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Offer accepted - Can we delay?
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moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »Whoops...and it does look like you put your place up for sale/looked for new place too soon.
So, two choices then:
1. Forget about it all for a few months
OR
2. If a buyer turns up for your existing place before you are ready for them to do so (ie your OH has completed their probation period in this job) then be prepared to move out, because its not fair to keep a buyer waiting like that.
Sorry but this is just terrible advice. Firstly, the OP should be able to find a lender who will take his/her situation into consideration (the underwriters are humans after all), and secondly, if the buyer has to wait then so be it - they can then choose whether or not they want to pull out.0 -
Santander don't mind about probation periods, either. I changed jobs mid-purchase, with the new one having a 3 month probation and they didn't care once I'd started my new job.0
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My husband started a new job just before we completed, his probation period is five years(!), our lender (BoI) didn't care.0
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