Exchanged at last

suki1964

last night at 5pm, although we still had to wait on the courier with the tranfers deeds untill 7 pm

So complete on the sale Monday and complete on my purchase Tuesday, wednesday I get my furniture, hopefully this time next week I will be back online

Started this journey Nov 6th - 16 weeks ago. Its been stressfull to say the least but hopefully all plain sailing from now on.

For all those starting the journey - one word of advice. Pick your solicitor well - try for a personal reccomendation, it will save you no end of grief in the long run. And keep in touch, ring and ask where they are at and is there anything you need/can do to help move things along. Keep your file on his/her desk dont ever hear the words "just got to get your file out" And keep in touch with your buyers and try to keep it friendly - they also can push their end.

Ive promised myself I shall never tie a sale and purchase together again after this experience - but time will tell

Good luck all those either starting or are in the midsts of this madness called house buying

vicstar_2

Congratulations!!!

Hope all the packing and moving goes well.

Fingers crossed I will be in the same position as you in a month or so's time - we have decided to proceed with the sale of our house and rent/live with parents (horror!!) temporarily as we are having real trouble finding anywhere to buy. We are relocating from London to Oxforfd and have jobs starting in Oxford in a few months time though so really need to get rid of our London house beforehand. At least once the sale has gone through we will be in a really stong position as buyers.

Vic

JennyW_2

Congratulations :j :j Hopefully I'll be in your position in 3 months time....

We've only just accepted an offer so our journey is only just beginning

suki1964

JennyW wrote:

Congratulations :j :j Hopefully I'll be in your position in 3 months time....

We've only just accepted an offer so our journey is only just beginning

Congratulations Jenny - wasnt such a long wait after all.

Going to update us all in your old thread?

Doozergirl

Congrats Jenny W, time for a glass of wine and a small sigh of relief. That didn't take long at all!

Congrats suki1964, time for a whole bottle of something nice (saving the Champers for next week) and a great big sigh of relief. Good Luck with your move!

billy_1

Hi Suki how long did it take from agreeing to buy a house to actually get a moving in date ?? Congrats on your new house & life :T :beer:

suki1964

billy_1 wrote:

Hi Suki how long did it take from agreeing to buy a house to actually get a moving in date ?? Congrats on your new house & life :T :beer:

We agreed the date at time of having offer accepted - getting everyone and everything organised in time was the hard bit

Jorgan_2

Well done Suki, looks like you've got a busy weekend ahead of you. All the best.

suki1964

Jorgan wrote:

Well done Suki, looks like you've got a busy weekend ahead of you. All the best.

Nothing now to do but relax. Furniture went wednesday - house is spotless, sleeping on an airbed and living on take out

Just the journey to worry about now