{"id":574,"date":"2012-02-21T21:54:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T21:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=574"},"modified":"2012-02-29T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:37:24","slug":"buying-a-holiday-cottage-the-longed-for-dream-coming-to-fruition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2012\/buying-a-holiday-cottage-the-longed-for-dream-coming-to-fruition\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying a Holiday Cottage, the longed for dream coming to fruition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yaaay! Finally picked up the keys, a good 18 months after viewing said cottage. It’s still as beautiful as when we first discovered it in August 2010.<\/p>\n

Now, please bear with me whilst I thank folk who have made our dream come true (our\u00a0 experience may help you achieve your dream too) Many thanks to Phil at PG Mortgages & Loans. We can’t stress enough that, when in an unusual financial situation (in our case self-employed), it’s really worth spending a little on using a professional to search out a mortgage provider. Stuff Doer spent two days trawling the internet looking at (what we thought) where all the available options. For a few hundred pounds Phil saved us thousands in arrangement fees and failed mortgage applications. I’m sure Stuff doer will go into this in much more detail than I could possibly be interested in, this was area of potential DIY he opted out of.<\/p>\n

Also Coventry Building Society for, after seeing the detailed information, being able to see the bigger picture (great if you’re self-employed). I have to say, we couldn’t have wished for a better mortgage provider or their free legal service provided by Fast Track.\u00a0 It’s loads better than any other company we’ve had the misfortune to deal with! Also big thanks to Bill (DAL), our best ever plumber, who put us on to Phil and encouraged us to proceed with this project. \u201cGo for it, you only live once\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Whitby<\/a>

Diamond in the Rough<\/p><\/div>\n

So, now to our cottage. It’s a few hundred years old (buildings on the site on 1740 map!) Please have a look here for a \u00a0first look at the cottage\u00a0for a guided tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As previously stated, we first viewed the cottage in August 2010, we BOTH<\/span> fell in love with it (not just me!). As you’ll see, from previous posts, the cottage was removed from sale soon after our first viewing. It went back on the market just before we went on holiday in August 2011. But, obviously, I’ve saluted all the magpies in the right order, and we were able to put in an offer, which was accepted on 17th<\/sup> August 2011.<\/p>\n

We finally got the keys on 7th<\/sup> Feb 2012 (we completed on my best mate’s birthday on the 6th<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve worked hard and we\u2019re fortunate to be in the position to appreciate the opportunity we find ourselves with. Not only is it a fascinating project but a beautiful (one day) holiday home and a massive learning curve. We hope you’ll join us on our journey.<\/p>\n

To keep up to date \u201clike\u201d the iDoStuff Facebook page<\/a> and we\u2019ll keep you posted with any updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yaaay! Finally picked up the keys, a good 18 months after viewing said cottage. It’s still as beautiful as when we first discovered it in August 2010. Now, please bear with me whilst I thank folk who have made our dream come true (our\u00a0 experience may help you achieve your dream too) Many thanks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,192,206],"tags":[201,204,202,203,33,205],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ido-property-stuff","category-otherhalfstuff","category-whitby-cottage","tag-cottage","tag-finance","tag-holiday","tag-let","tag-mortgage","tag-renovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}