The race to be in for Christmas!

dkny_2

pawpurrs wrote:

Christmas tree up allready, :eek: , it isnt even december yet :eek:

Mine goes up the weekend before normally, but if I put it up now it would be dead by Christmas:p

YEP ours is up, was gettin very impatient the other day not hearing anythin from the solictors etc regarding sale and purchase so wanted to do summin useful and i thought thats it the xmas tree is commin outta the loft, and now its up, feel better when the lights are flashin away.. :j

Vickicb

Hi everyone!

Finally, after worrying all week, they survey on our new house is being done tomorrow and the survey on our current property is being done next wednesday. :beer:

The estate agent says it's a homebuyers, which is fine, but the surveyor told me it'll take 1 1/2 hours - is this normal? It seems quite a long time to me.

Anyway, at least something is actually happening!:T

pawpurrs

Drumroll please we have exchanged! :j
Nightmare to the last breath but we got there in the end!

dkny_2

Hi Everyone

Yay its the weekend..... this week has been draggin am so glad its friday...anyhow i phoned my solictor for an update ( i get this funny feelin she is turnin into a cow) - I like ring her once a week which i think is reasonable - but if she reallly wants me to annoy her then ill call her everyday!

Anyway, i asked how the searches are goin and she said the environment one has come back, what is this environment one ? she said everything is going fine.

Right am off and gonna get ready to go out and let my hair down and have a few drinks :beer:

_party_ _party_ _party_

Have a good weekend all :j

bargainbarmy

if any of you are in before Xmas I will be amazed. It takes about 3 months on average for a normal sale to go through....nobody talks to each other in house sales and solicitors are a law unto themselves

lilyann1

Well done Pawpurrs!!

angel1976

Congrats pawpurrs!!!!!!!! :beer:

dkny, I know what you mean about bugging the solicitor as I feel kinda bad I am practically calling every 2 days. But the EA called today and we have a completion date of 8 December! She left a message to say there is a very good reason behind the date and she will tell me when I call back. I called back to be told (very honestly!) by her colleague that she is unlikely to call me back cos she is on the phone and already late for an appointment but she will pass on the message that 8th is ok. So I called the solicitor to make sure she is in the loop...

The environmental search will turn up things like if there is a risk of subsidence, old landfills, telecommunications towers, environmental hazards in the area blah blah blah. Ours had a moderate risk of subsidence (but it's on a hill so that's expected), had two telecommunications towers nearby (which we could see and knew about) and also some old infilled land nearby (but they are only small). The solicitor will wait for all the searches to come in before they do their report and you will see everything then. Good luck!

Ax

hex2

Vickicb wrote:

Hi everyone!

Finally, after worrying all week, they survey on our new house is being done tomorrow and the survey on our current property is being done next wednesday. :beer:

The estate agent says it's a homebuyers, which is fine, but the surveyor told me it'll take 1 1/2 hours - is this normal? It seems quite a long time to me.

Anyway, at least something is actually happening!:T

I had a homebuyers done on mine this week and it did take an hour and a half.

Dasnookster

pawpurrs wrote:

Drumroll please we have exchanged! :j
Nightmare to the last breath but we got there in the end!

Congratulations - hopefully I'll be able to say Monday. Exchange day has been changed too many times already, so hopefully it'll happen this time.

Vickicb

Congratulations Pawpurrs! :beer:

The survey was done on our purchase today, I hope I'll get some news next week on that.

Now we find out our buyers sols are, in my sols words, "the technical term is CRAP". They have chased my sol 4 times now for the draft contract (she sent it 4 weeks ago, I know cos she sent me a copy) and STILL haven't instructed searches 5 weeks after receiving the fee for them. I could SCREAM!!! :mad:

Told my EA to call my buyer and make sure he puts a rocket up them on Monday, surely they should now foot the bill for personal searches to get this thing moving?