"Test drive" your new home and dither in comfort

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If you’re looking to buy a new home but can’t quite make that final, all important, life-changing decision without several hours/days/weeks of dithering, then the latest offering from some property developers might just solve your problem.

Gone in 17 minutes

Apparently the decision to buy a house is usually made in 17 minutes, personally it can take me that long to choose which type of cheese I want in the weekly shop. So if you’re like me, ‘try before you buy’ schemes should give you plenty of time to make a decision. Or it might not. No, it will. Definitely.

Cider-drinking, hoody-wearing, Neil Diamond

For example, Gleeson Homes are offering prospective buyers in Manchester the chance to rent a home for six months and if they decide to buy they refund the rent. So essentially you can live rent free for six months while you give the house a trial run. A great idea if you’re paranoid about hordes of cider-drinking, hoody-wearing, scallies appearing outside your door every night after dark, or the neighbour from hell who plays Neil Diamond until three am every morning. Both unlikely but if you’re going to commit to a property which will cost you a pretty penny (or, more likely, over 100,000 pretty pounds), you’ll want to cover every possibility.

Nice place to crash

Also sounds like a great idea if you’re ‘between homes’ and need a fancy place to crash for a while and with several property developers introducing the same sort of thing, you could do a nice tour of the UK and several places abroad. As long as you don’t mind lugging your stuff around and having your friends hum ‘The Littlest Hobo’ at you in the pub.

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