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5th time lucky? Please....
Morata_
Posts: 182 Forumite
Hi al,
After our 4th "sale" falling through before exchange, never our property involved, lower down the chain, we have accepted and had a bid accepted on a property. I pray we get it to exchange this time. Having had our previous chain fall through @ 11 weeks, we decided to go back on the market Thursday night. By Thursday, 5pm we had accepted an offer! Yesterday we managed to get an offer accepted on a property that was marketed well above our budget but because our buyer is 95% "cash" our offer was accepted!
Not sure me and my partner can handle this process another time...but here we go, ID and solicitors to be sorted tomw...
And it begins...
After our 4th "sale" falling through before exchange, never our property involved, lower down the chain, we have accepted and had a bid accepted on a property. I pray we get it to exchange this time. Having had our previous chain fall through @ 11 weeks, we decided to go back on the market Thursday night. By Thursday, 5pm we had accepted an offer! Yesterday we managed to get an offer accepted on a property that was marketed well above our budget but because our buyer is 95% "cash" our offer was accepted!
Not sure me and my partner can handle this process another time...but here we go, ID and solicitors to be sorted tomw...
And it begins...
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95% cash seems a bit odd, where's the other 5% coming from?Make £2025 in 2025
Prolific £617.02, Octopoints £5.20, TCB £398.58, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £60, Shopmium £26.60, Everup £24.91 Zopa CB £30
Total (4/9/25) £1573.21/£2025 77%
Make £2024 in 2024
Prolific £907.37, Chase Int £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus ref £50, Octopoints £70.46, TCB £112.03, Shopmium £3, Iceland £4, Ipsos £20, Misc Sales £55.44Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0 -
Getting a payoff from ex. Rest small mortgage.0
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Doubt lenders will be interested in a 5% mortgage.Make £2025 in 2025
Prolific £617.02, Octopoints £5.20, TCB £398.58, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £60, Shopmium £26.60, Everup £24.91 Zopa CB £30
Total (4/9/25) £1573.21/£2025 77%
Make £2024 in 2024
Prolific £907.37, Chase Int £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus ref £50, Octopoints £70.46, TCB £112.03, Shopmium £3, Iceland £4, Ipsos £20, Misc Sales £55.44Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0 -
Hopefully your wrong and this goes through smoothly...0
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Took us 4 attempts to buy, 3 times the sellers pulled out and decided not to sell or move and we were cash buyers.0
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It took us 16 months to sell in 2008 Crash, with 3 pull outs and an eventual drop of 16% in price.
In comparision, you're scarcely out of the starting blocks.
But life is what you make it, and if you have your health and a good relationship, this can just be a blip.0 -
Hopefully your wrong and this goes through smoothly...
Depends how much the 5% is. A quick scan shows Halifax, for example, is minimum £10K.Make £2025 in 2025
Prolific £617.02, Octopoints £5.20, TCB £398.58, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £60, Shopmium £26.60, Everup £24.91 Zopa CB £30
Total (4/9/25) £1573.21/£2025 77%
Make £2024 in 2024
Prolific £907.37, Chase Int £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus ref £50, Octopoints £70.46, TCB £112.03, Shopmium £3, Iceland £4, Ipsos £20, Misc Sales £55.44Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0
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