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The longset sale and purchase ever??

cathie_3 · 2007-01-19 11:42:32

I just need to moan I think. We were expecting to exchange contracts last week but found out there was another link in the chain that wasn't ready and were told it should be today and now it looks like we won't move until 15 February. We originally saw the house we are buying in August and put an offer in the first week of…

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HugoSP Posts: 2,467 Forumite

20 January 2007 at 9:14PM

aardvaak wrote:

I think I might have the record me and my family started selling a property in February 1986 and finally sold it in August 1990.

Even my experience doesn't top that

In 2000 we discussed and agreed in principle with another house owner to do a swap with a small cash adjustment. In 2003 we actually exchanged and completed!

The other party had a very difficult ex husband who simply lived to make her life hell. He tried every legal avenue he could to thwart her efforts to move to a better house for her and her children. Why, because he's a miserable loser who has no life of his own, and seems obsessed with making her life hell.

It was frustrating for us but IMO it was really nasty for her.

Behind every great man is a good woman

Beside this ordinary man is a great woman

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