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FTB moral support! Now with stupid solicitors!
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You heard that from the agent?TrickyNiki wrote: »Keys are now ready for me to pick up
Vendors will be out for midday
If it's from your solicitor, you need to wait until the agent hears from the vendor's solicitor that the money has been received.
Your solicitor can confirm it's been sent, not that it's been received.I am a mortgage broker. You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice. Please do not send PMs asking for one-to-one-advice, or representation.0 -
kingstreet wrote: »You heard that from the agent?
If it's from your solicitor, you need to wait until the agent hears from the vendor's solicitor that the money has been received.
Your solicitor can confirm it's been sent, not that it's been received.
Ive heard from both estate agent and vendor that money has been sent and received!! But thanks for this, I didn't actually know about that! If I hadn't heard form the estate agents I might have been excited for nothing!
Oh the things you learn you wish you knew about beforehand lol!0 -
TrickyNiki wrote: »Well its not gone smoothly so far! My solicitors has told me to go around after 12 and make sure that the vendors have moved out because "we are not dealing with normal people" Im all excited!
Moving in the snow isn't what I expected though....
The people we (my parents) last bought off hadn't even started packing their house up at 4pm. Monies etc was done by noon. We ended up having to move them out and putting all of their stuff in OUR van and taking it to their new house as they were trying to move a 4 bed house 10 miles using a transit van....
We didn't START moving our stuff in until about 8pm at night, this was in October so it was all done in the dark. By far the WORST home move I'm likely to encounter.
Best of it was, the fat jabba the hut lookalike who we bought off was sitting on the sofa that we brought down saying she needed a rest as she'd been busy all day. We didn't even get a thanks!0 -
So pleased it looks to have turned out ok in the end ...happy new home
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Hey TrickyNiki,
Congrats! Enjoy your new home and as another FTB about to embark on all this (and frankly pooping myself having read a lot of horror stories on here and other places) I'd like to applaud and salute you for posting all the information on here from your move and taking the time to do it - I'm sure much of it will be very helpful!0 -
Well I'm in and getting settled. I do love the house and it hasn't been tainted by my stupid vendors.
One thing though.. They have taken all the window keys with them.. Some window locks are open and some are closed.. These locks seem integral to the windows so I'm wondering if there is anywhere I can get some more from or should I chase the vendor?0 -
I'd chase them - no reason at all for them to take the keys?0
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hello
just read this thread out of interest and had to pop up at the end. i was in b&q on the weekend and 99% sure i saw replacement window locks in there.
happy new home! xxSpreadsheet-obsessed.0 -
I'd chase them - no reason at all for them to take the keys?
Other than the fact they are nutters... :rotfl:
They took 2 curtain poles and left holes in the wall, dug plants out of the garden and left me instructions for me to post all his mail to his new address :mad: no stamps left and a fair amount of mail has been posted! (It's going back into the postbox even the estate agent doesn't want it, they don't want to deal with them)
I spoke to my mortgage advisor just after we completed, apparently when I was worried they were going to pull out they had walked into the estate agents and told them they no longer wanted to sell to me as I was deliberately holding back the sale with my incompetent solicitors!! She talked them round and got my solicitor do some some of the work their solicitor was refusing to do as she believed it wasn't needed... I wish there was a "don't buy from this person site!"
I've phoned the estate agents asking them to get in contact about the window keys0 -
charleyroo wrote: »hello
just read this thread out of interest and had to pop up at the end. i was in b&q on the weekend and 99% sure i saw replacement window locks in there.
happy new home! xx
Thanks!!
I just took a closer look, I should be able to get some, they are ones that are integral to the handle on double glazing.0
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