The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

BountyBlink

Caz_Mnaz said:

Hahaha I've done that beforehand bountyblink!! I'm just cross that the date agreed is meant to work for everyone yet the 11th doesn't work for me in the slightest 😂🤦‍♀️

Oh yes I forgot!!!! Turn the screws for 4th June with your buyer... 

BountyBlink

Natbag said:

My update today. Oh wait, there isn't one. Didn't hear a peep from my solicitor yesterday. Not. A. Word. Raging.
Rang first thing this morning, got the usual 'oh, she's on the phone, we'll send her an email to tell her to call you'. As if I haven't already done that myself several times, hence why I am calling. Sigh. It's not going to bloody happen is it? Not this side of the bank holiday, not ever at this rate. It has been 10 days since we agreed the completion date now. 10 days. We should have exchanged last week and yet here we still are. Every single bit of this process has taken ten times as long as it should/could have. I. AM. DONE.

Pull out the big guns. Get your agent (manager if your agent is a bit crap) to get on the phone with your solicitor within the hour. You can’t really lose it with your solicitor but you can with your agent. They should be chasing this now and getting you to exchange today.  

Lemonyrose13

Congratulations to all those that have finally managed to exchange/complete over the past week or so! 

Our solicitor was on holiday last week and doesn't work Thursday's. Clearly I was too optimistic to hope that I would get an update early this week! She's normally so good at updating us.

 The last of our searches were due back 11th May but our solicitor was still waiting on them when she finished before her week off on 14th May. Surely these have been received by now?!

Enquiries were raised with our vendor 3 weeks ago (they're normally pretty good at returning things as they want a quick sale) so I was also hoping to hear back on this.

I suppose it's my fault for trying to be nice to our solicitor and give her a couple of days to catch up from her time off before chasing her for an update but she's been so helpful I thought it was only fair. More fool me I guess!

As far as I'm aware, these are the only things left outstanding and once they're resolved we can start talking dates 🤞🏻 just want to get moved in now!

Natbag

Caz_Mnaz said:

My solicitor got my redemption statement within hours that's so odd! 

It's because the fax failed to arrive/print for whatever reason. But no-one realised or chased it up. Hence we are now onto day 3 of waiting for said fax. I've never known incompetency like it. 
Who even is still using fax anyway?!

laura_lau

@Natbag it's absolutely crazy you have to project manage them, but yes, they don't seem to be able to progress anything on their own. I really hope you are able to complete next week! I do find it funny that the solicitors take up the role of "conveyancer" in these processes, as in my case, your case, and most cases I've read about in this thread, they are not even able to "convey" a message to their clients!!!!
I haven't heard anything back form my solicitor yet, after I wrote her yesterday to say she should have everything she needs and to please suggest the dates I've proposed for agreement!

BountyBlink

Lemonyrose13 said:

Congratulations to all those that have finally managed to exchange/complete over the past week or so! 

Our solicitor was on holiday last week and doesn't work Thursday's. Clearly I was too optimistic to hope that I would get an update early this week! She's normally so good at updating us.

 The last of our searches were due back 11th May but our solicitor was still waiting on them when she finished before her week off on 14th May. Surely these have been received by now?!

Enquiries were raised with our vendor 3 weeks ago (they're normally pretty good at returning things as they want a quick sale) so I was also hoping to hear back on this.

I suppose it's my fault for trying to be nice to our solicitor and give her a couple of days to catch up from her time off before chasing her for an update but she's been so helpful I thought it was only fair. More fool me I guess!

As far as I'm aware, these are the only things left outstanding and once they're resolved we can start talking dates 🤞🏻 just want to get moved in now!

Call your local authority and ask for land charges department. Ask when they carried out searches on the purchase property. You don’t have to give any personal details it’s public information like planning applications. Or look on LA website there should be an email for them and just email them asking the same. Then with that information you can fire off an email to your solicitors conforming when searches were carried out and returned. I do this for any property I’m buying, selling and all properties in the chain as I always find out what properties are in the chain... good luck you will get there 

BountyBlink

Natbag said:

Caz_Mnaz said:

My solicitor got my redemption statement within hours that's so odd! 

It's because the fax failed to arrive/print for whatever reason. But no-one realised or chased it up. Hence we are now onto day 3 of waiting for said fax. I've never known incompetency like it. 
Who even is still using fax anyway?!

Can you get onto your lender? 

Natbag

BountyBlink said:

Natbag said:

Caz_Mnaz said:

My solicitor got my redemption statement within hours that's so odd! 

It's because the fax failed to arrive/print for whatever reason. But no-one realised or chased it up. Hence we are now onto day 3 of waiting for said fax. I've never known incompetency like it. 
Who even is still using fax anyway?!

Can you get onto your lender? 

I've sent them a message on Twitter while I'm on work calls, but yes, I think I will be calling them next. Total joke. No idea what I am paying these idiots thousands of pounds for when between my ex and I we have had to do a lot of the work ourselves.

BountyBlink

Natbag said:

BountyBlink said:

Natbag said:

Caz_Mnaz said:

My solicitor got my redemption statement within hours that's so odd! 

It's because the fax failed to arrive/print for whatever reason. But no-one realised or chased it up. Hence we are now onto day 3 of waiting for said fax. I've never known incompetency like it. 
Who even is still using fax anyway?!

Can you get onto your lender? 

I've sent them a message on Twitter while I'm on work calls, but yes, I think I will be calling them next. Total joke. No idea what I am paying these idiots thousands of pounds for when between my ex and I we have had to do a lot of the work ourselves.

Oh I know! It’s like pulling teeth isn’t it?! I hope you get a satisfactory reply this morning! 

Caz_Mnaz

BountyBlink said:

Caz_Mnaz said:

Hahaha I've done that beforehand bountyblink!! I'm just cross that the date agreed is meant to work for everyone yet the 11th doesn't work for me in the slightest 😂🤦‍♀️

Oh yes I forgot!!!! Turn the screws for 4th June with your buyer... 

Bottom of chain relocating from South to North and cannot do any other day. Mortgage lender have agreed to extend to cover 11th....nothing I can do but quietly seethe and hope my seller doesn't pull out.