The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

rakoczigabi

Hi , I’ve got 2 buyers enquiries today , which made me a bit worried. 

Boiler service = it’s a new boiler , was installed in June 2018. 

Was supposed to get it serviced next week , which I told my buyers. I’ve got it serviced every year since it’s been installed and all is good with it. 

British Gas just texted me and said they cancelled my appointment due to covid and rebooked it for the end of July. 

Can my buyers ask  me to get it serviced before we exchange ? 

I’ve provided them the installation certificate , gas safety papers and the other service reports already. 

Second questions = fencing. 

We are an end of terrace . When we moved in 3 years ago the rear right hand side fence was only waist height. 

My next door said it’s hers , so she installed a really nice new wooden fence , painted in both side etc. Then every year she even maintains my side, she just fixed up a few of the boards which came loose recently. We are in a good relationship. 

My question is that I’ve told my buyers that it’s next doors fence. Well I’ve seen the plan today and it looks like because we are end of terrace I was supposed to look after that side as well ( as well left hand side and rear ). 

Can I be get into any trouble that I didn’t know it’s my fence ? 

It’s only a 3 year old fence and in immaculate condition. 

I checked al the paperwork’s from when we bought the house and  I couldn’t find one with a little map , which would have explained the fence situation. To be honest my husband was dealing with it mostly back then. 

Thank you 😊 

olgadapolga

rakoczigabi said:

Hi , I’ve got 2 buyers enquiries today , which made me a bit worried. 

Boiler service = it’s a new boiler , was installed in June 2018. 

Was supposed to get it serviced next week , which I told my buyers. I’ve got it serviced every year since it’s been installed and all is good with it. 

British Gas just texted me and said they cancelled my appointment due to covid and rebooked it for the end of July. 

Can my buyers ask  me to get it serviced before we exchange ? 

I’ve provided them the installation certificate , gas safety papers and the other service reports already. 

Second questions = fencing. 

We are an end of terrace . When we moved in 3 years ago the rear right hand side fence was only waist height. 

My next door said it’s hers , so she installed a really nice new wooden fence , painted in both side etc. Then every year she even maintains my side, she just fixed up a few of the boards which came loose recently. We are in a good relationship. 

My question is that I’ve told my buyers that it’s next doors fence. Well I’ve seen the plan today and it looks like because we are end of terrace I was supposed to look after that side as well ( as well left hand side and rear ). 

Can I be get into any trouble that I didn’t know it’s my fence ? 

It’s only a 3 year old fence and in immaculate condition. 

I checked al the paperwork’s from when we bought the house and  I couldn’t find one with a little map , which would have explained the fence situation. To be honest my husband was dealing with it mostly back then. 

Thank you 😊 

There's a difference between boundaries and fences. You might be responsible for maintaining the boundary but that doesn't mean you have to put a fence up (unless stipulated by the house deeds). 

If your neighbour put the fence up and paid for it, then it's hers. Her fence but not her boundary. 

We have shared boundaries with our three neighbours. Two of our neighbours take care of two of the fences. The other neighbour was adamant that the fence between us was put their by the previous owner. We wanted a 6' fence rather than the 3' fence that was there so we put one up. The posts are on our "side" of the boundary line (just) but it's our fence. Not hers.

You could tell your buyers  that, since you completed the forms, you've found out that the boundary is yours, however, the neighbour has put the fence up and maintains it. I don't see why that would be a problem if it's before exchange of contracts.

As for the boiler, your buyers can ask and you can refuse. Or agree. Local gas engineers where I am charge about £50 to service a boiler and can usually do it really quickly (last time was within a week). I know that you have an agreement with BG but if push comes to shove, it may be worth contacting a local engineer.

Drem1992

We're just waiting, and waiting, and waiting! Everytime I get in touch with the solicitor she just says that she's waiting on things from the vendor. I do think the vendor is slow (she's going through a divorce, I think she would have stayed in the house if she could afford it and she seems to just be dragging everything out). From our perspective we could really do with moving end of june/early July at the latest because I start a new job at the start of August and we could do with getting the house a tiny bit sorted before that happens. I texted the vendor yesterday to check she'd got the message from her solicitor about ? completion end of June but not heard anything back from her or our solicitor 😣. What else can I do to speed things up? Her estate agent is purple bricks and they're useless, we're FTB so no EA on our end to chase things up for us.

rakoczigabi

olgadapolga said:

rakoczigabi said:

Hi , I’ve got 2 buyers enquiries today , which made me a bit worried. 

Boiler service = it’s a new boiler , was installed in June 2018. 

Was supposed to get it serviced next week , which I told my buyers. I’ve got it serviced every year since it’s been installed and all is good with it. 

British Gas just texted me and said they cancelled my appointment due to covid and rebooked it for the end of July. 

Can my buyers ask  me to get it serviced before we exchange ? 

I’ve provided them the installation certificate , gas safety papers and the other service reports already. 

Second questions = fencing. 

We are an end of terrace . When we moved in 3 years ago the rear right hand side fence was only waist height. 

My next door said it’s hers , so she installed a really nice new wooden fence , painted in both side etc. Then every year she even maintains my side, she just fixed up a few of the boards which came loose recently. We are in a good relationship. 

My question is that I’ve told my buyers that it’s next doors fence. Well I’ve seen the plan today and it looks like because we are end of terrace I was supposed to look after that side as well ( as well left hand side and rear ). 

Can I be get into any trouble that I didn’t know it’s my fence ? 

It’s only a 3 year old fence and in immaculate condition. 

I checked al the paperwork’s from when we bought the house and  I couldn’t find one with a little map , which would have explained the fence situation. To be honest my husband was dealing with it mostly back then. 

