To those selling in these difficult times Part Deux. AKA sellers support network!

pie81

Yay! We finally exchanged on our sale today!! :j

We accepted their offer in mid September, no chain either way, so goodness knows why it has taken this long. (Well actually I do know... the world's pickiest buyers who wanted to look under every pebble before committing :rolleyes:)

However I am not going to complain about our buyers too much as they have eventually exchanged and at full asking price too! :T

Good luck to all those who are still hoping to get their property under offer or exchanged.

I,_Geek

Hopejack wrote: »

Could it be their LL has decided to sell up or something?

Our EA is also a letting agent so I asked him to explain any options regarding tenancy agreements to our buyers in case one of them could be useful to them. Not heard back yet, but they've been quite insistent that it's the 9th or nothing - possibly because they're in the situation you've described above.

Everyone I've spoken to has said it's just a tactic, and they don't really have to move. They gave us the deadline to complete with 3 weeks' notice (contracts not signed and not received from our vendors, Homebuyer's survey still not done) - too late in our case to do anything about it. We went back to our solicitor and passed on a message explaining what's been going on. They're still saying "9th or we pull out". I'll be livid if they keep saying this, then it gets too late to exchange/complete on time, then they say "we didn't really mean it, it was only a tactic, we'll wait". They've been made well aware that we've been pulling our hair out and stressing over this. I'm resigned to them pulling out and have emerged from the 'tunnel of insanity' the OH and I inhabited for the past month.

Good to hear about the survey on your mum's house - putting in money has shown their commitment (depending on the survey results).

pawpurrs

I geek I had the same with the buyers of my last property, they wanted a certain date or they would pull out, even started viewing other properties, then when I bent over backwards to accomodate that, they suddenley wanted another date.
However three weeks should be plenty of notice? I offered last week and should be completing next week, all in all just over two weeks start to finish, I really dont see why so many people take so long to do very little?
Sometimes if you want to sell, you just have to bite the bullet, in my case although I could have killed my buyer, for the lack of consideration and the fact it had to be their way or the highway, I just bit my lip and did it, It took a year to get that far, and I was not prepared to lose her. It sucks it really does, and I wish people shook on a deal and got on with it, like I do, unfortunetly they dont! From my experience.

xtra_time

Well just put my price down for a second time to generate some interest. Seen a house we want so need to get sold. Hopefully it will work.

ukmaggie45

Hi Honey_bee, welcome to the thread. We're currently buying, so I'm not what you'd call an "official" member of the thread. Sold parental flat when this thread was newish, completing in January this year. The house we're hoping to exchange on this week needs oodles of work, we're not even sure what we'll be doing yet, but we fell in love with the garden.

If we're lucky (and organised! :rolleyes: )
we'll be moving in next autumn, and then we'll be putting our current home (where we've lived for the past 36 years! :eek: ) on the market. We're not sure if we'll do all the work it needs doing before selling... I'd really like to sell it on in good order, but we may be too knackered after sorting out the other place and just sell it cheap as a doer upper.

Good luck with your sale!

Maggie

I,_Geek

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

The house we're hoping to exchange on this week needs oodles of work, we're not even sure what we'll be doing yet, but we fell in love with the garden.

Familiar story! OH was at the house we're buying yesterday, saw it looked a bit worn and tired, then looked down the garden and thought, "Aaahhh...." It's the view we'll be looking at while surrounded by half-unplastered walls and no furniture. I read on another thread you needed damp looking at - I remember you mentioned you were going with Peter Cox? Our new place needs a DPC and we're going with them.

Things have turned around completely in the last half-an-hour - don't know whether I'm coming or going anymore. The vendor's solicitors do exist! :eek: So now our solicitor has all the paperwork she needs. The Homebuyer's report has highlighted a few things but nothing to suggest to us that the house will be a money-pit. We're not put off by having to get professionals in and do some DIY, but worried that there was something very wrong with the house. We understand our buyer's situation now - the 9th looks do-able but if things take a bit longer he can hopefully stick it out for a week or two longer (that's all it would be now the vendor's solicitors have come through).

Cautiously optimistic...

I,_Geek

pawpurrs wrote: »

However three weeks should be plenty of notice?

You'd think, but at that point our vendor's solicitors were unreachable, had sent no paperwork, ignored our solicitor... Contracts hadn't been signed on either our sale or purchase. We also didn't know the outcome of the Homebuyer's report and whether we would have to send tradespeople in for quotes. (Our vendors have to be available to let them in). Three weeks seems reasonable, but nearly everything to do with this move had been delayed so I was very skeptical things would suddenly improve. Our solicitor was, too. However, things are looking up so it should be achieveable.

tootsmyboots

:rotfl:after my post to Milliewilly my EA have rung with a viewing on Saturday! Everytime I mention Xmas!

Christmas, Christmas, Christmas

ukmaggie45

Hi there I, Geek,

I,_Geek wrote: »

Familiar story! OH was at the house we're buying yesterday, saw it looked a bit worn and tired, then looked down the garden and thought, "Aaahhh...." It's the view we'll be looking at while surrounded by half-unplastered walls and no furniture. I read on another thread you needed damp looking at - I remember you mentioned you were going with Peter Cox? Our new place needs a DPC and we're going with them.

Yes, it's what you look out on that counts... At least assuming at the end of it all one ends up with a warm dry house! I'm very glad we can continue to live in our current home while work is done - I'm fairly disabled, and plaster dust is a big no-no for me, I've been ill every time we've had work done in this house that involves any movement of plaster.

It was the last house we were going to be going to Peter Cox (or possibly the bungalow we were looking at before that?). We have good reports of them - DD2 and SiL used them for work that needed doing on their home (Georgian Grade II Listed cottage) and were happy enough. But for this house we're going with an independent surveyor as the damp found by surveyor is in a weird place - by the living room door off the hall, so more or less in the centre of the house. Hopefully it's happening on Thursday.

But if worst came to worst we'd have an allotment (the garden is HUGE) and we could just camp out in the house! :eek: We're used to caravan living, so I'm sure we'd get by! Besides we only live a couple of hundred yards away, so we could kip here and just garden there!

Good luck with your damp survey. All we need to do now is get the CCTV drain survey arranged and done. Just so we know what we're facing. We've made the decision to buy, and the full structural survey was relatively OK, but I want the surveys done for my own peace of mind, and so we can plan better what work we need to do - as opposed to what we'd like to do IYSWIM.

All the best,

Maggie

ukmaggie45

tootsmyboots wrote: »

:rotfl:after my post to Milliewilly my EA have rung with a viewing on Saturday! Everytime I mention Xmas!

Christmas, Christmas, Christmas

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :T