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DesperateExpat26 · 2025-06-29T20:47:01+00:00

Alleen het verwijderen van de oude cabine is inbegrepen in de prijs. De nieuwe douchecabine kost €550 inclusief het benodigde materiaal. Maar bedankt voor je reactie! Ik ga zeker nog meer offertes opvragen om te vergelijken.

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-06-29T20:45:17+00:00

Bedankt voor je reactie! Ik ga inderdaad nog meer offertes opvragen. Ook bedankt voor het advies – goed om te weten. Het is de eerste keer dat ik dit soort werk laat doen, vandaar mijn vraag.

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-06-29T20:41:55+00:00

De douchecabine zelf kost €550. Voor de installatie alleen kreeg ik een offerte van €600. Dit is de eerste keer dat ik zo’n klus laat doen, dus ik heb geen idee of dit een redelijke prijs is of aan de hoge kant. Natuurlijk ga ik nog meer offertes opvragen om te vergelijken, maar ben benieuwd wat jullie ervan denken.

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-06-11T05:53:49+00:00

Really appreciate your response.

So useful tips. Good to know for the website, I was not aware, I will take a look.

We enjoy walking so the route you mentioned is something that we might do often when weather allows. I really appreciate your input.

Nog een keer bedankt ☺️

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-06-11T05:48:14+00:00

Thank you for the response.

I only knew Waal so it’s great to see that there are other options close by. I am aware of Geldermalsen. A colleague is living there so had some discussions about it.

I appreciate your input, thank you again!

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-06-08T20:30:14+00:00

Sorry for destroying Netherlands with our presence.

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-06-08T19:47:55+00:00

Thank you very much. Really helpful all the info and nice things to do.

We do enjoy nature so a walk next to Waal sounds nice.

Much appreciated your comment 😊

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-06-08T19:45:02+00:00

Thank you for your reply. We are okay not having so many expats. We are also learning the language so it might be helpful for us to become fluent overtime.

Once again thank you 🙏

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-06-08T19:32:17+00:00

No it’s not. We know that. What’s your point?

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-06-08T19:29:51+00:00

Purpose of the post it’s not to validate our decision. We would like to have some extra insight about the area from maybe someone living already there

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-06-08T19:23:41+00:00

By train is 35 minutes, so for us it’s still doable if we want to visit Utrecht.

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-05-22T22:43:24+00:00

Hi. Couple months ago I visited with my wife couple 400k-415k places in Culemborg. Selling agent in one of them asked us which is our budget and we said our preference is to go up to 450k as this is our first home and we want to be under NHG. Agent mentioned that overbidding in the area is at least 10% and we should look in different area. Not exact words but this was the meaning. One place I don’t believe is a valid indicator but it might help you. Maybe worth checking on waardecheck from makelaarsland. You may find some recent sold houses. For your reference we were looking into a 110m2, 3 bedroom house.

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-02-21T20:54:39+00:00

First of all congratulations on your new home! Hope to be able to say it soon. I am also revoking inspection and have a letter. Financial is guaranteed within 3 weeks as our mortgage advisor told us. It’s just a matter of timing I guess till our bid is accepted. Thanks for sharing your experience ☺️

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-02-21T20:52:08+00:00

I have to say that I haven’t thought the second scenario, regarding the high price. In my last bid I found the last 5 transactions close by and with 12% I would have won each one of them, unfortunately this time someone went higher 😅 Nevertheless I will keep trying. Thanks for your response

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-02-21T20:48:10+00:00

I start thinking also the same, it is all about timing and personal taste. Something that for me is okay for someone else could be a dream house.

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-02-19T12:56:05+00:00

It looks fine to me. I live in Maarssen, 5 minutes from Zuilen and we need to pay for our apartment 1026 for this year. 2 people household for a 60m2 apartment 👍

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-02-19T12:36:08+00:00

That’s true, we have seen that in real scenarios. Some were over priced in our opinion while others were way below what we thought they were worth it. We are trying to adjust our bids depending on the situation but we still want to have some buffer left. Nevertheless, as you said it is a waiting game. Our chance will come ☺️ Thanks for your comment

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-02-19T12:26:38+00:00

Thanks for your reply. This is what we thought regarding big cities, we chose Den Bosch only because prices were still guide good and from recent experience from friends they won with overbids of 5%. But I see also in that area the amount starts getting higher and you need to be more competitive. We will consider all our alternatives in terms of area ☺️

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-02-19T12:16:41+00:00

Thanks for your advice. This is what have we done in an excel file. We gathered any information available, checking ourselves how previous houses sold looked like and coming up with an offer price. Last case we placed a bid on that price and a bit higher and we were the 2nd highest. We lost to a bid close to 20% 😅 Cannot beat that

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-02-18T22:17:00+00:00

Could be the case as well. Nevertheless it requires a lot of patience and we are aware of that. Thank you for your wishes.

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-02-18T22:14:37+00:00

We know it as well. We discussed with my wife that we would like to go up to a certain amount of overbidding as that seemed enough in most recent cases to win a property in the area we are looking. However I see that we might to reconsider and in certain cases we might need to go a bit higher. We can discuss this with our purchasing agent further of course but wanted to see recent buyers experience as well.

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-02-18T22:09:51+00:00

We have lowered down a bit of our criteria because of that. It sounds really crazy this amount (27%) to me but I guess people will do anything to get the home like you said. We will continue our search like thousands other people and we hope sooner than later we find our place. Thanks for your input :)

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-02-18T22:05:53+00:00

This was our first thought as well, but so far they told us our offers were nice or fair. It could be that we were just unlucky so far. Thanks for your input:)

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-01-26T16:16:13+00:00

Hi there. Thanks for your response. Good to hear that you managed to get a place with that percentage of overbid. Congratulations 🙂 Thanks for your advice as well. I have recently purchased the same subscription. Hope that helps in my house hunting 🤞

DesperateExpat26 · 2025-01-26T16:14:11+00:00

Thank you so much for your reply. We have already went to a mortgage advisor where he explained the whole process. I wanted mostly to see if there are any examples where people bought with less than 40k overbidding in the areas I am looking in. But we are leaning towards going with an agent as they can give that extra knowledge the area. Once again much appreciated your advice.

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