What have you been doing today?

Almost the last clear out of my mums home. Contracts have been exchanged and completion is this Friday. Been on to Scottish power, Essex water and the council tax department to notify them. All seems pretty final now and a little upsetting if I’m being honest. Leaving it practically fully furnished apart from the beds. All been fully repainted and new carpets, curtains and ceiling lights have been fitted in the bedrooms. Sold to a first time buyer and they are over the moon with what we are leaving. They literally have to just put in a bed and a TV in there and they are all set up.
 
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Mottie said:
Almost the last clear out of my mums home. Contracts have been exchanged and completion is this Friday. Been on to Scottish power, Essex water and the council tax department to notify them. All seems pretty final now and a little upsetting if I’m being honest. Leaving it practically fully furnished apart from the beds. All been fully repainted and new carpets, curtains and ceiling lights have been fitted in the bedrooms. Sold to a first time buyer and they are over the moon with what we are leaving. They literally have to just put in a bed and a TV in there and they are all set up.
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Good man!
When we bought our first house we were gifted with a skip load of rubbish scattered around the house.
 
Bit of a sad day today. Popped round my mums house for a last look, said my goodbyes to her as it’s being sold tomorrow. Was supposed to drop the keys in to the estate agent and tried twice but I just couldn’t do it. Too final. Too upsetting. I had to go back home and ask Mrs Mottie to take them up for me. Phoned my sister and she was feeling the same way - she'd also been round there and said her goodbyes. Why we both did that, I just don't know. We both got a bit upset. I’ve still got to pluck up the courage to pick up her ashes from the undertaker. Probably be another job for Mrs Mottie. :(
 
Mottie said:
Bit of a sad day today. Popped round my mums house for a last look, said my goodbyes to her as it’s being sold tomorrow. Was supposed to drop the keys in to the estate agent and tried twice but I just couldn’t do it. Too final. Too upsetting. I had to go back home and ask Mrs Mottie to take them up for me. Phoned my sister and she was feeling the same way - she'd also been round there and said her goodbyes. Why we both did that, I just don't know. We both got a bit upset. I’ve still got to pluck up the courage to pick up her ashes from the undertaker. Probably be another job for Mrs Mottie. :(
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Sorry to hear that mate....

I went through exactly the same 3 years ago....I actually grew up in the house I had to sell (not sure if you did) it was so hard me and my brother were looking around an empty house for hours :cry:
 
Mottie said:
Bit of a sad day today. Popped round my mums house for a last look, said my goodbyes to her as it’s being sold tomorrow. Was supposed to drop the keys in to the estate agent and tried twice but I just couldn’t do it. Too final. Too upsetting. I had to go back home and ask Mrs Mottie to take them up for me. Phoned my sister and she was feeling the same way - she'd also been round there and said her goodbyes. Why we both did that, I just don't know. We both got a bit upset. I’ve still got to pluck up the courage to pick up her ashes from the undertaker. Probably be another job for Mrs Mottie. :(
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I know how thst feels mate. When my Dad went, it left one of the original neighbours from a row of about 10.

She couldn't go back. She now lives with her daughter.

Ive been to my old house. Young couple with baby's. Its lovely to see new life but sad as its all changed.
 
Final choker today when the solicitor phoned and said money had arrived and it was being sent to our accounts. It was all I could do to hold it together when I thanked her for her work. I dunno but it feels like I’ve received blood money. Strangely enough, one of Mrs Motties friends dad died 6 weeks before my mum and she and her half sister completed on the sale of that home yesterday. Bit of a tricky setup - they shared a mum but our friend already owned her dad’s half the house and her half sister had the other half left to her or something like that - I don’t know the exact details. Their mum died at the beginning of covid, looking back, we think it was probably with covid before it became a thing. For some reason her half sister inherits her half tax free but our friend (because she already owned her dads half - her mum and dad never married) has to now pay capital gains tax on her half but last week when Mrs Mottie was with her friend and she had just texted her half sis to let her know the completion date, her half sister replied with a gif of a champagne bottle with a popping cork! Mrs Mottie said that upset her friend a great deal and that upset Mrs Mottie too as we both knew her dad quite well. Some people can be heartless *******s.

Anyway, it’s all done now and apart from the odd thing that comes up to remind us, we can start to move on.
 
Mottie said:
Final choker today when the solicitor phoned and said money had arrived and it was being sent to our accounts. It was all I could do to hold it together when I thanked her for her work. I dunno but it feels like I’ve received blood money. Strangely enough, one of Mrs Motties friends dad died 6 weeks before my mum and she and her half sister completed on the sale of that home yesterday. Bit of a tricky setup - they shared a mum but our friend already owned her dad’s half the house and her half sister had the other half left to her or something like that - I don’t know the exact details. Their mum died at the beginning of covid, looking back, we think it was probably with covid before it became a thing. For some reason her half sister inherits her half tax free but our friend (because she already owned her dads half - her mum and dad never married) has to now pay capital gains tax on her half but last week when Mrs Mottie was with her friend and she had just texted her half sis to let her know the completion date, her half sister replied with a gif of a champagne bottle with a popping cork! Mrs Mottie said that upset her friend a great deal and that upset Mrs Mottie too as we both knew her dad quite well. Some people can be heartless *******s.

Anyway, it’s all done now and apart from the odd thing that comes up to remind us, we can start to move on.
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Shows the respect you had for your mother by not celebrating the sale of her house, it isn't blood money at all, it is how she wanted it and she will have known you didn't think of her as a cash cow. Enjoy the money as it is your mothers final gift.
 
Highway Man said:
it is how she wanted it and she will have known you didn't think of her as a cash cow. Enjoy the money as it is your mother’s final gift.
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Thanks. Those could have actually been my mother’s words. She had a fair few bob in savings too and she was always telling me and my sister to have them when she was alive as she literally had no use for them whatsoever. Of course we always refused but she was very generous to all the family every Christmas - she literally had nothing to spend her money on, being housebound. It is true though that time is a great healer.
 
My grandfather had 53 grandchildren but left his house to me because he spent his last 20 years living with us and in his last 3 I was taking him up and down 4 storeys on my arms for his (slow) daily walk.
I never sold the house, my mum and then my sister live there, rent free.
However at one point I will have to sell it as my sister is finding the 80 steps more and more of a challenge and wants to move.
After so many years it will break my heart, so many great memories in that house.
 
johnny2007 said:
My grandfather had 53 grandchildren but left his house to me because he spent his last 20 years living with us and in his last 3 I was taking him up and down 4 storeys on my arms for his (slow) daily walk.
I never sold the house, my mum and then my sister live there, rent free.
However at one point I will have to sell it as my sister is finding the 80 steps more and more of a challenge and wants to move.
After so many years it will break my heart, so many great memories in that house.
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53, :oops:
 
johnny2007 said:
My grandfather had 53 grandchildren but left his house to me because he spent his last 20 years living with us and in his last 3 I was taking him up and down 4 storeys on my arms for his (slow) daily walk.
I never sold the house, my mum and then my sister live there, rent free.
However at one point I will have to sell it as my sister is finding the 80 steps more and more of a challenge and wants to move.
After so many years it will break my heart, so many great memories in that house.
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❤️
 
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