The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

BountyBlink

justwanttomove said:

Anyone know how you can get your sellers solicitor to reply to your solicitor with and EA who is not very helpful! I swear she just ignores our solicitor. Our solicitor sent them an email Thursday am saying they needed to reply as a matter of urgency and still nothing! Also does anyone else hate how everything is done by email??

Email the agent, again...

Dear 
Please can you provide an immediate update. Your vendors solicitor is not replying to mine (ours) and we would like to understand by 4pm today why there is no response. 

Many thanks 

Then call then at 16:15hrs if no reply, and if there is no further update request to be put through to branch manager of the estate agency 

CLJ2986

About to call my solicitor for an update to see if we have any hope of handing in our notice today 🤣 I highly doubt it. I still want to go ahead ASAP but my partner said if we paying for this place for another month we should delay getting the keys as long as we need to.... 

BountyBlink

Cookie211 said:

Hi everyone first time posting on this thread, congratulations everyone who have exchanged so far, to be honest I don’t know weather I’m coming or going, we in the middle of buying a house but the house is going through probate, will be a few weeks before probate is granted apparently, anyway I rang solicitor last week and 2 searches have come bk fine and waiting on another 2, my question is are we supposed to chase the solicitors because I don’t hear from mine unless I ring her, are we supposed to have and email bout the searches as I have had nothing, to be honest I haven’t got a clue what we doing as we FTB thanks 

Your solicitor will be probably waiting for everything to come back, before “Reporting”
to you (basically a letter to you pointing you to the search results and enquiry responses. They will also send the contract mortage deed and plan for you to sign, witness and return) 

however, in terms of when to chase, it’s just best to understand timescales of your file so you know when to chase. 

Send an email to your solicitor/conveyancing solicitor something along the lines of: 

dear 
Please can you advise when searches are due back. 

Are we also awaiting reply to enquiries? 

Many thanks 

BountyBlink

We have an update 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 Provisional date of 28 June for completion 
we are sending deposit over to to our solicitor today in readiness 
we will draw down mortgage this Friday, Also to be ready, even if we haven’t exchanged. 

Top of the chain only offered on vacant house 27 May... everyone in chain pushing and we are keeping everything crossed. 

laura0289

BountyBlink said:

We have an update 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 Provisional date of 28 June for completion 
we are sending deposit over to to our solicitor today in readiness 
we will draw down mortgage this Friday, Also to be ready, even if we haven’t exchanged. 

Top of the chain only offered on vacant house 27 May... everyone in chain pushing and we are keeping everything crossed. 

That's fantastic news. I've been following  your updates. You really deserve it. So good that its been done so quickly. 

laura_lau

@BountyBlink thank you!!! I'm literally hoping the same for you, I've just seen your latest update and really hope it happens!! Keeping everything crossed!!!

Sacher50

CLJ2986 said:

About to call my solicitor for an update to see if we have any hope of handing in our notice today 🤣 I highly doubt it. I still want to go ahead ASAP but my partner said if we paying for this place for another month we should delay getting the keys as long as we need to.... 

When you give notice on a tenancy doesn't the notice period start on the day you give notice not on the day you next pay the rent? (i.e. your final rent payment won't be for the full month, just up to the date you leave?)

CLJ2986

Sacher50 said:

CLJ2986 said:

About to call my solicitor for an update to see if we have any hope of handing in our notice today 🤣 I highly doubt it. I still want to go ahead ASAP but my partner said if we paying for this place for another month we should delay getting the keys as long as we need to.... 

When you give notice on a tenancy doesn't the notice period start on the day you give notice not on the day you next pay the rent? (i.e. your final rent payment won't be for the full month, just up to the date you leave?)

Oh gosh I hope that's correct, I was under the impression  that my tenancy runs from 15th of the month to the 14th of the following month and therefore we had to give notice the day before it auto renewed for another month. Will go find my agreement and read more carefully!

badger09

hippocrates1 said:

Tiamatriax said:

hippocrates1 said:

Furniture ordering question.

I visited my friends this weekend and really liked their sofa. It’s currently very cheap at SCS. One of those offer ends tomorrow deals. I haven’t exchanged yet so I don’t want to commit but can I safely assume it will likely be on sale again when I have exchanged? 

We have been ordering furniture from the moment our offer was accepted!

If you have the space, why not buy it 😊 we bought where we found bargains and it actually helped a lot starting earlier as its less panicking now we have exchanged!

I’m in a rental don’t want to scratch the walls. Just praying all those rumours about sofa sales being never ending are true. 

LOL SCS are always advertising sales!

In fact, most of the larger furniture retailers are the same. I started looking for dining room furniture back in January when our (replacement) house purchase looked to be near completion. Most of the national chains were advertising sales which 'must end soon' or 'last few days', but so were some more upmarket local ones. I ended up ordering in April (its finally arriving on Thursday!), when prices were exactly the same.

Guess what, prices are still the same this week, even the extra £50 off per £500 spent (Furniture Village). 

Octothorpe

Joining just to have a moan!!!
Our chain is FTB - Us -Vendor going into chain free house paying cash from sale.

Neither end of chain seems fussed, it's always us pushing for updates!!!
 
And solicitors either end are rubbish, especially vendor's,  luckily ours have been amazing.

Just want some action/motivation from our vendor. We messaged them asking how their purchase was going and they just responded that it was all going well. I want to know specifics lol 🤨🙄

Phew!!! And breathe!