The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

GioSan

ohdarn said:

Woo! We got a phone call to say we'd be ready to exchange next week, yeah!
So that was good news.
Then the universe realised something positive might happen to us, so it hastily attempted to restore the balance. 
Then followed a phone call from our vendors estate agents on Thursday to say our vendor has pulled out of the sale.
We emailed him and apparently he's fallen out with the girlfriend he was living with so it's probably all off.
It's only been nine months of horrendous stress and anxiety, so no real loss 🙄
And since the house was furnished, we've sold all our furniture.
And the kids have started at the school where we were moving to.
And since house prices have gone up, there's nothing in our price range anymore.
And there's no houses near where we were moving to anyway.
Good times.

Things change pretty fast...hope it will settle doen soon for you...property market is booming you'll find something better. easier said than done...but hope is the key.

naomibm

@ohdarn..Im so so sorry. It sounds bloody awful. Take time to mourn a bit...allow tears and anger. X

Natbag

Awwwwww! Thank you so much everyone, so many lovely comments that made me smile and laugh. I am shattered from packing all day, but will come back and respond to everyone individually after the bank holiday promise! 

So glad to see some exchanges and completions, and other progress going on. I’ll keep a check before moving day, and hopefully see more good news for you all.

@naomibm - really hope you are next, keeping my fingers crossed for you. Was hoping you’d be the same day. Not long now. 

@ohdarn - I’m so sorry to hear that, I hope you do find somewhere else very soon. Or that it doesn’t fall through after all. 

Thank you again lovely people in my phone 😘 x

birdmadgirl8

@Natbag Hooorrraayyy - fantastic news. So pleased to hear that your horrible journey is almost over! 
@caz_cardiff87 and @amyr Delighted for both of you too.
I need all this good news to convince me that it could work out in the end. Really sorry to hear this @ohdarn - exact same happened to us a few weeks ago. It needs a weekend of mourning (at least) then hopefully you'll find another. Market has changed, but there's lots of overpricing going on...I reckon it will settle once the SD nonsense is out the window. More hunting for us yesterday and think we're going for another offer - let's hope it's third time lucky 😬

hippocrates1

Natbag said:

Awwwwww! Thank you so much everyone, so many lovely comments that made me smile and laugh. I am shattered from packing all day, but will come back and respond to everyone individually after the bank holiday promise! 

So glad to see some exchanges and completions, and other progress going on. I’ll keep a check before moving day, and hopefully see more good news for you all.

@naomibm - really hope you are next, keeping my fingers crossed for you. Was hoping you’d be the same day. Not long now. 

@ohdarn - I’m so sorry to hear that, I hope you do find somewhere else very soon. Or that it doesn’t fall through after all. 

Thank you again lovely people in my phone 😘 x

Congrats! I’m so excited for you

purplebutterfly

lzzwzz said:

Has anyone purchased white goods/furniture from their vendor? If so, when did you pay? I'm thinking of offering a bank transfer at exchange or completion because I don't really want to get it muddled with mortgage payments (it'll be less than £500).

@lzzwzz probably no help but we've agreed to buy some bits of furniture from our vendors and we're giving them cash.  We have a good relationship with them as they did their own viewings and we also made our offer to them personally (due to the EA being atrocious so we agreed it between ourselves before informing EA).  We've been round a few times and text with updates etc.  We're going to go round when we exchange and give them the money. 

trance_abbey

BountyBlink said:

Will catch up with you lovely lot later as currently in a Lemur enclosure... but our CHAIN IS COMPLETE, and they only have found an unoccupied chain free house!!!! Both cash buyers above searches turnaround in my area 1-2 days... race is on for completion in under 5 weeks! Hahahaha I LOVE a challenge!!! 

Will catch up on everyone else’s news when I’m home later, but needed to come on and tell you all... now I can give the good news to my husband (is it weird I wanted to tell you all first!) 

WOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!

The race is on indeed.... good luck getting to completion!

Josephgousto

New week, I´m hoping lots of us get it over the line now! We have sent our contracts, transfer deeds etc back this weekend and transferred the entire deposit ... and now we wait ...

Natbag

Morning everyone! Hope everyone had a chance to enjoy the sunshine over the bank holiday. We spent most of it packing - my boyfriend seemed to think he didn't have much to sort/pack, but as suspected, 15 years in the same house meant there is stuff hidden EVERYWHERE.    
Just had a call from the solicitors to confirm our bank details for completion on Thursday, very exciting! Just hope we get the keys early, as we have my boyfriend's house to empty, move and unload, then my storage unit to empty, move and unload before we return the van, all in the same day. 
Hope everyone gets some good news this week!

lzzwzz

purplebutterfly said:

lzzwzz said:

Has anyone purchased white goods/furniture from their vendor? If so, when did you pay? I'm thinking of offering a bank transfer at exchange or completion because I don't really want to get it muddled with mortgage payments (it'll be less than £500).

@lzzwzz probably no help but we've agreed to buy some bits of furniture from our vendors and we're giving them cash.  We have a good relationship with them as they did their own viewings and we also made our offer to them personally (due to the EA being atrocious so we agreed it between ourselves before informing EA).  We've been round a few times and text with updates etc.  We're going to go round when we exchange and give them the money. 

Thank you for this I think it'd be easier if I had a similar relationship and could text the vendor as the EA is really slow passing messages across!