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The NEW waiting to exchange thread...
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I have no idea how long it takes to press a button and make a phone call to confirm that funding has arrived... apparently its 2 days!HopeAndDriftWood said:
Aarrgghh how long can this take?! I'm frustrated for you; and I'm not involved! I really hope someone updates you soon, and that it happens today 🤞MrsBrush said:Well, it hasn't happened yet... just asked for an update and whether I need to get back onto my seller's EA yet again?
It can only be one of two things now - either the FTB's mortgage funds being returned hasn't yet been confirmed so cant be re-requested, or PPL are not answering their phones. Neither would surprise me at this point.
Rapidly running out of week again, and by tomorrow evening we will be back to the same situation as last week, where I trust the legal firms in this chain even less than I did last week (which was not at all then, worse now!), we still haven't exchanged contracts (and therefore still cant confirm everything that I couldn't confirm last week) and we are supposed to complete on Monday. I still refuse to do a simultaneous exchange and completion, which we had said right from day 1 so should not be a surprise, so fully expecting the next thing will be another delay while dates are rearranged again for the 3rd time. The whole thing is beyond a farce, and I cant tell you how stressed, upset and p**d off I am right now.
And it seems there is absolutely nothing we can do.
I hope that the couple of people on these boards who got upset a few months ago about me complaining about my vendor's factory farm conveyancers being worse than useless are still able to defend what has been going on here - the default for these firms seems to be to blame everyone else and not take any responsibility. Even by their standards of incompetence this chain has to be amongst the worst! And yes, I am upset, I am angry but I am also incredibly disappointed that so-called legal professionals can have so little understanding of the havoc they are causing in people's lives, it is legalised manipulation and psychologically damaging in some cases and they just don't seem to care.1 -
Our vendor's solicitors are still sitting on the enquiries. We already know they have all the answers in their inbox. This is so frustrating. No amount of chasing with the EA and our solicitor is doing anything and now the vendor is chasing them but they just don't seem bothered to answer.0
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And so you should be!!!MrsBrush said:And yes, I am upset, I am angry but I am also incredibly disappointed that so-called legal professionals can have so little understanding of the havoc they are causing in people's lives, it is legalised manipulation and psychologically damaging in some cases and they just don't seem to care!!!!!! off that is and angry.
I think that at every solicitors they should employ at least one ‘normal’ person (Thats had experience of being mucked about by Sol’s) who can oversee each sale and kick them up the !!!!!! when they are stalling!They seem to forget (Or just don’t care) that these actions or lack of them cause havoc in people lives!!1 -
@mrsbrush I can't imagine how angry and frustrated you must be. To have got all through the mud of conveyancing to the point of exchange just for the simplest of hurdles to be the most difficult to get over.
I have everything crossed for you not to have to go back to the drawing board for a second time 🤞🤞🤞🤞1 -
I honestly don't know how some solicitors get away with it!Duck345 said:Our vendor's solicitors are still sitting on the enquiries. We already know they have all the answers in their inbox. This is so frustrating. No amount of chasing with the EA and our solicitor is doing anything and now the vendor is chasing them but they just don't seem bothered to answer.1 -
I feel for you I really do it’s so frustrating! I maybe missed you explain earlier but why do you not want to exchange and complete at the same time?MrsBrush said:
I have no idea how long it takes to press a button and make a phone call to confirm that funding has arrived... apparently its 2 days!HopeAndDriftWood said:
Aarrgghh how long can this take?! I'm frustrated for you; and I'm not involved! I really hope someone updates you soon, and that it happens today 🤞MrsBrush said:Well, it hasn't happened yet... just asked for an update and whether I need to get back onto my seller's EA yet again?
It can only be one of two things now - either the FTB's mortgage funds being returned hasn't yet been confirmed so cant be re-requested, or PPL are not answering their phones. Neither would surprise me at this point.
Rapidly running out of week again, and by tomorrow evening we will be back to the same situation as last week, where I trust the legal firms in this chain even less than I did last week (which was not at all then, worse now!), we still haven't exchanged contracts (and therefore still cant confirm everything that I couldn't confirm last week) and we are supposed to complete on Monday. I still refuse to do a simultaneous exchange and completion, which we had said right from day 1 so should not be a surprise, so fully expecting the next thing will be another delay while dates are rearranged again for the 3rd time. The whole thing is beyond a farce, and I cant tell you how stressed, upset and p**d off I am right now.
