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No contract documents from seller
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Welcome to the wonderful world of house buying !
You need to chase everyone all the time , and you will get fed up with the sound of your own voice and generally think you are losing your marblesVuja De - the feeling you'll be here later0 -
Welcome to the wonderful world of house buying !
You need to chase everyone all the time , and you will get fed up with the sound of your own voice and generally think you are losing your marbles
This is true.
Don't ever trust your own EA or solicitor to do more than half a job. Especially don't trust the vendor/buyer's EA or solicitor!
After the professionals have done their bit, if you want to be 100% sure of everything - you will end up doing all the important chasing, negotiating and research required to finalise the deal...0 -
Seller will only know about how far his purchase has got. He may have been told all kinds of things from estate agents about what is happening above his seller - and usually this information is quite unreliable.
Very common to find my client telling me "Everyone has agreed the [date about 2 weeks away]to complete and we can exchange on [xxx date]." Phone call up chain to do exchange on the supposed exchange day may well bring response from solicitor 3 above that they haven't even had a draft contract on their related purchase so how do they think we are going to complete on [date 2 weeks away].
Buyers and sellers believe what people tell them and so do estate agents!RICHARD WEBSTER
As a retired conveyancing solicitor I believe the information given in the post to be useful assuming any properties concerned are in England/Wales but I accept no liability for it.0 -
Many thanks once again for all the replies!
Received an email yesterday from the EA stating that the contract documents will be sent to our solicitor by the end of this week.
A little progress
TommyI'm not a complete idiot.......some parts are missing0
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