Fostering a dog
We have been wanting a dog even before moving into the new house and had seen and walked a few dogs. The lady at the rescue very kindly contact us immediately when a dog that's suitable for us came into her care. We got the dog from her yesterday night and are fostering the dog for her until 4 Jan 10 and then we can decide if we want to keep him.

He's such a lovely dog.

House hunting progress

After weeks of waiting for the revised mortgage letter (postage strike, mis-communication as to whether it was posted/ processed, etc), the solicitor finally received it yesterday and we had just exchanged (10% deposit given, non-refundable) today!!

Completion date is scheduled for 10 Nov 09, next Tuesday, a week from today.

It's all real now!!

Garden boundary issue

Think the house buying will fall through due to this garden boundary issue.

.......:(

Mortgage
We thought Abbey has a backlog too after reading the forum, thus was prepared for the long wait when the mortgage adviser informed us end of last week that the survey will hopefully be done this week. Was in abit of shock today as we just received the mortgage details with the valuation survey done through the post!!

Valuation amount = our offer amount. Good news as we don't need to top up any diff!!

Now to wait for the solictor to sort out the paperworks......

Doggie
Since we were back from Liz's place earlier this month, we can't help thinking about the yellow labrador dog at Liz's. We been looking at different breeds of dogs, dogs training programme (The dog whisperer - Cesar Millian & It's me or the dog - Victoria Stillwell) to see if we are up to the responsibilities of a dog owner and the committment. We like an Airedale (as in picture), just need our keys to our new place and some convincing that we are up to being dog owners.

House hunting
After viewing 20+ properties, we found the one we like, put in offer, negotiate price and offer accepted last Wednesday. However the property will only be taken off from the market after payment to surveyor, thus mad rush last Thursday and Friday to sort out mortgage, appoint solicitor and surveyor. The property was off the market on Friday late afternoon (stated as SOLD subject to contract and there's no more viewing from today onwards).

Both of us are looking forward to owning our first house!