Well it's been an extremely interesting morning. I may have mentioned in here before that my neighbours (and landlords) have been seriously contemplating moving house, which was put on hold after they pulled out of a property last summer due to having no interest in their current house. Well they recently put it back up and now have somebody interested that is coming for a second viewing this week. They have also found a property that they are keen on, on the outskirts of Truro, which is the main infrastructure and transport hub of the county.
They were updating me with all this over coffee this morning and were showing me details of the property they are looking at buying. It has a huge indoor swimming pool in an annex, which has a large self contained flat above it. I (half) jokingly asked if they were looking for a tenant for this flat, but it seems that they may be. It's actually not something that they are actively looking to do, but they would make an exception for me. They also mentioned that Peter, the son, in another year or two may be looking at moving himself, and he of course owns the house I'm currently living in.
This house is far too big for my needs and I've always known it isn't a long term solution for me. Plus living in Truro would give me far more independence not to mention a saving of circa £5/600 pm on my current outgoings. Mind you I'd probably spend half of that on dining out. It has it's own outside area which Rob says is quite private but I'd be quite happy for them to join me occasionally for a summer cocktail or to throw a steak or two on my barbie. The down sides are moving away from North Helford, which is, IMO, the most beautiful part of the UK Plus, although the flat is quite large (around 2000sq ft), it only has 1 bedroom so I'd probably need to invest in a sofa bed in case I had visitors. To counter this I can quite easily get to most areas of Cornwall from Truro, so I can get to visit all the favourite haunts from my past plus there's a twice hourly train service to Falmouth.
At this moment, nothing is set in stone and they want to sell their house before they commit to the purchase, so I'm not getting too excited over it. And even if it goes through quickly I probably wouldn't move until the end of this year at the earliest as they have work planned for the new property. But they did say that me going with them makes it much more doable for them from a cost perspective, plus Rob knows the guy selling it through his Round Table connections, so even if there is a delay in his own sale this guy could possibly agree to take it off the market once Rob commits. Anyway he's taking me to see the flat tomorrow so I'll have a bit more of an idea after that.
As a matter of pure interest, the person potentially buying Rob's property is the widow of John Nott who is looking to downsize after her husband died last year. Somebody Pete possibly came across during his days in the industry.
