When did you find out your completion date?

arbrighton

There are books etc available in libraries and numerous guides online.
For many years, most of the population has not been in a position to buy houses and most schools do now cover the basics of managing your finances

jibbyboo

I have spent the majority of my spare time in the past month looking at guides online. But being as each sale with issues has its own vendor, buyer and EA, things will differ between each sale.

Then you've got other angles too- mortgage, solicitor, surveyor, other third parties.

It's very difficult to know absolutely everything inside out.

arbrighton

jibbyboo wrote: »

I have spent the majority of my spare time in the past month looking at guides online. But being as each sale with issues has its own vendor, buyer and EA, things will differ between each sale.

Then you've got other angles too- mortgage, solicitor, surveyor, other third parties.

It's very difficult to know absolutely everything inside out.

True, I could not have predicted how little a surveyor could know about a septic tank for example or that the vendor's conveyancer would pretty much flatly refuse to exchange one afternoon despite all being ready and his clients' instruction to do so only to jump up and down and rush it through the next morning. Oh, and there's the bit of land next to us which seems to not belong to anyone too.
However the general patterns stood and helped to understand where we were up to.

Jeffrey_Shaw

Real answer (yes, I'm a solicitor):
Exchanging contracts sets a completion date, legally enforceable.
But the date used should be one to which everyone in the chain has first consented.

grifferz

googler wrote: »

By that logic, you seem to be suggesting that anyone hiring an accountant should be familiar with the mechanics of doing their own books ....

Yes, that would be a fair thing to say. It is a crime to submit deliberately incorrect accounts; the responsibility of ensuring they are correct is the business owner's. If the business owner does not understand something in the documents that the accountant has prepared then it is the business owner's duty to ask for it to be explained so that they can honestly sign them off.