Seen The Light

LittleMissDetermined

Glad you had a good time in Wells, it's really lovely there  
Definitely get chasing your solicitor and estate agents as we didn't do this once it went quiet and I think if we had done so we would be in the new house by now.  Instead, we are now chasing solicitors.  Once searches are complete for all it should be plain sailing (but not in our case it seems)

Good luck and well done on using budget for the trip and birthday, it really makes a difference doesn't it? 

LMD x

ste82

LittleMissDetermined said:

Glad you had a good time in Wells, it's really lovely there  
Definitely get chasing your solicitor and estate agents as we didn't do this once it went quiet and I think if we had done so we would be in the new house by now.  Instead, we are now chasing solicitors.  Once searches are complete for all it should be plain sailing (but not in our case it seems)

Good luck and well done on using budget for the trip and birthday, it really makes a difference doesn't it? 

LMD x

Ah we love it in Wells, the place time forgot! Under £200 for accom, food and activities perfect! We priced up a weekend caravan park trip but the prices are ridiculous at the moment!

Waiting for a response from the solicitors now, starting to lose hope of beating the stamp duty deadline!

LittleMissDetermined

We live 'oop norf' so we aren't impacted by the deadline until the end of September as our property is below the thresh hold. Although it does make me wonder if things would be quicker if we WERE impacted.  I hope they come back to you with positive news

LMD x

ste82

LittleMissDetermined said:

We live 'oop norf' so we aren't impacted by the deadline until the end of September as our property is below the thresh hold. Although it does make me wonder if things would be quicker if we WERE impacted.  I hope they come back to you with positive news

LMD x

Bad news on the house front, the chain is twice as big as we were lead to believe and the top of it is now not complete. Need to think things over to decide what we do next.

LittleMissDetermined

Oh no! That’s not great  There are so many houses on the market (and still being listed) that hopefully it will be completed soon? 

Aside from the stamp duty, is there a specific rush to move? I mean, I’m the most impatient person I know so this news would potentially crush me... 

I hope you get it figured out mate 

LMD x

ste82

LittleMissDetermined said:

Oh no! That’s not great  There are so many houses on the market (and still being listed) that hopefully it will be completed soon? 

Aside from the stamp duty, is there a specific rush to move? I mean, I’m the most impatient person I know so this news would potentially crush me... 

I hope you get it figured out mate 

LMD x

Well the chain will be in to double figures unless the people at the top buy somewhere with no onward chain and I’ve got no confidence that it is going to hold together.
The first goal was to move before stamp duty, the second was to move before the start of the next school year and that is looking unlikely as the ‘progressor’ estimates several months before everyone will be ready.

LittleMissDetermined

That sucks. I can understand why there’s a big decision to be made. Are there any other properties you’ve seen that you like?  I know if our chain collapsed I’d be heartbroken 

LMD x

ste82

LittleMissDetermined said:

That sucks. I can understand why there’s a big decision to be made. Are there any other properties you’ve seen that you like?  I know if our chain collapsed I’d be heartbroken 

LMD x

There doesn’t seem to be much on the market at the moment. We’re going to keep with it at the moment while also investigating some new builds that are coming up. 

Luckily this is a box tick house rather than a dream house so not too upset, more annoyed that the estate agents have been a bit underhand about the chain!

ste82

Quick update.

June is normally a bad money month as it’s awash with birthdays - daughters, wife’s, Mums, Nephews. Also Father’s Day in the mix as well. Just about managed to get through it with some budgeting and it was nice to do some ‘normal’ activities like the cinema and restaurants.

House update:

Got fed up of waiting for the chain nothing had changed in over a month and the chain still wasn’t complete. The progressor wasn’t able to get anyone to break the chain so we pulled out.

Instead we’ve got a new build that we should be moved into by the end of next month, hopefully the saga ends there! The house is built just needs flooring put down and our buyers are ready to go so hopeful things will progress smoothly now!

LittleMissDetermined

Getting back to some kind of ‘normal’ is definitely encouraging and we have been doing the same. We are going away at the weekend too as we have had yet another holiday cancelled. 

Well done on securing the new build. Are you part exchanging or continuing with your sale? 

Our move is looking decidedly shaky above us in the chain but we are sticking with it. If it collapses we will still sell ours and either rent or stay with family until we find something else. Every day we hope for some news but nothing. 

Really well done on clearing those cards by the way, fab job!

LMD x