Got the keys

Thank you to all of you who have visited and left sweet comments for me. It really makes my heart happy to know there are people out there wishing us well and who still pop by to have a look even when I forget to post for days on end!!

The last couple of days have been rather stressful - first the money for the deposit went out of my bank but then didn't go into the letting agent's account. Having read various reports about this whilst trying to figure out why it takes up to 4 days to do something that would be instantaneous had I chosen to pay my bank the money to do it in branch (the cheek of asking me for money to click a few buttons I could do myself at home was too much for me to swallow) made me aware of how much interest these banks are making on interest by holding our money for as long as possible!! Oh do not get me started, I am fuming!!

Then of course there is the fact that the letting agents (yes we are somehow working with 2 agents for one flat with a landlord who lives in Singapore *sigh*) know we wanted to move in asap as I start a new job on Monday and do not want to be coming home and moving house after work that first week when I've had a whole week off free to do it now! Yet although they knew this very fact we had to push them to draw up the agreement whilst waiting for the money to clear - if it wasn't for persistent calls and emails we'd have still been waiting now for the contract to be made up and sent to us! So much for the 5-7 working days we were told it would take to get us into the place.

Of course a few more phonecalls later, the eventual arrival of our transfer into the agent's account and a quick trip down to the 1st letting agent to hand in the contract (and have them ring the 2nd agent who deals with contracts about the amendment we made due to somebody's negligence earlier on in terms of length of tenancy) meant I finally picked up the first set of keys today! *PHEW*

We're still waiting for the inventory check to be done and sent to us and we still need to contact them about the second set of keys and which electricity supplier they use (because if we change to one different to the previous tenant we have to pay any charges to put it back again at the end of tenancy). All I can say is I am glad we only have electricity in the flat and only have to set up one account rather than another one for gas as well!!

I popped along with some groceries for this evening's meal and tomorrow's breakfast but am waiting for T to come home so we can start moving things over. His sister is dropping her daughter off at his mum's tomorrow so she can come and help me clean and then the fun of getting a bed made up (rather than a mattress on the floor) and the sofa, tables, chairs etc into the flat and up all the stairs begins - but oh how very glad I am to finally have the keys and access to the flat - I cannot wait to get started on it!!

I shall probably be offline for a while as we get settled and wait for connection to the internet to be sorted but I hope to be back online very shortly with all the news and loads of piccies too!