To offer, or not to offer - that is the question!

So, 2 properties, both good locations, both needing some work but not too much, both with lots of land, both 10 mins from town, both have good access roads - so, how to choose.

There are 2 properties we liked, there are 2 of us - we're bound to like different ones, right?

Wrong! Although we both liked both properties, we both had a preference for the same one, we could both see ourselves and the pups living there.

So, do we take the plunge? - in total we have seen about 20 properties (I've not bored you with every viewing, just a variety), we've known which ones we weren't interested in, which weren't right for us and why, and these 2 feel right. We have been giving each property we've seen a mark out of 10 and anything 8 or over was to be a consideration, as we accept we are unlikely to find the perfect property - but if it has potential to become the perfect property, then it will score high.

The 2 we like have both scored 9 out of 10 from both of us.

So, how to choose which to make an offer on.

And in the end, it came down to the view, who wouldn't want to open their front door and gaze out onto this each morning? No traffic, no houses, nothing but uninterrupted countryside!

The house is set in 3 hectares of land, that's 30,000 sq. mtrs - that's the whole valley.

So, we slept on it, we chatted some more and decided - we would make an offer and let fate decide. If the offer was accepted, we would be buying a house, if the offer wasn't accepted - then we still had the other property to consider.

We phoned the agent and gave him our offer, subject to all the paperwork being in order. He told us he would contact the owner and get back to us, probably the next day.

So, all we had to do now was wait!