The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

niknaks0285

Finally! Had positive news contracts should be signed on monday. Completing either on Friday 26th or the following week! Relief! 
Turns out buyers solictor was delaying the process and really this issue with our previous developer going bankrupt has no affect on the land or sale around this house. I have a few choice of words for him, even the buyers are baffled the hold up. Anyway I can relax for the weekend until monday! 
Keep going everyone we will all get there in the end. 

crumblylancashire

Irishpearce26 said:

Doodlebugs said:

I most definitely will be getting the locks changed as soon as we complete. The property has been let for a few years and we have no clue how many people have a copy of the keys!  

Hadn't realised it was an ex rental so yes that would be wise.

When I leave this rental, the last thing I want to keep is a copy of the keys can't wait to hand them back haha!

WiseOwl00

We've been given a completion date of next Friday. All paperwork is completed and the bank has notified us to say that the funds will be released next week. We just need to transfer our deposit to our solicitor on Monday. Part of me wants to not get my hopes up - we've been in this process 7 and a half months now and have had constant bad luck/delays. But part of me wants to just not stress for one week and believe that this will actually work out, and that we will be in our first home this time next week. I think for my mental health it'd be better to go for the latter! 

I've still got lots of packing left to do, and no days off work to do it in haha. But luckily there's no major rush to move it all on the first day. Need to sort out utilities, delivery of large furniture, joint bank account, new savings account as ISA closed etc., etc. But that type of stress doesn't bother me as I can manage it all myself and hopefully won't have months and months of delays! 

 

Kelb93

WiseOwl00 said:

We've been given a completion  date of next Friday. All paperwork is completed and the bank has notified us to say that the funds will be released next week. We just need to transfer our deposit to our solicitor on Monday. Part of me wants to not get my hopes up - we've been in this process 7 and a half months now and have had constant bad luck/delays. But part of me wants to just not stress for one week and believe that this will actually work out, and that we will be in our first home this time next week. I think for my mental health it'd be better to go for the latter! 

I've still got lots of packing left to do, and no days off work to do it in haha. But luckily there's no major rush to move it all on the first day. Need to sort out utilities, delivery of large furniture, joint bank account, new savings account as ISA closed etc., etc. But that type of stress doesn't bother me as I can manage it all myself and hopefully won't have months and months of delays! 

 

This is amazing news!! Caught a few of your posts and it’s sounded so stressful. I’m on nearly 7 months and I’m really hoping my completion date is final now.  Best of luck for next week, hope it goes smoothly for you! 

Anty21

WiseOwl00 said:

We've been given a completion date of next Friday. All paperwork is completed and the bank has notified us to say that the funds will be released next week. We just need to transfer our deposit to our solicitor on Monday. Part of me wants to not get my hopes up - we've been in this process 7 and a half months now and have had constant bad luck/delays. But part of me wants to just not stress for one week and believe that this will actually work out, and that we will be in our first home this time next week. I think for my mental health it'd be better to go for the latter! 

I've still got lots of packing left to do, and no days off work to do it in haha. But luckily there's no major rush to move it all on the first day. Need to sort out utilities, delivery of large furniture, joint bank account, new savings account as ISA closed etc., etc. But that type of stress doesn't bother me as I can manage it all myself and hopefully won't have months and months of delays! 

 

Congratulations- lovely news, good luck with the packing & definitely keep the positive thoughts 

WiseOwl00

Kelb93 said:

This is amazing news!! Caught a few of your posts and it’s sounded so stressful. I’m on nearly 7 months and I’m really hoping my completion date is final now.  Best of luck for next week, hope it goes smoothly for you! 

Anty21 said:

Congratulations- lovely news, good luck with the packing & definitely keep the positive thoughts 

Thanks both. I feel my posts have all been negative recently, so it feels good to finally be able to bring some positivity! 

fastbs

Anty21 said:

fastbs said:

Anty21 said:

fastbs said:

pinklady3333 said:

fastbs said:

Haven’t heard anything about exchange yet...

Any news? Been following you since the Santander thread! 

We have literally just exchanged contracts! Got the call 10 mins ago!! I feel so relieved.
Completion next Friday (26th).

How are you getting on?

This thread has been such a help these past few weeks, especially as I could never see an end to this!
Just want to say I wish everyone the best in this very stressful journey! 

As hard as it is to believe, everything does all come together when it is supposed to.

Congratulations 🥳 pour yourself a large wine to celebrate and look forward to your new home @fastbs

Haha yes will definitely be doing that tonight!
thank you so much.

How are you getting on?

Enjoy it - you must be so relieved and it is nice for others to see people getting there.
We are still waiting for sellers solicitor to catch up, didn’t get the date this week but know it’s getting close....just trying to focus on the fact it will all be worth it once we exchange 😊 

Thank you!
I’ll have all my fingers crossed for you next week! Make sure you keep us updated 😊

Doodlebugs

Slithery said:

And you didn't wait for the tenants to vacate before spending any money on solicitors/searches/mortgage etc?
That's just crazy, it currently takes over well over a year to legally evict. Does your mortgage offer last that long?

Well aware of the risks thank you. Not something we’ve done blindly. We’ve made preparations to go into temporary accommodation should they not vacate next week so we can still complete on our sale. 

We love the house so the minimal amount we’ve spent so far was worth the risk to us. 

Kbenn0

Finally we have received  contracts to sign whoop !  Still my solicitors won’t discuss exchange or completion dates until they receive it back .. hopefully it won’t be much longer.

crumblylancashire

Doodlebugs said:

Slithery said:

And you didn't wait for the tenants to vacate before spending any money on solicitors/searches/mortgage etc?
That's just crazy, it currently takes over well over a year to legally evict. Does your mortgage offer last that long?

Well aware of the risks thank you. Not something we’ve done blindly. We’ve made preparations to go into temporary accommodation should they not vacate next week so we can still complete on our sale. 

We love the house so the minimal amount we’ve spent so far was worth the risk to us. 

Yeah, it's not all bad - our landlord is selling the house we've been in for the last few years, and we certainly wouldn't mess anyone around, I can totally understand why he doesn't want to be a landlord anymore.  I know there are awkward tenants - but not all want to cause trouble