And it seems there is absolutely nothing we can do.
I hope that the couple of people on these boards who got upset a few months ago about me complaining about my vendor's factory farm conveyancers being worse than useless are still able to defend what has been going on here - the default for these firms seems to be to blame everyone else and not take any responsibility. Even by their standards of incompetence this chain has to be amongst the worst! And yes, I am upset, I am angry but I am also incredibly disappointed that so-called legal professionals can have so little understanding of the havoc they are causing in people's lives, it is legalised manipulation and psychologically damaging in some cases and they just don't seem to care.0 -
Basically because I no longer trust a couple of the conveyancers in the chain to do what they are supposed to do when instructed. We started trying to exchange contracts on 1st October, and it has failed every day so far (8 days and counting), so absolutely no reason to believe that they can get their acts together long enough to pull a simultaneous exchange and completion off. When you factor in that if we agree to this, it is at our own risk of additional storage. accommodation and removal cost if it goes pear shaped, which my solicitor is also advising against, you can see my reluctance.Newdrake88 said:
I feel for you I really do it’s so frustrating! I maybe missed you explain earlier but why do you not want to exchange and complete at the same time?MrsBrush said:
I have no idea how long it takes to press a button and make a phone call to confirm that funding has arrived... apparently its 2 days!HopeAndDriftWood said:
Aarrgghh how long can this take?! I'm frustrated for you; and I'm not involved! I really hope someone updates you soon, and that it happens today 🤞MrsBrush said:Well, it hasn't happened yet... just asked for an update and whether I need to get back onto my seller's EA yet again?
It can only be one of two things now - either the FTB's mortgage funds being returned hasn't yet been confirmed so cant be re-requested, or PPL are not answering their phones. Neither would surprise me at this point.
Rapidly running out of week again, and by tomorrow evening we will be back to the same situation as last week, where I trust the legal firms in this chain even less than I did last week (which was not at all then, worse now!), we still haven't exchanged contracts (and therefore still cant confirm everything that I couldn't confirm last week) and we are supposed to complete on Monday. I still refuse to do a simultaneous exchange and completion, which we had said right from day 1 so should not be a surprise, so fully expecting the next thing will be another delay while dates are rearranged again for the 3rd time. The whole thing is beyond a farce, and I cant tell you how stressed, upset and p**d off I am right now.
And it seems there is absolutely nothing we can do.
I hope that the couple of people on these boards who got upset a few months ago about me complaining about my vendor's factory farm conveyancers being worse than useless are still able to defend what has been going on here - the default for these firms seems to be to blame everyone else and not take any responsibility. Even by their standards of incompetence this chain has to be amongst the worst! And yes, I am upset, I am angry but I am also incredibly disappointed that so-called legal professionals can have so little understanding of the havoc they are causing in people's lives, it is legalised manipulation and psychologically damaging in some cases and they just don't seem to care.
We also are unable to confirm our removers until exchange, which is a pain because we are unable to do it ourselves - so we need exchange to happen to be able to book a company who can move us! It has been mad here, and the removers are still crazy busy.
And today was supposed to be moving day, so as you can imagine i am extremely fed up!0 -
Ahh right that makes sense, I think I would be the same if I’m honest, have they said what the hold up is to exchange or just not doing it?MrsBrush said:
Basically because I no longer trust a couple of the conveyancers in the chain to do what they are supposed to do when instructed. We started trying to exchange contracts on 1st October, and it has failed every day so far (8 days and counting), so absolutely no reason to believe that they can get their acts together long enough to pull a simultaneous exchange and completion off. When you factor in that if we agree to this, it is at our own risk of additional storage. accommodation and removal cost if it goes pear shaped, which my solicitor is also advising against, you can see my reluctance.Newdrake88 said:
I feel for you I really do it’s so frustrating! I maybe missed you explain earlier but why do you not want to exchange and complete at the same time?MrsBrush said:
I have no idea how long it takes to press a button and make a phone call to confirm that funding has arrived... apparently its 2 days!HopeAndDriftWood said:
Aarrgghh how long can this take?! I'm frustrated for you; and I'm not involved! I really hope someone updates you soon, and that it happens today 🤞MrsBrush said:Well, it hasn't happened yet... just asked for an update and whether I need to get back onto my seller's EA yet again?