Thank you 😊 

There's a difference between boundaries and fences. You might be responsible for maintaining the boundary but that doesn't mean you have to put a fence up (unless stipulated by the house deeds). 

If your neighbour put the fence up and paid for it, then it's hers. Her fence but not her boundary. 

We have shared boundaries with our three neighbours. Two of our neighbours take care of two of the fences. The other neighbour was adamant that the fence between us was put their by the previous owner. We wanted a 6' fence rather than the 3' fence that was there so we put one up. The posts are on our "side" of the boundary line (just) but it's our fence. Not hers.

You could tell your buyers  that, since you completed the forms, you've found out that the boundary is yours, however, the neighbour has put the fence up and maintains it. I don't see why that would be a problem if it's before exchange of contracts.

As for the boiler, your buyers can ask and you can refuse. Or agree. Local gas engineers where I am charge about £50 to service a boiler and can usually do it really quickly (last time was within a week). I know that you have an agreement with BG but if push comes to shove, it may be worth contacting a local engineer.

Thank you I really appreciate it. 

That’s not a lot of money for the boiler service then. I’ll keep that in mind and see what my buyers are coming back with. Worst case scenario I’ll just use a local company then

Here’s that little map about the property , and all 3 fences at the rear has that little “T”. 

But as I said my neighbour said the one between us is hers and she got it done 3 years ago and we never questioned it haha. 

It’s a new fence so hopefully my buyers are okay with that , it’s all secure and strong , and in good condition. 

Also both of us had a decking in the rear garden and this fence sits between them. 

Probably I’m worrying about nothing. It’s just all so confusing. Specially that she never said to me that I have to repair  the fence when we moved in. 

Caz_Mnaz

NAC2809 said:

All set for tomorrow - simultaneous exchange and completion expected. Confirmed with my solicitor today that they have my mortgage funds and they do. She says we’re ready. 

I’m at the bottom of the chain, the middle are expected to receive their mortgage funds tomorrow and as far as I’m aware the top has them. 

So I’m frantically packing in preparation. 

Out of interest - does the entire chain have to complete for me to get my keys?
Or do I complete, then the vendors wait for their completion? I have images of them sat in a van waiting while I’m steadily moving things in haha. 

It’s been a hell of a 15 weeks to get to this point 
Fingers crossed for everyone tomorrow! 

You get the keys as soon as moneys have been received on your purchase 😊 then it's technically yours.... But in my contract I have until 12 to vacate so I'm hoping my buyer doesn't rock up at 10 expecting me to be all cleared (though I will aim to be out ASAP!) 

jenni_fer

If we are expecting to have exchanged by the end of the month, should we have seen sight of a contract by now??
Positive news from our sellers today, they intend to have moved out a few days before completion and left the keys with their solictor (agent is Yopa so no office) Our buyers are in rented so it's just us to be out of somewhere and in on the same day....hoping that mean's it'll be relatively simple!
(which of course means it'll all fall apart!)

FtbEmz

Good news this morning! Our solicitor emailed first thing to say contracts and all other paperwork will ready for us to collect this afternoon so we’ll have the weekend to go through it all and return them Monday. Hoping to exchange and complete first/second week of June. We have no chain and the property we’re buying is empty so fingers crossed all goes smoothly. Here’s hoping good news for everyone.

ZSC

ZSC said:

ZSC said:

Going to eventually post on this thread after being a long-time lurker! 

I’ll not bore anyone with the previous house we tried to buy where the chain collapsed 3 times and now we are living at parents 😩

26/3 - offer on property accepted
29/3 - mortgage application submitted with Virgin 
29/3 - searches submitted 
29/3 - homebuyers survey booked for 28th April
07/4 - all searches back
08/4 - mortgage offer received 

Now we are just waiting on the draft contract from our sellers so we can get going with all the enquiries which I hope can be done pretty quickly if everything looks ok!

Thought I would add my update on here since everyone else has been so helpful 

27/04 Draft contract received 
28/04 Homebuyers survey 
29/04 Report received - a few things on there but happy to resolve ourselves 
07/05 First lot of enquiries raised with sellers solicitor - however no report on title yet due to it being an unregistered property and title hasn’t been sent to solicitor yet. All other reports have been sent (minus anything from enquiries!) 

So now I guess it is just a wait to see how quickly the sellers solicitor responds to mine! Hoping for an early June completion but not overly optimistic!

Good luck to everyone hoping to complete today!! Following you all closely keeping my fingers crossed! 

We sent all of our signed docs back last week, but waiting for responses to enquiries. Really hoping we get them next week so we can still aim for the 4th June... tight, but fingers crossed!

GioSan

Good news to start the day! @FtbEmz well done. We are very close to reaching this state, just waiting for completion certificates on some extention to come through, council did visit the property yesterday, so fingers crossed, will come to know today!

Natbag

Good luck @NAC2809 - hopefully you'll have the keys and will be in your new home very soon!
@FtbEmz - great news, hopefully you won't be far off exchange and completion!
@n0438 - hope you exchange today, fingers crossed for you!

My update, I sent a message to my vendor yesterday, as I said I'd keep him updated and wanted to get in there first before he messaged me wondering why we hadn't exchanged yet. He seems much more positive, and said they would be vacating the property 2 days before completion, so that will be a big help. My boyfriend's buyers have already requested to change the phone line over and have insured the house, so they are super keen!
Nothing else will happen today seeing as my solicitors is on her jollies, yet again. Really hoping to exchange early next week but I have no idea if everything is prepared and ready, or if she has agreed a date to do it with the other solicitors. Sigh. Still wondering if we will ever get there!