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What if completion doesn't happen on due day

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  • davidjcb1
    davidjcb1 Posts: 39 Forumite
    Ye I will put insurance in place from day before my completion date and will transfer my deposit this week coming

    I will possibly tell my solicitor and the estate agent that if they don't set a date to exchange contracts by end of this working week coming that I may pull out.
  • davidjcb1
    davidjcb1 Posts: 39 Forumite
    The mortgage offer runs for a good while so no worries on that front.

    I just want the date of exchange of contracts nailed down now, and a date within March detailed as completion, doesn't need to be the 16th for any reason but it's the date chosen and I will rather stick to it, plenty away from Easter.
  • Angie_B
    Angie_B Posts: 272 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper
    davidjcb1 wrote: »
    Ye I will put insurance in place from day before my completion date and will transfer my deposit this week coming

    You need insurance from the day you exchange, not a day before you complete. If the house burns down two days before you complete you are still legally bound to buy what is now a pile of burned rubble with no insurance to go to for re-build costs. Not worth the risk.
    davidjcb1 wrote: »
    I will possibly tell my solicitor and the estate agent that if they don't set a date to exchange contracts by end of this working week coming that I may pull out.
    If you are not prepared to follow through on that threat, then there is very little point in making it...
  • davidjcb1
    davidjcb1 Posts: 39 Forumite
    I have no problem following through with a threat, I do not need this house as such.

    Fair point, will arrange cover this week
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