What shall I do!! Bottom chain delaying everything

fonzyg50

Hi all

We have all been waiting to exchange for 3 months
There's 4 of us in chain

Bottom chain seems to be taking his time to do things.
We are waiting on him to return mortgage paperwork
Back and gathering his deposit
he said he will return paperwork and it's been nearly 5 weeks.
My mortgage offer exp end December 12
Dunno what to do.

Fire_Fox

Make your estate agent work for you and chase up daily, threaten to put the house back on the market.

paso11

Anymore details like whereabouts? Is he the guy buying your house?

fonzyg50

paso11 wrote: »

Anymore details like whereabouts? Is he the guy buying your house?

1.bottom chain
2.buyers buying ours
3.us
4. House we buying

fonzyg50

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Make your estate agent work for you and chase up daily, threaten to put the house back on the market.

We gave them a date to complete this Friday. And nothing progressed

hcb42

if you havent exchanged yet, a completion date of this friday is ambitious.

hazyjo

Average sale takes around 12 weeks. Has it only been 5 weeks from start to now? I presume yes as that leaves around 6 weeks or so til the Dec date you mentioned. I had a 3 month mortgage offer too which did expire due to problems with our purchase (it all took 5 long months in the end!). The mortgage provider managed to extend our offer (best not left til the last minute!).

Definitely wouldn't be putting pressure on to complete just yet(!), but would certainly be chasing and, as above, getting the EA to keep the ball rolling.

Jx