TheBF and I have finally exchanged contracts TODAY on our new house!
That's a giant step toward achieving my number 1 goal for the year! We are both incredibly happy, particularly because the journey to this point has been fraught with problems and stresses. There were several times over the last few weeks when we thought that the chain we were in would collapse and our dream home would disappear from our grasp. Luckily, the stars appeared to align today (despite it being Friday 13th!) and the contracts were finally exchanged.
In the UK, the key part of the house sale/purchase process is the exchange of contracts, with the completion date following either on the same day or within the days/weeks thereafter. In our case, we now have a completion date just under 2 weeks from our exchange date (near the end of May), so now we're going to be very busy packing, boxing everything up and moving our things into storage ahead of the big move day.
As well as doing a lot of chasing with Solicitors and Estate Agents and packing over the past days and weeks, I've also been working on a side hustle which is new to me - I'm having a go at Kindle publishing and this has also been taking a lot of my time. Hopefully I'll be getting my first books published soon and will see whether my hard work has paid off in getting some returns on my investment. I will keep you all posted!
As soon as I am able I will be back to "usual business" with my blog posts, I have 1 update post for March still to post (about how I invested my money in March) as well as all of my posts for the month of April. I just wanted to let everyone know that I am still here and will be raring to go again once the house move is complete.
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ReplyDeleteCongrats on exchanging the contracts and hope all goes well with the completion date.
Thanks Weenie!
DeleteI'm right in the middle of packing, packing and more packing madness at the moment. I'll breathe a sigh of relief come the end of June and we're in the new place!
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Congrats on going to conference. I would love to go. Maybe next year? I feel you on not being as regular as you want with blog posts. I am in the same boat. Sometimes it is hard to think of a good post, and other times life gets in the way (I work full time and live on a farm, time is a highly sought after commodity in my life). However, it brings me a high level of satisfaction when a post gets posted (and there are actually people who read it!)
ReplyDeleteHi Piggybanknomics (cool name by the way!)
DeleteI just stopped by your site and signed up for your updates. I think we sound quite similar in the way we set goals and track our finances (I track and plan my finances on a monthly basis...checking the spreadsheet at least once a week!) Perhaps you could add going to FinCon to your goals post!
Thanks for stopping by and saying hi!
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