The House at the Bottom of the Hill

Theres many reasons why you can end up in this predicament, I know a women who's partner died of cancer and he's left everything to his child from his first marriage. Coping with the heartbreak of watching someone you love die from a disease is bad enough, I know I've done it but then to have to leave the home she shared with him with nothing, hideous. When she's stronger she may fight it who knows but there she was sailing along with a happy ending when wham, heartbreak, homeless.

Another friend has to sell the house that she was born in because her partner left her for another women and left her in so much debt that she can't afford to live there anymore. Her mothers house. She lost her mother recently and now she's loosing the home her mother left her. It can happen to any of us, for all manner of reasons and you might say we were all stupid not to protect ourselves but your in couple mode, does it matter who's name things are in, does it matter that one earns the money while one tends the home..er well..yes it does as it turns out but here we are and you can't cry over spilt milk. Well you can cry and you do..buckets full. If you have any buckets that is. But all that water doesn't get the baby bathed so you need a plan of action, hence the clipboard.

When I first went into Ambleside I knew what I was looking for and I knew what I was hoping not to find. A house up the road was also for sale and was exactly the same but considerably cheeper so it would seem a no brainer BUT theres always a reason and usually with Estate Agents you have to dig to get at it. Because I have surveyed a great many buildings, pubs, a lot of them very run down I could tell that this poor little house had rather more than a few surface wounds. Turned out it had subsidence, not a deal breaker in itself but you have to be very very sure that you can cope with that before you take it on. It can prove to be either a simple job of repairing a nearby cracked manhole or a huge expensive job when builders dicover theres actually an underground stream thats dried up and is caving in taking your whole house with it. I took advice and the pie of unknown ingredients coupled with limited access for the necessary cooking implements made that particular slice just too much for me to take on. Safer to pay a bit more, take less of a risk and choose the little house at the bottom of the hill, Ambleside.