I will never move house again!!

vicstar_2

Hope you don't mind, just want to let off some steam!!

I am relocating and have been selling my house since December. Found a new house in February and both sale and purchase seem to be going through. I can't believe how unbearably slow it all is though. I seem to spend every day either chasing someone, trying to resolve a new crisis, organising something or (on those rare days when there is nothing house related to do) panicing that everything is going to go wrong!

Last week we had a mortgage crisis on our new house when the mortgage offer fell through, the mortgage company cancelled the survey without telling me or the vendor (who had taken the day off to take his vicious dog :eek: out whilst the survey was done) and the vendor, understandably rather upset, told us he would remarket unless we had it all sorted and a new survey booked by the end of the next day. It took us a little longer but it all now seems to be resolved and the survey is being done on Saturday.

This week, my buyers started chasing me because the wife is pregant and they really want to move in asap (we are selling and then renting somewhere before we complete on the new house). They told me that my solicitor is holding things up. Umpteen phone calls later it turns out my solicitor went on holiday last Friday and won't be back until Wednesday 29th March but of course there's no-one covering her work for her in her absence despite the fact that we were hoping to exchange this week. :mad: I can't believe the level of service and plain incompetence of people. I am a solicitor although I specialise in commercial property work and I would be sacked if I offered the level (and speed) of service residential conveyancers seem to offer. Anyway, I made an enormous fuss and hopefully someone else is now going to look at the file and contact my buyer's solicitors.

Why does everything have to be so difficult???! I feel like I am going to have gone grey by the time I get through this :rolleyes:

I am finding this board really helpful though and knowing that I am not the only one going through it all.

Sorry to rant

Vic

lynzpower

I know exactly how you feel. I had this ( minus the chains!) but it was awful when I bought my place. I cant believe im considering moving.....

alanobrien

Been there before......stay with it, hopefully it will be wrth it in the end. It was for us. Good luck.

robwend

going through the same hun i feel for you xxx wendyxxx

zzzLazyDaisy

I still bear the emotional scars of buying my place 18 months ago. After 6 weeks, the sellers threatened to put it back on the market if we didn't complete by the end of the week....

This was despite the fact that my solicitor was still waiting for documents from their solicitor... who not very helpfully suggested that we go ahead and complete and he'd get them to us later.

BTW I'm a solicitor too but I am blown away by the incompetence of some conveyancers (and some estate agents too, come to think about it...)

Hang in there Hun, it will all be worth it!

donna

We must be twins, as i have been having the same thoughts and experiences.

My husband is much more chilled than me and says that things happen for a reason.

Sure enough he is right. If this sale/purchase hadn't of taken so long we wouldn't be saving a lovely £1240 in stamp duty.

We should be moving in next Friday all being well.

You will get there in the end.

silvercar

Have to join in here. I've been waiting to exchange since January. By that I mean everyone in the chain has completed all their legals, survey, have mortgage offers etc. The lady at the top of the chain (whose selling up and renting) then announces she has other legal stuff to sort out, unrelated to her house sale, that she has been advised to complete before she'll exchange. Every week we hear the same story, "just another 2 weeks". My patience is wearing thin, my buyer has exchanged on his sale and moves out 5 May. I just know it will take another 8 weeks to get to exchange point on a new property so I wait for yet another 2 weeks and another and another.......

amazon_spice

Oh poor you. I am just about to get into all this!!!

Murtle

When I bought my current place, my solicitor was great! The seller had said that they needed the completion to be no more then 8 weeks, as they were going on an extended holiday to Oz and wanted it completed prior to going. My guy was brilliant, had notes stuck to my file saying urgent etc so his secretary (?) knew to deal with everything quickly, when I met her and explained why she understood why things had always been now now now. However, the solicitor for the seller, never kept them informed, never advised when they needed documentation etc!! It became a loop, if there was a delay, she phoned the estate agent, the estate agent phoned me - I could either advise or phone my solicitor, then phone the estate agent who phoned the client....who then got the stuff to their solicitor.....considering it was them who needed it fast it was awful, they never knew what was happening and got really frustrated to begin with cause they thought it was myside holding things up!!! We completed well within the 8 weeks she wanted!! I was very impressed with my side, but not theres!!!

However, the solicitors worked for the same company...different offices, same company!!!!

jenniferpa

I find it interesting that a couple of solicitors find the whole process excruciatingly slow - as a lay person you hope against hope there is an actual reason for the slowness, while having a sneaking suspicion that there really isn't. The last solicitor we had was O.K. but had this irritating habit of saying things like "when all this is done we'll talk aboutdoing so and so" and appearing somewhat startled with my response of "don't just talk about it, DO it". Honestly, the only people who seemed to have a handle on where we were in the whole proceedings were the solicitor's support staff. There just seemed to be a culture of doing one step a week, or something, rather than getting on with it. Frustrating is the word.

Jennifer