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FTB - Advice needed
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Amitoocautious wrote: »It amazes me actually how people invest in the biggest asset of their lives and dont even research it!
Oddly enough, I have a book called 'How to buy and sell your house' which I hoped would answer all my questions. I have a solicitor and a mortgage advisor. Despite all this, I still feel like I'm flailing around in the dark and I have to hang out here to try to figure out what I should be doing. (Apparently, I should be sitting tight waiting for the contract to drop on the doormat. But it took me a lot of lurking and tentative phone calls to work that out)
Things aren't always as easy to research as you might think.My TV is broken!
Edit: refunded £515 for TV 1.5 years out of warranty - thank you Sale of Goods Act! :j0 -
AND... what no-one has mentioned here is that you need to have the offer formally accepted in writing from the EA's, and affirmation that the property will no longer be marketed. ... I learnt that one the hard way!0
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We are FTB too and at first was very confused about the house buying process and did loads of research online before hand.
One little bit advice I got, which I can hand down to you is KEEP ON PEOPLES BACKS! Constantly phone your solicitor, the estate agent and mortgage broker to get updates, even to the point that your being annoying (my solicitor hates me, but then I'm paying for the service). This keeps your file for being buried at the bottom of the pile.
As they say... "the squeaky wheel gets the oil".0
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