The race to be in for Christmas!

dkny_2

Tomthumb wrote:

Good luck everyone!! We are also hoping to move on 1st December. It's a bit different as we are selling our Hotel that we own with my Mum. My Husband and I (and 2 kids) are buying (hopefully) a shop and my Mum is looking to buy a house. It's all pretty quiet at the moment apart from my negotiations with the two lenders (playing them off against each other :A ) - it's amazing how they can suddenly drop another 1/2 percent - why not offer me that in the first place??? :mad:

Anyway, it's all a bit stressful this close to Christmas but hopefully it will all go ok!

Hi welcome ...
Hotel wow,

Good luck, do let us know how its goin...

missbee

dkny wrote:

Hi Missbee,
Are all your searches back? please can i ask which ones and how long it took?
still waitin on mine, enviro one back though.

Thanks

Hi agin - didn't see your question! First one was the environment search and that came after about 2 weeks I think (after sending cheque for search to start). The water one came about 2 weeks after that - so 4 in total. We send cheque off on 30th September or there abouts and, because of missing bit on councils part, are due to receive tomorrow - so thats about6 weeks - seems ages!! I don't think there's a timescale really, just depends on council/who the searches coming from

dkny_2

missbee wrote:

I wondered this too DKNY and called my sols as didn't want to hold things up but sacred putting name on dotted line before ready. You can sign them and send back but until they are EXCHANGED you can pull out. In fact, we signed the contract before ANY searches back!!

REALLY so your sayin we can actually sign before all the searches are back WHY o why did i not know this :eek: sorry, gettin all crazy now, why didnt the solitor mention this, :eek:

Have u signed before ur searches are all back then? If so were the solitors k with this??

Thank you so much for telling me this :beer:

missbee

In fact, as you can see, we're now onto completion dates - I'm relying on sols saying nothing has come up on Local Auth search as not seen with my own eyes yet!!! But I do definitely know that it's the exchange of contracts that really counts. They just rip up your contract if you tell them to before exchange happened if you want to pull out.

Looks like we're heading for completion date of Tues 21st Nov!!

Bargain_Rzl

Still no progress.

At least I now feel as if I have DONE something - by way of the following email sent to both sets of solicitors AND the vendor:

To all parties involved in my purchase of the above property.

- *****/*****, I gather that since Tuesday afternoon you have been ready to exchange on behalf of ***** and are awaiting a phone call from my solicitor to process the exchange. I have spoken yesterday and today with both ***** and ***** at ***** who have been dealing with my conveyancing on behalf of *****. Both say that repeated attempts have been made to establish telephone contact with you, but they have been intercepted by your voicemail and have not heard back from you. Perhaps their messages have not been getting through. Please also be aware that ***** is out of the office this week and that you will need to deal with this through *****.

- *****/*****, I know that you are also ready to exchange on my behalf. I am aware that ***** (vendor) has spoken to ***** (vendor's sol) who believes that she is still waiting to hear from you. It sounds as though perhaps she has not been receiving her voicemail messages for some reason. I appreciate that you have already made several attempts at contact.

As far as I can tell, both solicitors believe that they are awaiting a response from the other, and as long as this remains the case, we are at an impasse which is wasting a lot of everybody’s time and causing me a great deal of stress and inconvenience.

I would greatly appreciate it if BOTH sides could be aware that they need to address this, as we then stand a far better chance of resolving the matter without further delay.

Kindest regards
*****

dkny_2

Wow, 21st nov bet ure excited, cant wait when we are on this stage will hopefully feel more real, i will definately be askin sol regardin signing, thanks so much for gettin back, good luck regardin search please do keep us posted...

missbee

Excellent work Bargain Rzl !!! Lets hope it does some good!!!!

dkny_2

Bargain_Rzl wrote:

Still no progress.

At least I now feel as if I have DONE something - by way of the following email sent to both sets of solicitors AND the vendor:

To all parties involved in my purchase of the above property.

- *****/*****, I gather that since Tuesday afternoon you have been ready to exchange on behalf of ***** and are awaiting a phone call from my solicitor to process the exchange. I have spoken yesterday and today with both ***** and ***** at ***** who have been dealing with my conveyancing on behalf of *****. Both say that repeated attempts have been made to establish telephone contact with you, but they have been intercepted by your voicemail and have not heard back from you. Perhaps their messages have not been getting through. Please also be aware that ***** is out of the office this week and that you will need to deal with this through *****.

- *****/*****, I know that you are also ready to exchange on my behalf. I am aware that ***** (vendor) has spoken to ***** (vendor's sol) who believes that she is still waiting to hear from you. It sounds as though perhaps she has not been receiving her voicemail messages for some reason. I appreciate that you have already made several attempts at contact.

As far as I can tell, both solicitors believe that they are awaiting a response from the other, and as long as this remains the case, we are at an impasse which is wasting a lot of everybody’s time and causing me a great deal of stress and inconvenience.

I would greatly appreciate it if BOTH sides could be aware that they need to address this, as we then stand a far better chance of resolving the matter without further delay.

Kindest regards
*****

Hey BARGAIN,
Just wanna say good luck,
Have they recieved the letter then any response yet??

Tomthumb

Bargain Rzl :eek: P!!! up & brewery spring to mind!!!

Bargain_Rzl

Ah, well I only sent it 5 minutes before close of business, so not yet, but let's wait and see what it does in the morning!

(I know who is causing the delay - it's vendor's solicitor - but basically wanted to show them that everybody knows what everyone else is doing so there is NOWHERE TO HIDE!!!!)