The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

middy991

Can see it going tits up this she's been back on the fonepushing for completion before Xmas !!!!!! its the leasehold that held it up otherwise it would of been done

Aliliva

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

We took the advice to wait until the mortgage was agreed before we arranged the survey (purely to save money if the mortgage lender wouldn't lend on the house). However, for various reasons our mortgage took 3 months to sort out, which meant our survey came really late in the process and the seller's estate agent was really annoyed with me ^o) Depends how risk averse you are I suppose. If I'd have known the mortgage was going to be such a fiasco, I would have done the survey at the start - that way we would have known everything that was wrong with it BEFORE the mortgage lender gave it a £0 valuation and may perhaps have decided at that point to walk away :rotfl:

I'm doing it now, before even hearing back from the lender, cause if it comes back with some awful result I have to pull out of the sale (but it's not gonna happen, it can't happen, no way!)

chrissie83

I’m feeling so frustrated! Our solicitor says we have been ready to exchange for a week but our buyers sol says there is ‘something ‘ outstanding that our sol needs to deal with but won’t specify what back & fro for 4 days now :mad: we were meant to exchange & complete tomorrow. Not sure how long it can go on for.
I hope you are all having better luck than us

RXT156

Hi all received draft contract papers approx 2 weeks ago, contacted Solicitors regarding some queries regarding extortionate prices for items seller was leaving I think they’re trying to recoup costs from the sale as I managed to get a great deal as a FTB with no chain. Haven’t heard anything now for two weeks. I contact Solicitors every week but they don’t really tell me much!

What is next after queries have been sent to Solicitors regarding draft contract? Please and thanks!

Flutterbat17

Grr! Radio silence again from Solicitor. Apparently waiting on our Lender to approval the gifted deposit (lender takes 48hrs for decision) it been way longer than 48 hours. Actually starting to think we won’t be moving before Xmas now.
Actually starting to worry there is an issue! Never moving house again lol! Hope tomorrow is productive for everyone.

Katapolt

So on Wednesday i met with my solicitor, we went through literally everything (i take any previous comments back, this man is a star) and signed everything we needed.

HTB ISA is now closing, and im waiting for the money to move so i can send my deposit his way, in readiness to exchange monday/tuesday, and to complete on our original date of the 20th Dec.

Things finally got moving after the vendors EA called to ask where we were, and i must've sounded as deflated as i felt with the lack of movement. She rang around my lender and SOL and got everyone singing off the same page again.

I had fully accepted it would be mid Jan before a completion, and with it being just before christmas im now broke as anything and have no holiday left!! That and the sudden realisation that its actually happening is sending me into bouts of panic.

I'm 26, i'm moving in with a boy (ew:rotfl:) i have never ever lived anywhere other than my family home. I never went to uni, so i havent even lived in halls or rented or anything. Im suddenly terrified of all of it.

This is normal right? It will feel like home eventually im sure.

God i need a lie down...

Aliliva

Katapolt wrote: »

I'm 26, i'm moving in with a boy (ew:rotfl:) i have never ever lived anywhere other than my family home. I never went to uni, so i havent even lived in halls or rented or anything. Im suddenly terrified of all of it.

This is normal right? It will feel like home eventually im sure.

God i need a lie down...

I've lived in rented accommodations all of my adult life so far, moved country a couple of time and so on...and yet, this whole buying a property is the scariest and most nerve wracking thing I've ever been though!

Katapolt

Aliliva wrote: »

I've lived in rented accommodations all of my adult life so far, moved country a couple of time and so on...and yet, this whole buying a property is the scariest and most nerve wracking thing I've ever been though!

Oh my god im so glad it isnt just me. Thank you!

JoJo1978

Katapolt I'm terrified too and I've lived with my boy for 11 years, already moved with him once and still married him!

Totally normal, it's getting very real for us now. But it will all be worth it.

She says confidently, moving half way across the country to a place she doesn't know (he does), where they speak like him (not me) and with no job to go to.

clairesilverspar

Just received the call from the solicitor. Authority to exchange given. Hubby has also sent me a message to say he's done the same. She will send confirmation once exchange completed.


Suddenly incredibly nervous and relieved at the same time!