To those BUYING in these difficult times....

milliebear00001

Sorry to hear the frustrations some are having. I know how you feel, having been kept waiting for various petty things recently. Good news here though - we finally exchanged today! Yay. Not quite celebrating until I know the mortgage money's through - completing on Friday - as I can't quite trust Santander to run things smoothly!

papermoney

I had a text from the mortgage advisor who said he has just checked his emails and the mortgage offer has come through. I thought it was nice of him to let me know as he is technically on holiday

xtra_time

The vendors of the house we want to buy say if we dont complete by end of november then they cant until February !!!! very weird. Our buyers want in by christmas and wont wait till feb ARGH!

dizziblonde

Still sat here waiting for vendor's solicitor to ring our solicitor to give the green light to it all (which we were promised he'd do by noon so he'll have disappeared off on his lunchbreak without doing it). Mortgage funds are currently sat with our solicitor ready and waiting, just waiting on Mickey Mouse and Sons Solicitors to pull their finger out and agree to it all.

Patience wearing thin.

caeler

dizziblonde wrote: »

Patience wearing thin.

Fingers crossed!

dizziblonde

Surprisingly - no phonecall back before 12. Long lunch methinks!

goldbyron

oh dizziblonde you poor thing....you know it will happen....just when you think it isn't going to happen....thats when it does.
The deed we were waiting on for our buyer has returned and is currently being looked over so hopefully this finally answers their enquiries. I want to tick off this part of the chain and then its all eyes to the vendor! She better be ready after wanting to complete so soon....I am dreading the attempts at exchange itself - 4 solicitors....(eyes roll). And yes I completely sympathise with all of you waiting to exchange - I have had tears, rages and rants all week and every day seems like an eternity.... When I sold in June (we are on the final rung of selling my partners) I had it all then too....and one hour after exchange I had to lie down with an almighty migraine which I hardly ever suffer with. All the stress just blew me down after the event....

caeler

dizziblonde wrote: »

Surprisingly - no phonecall back before 12. Long lunch methinks!

Did it happen?

dizziblonde

Finally got the call late this afternoon that the errant solicitor had been located (vendor's solicitors have been utterly consistently dreadful, and we've frequently had to resort to going to the vendor via the estate agent to get information returned that the solicitors haven't even passed requests on for) and to get the keys.

Spent a blissful evening painting tester pot patches of paint of every colour apart from magnolia all over the walls, only interrupted by some Oxfam door to door chugger who didn't appear to understand the words "we got the keys here an hour ago so we're somewhat busy - go away." In-laws arrive middle of next week to help with the DIY jobs we need doing - just cosmetic stuff really - filling and painting walls, stripping endless rooms of woodchip, painting over kitchen cupboards (oh the beige! can't afford to get a new kitchen in in the short term) and moving things in gradually over the next few weeks.

No one appears to have any keys for the patio door though - so that's going to be a locksmith call out job unless it turns up somewhere along the line, but these things happen.

goldbyron

dizziblonde - wow did you exchange and complete on the same day then? Congrats whatever!!!

Well on my end - yesterday evening the buyers sol confirmed that all enquiries satisfied and contracts agreed. The buyers sol has sent the report to the buyer at work for next day delivery (so today) which she is insisting she sign before exchange....bit odd as the contract itself was signed... Anyway the buyer is an absolute star to be honest as we e-mail each other all throughout the day. She is going to print, sign, try to get it to her partner and scan it back today - if not tomorrow morning tops. Our vendor seems to be ready according to EA and solicitors as well. So our sol just has to e-mail over the contract to my partner to sign and scan back today too. My sol seems to think tomorrow is the biggie - exchange. I would like to still try for today as even one more night of no sleep feels like a major trudge at the moment! However if it is tomorrow I will be happy but I will be on a knifes edge until I get the phone call. I fully trust the buyers sol to be on it at 9am, my sol probably will respond....but then the two other sols I don't really know. If it becomes Monday - I am going to take valium to get me through the weekend - LOL. Seriously with a completion date of the 9th - I want to spend the weekend packing with the full knowledge we are going and also a sneaky trip up West to look at beds and order it as it takes ages to arrive. I am fully grateful to be working from home today and on leave tomorrow. It wasn't planned for exchange however I am so glad not to be at work if I am waiting for the call. I will just pace up and down in the hallway instead looking at the garage containing all my personal belongings where they have been stacked for 5 months in my parents! LOL. Btw does anyone else look at their phone/e-mail every 5 mins to obsessively check - LOL! I have never know time go soooooo sloooooowly. 24 hour solicitors would be a great invention....