Not quite "telling it as it is"

moneyistooshorttomention

What ways have people found either their buyer or vendor not quite "telling it as it is"?

My own experience to date:

BUYER: It's taking so long to get to Exchange of Contracts (implication "Your fault") that you should make it up to me by shortening the time you want between Exchange and Completion. Actual fact = buyer themselves doesn't seem to be quite ready for Exchange yet.

VENDOR: It's an unadopted road, so the houses in the road club together and pay out for a bit of road surface maintenance as and when necessary. Actual fact = one of the houses doesn't pay their share and other people have to pay their own share + a bit of the freeriders share as well.

MYSELF: Playing an absolutely straight bat and always telling it exactly as it is!

Lets hope there wont be more before I'm through..

SG27

Estate agent: the house has had a new damp proof course installed as part the renovation.

On asking for written details of the DPC from the vendor, None exists and no work was done regarding damp proofing!

Dan-Dan

Money , your the same as us , we have been straightb down the line all the way , vendors from going to famil (relocating 100 miles away) nothing happens for the whole of June as they end up offering on a house and thats not tied up in time for exchange

Buyer , `ready to exchange` last week to actually , a `couple of things to go over` next week

Its a !!!!ing palava

moneyistooshorttomention

SG Sympathies on that one. Just as well you had the foresight to ask for that.

Money's take on being a vendor = haul out file full of guaranties for everything relevant and invite them to have a look through for themselves (at that point I took pity on them getting faced with a sheaf of papers and said "Here, these are the ones you will want to look at most":rotfl:

I think I can see the timeline to Exchange now and have duly spelt it out to my Buyer and said "This is what it looks like will happen now..."

Palaver all right...I want me countryside I'm heading for...first stop = few deep breaths of fresh air and count the (very small) number of people walking round...

Dan-Dan

It seems all give from us and no one else , Grans boiler was installed under warmfront in `09 , engineer didnt send her/us the building certificate for it , buyer wouldnt move any further without it , happened right on the change from CORGI to GASSAFE so too me ages to track down where to get it , the EXACT same situation on the house i`m buying , installed 2010 , vendor been asked twice to provide some sort of installation certificate , no responses at all , i could just sit there waiting but instead had the whole system inspected , tested , and serviced and instructed solitior to proceed

If i hadnt , we would still be sat here like plonkers waiting for something that was never going to come , after all the guy moved in AFTER the boiler install , with two kiddies and didnt even bother getting it serviced once , so what hope did we have of receving anything boiler related

People are people , and i disliked most of them before this process as it was

Better_Days

Money, are you still wanting 4 weeks between exchange and completion?

moneyistooshorttomention

Vendors house = I know I've got work to do on that boiler. So why worrit myself beyond that anyway as to what the extent of work is.

My house = Out came the sheaves and sheaves of paper. Boiler installed at such and such a date. Servicing done regularly and heres the record of it. "Do you want the contact details of my gas guy?"

moneyistooshorttomention

Better_Days wrote: »

Money, are you still wanting 4 weeks between exchange and completion?

Yes in a word.....and I have explained (more than once) just why that's necessary to actually manage the process of swopping houses and not at all happy about having had to "justify myself" as to why I want something perfectly normal anyway. I'd understand if I was saying "6 weeks or more"...

Maybe I should call buyers bluff and say "Ready for Exchange Monday then?" and wait for the ensuing panic because they aren't ready themselves yet...naughty naughty Money (slap my own wrists)...

Dan-Dan

I really wanted 2 weeks between the two , just enough time to manage the transfer of phone etc , but the way it`s looking the chain is pushing for a exchange and complete within the same week

moneyistooshorttomention

Yikes....and then they all (apart from Mr or Mrs Selfish Pushyboots in the chain) collapse in a shattered heap afterwards....

How does anyone even physically manage to get a removal firm arranged in such a short time? Mine told me they will definitely require at least 2 weeks notice and, more likely, the 4 weeks I myself require.

Add: tell phone/broadband/gas/electric/water.
Add: tell friends etc

Davesnave

Nobody told us for a long time that one of our vendors was in prison and not exactly overjoyed to be selling.

However, it wasn't us pushing for a quick sale, so the delays that caused were no great problem. There were also other delays due to faulty paperwork so the 'quick purchase' took just under 3 months.

We didn't move in until almost 3 weeks after completion. Even then, we had a lot of stuff elsewhere. Indeed, it was a couple more years before we got it all here.