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Is my solicitor being over-optimistic?
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Your solicitor can be as optimistic as he likes... It's not in his hands.ginger_chocolate wrote: »So my solicitor has spoken to the vendors solicitor and they have proposed a completion date of 20th December.
But we haven't even had a draft contract yet
What HAVE you had from the vendor's solicitor? Have you even had the PIF and the paperwork around that?
OK, so the vendor's solicitor finally gets off the pot, and gets the draft contract through for start of business on Tuesday.
You and your solicitor need to go through it, confirm it's all as you expect, raise any queries, get answers to those queries, review those answers, confirm you're happy to sign it, sign it... and exchange it, with the 10% deposit. By Thursday.
You're going to complete on Thursday, too?
So your solicitor needs to draw down the mortgage ready for then. Without even knowing if you'll be ready to exchange. So you'll start paying mortgage interest.
Why DO people do this to themselves...?I'd love to complete before Christmas, but if it's not realistically ] going to happen, I need to start making plans to celebrate Christmas in my current home!0 -
It was actually the vendor's solicitor who proposed the 20th. My solicitor called a few days ago and asked if I'd be ok with that. I said that I could be ready, personally, but expressed skepticism about whether all the paperwork an deposit transfers would go through on time - they told me it would be fine and they regularly work to tight timescales. I still haven't seen a draft contract, or a single scrap of paperwork from the vendor's solicitor (no PIF, no nothing).
Thing is, Christmas is really an ideal time to move for me as I don't have kids, or work in retail and I have 'freebie' days off work between christmas and new year when I'd rather be unpacking boxes than kicking my heels - so I'm loathe to tell them to put it off until January when I'll be busier just in case it *can* be done - but even someone with plenty if time still needs to do a bit of planning ahead!0 -
Well - how did it turn out?
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.0
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