WATCHING AND WAITING

 

It's a bit of a waiting game here with some interested house buyers yet to make an offer.

The agent told us that they were considering submitting a 'clean offer':

A clean offer in New Zealand is typically an unconditional offer, meaning it has no conditions attached, is appealing to sellers as it reduces risk and speeds up the process. However, a truly "clean" offer from a buyer's perspective is one that includes all necessary due diligence, such as finance confirmation, satisfactory property inspection, and LIM report, along with legal checks, before it becomes unconditional. To make your offer "clean" for a seller, it must be financially sound, and for your own protection, it should be preceded by thorough property research and legal advice from a lawyer or conveyancer.

This would be very acceptable and in fact we might accept. The trouble is that nearly a week has gone by and we have yet to receive 'the offer'.

I know that they are busy people - she is a barrister and he a top government worker but .... it is frustrating.

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Do you like the Moody Blues music video? It's nice isn't it?

No doubt though Richard would get three tree fellers in to chop down the beautiful oak tree.

Robert will obviously complain that the song is heretical as it presupposes 'God' as being nature and there are no references to virgin births, transubstantiation, ascensions, assumptions, bilocations, flagellation and the erotic fantasies of Saint Faustina but ... hey ho, it's lyrical and just the thing to raise spirits on a wintry Tuesday morning.

"Watching and waiting
For a friend to play with
Why have I been alone so long
Mole he is burrowing his way to the sunlight
He knows there's some there so strong
'Cause here there's lot of room for doing
The thing you've always been denied
Look and gather all you want to
There's no one here to stop you trying
Soon you will see me
'Cause I'll be all around you
But where I come from I can't tell
But don't be alarmed by my fields and my forests
They're here for only you to share
'Cause here there's lot of room for doing
The things you've always been denied
So look and gather all you want to
There's no one here to stop you trying
Watching and waiting
For someone to understand me
I hope it won't be very long"