Bye Bye Baby, Bye Bye....

[orange]

This kind of sucks. I'm living in Housing Association property and they run a scheme where if you want to buy your own house, they loan you 25% of the purchase price interest free. Great huh? Well we applied for it but didnt expect to get anywhere till next year. Had a phone call a couple of weeks ago "Hi, if you want to participate in the HomeBuy scheme, you have six weeks to move, otherwise you lose the grant". Holy crap! So we've spent the last 3 weeks running around like headless chickens finding a place to buy, putting in an offer, sorting a mortgage, finding a solicitor and all the other 1001 things you have to do to buy a house. So why am i down? Well, as we weren't expecting to be offered the grant until next year, we hadn't put much back in the way of savings. Now we suddenly need a couple of grand in the bank and the only way to get it was to sell my baby:

http://www.xtec.demon.co.uk/Images/neilzx9r.jpg

So, i'm no longer the owner of a beautiful Kawasaki ZX9R in Candy Blue, yet i will soon be the owner of a £80,000 house.

I want my bike back... :( :confused: :(

[NooNoo]

It sucks but, you get one chance at this offer, you will be able to buy another bike eventually....

[MacGyver]

You made a good decision. Your sacrafice is commendable!

[BC GREEN]

sold my harley last year.i miss it every time i see or hear one.i know how you feel! :eek: .

[Mayet]

[quote]Originally posted by orange:
<strong>This kind of sucks. I'm living in Housing Association property and they run a scheme where if you want to buy your own house, they loan you 25% of the purchase price interest free. Great huh? Well we applied for it but didnt expect to get anywhere till next year. Had a phone call a couple of weeks ago "Hi, if you want to participate in the HomeBuy scheme, you have six weeks to move, otherwise you lose the grant". Holy crap! So we've spent the last 3 weeks running around like headless chickens finding a place to buy, putting in an offer, sorting a mortgage, finding a solicitor and all the other 1001 things you have to do to buy a house. So why am i down? Well, as we weren't expecting to be offered the grant until next year, we hadn't put much back in the way of savings. Now we suddenly need a couple of grand in the bank and the only way to get it was to sell my baby:

http://www.xtec.demon.co.uk/Images/neilzx9r.jpg

So, i'm no longer the owner of a beautiful Kawasaki ZX9R in Candy Blue, yet i will soon be the owner of a £80,000 house.

I want my bike back... :( :confused: :( </strong><hr></blockquote>

Godamn.....not the Ninja.............

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Wayward Clam]

OUCH!

Still... sometimes you gotta let the good go round to someone else... your turn will come again...

[crazyman]

[quote]Originally posted by orange:
<strong>This kind of sucks. I'm living in Housing Association property and they run a scheme where if you want to buy your own house, they loan you 25% of the purchase price interest free. Great huh? Well we applied for it but didnt expect to get anywhere till next year. Had a phone call a couple of weeks ago "Hi, if you want to participate in the HomeBuy scheme, you have six weeks to move, otherwise you lose the grant". Holy crap! So we've spent the last 3 weeks running around like headless chickens finding a place to buy, putting in an offer, sorting a mortgage, finding a solicitor and all the other 1001 things you have to do to buy a house. So why am i down? Well, as we weren't expecting to be offered the grant until next year, we hadn't put much back in the way of savings. Now we suddenly need a couple of grand in the bank and the only way to get it was to sell my baby:

http://www.xtec.demon.co.uk/Images/neilzx9r.jpg

So, i'm no longer the owner of a beautiful Kawasaki ZX9R in Candy Blue, yet i will soon be the owner of a £80,000 house.

I want my bike back... :( :confused: :( </strong><hr></blockquote>

well good luck! :)

(and you can always get another bike)

[Gameguru]

It sucks to have to lose the bike. A house is more important and it is where you spend alot of your time. It was a sacrifice but I believe that you did the right thing.

Look at it in this positive light, you now have an excuse to pick up a new machine once you get setteled in. Grab a VFR and I'll come back over to England and we'll go riding!

Good luck with the house. :)

[Draggar]

Its a very hard sacrafice, but that 80,000 pound (sorry, I don't know how to do the symbol) house is worth a lot more than a bike.
Besides, you can get another bike, you might not ever get another opprotunity to buy a house like that.

Congradulations!

[Hippie_Tech]

I feel your pain. I also had to give up something near and dear to me. When I moved from my home in Maine, I had to sell my Yamaha snowmobile. 120HP of liquid-cooled fun. Man, I miss it. We don't get enough snow where I'm at now and the nearest place I can go for snowmobiling is over 6 hours away. Oh well. I did replace it with a JetSki, though. Not quite the same adrenaline rush as the snowmobile (0-100 faster than most cars can do 0-60), but it's still a blast to ride. :D

[freddy]

big sacrifice ,,but remember , once u are a homeowner (motgage etc) then you can get that loan to buy a new one.

only if u can afford the repayments

but the way things are going in the UK , your mortgage "won,t" cost you a lot more than the rent (housing Assosiation)

go for it ,,,in this world (UK) if u are a "houseowner" ,,,admittedly up to your *ss in dett ,,u are classified as an "ok" person with the bank/hp/loans etc , if u are renting , they treat u as a nobody.

much as u don,t want to ,,,buy yourself a moped for work ,,,until u get in front.

good luck on the new pad.

alan UK

[orange]

Thanks for the support guys and gals. Yeah, i know i've done the right thing but with Summer on the horizon it just sucks. I guess this year i'll be busy decorating while all my mates are out riding in the sun. GameGuru, i may hold you to that, won't be for a year or two yet though :(

Thanks again people, its good to share :D

[EvilCabbage]

/me sheds a few tears.

Never mind dude... you may not believe it now, but there will be other bikes, other loves .. :D