house that had been there for over 70 years and that that was our history that should be connected to our house for our LIM Report.
Unfortunately I got very frustrated and very upset and scared the poor woman half to death by crying over the phone!
Funny thing is though....it worked!
She past our details on to another person in the correct department and 1 1/2 hours later our vendor's Lawyer had the new LIM Report with all the correct consents and reports etc that should have been there in the first place and it was all done correctly so in future years this will never happen again and it was all done free of charge, no extra charge for reissuing the LIM Report.
205a does exist and will continue to exist for a while longer.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Building Inspection and More
The buyers of the house would like a builder inspection and a LIM report from the local Council.
No problem with any of that, nothing to hide.
So on Sunday they came and did the builder inspection, or more to the point his father came and did a builder's inspection!
So that put us at ease as there was no serious testing done on the place and a visual inspection will pass with flying colours.
Unfortunately I wish the LIM was so easy??
Today they enquired about the consent for when the house was moved back in 2000. Turns out it is not on the LIM, in fact it turns out there is nothing at all on the LIM?
After a little investigating myself I realised the problem.......when we brought the property back in 2002 the house was numbered 205, when we actually moved in 4 months later it was now numbered 205a, this is because we were waiting on the titles to come through where the people had sub divided the plot of land. So that means the LIM we viewed when we bought the house was for 205 not 205a!!
Confused yet?? You will be...
So I have advised them that they need to get back in touch with the local council and ask for a LIM report on 205 but only up until Aug 02, because after that 205 referres to the house in front of us?!
It is the local council's fault, they are the ones that renumbered the houses and caused all the confusion, that has, I can't believe, now lasted for 5 years.
So hopefully by getting info for 205 and sifting through the right parts of it, they will get all the relevant information that they require. We are still not worried and have no fears that anything will show that will make them withdraw, it will just get confusing along the way to get there!
No problem with any of that, nothing to hide.
So on Sunday they came and did the builder inspection, or more to the point his father came and did a builder's inspection!
So that put us at ease as there was no serious testing done on the place and a visual inspection will pass with flying colours.
Unfortunately I wish the LIM was so easy??
Today they enquired about the consent for when the house was moved back in 2000. Turns out it is not on the LIM, in fact it turns out there is nothing at all on the LIM?
After a little investigating myself I realised the problem.......when we brought the property back in 2002 the house was numbered 205, when we actually moved in 4 months later it was now numbered 205a, this is because we were waiting on the titles to come through where the people had sub divided the plot of land. So that means the LIM we viewed when we bought the house was for 205 not 205a!!
Confused yet?? You will be...
So I have advised them that they need to get back in touch with the local council and ask for a LIM report on 205 but only up until Aug 02, because after that 205 referres to the house in front of us?!
It is the local council's fault, they are the ones that renumbered the houses and caused all the confusion, that has, I can't believe, now lasted for 5 years.
So hopefully by getting info for 205 and sifting through the right parts of it, they will get all the relevant information that they require. We are still not worried and have no fears that anything will show that will make them withdraw, it will just get confusing along the way to get there!
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