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:



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...