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Did you have to declare your interest rate to help to buy?Cosy2020 said:
Ours took 7 weeks exactly. Our solicitors should be prepping for exchange of contracts this week hopefully! We need to get ATE from Help To Buy first.homeownerdreams said:how are those of you using help to buy getting on please? Just looking for some comparison really!0 -
Not that I'm aware of but our affordability is really decent so I'm not worried if we do need to.homeownerdreams said:
Did you have to declare your interest rate to help to buy?Cosy2020 said:
Ours took 7 weeks exactly. Our solicitors should be prepping for exchange of contracts this week hopefully! We need to get ATE from Help To Buy first.homeownerdreams said:how are those of you using help to buy getting on please? Just looking for some comparison really!0 -
My hard search on Experian has just showed up. Was done June 4th. Hoping this is a good sign. (855 is my score I know they don’t use scores but it might just help)0
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Yeah they dont even see the score its just you who does. I think its shocking how long yours is taking.Foreverwaiting123 said:My hard search on Experian has just showed up. Was done June 4th. Hoping this is a good sign. (855 is my score I know they don’t use scores but it might just help)1 -
Yeah I think so too... but I’m just desperate now to get accepted. My life is on hold until I get a decision. So I’m thinking that now I’m fully packaged and they’ve decided to bother with the hard search it’s all going in the right direction. Like surely if they were leaning towards a no they wouldn’t have done a hard search (wishful thinking here) but I absolutely need this house 😊0
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We still haven't had a hard search yet either. I literally have no idea what's going on anymore. I really hope you get an answer soon and don't need to wait until month end.Foreverwaiting123 said:Yeah I think so too... but I’m just desperate now to get accepted. My life is on hold until I get a decision. So I’m thinking that now I’m fully packaged and they’ve decided to bother with the hard search it’s all going in the right direction. Like surely if they were leaning towards a no they wouldn’t have done a hard search (wishful thinking here) but I absolutely need this house 😊1 -
We had the offer on Friday and we haven’t had an soft or hard searches! Hoping you al get updates this week.1
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We had our hard search on the 7th of June and valuation on 10th of June. And radio silence since, I don’t mind waiting, it’s just the silence that is painful!0
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My solicitor is now wanting to know what's going on and there is no updates I can give him as my brokers not communicating at all with me.0
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