Well, the good news is that last weekend we had an offer on the house.
The bad news is that it was (as the estate agent put it) "complicated" -- basically it was from a developer who wanted to get his mortgage for 10,000 more pounds than he was going to pay us for the house, so he could use that money as his deposit for the mortgage and therefore get a better interest rate etc. Well.
When we heard the offer's conditions, my first reaction was... is that legal? So Andy had to tell the estate agent we'd have to get ahold of the solicitor before deciding on the offer. He phoned the solicitor on Monday and then had to have the agents phone the solicitor and then when we spoke to him he said it isn't fraud necessarily.... but nearly!!
so alas, we had a very nice offer in on the house, but unfortunately had to turn it down. :(
Posted by kristen at August 26, 2005 2:51 AM