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Living in Limbo Land - waiting for Exchange of Contracts

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  • RobertinHerts
    RobertinHerts Posts: 209 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    danuk wrote: »
    similar situation here meant to exchange last friday and complete this friday ... so next available date of completion is 22nd.
    Why so long until next available Completion date?

    Robert
  • danuk
    danuk Posts: 581 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    work commitments etc from half the chain and peoples availability.........
  • brock-cruse
    brock-cruse Posts: 196 Forumite
    why do most completions happen on a friday? Why not try for eg thurs? Thats what im going to try!
  • RobertinHerts
    RobertinHerts Posts: 209 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    brock-cruse wrote: »
    why do most completions happen on a friday? Why not try for eg thurs? Thats what im going to try!
    We've said 'Any day BUT Friday'. If I ran a Removals company I'd charge extra for Fridays:j
  • Gem_
    Gem_ Posts: 495 Forumite
    Another one here in limbo land.

    My sale was supposed to exchange on Friday (no chain), found out today that my buyers name is spelt wrong on the mortgage offer so solicitor has to order another one .... its just one thing after another - this has been going on since January :eek:
  • RobertinHerts
    RobertinHerts Posts: 209 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Gem_ wrote: »
    found out today that my buyers name is spelt wrong on the mortgage offer so solicitor has to order another one ....
    I've just pointed out to our Sol that she's spelled our buyers name wrongly in an email I've just received ;)

    We've just heard that the two parties at the 'bottom' have finally signed up and the 20th June is now the proposed completion date, i.e. 2 weeks today rather than next week as we'd hoped, this seemed OK and I gave the go ahead to our Sol. However the removal co say that although they don't have a problem with next week they have just one slot left that day (20th), indeed that's the only one for that entire week! Unfortunately, our Vendors EA refuses to speak to his client so communication will have to be via her Sol. They've proved useless up to now...

    Robert
  • Scarlet_Fever
    Scarlet_Fever Posts: 447 Forumite
    well we have finally got a completion date of june 18th!! woohoo

    after i told my buyers i had instructed the EA to put house back on market and arrange viewings for today - i texted them as it seems to be their solicitors that are the problem, i got told 'its not nice to receive a threatening text' i said that i was sent home from work with vision loss migraine brought on by stress, my husband was home sick with stress and that we couldn't do it any more

    its funny, but when you look from the outside (as no doubt we will also be thinking in 6 months time) you think what on earth is all the fuss about? get a grip people, but at the time - its soooo hard.... anyway - we're moving now - hopefully you all will be too soon x-x-x- to all
    Willow: I knew it, I knew it, well not in the sense of having the slightest idea, but I knew there was something I didn't know!
  • Scarlet_Fever
    Scarlet_Fever Posts: 447 Forumite
    althoughy - i would say to everyone - contact anyone you have details for! all the time
    Willow: I knew it, I knew it, well not in the sense of having the slightest idea, but I knew there was something I didn't know!
  • Gem_
    Gem_ Posts: 495 Forumite
    Still longer in limbo land for me ...

    turns out the Birminham Midshires computer system crashed for two days last week, so when they told my buyers solicitor that the mortgage offer was in the post - that turned out to be somewhat of an exageration :mad:

    Whats the betting the offer won't turn up until the end of the week (at this point I would put money on it not turning up until next week!)

    Come on people, share your frustration and let me know I am not alone here ...
  • alfiedog_2
    alfiedog_2 Posts: 65 Forumite
    Left limbo land on Friday:j but the frustration and stress will be something I won't forget in a hurry:mad: our solicitor surpassed herself by sending loads of our documentation to the house we sold a few years ago:mad: How she thought we lived there when she is acting for us in the sale of our present house and acted for us when we sold the previous one I do not know:rolleyes:
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