The race to be in for Christmas!

missbee

Angel1976 -Well done you for being organised!!! Shows it's worth keeping EVERYTHING:eek:

Bargain_Rzl

angel1976 wrote:

Good luck leftieM! Everyone around us is really excited about us buying the house except, uh, us... We refuse to celebrate till the day we exchanged contracts (hopefully not too far in the future now!)

Ooooh it's infuriating isn't it? The worst culprits have been my dad - who phones me every Saturday lunchtime, regular as clockwork, saying "Any news on the flat?" - and my ex-boyfriend who's been emailing me every couple of days with the same question!

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, I CAN SEE YOU'RE INTERESTED, DON'T YOU THINK I'D TELL YOU IF I HAD ANY NEWS?

BTW, think we'll exchange tomorrow. Vendor's solicitor has finally confirmed she's ready - but now isn't answering her phone :rolleyes:

Vickicb

Got our mortgage offer through today! :beer:

Still waiting for EA to chase our buyers solicitors though, not even use that the useless idiots have started searches yet and time is running out for christmas.....

leftieM

I really appreciate people asking about the house. Let's be honest, the detail is pretty dull - they must like me if they let me go into it for any length of time!

hex2

Only exciting if you are involved I think.

Our buyers got the valuation they needed and their mortgage offer is being sent out today. They have done their searches but are still waiting for the homebuyers to land.

The one we are buying :smileyhea had the valuation done yesterday so hopefully our offer should be out soon. Did a postal application and havent been asked to prove ID yet, am guessing that will be soon.

Spoke to the solicitor and the searches have been sent off, only thing holding us up is our mortgage offer and the council agreeing to the transfer of the former allotment land.

angel1976

Good luck Bargain Rzl!!! Let us know when (not if!!!) if you exchanged! :beer:

I had the EA called me today at 6.15pm to tell me they are cancelling the viewing we had organised LAST WEEK for tomorrow to measure up the place for furnishings etc because our normal EA is sick. Was mightily p***ed off as I had taken half a day off tomorrow to do this and you would think they could have done it earlier! Also, my mother-in-law is so excited about the new house (bless her!) and she hasn't seen it yet so I almost broke her heart initially by telling her the appointment is off. :eek:

Anyway, managed to get them to call the vendors to find out if they would be in so we could do it in the evening and thank god that was OK. It could turn out to be a blessing in disguise as we really need to sort out a couple of small issues with the sellers and I am sick of going through the EA/solicitors! All we have is the completion date and NO exhange so we might try and push the issue tomorrow... Wish me luck! :T

Ax

mrsc_4

A bit of news came our way yesterday, Vendors Solicitor is suppose to be receiving the title deed pack today (YEAH RIGHT been told this way too many times to believe it now) so we're still waiting and moving before christmas is slipping further away

Roma_3

Good luck everyone!! :j Think we are really getting left behind in the race for Christmas and getting really upset by it all now!
Why is it that although we have moved several times before and the last time only 3 years ago that I cannot remember anything about the procedure!!?? Also cannot remember it all being so worrying..?!!
Just nothing happening here at ALL ......our new house is now empty and all we want to do is MOVE IN!! :rotfl:
(All began with us accepting an offer 8 Sept and all went swimmingly for a while..!!) ...this forum is a great comfort!!

angel1976

Roma wrote:

Why is it that although we have moved several times before and the last time only 3 years ago that I cannot remember anything about the procedure!!?? Also cannot remember it all being so worrying..?!!

Hi Roma,

I think housebuying is a bit like childbirth isn't it? You forget all about the pain and the stress right after the event otherwise no one will ever have more than one kid! :rotfl:

Don't worry, I am sure things are more likely to happen for you (since it's an empty house you are moving into!) than for us so let's just keep our fingers crossed for one another hey? We all (except one I think!) want to be in there for Christmas!

Axxx

Bargain_Rzl

angel1976 wrote:

Don't worry, I am sure things are more likely to happen for you (since it's an empty house you are moving into!)

Mine's empty too :rolleyes: - there's no chain, it's taken 3 months so far, both parties' solicitors have now declared that they're ready to exchange - and yet I'm still being held up because when my solicitor phones theirs, she gets their voicemail which they never respond to!

(The average time for my vendor's solicitor to respond to any single query during this process has been about 2 weeks.)