With these keys I thee wed…
It was love at first sight: a Victorian terrace on a pretty tree-lined street with high ceilings and oodles of space and light.
“I’ll take it,” I announced, turning towards the agent. It was love at first sight, indeed but I was no longer talking about the property—a cheeky grin, sparkling brown eyes and a five o’clock shadow. I was smitten.
I moved in to the flat a week later but—alas—bagging my estate agent was not as simple as putting a deposit down and signing on the dotted line. It was three months before our first date (probably the only time in rental history that a tenant has been grateful for a broken boiler), three years before we moved in together and eight years before I could coax him down the aisle. But marry we did: last summer in a joyful ceremony in West Sussex. My estate agent is now officially off the market.
That’s not to say a guy can’t look… Less than a week after we returned from honeymoon, I caught my husband looking at porn. Property porn. He was browsing country houses on Rightmove—in broad daylight too.
That very weekend, we headed down the A26 towards a stunning three-bed cottage with a large garden and plenty of potential. Unfortunately the house was a little too ‘handy for major transport routes’; the road noise was deafening. But the nugget of an idea was sown. Boy, how my husband must regret that fateful Rightmove search now.
A year later, a hell of a lot of searching (both soul-searching and house hunting), a fair few ‘discussions’, a couple of tantrums (mine), one very helpful mortgage advisor, one patient solicitor and three failed property purchases later and we’re still looking. Watch this space.
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