It can only be one of two things now - either the FTB's mortgage funds being returned hasn't yet been confirmed so cant be re-requested, or PPL are not answering their phones. Neither would surprise me at this point.
Rapidly running out of week again, and by tomorrow evening we will be back to the same situation as last week, where I trust the legal firms in this chain even less than I did last week (which was not at all then, worse now!), we still haven't exchanged contracts (and therefore still cant confirm everything that I couldn't confirm last week) and we are supposed to complete on Monday. I still refuse to do a simultaneous exchange and completion, which we had said right from day 1 so should not be a surprise, so fully expecting the next thing will be another delay while dates are rearranged again for the 3rd time. The whole thing is beyond a farce, and I cant tell you how stressed, upset and p**d off I am right now.
And it seems there is absolutely nothing we can do.
I hope that the couple of people on these boards who got upset a few months ago about me complaining about my vendor's factory farm conveyancers being worse than useless are still able to defend what has been going on here - the default for these firms seems to be to blame everyone else and not take any responsibility. Even by their standards of incompetence this chain has to be amongst the worst! And yes, I am upset, I am angry but I am also incredibly disappointed that so-called legal professionals can have so little understanding of the havoc they are causing in people's lives, it is legalised manipulation and psychologically damaging in some cases and they just don't seem to care.
We also are unable to confirm our removers until exchange, which is a pain because we are unable to do it ourselves - so we need exchange to happen to be able to book a company who can move us! It has been mad here, and the removers are still crazy busy.
And today was supposed to be moving day, so as you can imagine i am extremely fed up!0 -
Started with my sellers conveyancer going totally AWOL for about 4 days running, not answering any calls / emails even from our vendor, It was only when all the EAs, the vendor and I all made complaints to his EA that we finally found out that the ID had not been checked and needed resubmitting (they have only had around 5 months to check, so clearly they are totally on top of things!)Newdrake88 said:
Ahh right that makes sense, I think I would be the same if I’m honest, have they said what the hold up is to exchange or just not doing it?MrsBrush said:
Basically because I no longer trust a couple of the conveyancers in the chain to do what they are supposed to do when instructed. We started trying to exchange contracts on 1st October, and it has failed every day so far (8 days and counting), so absolutely no reason to believe that they can get their acts together long enough to pull a simultaneous exchange and completion off. When you factor in that if we agree to this, it is at our own risk of additional storage. accommodation and removal cost if it goes pear shaped, which my solicitor is also advising against, you can see my reluctance.Newdrake88 said:
I feel for you I really do it’s so frustrating! I maybe missed you explain earlier but why do you not want to exchange and complete at the same time?MrsBrush said:
I have no idea how long it takes to press a button and make a phone call to confirm that funding has arrived... apparently its 2 days!HopeAndDriftWood said:
Aarrgghh how long can this take?! I'm frustrated for you; and I'm not involved! I really hope someone updates you soon, and that it happens today 🤞MrsBrush said:Well, it hasn't happened yet... just asked for an update and whether I need to get back onto my seller's EA yet again?
It can only be one of two things now - either the FTB's mortgage funds being returned hasn't yet been confirmed so cant be re-requested, or PPL are not answering their phones. Neither would surprise me at this point.
Rapidly running out of week again, and by tomorrow evening we will be back to the same situation as last week, where I trust the legal firms in this chain even less than I did last week (which was not at all then, worse now!), we still haven't exchanged contracts (and therefore still cant confirm everything that I couldn't confirm last week) and we are supposed to complete on Monday. I still refuse to do a simultaneous exchange and completion, which we had said right from day 1 so should not be a surprise, so fully expecting the next thing will be another delay while dates are rearranged again for the 3rd time. The whole thing is beyond a farce, and I cant tell you how stressed, upset and p**d off I am right now.
And it seems there is absolutely nothing we can do.
I hope that the couple of people on these boards who got upset a few months ago about me complaining about my vendor's factory farm conveyancers being worse than useless are still able to defend what has been going on here - the default for these firms seems to be to blame everyone else and not take any responsibility. Even by their standards of incompetence this chain has to be amongst the worst! And yes, I am upset, I am angry but I am also incredibly disappointed that so-called legal professionals can have so little understanding of the havoc they are causing in people's lives, it is legalised manipulation and psychologically damaging in some cases and they just don't seem to care.
