To those BUYING in these difficult times....

goldbyron

emilia15 - I am starting to think sols thrive on some sadist pleasure of not responding! Have you literally written - can we exchange today? They surely can't riddle out of that one!

I have just relented and e-mailed our sol to find out where exchange is at. I am currently living a fine line between absolute neurosis and absolute relief. I want to watch Corrie tonight with a smile on my face and not be sitting there worrying about the blasted chain! Exactly 50 minutes ago my sol said he was going to get on to it....how long does it blinking well take to do??? He has another 35 mins and I will be onto it again. I have no shame....:)

redstararnie76

goldbyron, fingers crossed for you.

dizziblonde

Hope it all gets moving for you guys. I found things only started to happen when I actively pushed them along - we only got answers from the vendor's solicitors when I went via the estate agent, we only got callbacks from our solicitors when I started chasing them up a couple of times a day... stuff feeling unreasonable doing this - I was paying a tonne of money for the service! Found I was getting fudged answers a lot of the time as well - unless I went very directly with specific questions, and pushed until they were answered.

Not how it should have to be at all. Wish they'd really appreciate they have our futures in their hands and just what a mental toll the uncertainty takes on you.

Currently taking a break from moving boxes into the new house (do we really need ten boxes of books - grrr)... husband has developed man flu so muggins has to do it all. Back is killing me!

LilacPixie

I need to stamp my feet for a bit here. We are in scotland so slightly different but our sellers have bought and already moved on end of last week so property empty. I believe they needed a bridging loan to do it as they had bought and signed missives before actually having an offer in place. Anyway we sold ours and were looking but thought we would need a rental as our buyer wanted in pre christmas we liked house, they needed buyer, we offered low to start and they accepted so eekkk all around.

Anyway so far the vendors solicitors dragged heels majorly about letting our lender have the home report which our lender wanted for the formal offer, this took 2 weeks to get it out of them, then they released it on the Thursday evening and contacted my solicitor wanted missives completed the next day, my solicitor said no way they will be done when formal mortgage offer is received. It was received on the Tuesday as quite literally the home report was all we needed. Then we discovered the solicitor, who is also the agent, was still listing the property for sale on their website despite legal paperwork already being completed and the seller telling them to remove it in October, signs all being removed etc. They sorted that only this week (22nd November) and now they are dragging feet over passing over some documents that were condition of sale (guarentees for work) now the seller let us see them at viewing and she passed them to solicitor for formal passing over and our solicitor needs to see them as a condition of the mortgage company releasing funds. Very minor but its driving me nuts.

The woman we are buying from is aware of the shortcomings with her solicitor and ultimatly its her who is paying them but it is just oh so frustrating. We move in 2 weeks, everything with our sale is sorted just waiting on the actual day. Plan is for keys to new house availible at 11am and hand over of keys of this place to be 12pm. we are aiming to be loaded and away for 10:30am and have all keys with solicitor, grab a nice brunch then collect keys to new house and get unloading.

I was under no illusions that that would be smooth but now I have literally zero trust that the vendors solicitor will have keys ready for us.

sonastin

And we English are led to believe that the Scottish system is less stressful!

LilacPixie

sonastin wrote: »

And we English are led to believe that the Scottish system is less stressful!

exactly. TBH when i bought it was fine, for the buyer of this place very straight forward too its my sellers damm solicitor. :eek:

emilia15

goldbyron wrote: »

emilia15 - I am starting to think sols thrive on some sadist pleasure of not responding! Have you literally written - can we exchange today? They surely can't riddle out of that one!

I have just relented and e-mailed our sol to find out where exchange is at. I am currently living a fine line between absolute neurosis and absolute relief. I want to watch Corrie tonight with a smile on my face and not be sitting there worrying about the blasted chain! Exactly 50 minutes ago my sol said he was going to get on to it....how long does it blinking well take to do??? He has another 35 mins and I will be onto it again. I have no shame....:)

How did it go? Hope it all got sorted.

Our sols didn't get back to me this afternoon, so I gave them a quick call. Managed to get a vague 'yes' to our requests for the proposed exchange and completion dates, our purchase is good to go, but our sols haven't had anything formal back from our buyer's sols. Our buyer is chasing their solicitors, and our sols have had verbal comms from them also.

I have a horrible feeling that our sols are dragging their feet for some reason, and aren't keen to complete mid-December. Can't put my finger on why I feel like that

azkaban420

OMG.great.news.Dizzi,.congrats!!

Goldbyron.really.hope.it.worked.out.for.you.today.if.not.fingers.crossed.for.tomorrow!

I'm.waiting.on.hearing.on.an.offer.I've.placed.on.a.house.but.don't.tend.to.hold.out
much.hope.these.days....

Az

goldbyron

We exchanged last night at 5.15pm!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Long, long story but eventually I rang ALL the solicitors above us only to find out the top sol had gone home at 4.30pm!!! I went ballistic.... So with 5 mins to cut off point I rang the EA and asked our vendor to exchange on her sale and exchange on her purchase tomorrow to avoid these chain problems. 5.05pm came and went....I gave up all hope.....5.15pm - our buyer e-mailed me with - We did it!!!!!!. Yes she told me 10 mins before our sol who had blantantly had enough of me! LOL. The vendor pulled through and won the day! Still waiting for a call to say there has been some mistake - All going well - we will be in on the 9th! Removals and insurance has been arranged.... I am off to pack now! Good luck to everyone waiting - it is sooooooooo stressful but you have to push, chase and be outrageously cheeky if you want to get it done quickly.

azkaban420

Excellent.news.Goldbyron...phew...what.a.relief.for.you!!

All.systems.go.then!

So.good.to.hear.positive.news.,seems.like.it's.been.a.good.(mostly).week.on.this.thread!

:j

Az