The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

ss2020jd

purplebutterfly said:

Hi all.  I have been following all your stories since I offered on my house 12 weeks ago and I just quickly needed to vent! 

We exchanged last Thursday for completion tomorrow.  No chain, we're FTB moving from rented and our sellers are moving to a vacant retirement lodge.

They used an online EA and we've been round to the house multiple times to drink tea in the garden with them.  They're lovely people but incredibly naive and don't seem to know what is going on.  

Last night, at 9pm, I got a text from them saying they hope to have moved all their stuff by tomorrow night and should they drop the keys off when they've finished!  

I explained that I had planned to come and get the keys as soon as possible after we receive the completion phone call - even though we're not moving furniture in for another few days. 

At 11.30pm last night they posted on a local Facebook page asking if anyone with a van was free to do a house removal     so they haven't even booked one! 

I'm being fairly sanguine about it all because a few hours won't make a difference in the long run but my husband has visions of us helping them load beds into a van at 2am 


Anyway, CONGRATULATIONS to everyone exchanging and completing this week and I am sending positive vibes out to everyone still stuck in conveyancing limbo. 

It’s great you have such a lovely relationship with your buyers @purplebutterfly and that you know exactly what’s going on, even if it’s not what you were expecting to find out! 

I hope all goes well for a smooth completion tomorrow without having to do any removals for your vendors! 

mortgage_noob

E_D_FTB said:

mortgage_noob said:

Hi everyone, 

buying my first home so just wondering what is left to do

• Mortage offer received, signed and returned to solicitor
• Suvery done
• environmental and local searches back
• our solicitor sent enquiries on the 1st July but unfortunately has not responded to emails from us asking if the responses were received - Is it usually the case that they take this long?

No chain and we'd like to move as soon as possible so keen to know if we can think about talking dates soon?

Hi @mortgage_noob, welcome! We're also FTB at about the same stage as you - waiting on some enquiries, although they were only send on 22nd. Sadly, enquiries can take a while depending on the seller's solicitor and the seller themselves being speedy or not. But your solicitor should be chasing and certainly shouldn't be ignoring your emails. I would call if I were you, much harder for them to ignore.

In terms of talking dates, why not? Worst case scenario your proposed dates don't work, but I think it's good to start aiming for a date to keep everything moving. But I would go to the EA for that, rather than your solicitor if you're struggling with responses from your solicitor.

Our solicitor has been awful tbh, when we do call her she's extremely curt and the calls don't last more than a minute. She says things to get us to leave her alone but then doesn't action anything....

Once we called to ask her if she had received anything from the vendor (after emailing to no responses) and she said no, called the EA and found out she'd had the draft contracts for over 3 weeks!

We're not hassly people, maybe 1 email a week but it is difficult sending documents into a blackhole and wondering whats happening.

MayMark

Day 8 of trying to exchange and as I’ve heard nothing I’m assuming it has not happened!!! It’s becoming such a stressful situation now not sure how much more I can cope with. Everyday we get the update in the evening to say tomorrow will be the day and it never is, this chain of 5 is an absolute nightmare! Everyday it’s a different reason!

mjane93

Just got the call that we’ve exchanged! Completion won’t be until 6 September but still happy none the less. 

Now to unclench my jaw and pour a glass of wine. 

Best of luck and fingers crossed for everyone waiting to exchange 🤞🏽

mortgage_noob

mortgage_noob said:

E_D_FTB said:

mortgage_noob said:

Hi everyone, 

buying my first home so just wondering what is left to do

• Mortage offer received, signed and returned to solicitor
• Suvery done
• environmental and local searches back
• our solicitor sent enquiries on the 1st July but unfortunately has not responded to emails from us asking if the responses were received - Is it usually the case that they take this long?

No chain and we'd like to move as soon as possible so keen to know if we can think about talking dates soon?

Hi @mortgage_noob, welcome! We're also FTB at about the same stage as you - waiting on some enquiries, although they were only send on 22nd. Sadly, enquiries can take a while depending on the seller's solicitor and the seller themselves being speedy or not. But your solicitor should be chasing and certainly shouldn't be ignoring your emails. I would call if I were you, much harder for them to ignore.

In terms of talking dates, why not? Worst case scenario your proposed dates don't work, but I think it's good to start aiming for a date to keep everything moving. But I would go to the EA for that, rather than your solicitor if you're struggling with responses from your solicitor.

Our solicitor has been awful tbh, when we do call her she's extremely curt and the calls don't last more than a minute. She says things to get us to leave her alone but then doesn't action anything....

Once we called to ask her if she had received anything from the vendor (after emailing to no responses) and she said no, called the EA and found out she'd had the draft contracts for over 3 weeks!

We're not hassly people, maybe 1 email a week but it is difficult sending documents into a blackhole and wondering whats happening.

Just found out the seller's solicitor respond to our enquiries on the 9th July.... that's almost 3 weeks ago and our solicitor hasn't even bothered to let us know if she's received responses. 

So frustrated

mjane93

@mortgage_noob our sellers responses to enquires we’re with our solicitor for 4 weeks before they reviewed and reported to us. I chased 3 times and EA chased as well. So just keep on chasing! 

geostar37

MayMark said:

Day 8 of trying to exchange and as I’ve heard nothing I’m assuming it has not happened!!! It’s becoming such a stressful situation now not sure how much more I can cope with. Everyday we get the update in the evening to say tomorrow will be the day and it never is, this chain of 5 is an absolute nightmare! Everyday it’s a different reason!

Day 8?! You poor thing! You have my utmost sympathies.

Nothing new here - our solicitor has confirmed that there is a ‘missing contract’ at the bottom of the chain. Our buyers have told us they have booked removals for the proposed completion date - at the same time as our solicitor has told us if we don’t exchange tomorrow then we can’t do that date. . . 

Nobody seems to know if the buyer or solicitor is at fault. All I know is if I was this incompetent I’d have been sacked a long time ago! 

geostar37

mjane93 said:

Just got the call that we’ve exchanged! Completion won’t be until 6 September but still happy none the less. 

Now to unclench my jaw and pour a glass of wine. 

Best of luck and fingers crossed for everyone waiting to exchange 🤞🏽

Great news! Enjoy the wine 🍷 

C_N_

Inching ever closer here. Going to the Solicitors office tomorrow to sign everything. They've got our deposit funds from our LISA so after that we are good to go. Finally a light at the end of the tunnel. 

ss2020jd

MayMark said:

Day 8 of trying to exchange and as I’ve heard nothing I’m assuming it has not happened!!! It’s becoming such a stressful situation now not sure how much more I can cope with. Everyday we get the update in the evening to say tomorrow will be the day and it never is, this chain of 5 is an absolute nightmare! Everyday it’s a different reason!

Oh no this sounds terrible! The stress of waiting is awful. 

So presuming you don’t have any more informations as to what’s really causing the delay. 

Tomorrow is still a weekday so you have a chance there. Are you being asked to give authority to exchange to your solicitor every morning? I would try to call or email first thing to give this but also to find out exactly what is happening! 

Really hoping tomorrow is the day. 🤞