Completed but no home

jojo9239

Hi so we sold our home and days before our purchase fell though as we had a good offer for our sale we went ahead and have now moved in with mum. We have offered on another house and going through motions again.
If it was you would you find a ensuite room on spare room or stay with family bearing in mind there are now 6 adults at my mums and one bathroom just that spare room is a min of 3 months

anselld

Only you know your family and your Mums house so it is Impossible to comment. All I would say is that if you are starting again from scratch even without a property to sell three months would not be an unreasonable estimate to completion.

good_advice

I would treat my mum with extra loving care - if I had a mum.
Family first is my motto.
Be extra helpfull for the roof over your head.

jojo9239

good_advice wrote: »

I would treat my mum with extra loving care - if I had a mum.
Family first is my motto.
Be extra helpfull for the roof over your head.

Most definitely I love my mum and grateful for the offer

ellie27

If it was just me with no kids I would stay where you are. We done that for 2 months a while back, only then a house with 4 adults and 1 bathroom and it was fine, time went by quickly.

Now, with 2 young kids we would rent, which we did for 6 months between our sale and purchase.

It could take you longer than 3 months to buy....you might find it ends up being 7 months eg purchase falling through, just nothing you like on the market etc over winter...... just be prepared! Costs in rent could build up.

Person_one

Where's all your furniture and stuff?

Bonfire_Bride

If our purchase fell through, then we have plans already in place to move in with my mother. She offered. We have two young sons (both under 3) and although it would be chaos...I can imagine us looking back on the time with smiles.

duchy

Why does it have to be one of those two choices only. There are other shorter term renting options , many Airbnb hosts will do weekly or monthly for example.

How far along the process are you though. Three months isn't an unusual timescale with a chain involved.

duchy

Bonfire_Bride wrote: »

If our purchase fell through, then we have plans already in place to move in with my mother. She offered. We have two young sons (both under 3) and although it would be chaos...I can imagine us looking back on the time with smiles.

Ah but would she ?....

Bonfire_Bride

duchy wrote: »

Ah but would she ?....

My mam and I are incredibly close. She has our children when I go to work and there is not a day goes by without us talking. She has even suggested us moving in permanently with a view to build a double extension so that we all fit comfortably..


So yes, she would.

phoebe1989seb

A few years back this happened to us, OP....well, we didn't exactly lose our onward purchase, but complications meant it would be a minimum of six weeks after completing on our sale that we finally got to exchange on our new house.

My parents invited us to stay with them - the contents of our four bed house went into storage with the removal co - for as long as it took. DS was seven. He had the room he always used when staying at his grandparents and my parents offered us their bedroom, with them moving into a spare room - which TBH I now can't believe we accepted

It was six weeks of hell for all except DS, as my mum was very fussy about people - even me, her daughter - using her kitchen and she had very [STRIKE]odd[/STRIKE] set ways of doing things. Due to our daily routines - work/school, plus my parents had recently retired and were very faddy eaters - being different we tended to eat at different times so there were two lots of meals being prepared/cooked.

Were we doing this now I would do it totally differently and would find a way to stay anywhere other than with my family!

We've previously found house(s) and completed on the purchase within 6-8 weeks, so it may not be as long as three months, although agree that tends to be the average......