Starting Out

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Esprit Homes redeem themselves

Well is looks like Esprit Homes have a conscience after all - they have done us a deal which involves us buying the showhome a little under its market value - so we have swallowed our pride and are going for it. Bearing in mind we are also getting the carpets and curtains, and the […]

17Jul2005 | rachael | 0 comments | Continued
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Going greyer by the minute

Well after we were gazumped by Esprit Homes scoring an own goal, we decided to email them with a letter of complaint about the way we have been treated…..
The managing director responded by telephone to give his side of the story. He apologised for all the confusion, but had to agree that the situation was […]

9Jul2005 | rachael | 0 comments | Continued
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We’ve been gazumped

Well it looks like we’ve fallen at the first hurdle - on Monday we put down £1000 cheque to reserve our new house in our name, we were given a written agreement with our signatures and the builders signatures to confirm this. Thinking we…..
…..were definitely buying this house we instructed solicitors, and dismissed our estate […]

3Jul2005 | rachael | 1 comment | Continued
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BLOG CABIN FEVER

We are one of those neo-modern semi-extended families that populate Britain as it is today. We are suffering from cabin fever and need a bigger house. We have three tiddlers aged 3, 4 and 6, a teenager from a previous marriage who still lives with us, and three older children also from the previous marriage […]

29Jun2005 | rachael | 2 comments | Continued