[originaltext] Buying a house is always an expensive business. It is not jus

Buying a house is always an expensive business. It is not just money that you spend but also a lot of time and energy finding and visiting houses. At first my wife and I tried to do things the easy way -- by telephone. We rang up a number of house agents, told them what we wanted and asked them to send us lists of suitable houses for safe. We didn’t want to do too much work, as my wife was pregnant; Our flat would be too small for three people, which was why we wanted to move.
    We soon began getting the lists we had asked for. There were hundreds of houses. Every evening for a week we went through the lists. We were looking for houses which we could afford and were near an underground station and a park. We then made a short list of such suitable houses. This list consisted of about twenty houses. Every weekend for the next two months we went out visiting the houses on our list. Some were too dark inside, some were in very noisy areas. Then, we found exactly what we were looking for. At last we thought, we moved into the house two months later.  We couldn’t move in straight away.  The people selling the house were themselves looking for a new one -- and you know how long that takes.