to rent or buy

Our lovely landlords (also good friends) popped round yesterday and let us know that they will again be putting the house on the market. Argh! Its not really a surprise as we knew it would happen as we moved it to look after the house for them to get it ready for selling back in 07, we didn't count on me getting pregnant or the house not selling. So 2 years later here we go again. I'm not looking forward to it this time, especially open homes with a toddler. Last time it was tolerable, I was pregnant and the house was tidy. The real estate agent on the other hand was the sort of person that made you want to yell 'Dickhead' everytime you saw him. This man felt he had the right to a) comment on how my 'waddle' was progressing everytime he came around, b) turn up 15 minutes late for Open for Inspections c) PUT HIS HAND ON MY BELLY! Sorry but that last one needed a yell. and that was just our issues, our poor landlords had even more. Needles to say they wont be using that mob this time round and neither will we.

Now we have a conundrum do we take advantage of the first home owners grant and delve into the property market or do we continue to rent? If we buy we need to go full finance which is something I wanted to avoid, but the current grant makes up for what would have been a deposit.

So thats where we are at looking into finance, scouring rental properties and weighing up our options. This time we will move regardless of whether the house sells as we dont want to be going through this every couple of years!