Tag Archives: renting

It’s your move or more likely mine, week 35

Posted on December 31, 2017 by Sophia Moseley

This is the last post for this particular blog because on 4 December we exchanged and on 14 December we completed. When I started this blog in January 2017, all I had was a small financial lifeline that went towards … Continue reading →

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It’s your move or more likely mine, week 32

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Sophia Moseley

After being told by our mortgage broker that the lender would not give us a mortgage due to a section 157 applying to the property and that there was not even the smallest possibility they would consider an appeal or change their … Continue reading →

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It’s your move or more likely mine, week 31

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Sophia Moseley

Remember the days when you had to go for a face to face interview with your bank manager each time you needed a loan? There was no online banking and definitely no call centres in countries you had never even … Continue reading →

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It’s your move or more likely mine, week 29

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Sophia Moseley

After going for my first serious property viewing, I thought it must have been fate that threw me into the hands of this particular estate agent because she told me about a house that they were about to take on … Continue reading →

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It’s your move or more likely mine. Week 27-28

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Sophia Moseley

After receiving a reassuring email from our mortgage broker, whilst making no promises, I decided to progress my viewing of properties in the newspaper to viewing them in the flesh. I had registered with all the online property markets; Zoopla, … Continue reading →

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It’s your move, or more likely mine. Week 26

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Sophia Moseley

We had a breakthrough this week. If you’ve been following this blog you will know we have been renting for over 13 years, since the first day we moved south from Bedford. We were also renting for the last 3 years … Continue reading →

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It’s your move, or more likely mine. Week 22-25

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Sophia Moseley

The weeks have flown by haven’t they. I cannot believe we are over the half way point for 2017. By now I had expected to not only have sorted out a mortgage but be well on the way to finding … Continue reading →

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It’s your move, or more likely mine. Week 21

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Sophia Moseley

I’ve been feeling quite upbeat this week, partly because of my job; I am working full-time at the moment and hopefully this will continue long into the future, and whilst I love my work, it is also the fact I am … Continue reading →

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It’s your move, or more likely mine. Week 19 & 20

Posted on May 28, 2017 by Sophia Moseley

I’ve been busy, very busy over the past couple of weeks and my blogging has had to take second place but during that time I’ve been harking back to the good ol’ days just lately; actually that’s a nonsense because … Continue reading →

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It’s your move, or more likely mine. Week 18

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Sophia Moseley

I’ve been thinking outside of the box this week and trying to avoid reading the news. Nothing to do with the local elections; I carried out my civic right and duty and put my ‘x’ in the box and it’s simply … Continue reading →

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