[manders]

Hi Just thought I'd introduce ourselves, only joined yesterday, so very new! We live in an old stone farmhouse on a hill in Collessie near Cupar in Fife, moved here in April of this year. We'd been looking for somewhere for the couple of years with land, seen lots of places, even thought of a new build, was just about to sign for a plot in January of this year when I saw the this place for sale. Came up to see it on a saturday, only on the outside though as the estate agents couldn't get up the hill because of the snow, walked around the grounds, peered through the windows & fell in love with it there and then. It was a repossession in a very sorry state, knew it was on at a good price so would have to move quickly to get it! I came back on the Monday to view inside this time (my partner Graham was working away that week), and Graham put an offer in on the Tuesday morning, not having seen what he was buying . Anyway we got it, a beautiful house with just under 6 acres and have been doing it up since moving in. We had to put in a complete heating system, oil tank, hot water tank, doors throughout, mend the roof, and have still got lots to do, but don't care we love this house and love bringing it back to life. As for the outside, well its hill grazing, not brilliant but my Highland and shetland ponies do just great on it. Our 2 spaniels love it as we have a pond in the front garden, the cats love catching the mice and we now have some ex battery hens, and as of Saturday just gone have 2 more Texel sheep to add to the 7 we inherited from the previous owners who had abandoned them when they got chucked out! I love my sheep, lots of experience with horses, dogs and cats, but not sheep so a whole new learning curve . We now have 3 Texels, 1 blackface and 5 Jacob including a tup whos about to go out on loan as not sure if he's related to the others. We've got a lot of work to do on the garden ground but plan next year to grow some veggies, can't wait, I just love this life. Anyway thats us, we have 6 acres and we plan to use it and fill it lol..............  

[melodrama]

Welcome from Forfar x

[bigchicken]

Hi and welcome from the bigchicken from Fife. Best of luck with your venture I'm a plasterer if you need one cheers.

[Rosemary]

Hi and welcome from Carnoustie 

You near Collessie Feeds?

[Maggie]

Hi  and welcome Manders.  I'm another newbie    with a small farm in Devon tho I'm from Scotland originally.  I love Texels, and miss my old gals very much.  We now concentrate on rare, native, at risk breeds.  See you around!   

[SallyintNorth]

Welcome from sunny north Cumbria 

[EdayOrkney]

Greeting from Orkney!        

[lill]

Welcome to the forum   By reading your post you seem quite delighted at getting a repo house. You may have a bargin, but as I see it, the people  had to give up their home probably through no fault of their own and still having to make payments to their mortgage. I hope that you do not have to go through the same kind of thing the earlier occupiers had to go through and only then will you know what it feels like to get chucked out, your words not mine.

[Sandy]

Hellooooooo , not far from my brother and sister in laws, i am in Clackmannanannanananna, central scotland, nice to have  you on here

[Rosemary]

Welcome to the forum   By reading your post you seem quite delighted at getting a repo house. You may have a bargin, but as I see it, the people  had to give up their home probably through no fault of their own and still having to make payments to their mortgage. I hope that you do not have to go through the same kind of thing the earlier occupiers had to go through and only then will you know what it feels like to get chucked out, your words not mine.

Come on Lill. Through no fault of manders either. If you want to have a pop, have one at the banks, the building society or the Government. We probably got our house cheap because the man died and his wife couldn't manage - I don't feel guilty about that so don't rain on manders' parade. Anyway, we don't know about the previous owners - so shouldn't speculate. Sounds like the property was well neglected.

Not a proper TAS welcome, I'm afraid 

[Dan]

Hello and welcome. 

Great that you're bringing a neglected property back to life, our house wasn't quite that bad when we bought it last year but we had it back to bare stone! Post some photos if you can please?

[HappyHippy]

Hello from me in South Lanarkshire 
Welcome to the forum & look forward to hearing more from you.
Karen x

[manders]

Welcome to the forum   By reading your post you seem quite delighted at getting a repo house. You may have a bargin, but as I see it, the people  had to give up their home probably through no fault of their own and still having to make payments to their mortgage. I hope that you do not have to go through the same kind of thing the earlier occupiers had to go through and only then will you know what it feels like to get chucked out, your words not mine.

Hi well yes we did get a bargain, and I'm proud of the fact that we got and bringing it back to life as it should be, not a developer who would potentially knock it down or some people buy it just for weekends, whereas now its getting used as it was originally for animals. The original farmers wife lives at the bottom of the drive and she is very pleased to see it now to how it was, quite heartbreaking for her to see her old family house got to rack & ruin! As for the people who were chucked out, yes I do know how they felt, I've had a house repossesed many years ago when i was married and my then husband did not pay the mortgage but didn't see fit to tell me! Also the people that lost our house were not nice people, been prosecuted apparantly more than once for animal cruelty & neglect, sold horses to people saying they were a certain age when they were a lot older, had a puppy farm, left the sheep that are now ours all winter on the hill without food or hay or being checked on and the farmer next door had to throw some hay into them...........shall I go on (and believe me there is lots more), they were notorious in the area and not in nice way. Anyway you have your opinion and I have mine so we'll leave it at that shall we?   

[manders]

Hi and welcome from the bigchicken from Fife. Best of luck with your venture I'm a plasterer if you need one cheers.

Hey thanks, will keep you in mind.............

[manders]

Hi and welcome from Carnoustie 

You near Collessie Feeds?

Hi yes I use Collessie Feeds, great help, use their own sheep feed, the  sheep love it.