Offers Over, Fixed Price, For Sale, Headache

I have never bought anything so expensive. That's right, we want to buy a house, in Scotland, near Dunfermline, in the Kingdom of Fife. You must see how many towns, or like they spell it, TOUNS, has a name that start with KILL. I think Braveheart had an impact here. So, to buy or not to buy. I have never seen such a circus. Some houses (most of them) are available for Offers Over. So you have to make an offer for an amount over what they put in the advert. Other people offer too. You worry and lie awake at night, hoping your offer is the one, and you obviously didn't want to offer too much. Not to mention that there are literally hundreds of houses available, and you have to be very choosy, remember, location, location, and yeah, location. Believe me, location is VERY important here in Scotland. So, we wait. When we know that the current owners will be out when we want to be in, and they are happy with our offer, a big process starts, and money exchanges hands, and the bank lend us a LOT of money, and we pay the bank back for the rest of our lives. Paying the bank back is the only thing that is the same as back in South Africa, only, in SA we couldn't afford to buy even one of those pink or green square houses (location, location, location). Hopefully I will be able to post a new message later at some point, also showing some pics of our new place. For now, we lie awake, pray, and drive around close to the new house.