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Everything that can go wrong seems to be
Halle71
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This is just a long rant so don't read it if you don't want to :rotfl:
We started off so positively. We sold our house within two days of putting it on the market and a day later had our offer accepted on the house we put it on the market for.
However, after a few weeks of choosing paint colours and bathrooms things seem to be rapidly going down hill. We're in Tooting, SW London, and things are scorching hot at the moment which makes these problems seem worse......
* Both our sale and purchase have damp - not unmanageable in either case but still a pain, especially to our novice, kiwi FTBs.
* We found out that our kitchen extension built 3 years before we bought the house in 2009 does not have building regs approval and needs an electrical certificate.
* The electrician failed us on two points that both building regs and NICEIC have confirmed are best practice but not mandetory but he will still not sign us off. Negotiations ongoing.
* On Tuesday we almost had to start our mortgage application again because of a minor admin error. This would have put us back 2 months because of MMR. I aged 10 years in 24 hours!
* Our buyers are now having problems with their mortgage (more MMR) and have gone from friendly and communicative to quiet and sullen, even the EA is surprised by their behaviour. They are taking out a massive £540k mortgage so I am now worried it may all fall apart and we will have to start again. At 7%, monthly repyments will be £3800...
* Our vendors have stalled. They are a brother and sister who have fallen out and who are using seperate solicitors. Although we filled in our sellers info 5 weeks ago they still haven't returned theirs. Good news if we have to go back to market, bad if our buyers go ahead. We have got a bargain and as the house is vacant there is no reason for them not to remarket if they think we are too slow.
Phew. Got that off my chest.
It's my seventh property purchase so I know things go wrong but honestly...?!
We started off so positively. We sold our house within two days of putting it on the market and a day later had our offer accepted on the house we put it on the market for.
However, after a few weeks of choosing paint colours and bathrooms things seem to be rapidly going down hill. We're in Tooting, SW London, and things are scorching hot at the moment which makes these problems seem worse......
* Both our sale and purchase have damp - not unmanageable in either case but still a pain, especially to our novice, kiwi FTBs.
* We found out that our kitchen extension built 3 years before we bought the house in 2009 does not have building regs approval and needs an electrical certificate.
* The electrician failed us on two points that both building regs and NICEIC have confirmed are best practice but not mandetory but he will still not sign us off. Negotiations ongoing.
* On Tuesday we almost had to start our mortgage application again because of a minor admin error. This would have put us back 2 months because of MMR. I aged 10 years in 24 hours!
* Our buyers are now having problems with their mortgage (more MMR) and have gone from friendly and communicative to quiet and sullen, even the EA is surprised by their behaviour. They are taking out a massive £540k mortgage so I am now worried it may all fall apart and we will have to start again. At 7%, monthly repyments will be £3800...
* Our vendors have stalled. They are a brother and sister who have fallen out and who are using seperate solicitors. Although we filled in our sellers info 5 weeks ago they still haven't returned theirs. Good news if we have to go back to market, bad if our buyers go ahead. We have got a bargain and as the house is vacant there is no reason for them not to remarket if they think we are too slow.
Phew. Got that off my chest.
It's my seventh property purchase so I know things go wrong but honestly...?!
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