House sale!
This week has been another one of those "oh my goodness, how did this get so hectic?" weeks.
Our landlady and her parents have decided to sell our house. We think that they're selling because they really need the money from the sale, as they brought the property as an investment place to develop in 2007, when the property boom was near it's peak. They're going to try to sell the house as a tenanted property, which is good for us since it might mean that we get a new landlord rather than having to househunt.
I'm sorry to lose this landlady, as she has been really good about doing everything upfront and honestly. We got told about the house sale as soon as it went on the market. She's been reasonably good about getting essentials fixed and she's been prompt about bond deposits etc. Hopefully if we get a new landlord out of this they will be just as good, instead of a plonker like the first one we had.
The land agent has been a bit harder to deal with. He's been very enthusiastic about some of his ideas- he'd like to bring people over whenever he wants to view the section, and he first agreed to 3 open homes and then wanted to change that to 5 open homes starting this weekend. That has been vetoed and changed to 3 open homes starting in 2 weeks time plus 2 "open gardens" starting this Sunday, when the prospective buyers get to stand in the garden appreciating the freshly mowed onion weed and look longingly at the locked house. We've also managed to get a tell us the day before notice deal for people coming onto the section, since it's important to actually tell all the flatmates and to reduce the chances of people being unaware if someone suspicious comes on to the property. High crime rate neighbourhood and all that.
The flat is going to spend the next couple of Saturdays cleaning up the section and the interior of the house. I've got everyone to agree to pitch in, hopefully we can get everything looking respectable.
Just had a look at the photos on the website. Trust Ca' (Porl's very smart and self opinionated cat) to turn up in the photos :).
http://barfoot.co.nz/415684#8