We also are unable to confirm our removers until exchange, which is a pain because we are unable to do it ourselves - so we need exchange to happen to be able to book a company who can move us! It has been mad here, and the removers are still crazy busy.
And today was supposed to be moving day, so as you can imagine i am extremely fed up!
The chain agreed a deadline of Friday 1pm last week for completion today, which failed again for the same reason, then this "professional" tried to initiate exchange at 4.45p, on Friday afternoon and my buyers said no as far too late beyond the 1pm cut off and they suggested the 18th as a new date. Roll on to yesterday, and the FTB's solicitor at the bottom of the chain needed to send their mortgage funds back and re-request today... leaving us again unable to exchange both yesterday and today!0 -
Well you are a better person than me because I would of lost my s**t by now 😂MrsBrush said:
Started with my sellers conveyancer going totally AWOL for about 4 days running, not answering any calls / emails even from our vendor, It was only when all the EAs, the vendor and I all made complaints to his EA that we finally found out that the ID had not been checked and needed resubmitting (they have only had around 5 months to check, so clearly they are totally on top of things!)Newdrake88 said:
Ahh right that makes sense, I think I would be the same if I’m honest, have they said what the hold up is to exchange or just not doing it?MrsBrush said:
Basically because I no longer trust a couple of the conveyancers in the chain to do what they are supposed to do when instructed. We started trying to exchange contracts on 1st October, and it has failed every day so far (8 days and counting), so absolutely no reason to believe that they can get their acts together long enough to pull a simultaneous exchange and completion off. When you factor in that if we agree to this, it is at our own risk of additional storage. accommodation and removal cost if it goes pear shaped, which my solicitor is also advising against, you can see my reluctance.Newdrake88 said:
I feel for you I really do it’s so frustrating! I maybe missed you explain earlier but why do you not want to exchange and complete at the same time?MrsBrush said:
I have no idea how long it takes to press a button and make a phone call to confirm that funding has arrived... apparently its 2 days!HopeAndDriftWood said:
Aarrgghh how long can this take?! I'm frustrated for you; and I'm not involved! I really hope someone updates you soon, and that it happens today 🤞MrsBrush said:Well, it hasn't happened yet... just asked for an update and whether I need to get back onto my seller's EA yet again?
It can only be one of two things now - either the FTB's mortgage funds being returned hasn't yet been confirmed so cant be re-requested, or PPL are not answering their phones. Neither would surprise me at this point.
Rapidly running out of week again, and by tomorrow evening we will be back to the same situation as last week, where I trust the legal firms in this chain even less than I did last week (which was not at all then, worse now!), we still haven't exchanged contracts (and therefore still cant confirm everything that I couldn't confirm last week) and we are supposed to complete on Monday. I still refuse to do a simultaneous exchange and completion, which we had said right from day 1 so should not be a surprise, so fully expecting the next thing will be another delay while dates are rearranged again for the 3rd time. The whole thing is beyond a farce, and I cant tell you how stressed, upset and p**d off I am right now.
And it seems there is absolutely nothing we can do.
I hope that the couple of people on these boards who got upset a few months ago about me complaining about my vendor's factory farm conveyancers being worse than useless are still able to defend what has been going on here - the default for these firms seems to be to blame everyone else and not take any responsibility. Even by their standards of incompetence this chain has to be amongst the worst! And yes, I am upset, I am angry but I am also incredibly disappointed that so-called legal professionals can have so little understanding of the havoc they are causing in people's lives, it is legalised manipulation and psychologically damaging in some cases and they just don't seem to care.
We also are unable to confirm our removers until exchange, which is a pain because we are unable to do it ourselves - so we need exchange to happen to be able to book a company who can move us! It has been mad here, and the removers are still crazy busy.
And today was supposed to be moving day, so as you can imagine i am extremely fed up!
The chain agreed a deadline of Friday 1pm last week for completion today, which failed again for the same reason, then this "professional" tried to initiate exchange at 4.45p, on Friday afternoon and my buyers said no as far too late beyond the 1pm cut off and they suggested the 18th as a new date. Roll on to yesterday, and the FTB's solicitor at the bottom of the chain needed to send their mortgage funds back and re-request today... leaving us again unable to exchange both yesterday and today!
I would also be asking is there a problem somewhere that nobody wants to own up to!0
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