The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

JCarmello

hg1994 said:

Hi everyone, long-time lurker here. Decided to post to hopefully relieve some of the stress I'm feeling.

I'm FTB and my purchase should actually be pretty simple. Chain-free, currently unoccupied ex-rental.

Offer accepted 19/7
Solicitor instructed 20/7
Survey done 20/7
Memo of sale received 20/7
Mortgage offer received 28/7
Draft contract pack received 13/8
Searches sent 16/8
Environmental and water searches received 24/8
Initial enquiries sent 24/8

The survey brought up quite a few issues which were then confirmed by the seller getting some tradespeople in, eg serious problems with the roof. Without asking me about it, they've started to get works done at their own expense (I would have actually been willing to pay a proportion of this cost but they never asked). Now, it seems that according to the EA they are getting quite stressed and he is fearful that if I "ask much more of them" they will pull out. I'm slightly confused about this because I didn't ask for anything from them except for the survey issues to be looked into. So, I'm trying to tread gently but there are still lots of questions I have about exactly what is being done (and therefore what I will need to budget for myself).

I'm trying to stay positive because they seem like a really motivated seller and I've no real reason to beieve they will pull out when we have come this far. I do just live in constant fear of being gazumped, or the seller deciding its all too much. I really hope they would talk to me before making that decision, because I might be able to help reduce their stress a bit, I don't know.

Anyway, I'm distracting myself with carpet and paint samples and wondering when will be too late to ask for annual leave from work. I don't know how you guys manage with this dragging on for months, I'm already losing too much sleep.

Have you talked to the EA much?
Might be no harm. Read on here for very long and you'll see how anxious house sellers are. So it might be worth (even just on the human level) communicating through the EA in such a way that might allieve any anxiety. You need to do your check etc through solicitor but you're still keen as mustard etc.

Cookie211

Hi everyone would just like to say I love my new house it’s amazing, I would just like to say thank u to u all who read my rants, give me advice and helped me along the way as I don’t think I would of done it without u lot, I hope u all get your homes real soon and stay positive it will happen, I never thought it would happen for us but it did, good luck everyone xxx

Rincewindcl

Cookie211 said:

Hi everyone would just like to say I love my new house it’s amazing, I would just like to say thank u to u all who read my rants, give me advice and helped me along the way as I don’t think I would of done it without u lot, I hope u all get your homes real soon and stay positive it will happen, I never thought it would happen for us but it did, good luck everyone xxx

Congrats Cookie. Hope you are happy in your new home

WorriedKirkels

Cookie211 said:

Hi everyone would just like to say I love my new house it’s amazing, I would just like to say thank u to u all who read my rants, give me advice and helped me along the way as I don’t think I would of done it without u lot, I hope u all get your homes real soon and stay positive it will happen, I never thought it would happen for us but it did, good luck everyone xxx

Congratulations 🥳 and glad it all worked out in the end 😁 x

cheeky-peach

We have an appointment progession person who is due to chase up our purchase today - shall I ask her if she can give them a call instead of firing off an email and hoping for the best? I have always found a phone call can be more helpful. How do I put this politely? Haha

tanpopo

Cookie211 said:

Just had a call from EA to come and get the keys 🔑 🥳🥳🥳 so happy 😁 

Fabulous news!! Enjoy your new home 

E_D_FTB

Cookie211 said:

Hi everyone would just like to say I love my new house it’s amazing, I would just like to say thank u to u all who read my rants, give me advice and helped me along the way as I don’t think I would of done it without u lot, I hope u all get your homes real soon and stay positive it will happen, I never thought it would happen for us but it did, good luck everyone xxx

So happy for you! Enjoy your new home - fingers crossed a lot of us will be in the same position very soon!

E_D_FTB

cheeky-peach said:

We have an appointment progession person who is due to chase up our purchase today - shall I ask her if she can give them a call instead of firing off an email and hoping for the best? I have always found a phone call can be more helpful. How do I put this politely? Haha

Never hurts to ask - I'd just say it like that, that you've found calls tend to get better and more helpful responses.

mortgage_noob

How's everyone doing - anyone aiming to complete on the 10th made progress?

We haven't exchanged yet and our solicitor doesn't seem to have applied for the HTB ISA or given us any info about transfer of funds. 

HopeAndDriftWood

Morning all. 

Ah Cookie, that's great to hear, I'm so pleased you're happy! 

No movement that we're aware of here. Buyer should have had his revaluation yesterday, he had intended to then book his survey here but we've heard nothing yet, and the 3rd person in the chain has threatened to pull out due to slow progress. I'm with them, our buyer has been ridiculously slow and is still awaiting their mortgage offer, and I can't see us getting done in time at this rate... and they've been waiting four months longer than us, and the people previously buying the house we're looking at pulled out. 

I'm feeling a bit lost on what I can do, really. The solicitors are waiting for them to do something... the Estate Agent seems to have got rather irate with us chasing last week (once a week!) so I don't think they'd be overly helpful.