By the end of March we were up here but without a house to move into. We were able to stay in Ngunguru - a sort of house sitting arrangement for 2 -3 weeks and in a friend's basement also for the odd night. I think we tried too hard to find a house and to gain a cash buyer advantage. In the end we were quite desperate. Our cat was in a cattery, our goods were in storage, I needed work. We really should have rented but we had quite a lot of offers of places to stay.
We made two offers from Rotorua - one didn't really get off the ground but they wouldn't or couldn't come down to our price. Fair enough - we were trying to get a coastal property for $300,000. One was at Tameterau about 14 k from town around the harbour and one at Ruakaka. Neither was ideal - one steep with road noise (but close to the water and lovely) and the other was a mortgagee show home sale - big house on small section with lots of the built in appliances ripped out like oven and hot water cylinder!
More later
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