Not quite "telling it as it is"

silvercar

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

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

We had that problem. Exchange delayed, completion hardly moved, so only 2 weeks between exchange and completion (otherwise the whole chain would have collapsed).

The solution is to ring round other removal firms.

gazter

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

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

Anyvan... no shortage of people bidding for the work.

2nd_mortgage

Sorry for the long post but I need to rant just to make myself feel better.

I am not in a chain as I am not selling my present home & the vendor is moving into a rented accommodation & it's still proving very very difficult to exchange & complete.
Offer accepted on 5th July
Mortgage applied for 6th July
Solicitor instructed 6th July

I had told the vendor that my preferred date for exchange was w/c 12th Aug or latest w/c 19th Aug & completion 6 working days after that. He is aware that my son starts school in that area from 4th Sept so we need to be in latest by end of Aug. I was assured that it won't be a problem at all.

Confirmed mortgage offer received 6th Aug. I already had my deposit ready, so financially everything was now sorted & from my side I was completely ready to exchange.
My solicitor then tells me that she hadn't received a single reply or any documents at all from the vendors solicitors !!! The estate agent tells me that the vendors solicitors have a reputation for being very slow. But I think even the vendor wasn't pushing anything at all. Not helped by the fact that the house was joint owned by him & his ex-wife & they are no longer on speaking terms.

I then start calling up the estate agent everyday & emailing my solicitor regularly & request her to push for some speed too. She is actually very good & efficient. We make some progress. She receives the contract, all search results, raises a few queries & it looks as if we might be able to exchange w/c 19th Aug.
And then I find out that the vendor has gone away on holiday for 2 weeks !!!! (10th Aug - 24th Aug) & is not contactable.
Hence it looks like the earliest we can exchange is tues 27th (26th is bank holiday) & I have no idea whether he will need more than 6 working days to move into a rented accommodation & how long will it be before I finally get to move in.
Meanwhile my son will have a 35 mile one way journey to school on Wed 4th Sept.

Moonraker71

Sympathise with everyone here. I was supposed to exchange contracts a week and a half ago, that dragged on to last Friday.

I'm waiting for a final building regs sign off for an extension done last year. Estate Agent: "he has absolutely every bit of paperwork you need" Me: "Why hasn't he provided it then?" EA: "I'll chase him"... repeat this conversation at various points over last two months....

Four days ago.... "He has every bit of paperwork you need and he's dropped it off at the solicitor".... three days later.... Solicitor's letter: "My client does not have a completion certificate for the building works but we trust this will not delay exchange". This was Friday night. No idea what happens now. They are insisting on completing by 30th Aug.

moneyistooshorttomention

DAVESNAVE - I think you've just won some sort of award on this thread re vendor not "telling it like it is":rotfl:. I do hope this guy's mates were all told about his change of address at HMP:rotfl:

Re using a different removal firm. Its not always possible. I have chosen the firm carefully (in fact same one as I used last time) for both level of service and price quoted and I have no need whatsoever (of myself) to try and find a replacement firm for them. I've already verbally booked them and just have to confirm the date and pay the deposit to them. I scanned a load of firms and have chosen the best one for me...so wouldn't be prepared to change anyway (quite apart from breaking the verbal agreement I already have in place with this firm).

I would be more than a little upset if I found a replacement firm to suit someone else and ended up with higher bill and/or worse service than I have arranged to have.

moneyistooshorttomention

Moonraker71 wrote: »

Four days ago.... "He has every bit of paperwork you need and he's dropped it off at the solicitor".... three days later.... Solicitor's letter: "My client does not have a completion certificate for the building works but we trust this will not delay exchange". This was Friday night. No idea what happens now. They are insisting on completing by 30th Aug.

Translated into = He hasn't got a completion certificate at all and decided at the outset to play for time and then play for more time etc in the hope you would give up asking for it in the end.

Rejoinder = "Your blinkin' fault mate that we aren't going to be able to complete by 30 August and the deadline I have just put on you to provide that darn certificate before I vanish and you have to find another buyer is x date".

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

DAVESNAVE - I think you've just won some sort of award on this thread re vendor not "telling it like it is":rotfl:. I do hope this guy's mates were all told about his change of address at HMP.

I doubt if he had many mates, inside.

No problem to us.

What staggered me was how the house had sold a couple of times with blatantly wrong paperwork. People don't read title docs carefully. The solicitor cannot check if what's on the doc doesn't match what actually exists, as they don't visit the property.

System

I feel your pain people

We are buying a house off a builders as a part ex (the people that live there now have bought the new build - good luck to em) and the date for exchange/completion seems to move every week

Begining Aug, then end Aug, then begining of Sept...

You can see where this is going

Strapped

For us, it was "we're emigrating, so happy to take your offer (we were in rented) so there's no chain and it can be quick"...but turned out that he had a contract here until 6 months later! We had to be in by 4 months later or our mortgage expired. :mad: We ended up chucking money at them to move into temporary rented.

elsien

Vendor- despite what was agreed about what they were leaving, as you're a FTB we're very helpfully going to leave the cooker, carpets, bed etc. for you anyway.

Translation- we've left all the stuff that is broken unfit/unfit for purpose, and have actually been bringing rubbish from elsewhere to dump as well. Including several festering rolls of carpet.

Outcome - they ended paying for several skips and the services of a house clearance company before I took up residence.