The race to be in for Christmas!

lynzpower

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


Hex thats so brilliant!!!!! Im SO so so chuffed for you.

Got any stripes left - time to crack one open :beer:

lynzpower

maybe angel posting commisserations for you Hex was the reason why you exchanged, some sort of forumbasedchaostheory

Wonder if it works for me *crosses fingers again!*

Poppycat

Flaming heck Lynz I bet you feel like your in ths slow slow lane at times, I thought government departments were bad enough 2 speeds slow and stop.

mrsc_4

Hex2 thats brilliant news congratulations

Angel1976 is right once you get those keys and get in everything else becomes a distant memory I can't remember what I was so stressed about ha ha

angel1976

Oh my god! CONGRATULATIONS HEX2!!!!! Hey Lynz, if what you are proposing about forumbasedchaostheory is true, then I shall send lots of commiserations to you Lynz. So happy for you hex2!

Ax

Poppycat

LOL lets hope your right

I dont even have a chain, sellers emigrating, my buyers 2nd home for there son. I dread what it could have been if it was a long chain.

angel1976 wrote:

Poppycat, I know what you mean about not doing this ever again! That was what I said before the exchange happened. Like I said fairly early on, housebuying must be like childbirth, you forget the pain right after it happens and I am happy to say that is true (the housebuying bit, not the childbirth bit!). We exchanged a week and a half ago and I can't remember why I was so stressed in the first place! :rotfl:

Ax

lynzpower

Poppycat wrote:

Flaming heck Lynz I bet you feel like your in ths slow slow lane at times, I thought government departments were bad enough 2 speeds slow and stop.

I know!! I cant actually believe this at the moment. I dont know who to blame (not me :A ) so far my solicitors look like they might just win the booby-prize, but then the housing association come along and sweep the board, by finally doing something they should have done 2 weeks ago and charged me 117 for.

lewolf

Well finally after a week of empty promises our buyer has received their contract today, will sign and send it back by special delivery today. Technically we could exchange tomorrow but given how slow their solicitor is it's likely to be next week.

We are almost there but I'm not counting my chickens before they have hatched.

Poppycat

Hope it goes well for you lewolf, fingers crossed.

50_percent

Hello to all of you,
I have been reading this thread obsessively for about a month now, as I started this process all the way back in July.
First, I had the mortgage broker from hell - applied for mortgage through him, receive letter from nationwide but some of my details are wrong, informed him and them and that was eventually sorted, then mortgage was refused (can't help thinking the wrong details may have made them overly suspicious, as the reason they gave for the refusal was that I have never had credit)
Then, my boss was being a real cow and wouldn't let me have even an afternoon off to go to the bank myself to arrange a mortgage :mad:
Finally managed to get a Saturday appointment at Abbey in November - by then the proposed exchange date had gone!
Then things started to look a bit better, received mortgage offer from Abbey, and solicitor has been on the ball. I was invited in to sign contracts yesterday, this was fine, and he has said that at a push I may be able to complete on the 21st - Am I, and is he, being stupidly optimistic - especially since contracts have not even been exchanged as yet?!?