The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

Drem1992

dungabeagle said:

Cooking with gas here! 

Report has been returned to us already! 

Only “3”s were gas & electric which since reading these forums I know is more of a “we don’t know so we will err on the side of caution” thing (we have seen the electricity certificates and gas certificates already!) and also that they don’t have any carbon monoxide alarms- quick google shows me they're about £11 online so no issue there!

So good how quick that's come back to you! Ours was on Monday, told to expect it by 29th (at the latest) but I'm really hoping it'll come back earlier, having a rather quiet day at the office today so if it came through today I'd have plenty of time to read through it 🤞🤞
I've told the solicitors we're imminently ready to start searches as soon as it's in so hopefully the next steps will happen quickly! 
I'm using the same solicitor as a friend of mine who is also mid move (waiting on her chain) and they sorted everything for hers out in a week so I'm hoping it'll be similar for me and I'll avoid the nightmare solicitors stories circulating on here!

3or4magpies

Insomniac101 said:

Congratulations to those who exchanged and completed yesterday, saw the thread updated to "30 new", but didn't have the time to read carefully through all of the responses.  
Two and a half weeks since our original agreed exchange date and.... still nothing.... getting really stressed out and frustrated!

Oh no, that's painful! What's holding it up? I hope it resolves soon.

3or4magpies

BountyBlink said:

Congratulations 🍾 to those that have Exchanged & Completed. 

Our never ending stupid chain rattled on 🙄 it was 4 weeks ago we were told we were “ready to exchange tomorrow” 🤦🏻‍♀️ 

We are breaking out chain but zero rentals coming on, so we need 8 weeks between exchange and completion now, we thought 4 weeks would be enough but it isn’t. We can’t make 2 adults, 2 children and two pets including a dog homeless. There are no air bnb either under the price of £3000 pcm! 

Had a compente run in with our agent yesterday, he knows how tough it is to find a rental... their have a Lettings division and he tried to say our buyer won’t agree to that long. So I said “tell her good luck finding another house and completing within 8 weeks!” Honestly he must think I’m stupid!!! Which gets on my nerves more. 

If we didn’t have the dog it would be fine but so many people going for the same rental atm and of course the landlords chose the ones without dogs. Also landlords don’t want to do less than 1 year because of all the fees (c. £600) they now have to pay every time a tenant checks out and a new ok checks in. We have tried to temp landlords with paying those fees and paying 6 months up front but it’s not working. 

I’m having to remind myself why we are moving (downsizing to reduce the mortgage a lot as husband was threatened with redundancy last year and it might us very concerned given the pandemic etc) we have a lovely house, in a lovely area but have to keep reminding myself why we are going! 

Let’s hope we all get some better news today! It’s so stressful!!!! 

OMG, 4 weeks! Fingers crossed for it getting sorted today.

Natbag

Congrats to all those who have exchanged and/or completed, some good progress going on in here!
Got an email from my solicitor yesterday evening asking for the boiler service certificate I'd already sent 4 weeks ago, sigh. Also just confirming what appliances are included and that the sale is subject to my ex's purchase. Hoping that's the last of my buyer's enquiries. Still waiting on our vendors to get an updated building regs certificate as the original missed off mentioning part of the extension. Think that is our last enquiry. It's so slow going though. Still pressing to start talking dates as things are getting really urgent my side, but my pleas just fall on deaf ears.

wls52

So jealous of everyone exchanging. We’ve been waiting since 4th of March 😞 we had to inform our lender of a boundary issue (got indemnity for it) and they have taken absolutely forever to get back to us. We’ve been told they will have a response for us by end of today (although was meant to be last Friday so not really that optimistic).

They’re also saying they need 6 working days notice to draw down funds for completion so even if we exchange tomorrow we won’t be completing until after Easter bank holiday now 😞

How are everyone managing to exchange/complete with such small gaps? We are in rented and buying an empty chain free house. Taken 5 months so far with various delays! 

Becksina

We’ll still no response from any solicitor. I’m over it now. I’m not chasing anymore, not planning anymore. If it goes past this week I’ll just pay the solicitors and pull out cause I cannot cope with the stress it’s causing me. 

3or4magpies

wls52 said:

So jealous of everyone exchanging. We’ve been waiting since 4th of March 😞 we had to inform our lender of a boundary issue (got indemnity for it) and they have taken absolutely forever to get back to us. We’ve been told they will have a response for us by end of today (although was meant to be last Friday so not really that optimistic).

They’re also saying they need 6 working days notice to draw down funds for completion so even if we exchange tomorrow we won’t be completing until after Easter bank holiday now 😞

How are everyone managing to exchange/complete with such small gaps? We are in rented and buying an empty chain free house. Taken 5 months so far with various delays! 

We're also buying a vacant possession. My lender needs 5 working days- we've given them 4, so we need to wait for an email saying they'll do that before we can exchange. Apparently it can be done quicker, but they don't HAVE to agree to it. 

I've been trying to move since last July with several chain breakdowns (only one due to us/our survey), but this time round offer accepted on our current home around 19th Jan and we already had all the onwards purchase (mortgage offer, survey and searches) in place from previous collapse, so we've only had to wait for the lower chain (FTB and our buyer).

3or4magpies

Natbag said:

Congrats to all those who have exchanged and/or completed, some good progress going on in here!
Got an email from my solicitor yesterday evening asking for the boiler service certificate I'd already sent 4 weeks ago, sigh. Also just confirming what appliances are included and that the sale is subject to my ex's purchase. Hoping that's the last of my buyer's enquiries. Still waiting on our vendors to get an updated building regs certificate as the original missed off mentioning part of the extension. Think that is our last enquiry. It's so slow going though. Still pressing to start talking dates as things are getting really urgent my side, but my pleas just fall on deaf ears.

Hoping you get news today for some dates! 

Natbag

3or4magpies said:

Natbag said:

Congrats to all those who have exchanged and/or completed, some good progress going on in here!
Got an email from my solicitor yesterday evening asking for the boiler service certificate I'd already sent 4 weeks ago, sigh. Also just confirming what appliances are included and that the sale is subject to my ex's purchase. Hoping that's the last of my buyer's enquiries. Still waiting on our vendors to get an updated building regs certificate as the original missed off mentioning part of the extension. Think that is our last enquiry. It's so slow going though. Still pressing to start talking dates as things are getting really urgent my side, but my pleas just fall on deaf ears.

Hoping you get news today for some dates! 

I fear we're still some way off talking dates, but hopefully soon! There really can't be much outstanding now, although I don't know what the situation is with the top of the second chain - my boyfriend and I both have middle properties in a double chain of three, as both my ex and I are each buying a house with the proceeds of our sale, and there's my boyfriend's sale and his buyer in the mix as well. Nothing like making things more complicated, eh?!

denideth

Good luck to everyone wanting to exchange/complete by/on Friday!

Just an update - we completed on Monday and because we didn't get a removal company to help us it took us about 9 hours to move and we were very sore the next day... but at least we saved 500 quid  Just working through the list of things I need to change my address on now - didn't realise there were so many people we needed to inform!