How to survive!

Dukesy

Just posting to wish you good luck with it all... Buying houses is almost always a nightmare. Dealing with the chinese whispers that goes on and so on is a nightmare (vendors were threatening to put the house back on the market and we kept telling our vendors EA that we were desperate to complete as I was pregnant and wanted to get the house before the baby came along, same EA kept telling the vendors to bear with us and that we were probably going to take longer to complete as our baby was due! In the end, OH was running back and forth from the hospital to the solicitors and the bank to get it all wrapped up whilst I was in the delivery suite being induced. Talk about stressful!)

I think one of the worst bits was that our purchase was held up by nearly a month because next door's solicitors were completely incompetent - we share drainage with them, and their solicitors sent a letter via the vendor's solicitor to state that an agreement needed to be drawn up over the usage of the septic tank. This had actually already been done in the 1970s, and our solicitor pointed this out to them, but the time it took for this to be acknowledged was ridiculous.

HOWEVER! What I'm trying to get at is that it's a horrifically stressful process, but it's the best thing ever to finally get the keys and to have your own house with which to do as you please stick with it!