Accept the things you can change

Carol Tallon, Talking Property: Leave the diamond in the rough, and pick a nice place somewhere to settle down and polish your own.

Carol Tallon.

As a general rule, house hunters who wish to buy will do so within a short couple of months. This is similarly true of genuine, finance-ready investors. When would-be buyers tell me that have been searching the market for two and three years, I am fairly confident that they will be searching for another two or three years - at least. Of course, this is a generalisation, albeit an accurate one.

When buyers ...