Never moving house again!

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Got to be fair its been 25 years since I last moved and I'm staying here until I die. The entire house sale/purchase is a nightmare.

I don't know who's worse other people or the solicitors.

I don't understand why you'd take 3 weeks to send a form back to your solicitor when you're buying or selling a house? I did every form in max 2 days..... Solicitors don't help because they appear to just sit back and wait for something to happen.

I had the seller of our house "disappear" for 3 weeks for no apparent reason. The estate agent and their solicitor left many messages for them in this time. Ended up having to cancel the survey I'd booked - they "forgot". Jeez.

Latest is our buyer is asking us via the estate agent  what we're leaving. Its on the TA10 form that was provided to your solicitor 3 months ago! They admit they didn't even look at it!

We've been trying to get this sorted for weeks now because we're really keen to move but, since we both work, its a bit of a nightmare trying to get that sorted. Seller has now said they "have to" move by the end of Feb (something to do with their mortgage) so we have to agree to that. Im thinking hang on you went "off grid" for weeks and now you expect me to accomodate you?

Honestly, I dread to think how bad it is if theres a chain. We're lucky there's not.

Claddagh_Noir

I find, in general, things are a pain in the proverbial when there are other parties involved - in every aspect of life!   I am the sort that wants everything done yesterday so if I find I am waiting on other people, it gets my back up!

When we went through the whole paperwork process, it was done by the close of business that day!

I cannot understand people who constantly buy houses and move all the time! I must have nerves of steel!

I guarantee your sellers will have something to complain about when they move in and it will be them at fault because of their ignorance! 

Flugelhorn

oh there are some gems - we bought this house about 5 years ago and much of the problem was that the vendor just wasn't familiar with the system in this country. Filled in the F&F form with some stuff, then asked us whether we wanted everything in the house (!) - we asked for key items, she agreed, but when it came to it, none of these were left ( she was sulking by then). Tried to delay completion and we declined 

ButterCheese

It's a terrible system, and many agents, solicitors and other people drag their feet.  We were fairly lucky in that our agent was known to us and was quite good, but my partner still ended up doing a lot of peoples' jobs for them. 

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Always find it strange you can spend £100s, waste months of time and someone can just pull out because they feel like before contract exchange....

Myci85

What I found difficult was knowing who was actually the one holding up the process, as everyone just blames everyone else. I think it took about 3 months for our vendors to respond to enquiries, but we couldn't work out if the delay was our vendors taking ages, or their solicitor just not sending them or what. 
This was never meant to be our forever home (we like the house and area lots but it was more what we could afford as FTB than dream house) but I told my partner after we finally moved in, it might be our forever home after all! I don't know how people manage to sell and buy at the same time if it felt so difficult without a house to sell. 

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Yes you get no info at all from the solicitor. Its just crazy.

Solicitors seem to sit back and wait for things to happen. All it takes is one donut buyer/seller (like you had) and its chaos.

There is NO chain with us but its still like this.

incus432

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Yes you get no info at all from the solicitor. Its just crazy.

Solicitors seem to sit back and wait for things to happen. All it takes is one donut buyer/seller (like you had) and its chaos.

There is NO chain with us but its still like this.

Just found out our solicitors received queries from our cash buyers 10 days ago, didn't tell us and havent done a thing about them. 'We will review them soon then pass them to you if there are things we can't answer'. Infuriating.

Phil_82

It's such a frustrating process, and i don't understand why it takes so long! Other countries you can move in a  month. It took us close to 7 months recently!

incus432

Have to say our estate agent has gone a good job and is busy checking the chain and mollifying our buyers, but am deeply unimpressed with solicitors - uncommunicative, inefficient. And they got good reviews online.

Elliott.T123

I was in a fortunate position a few years back to be buying a property off of a close family member. We used different solicitors, as my buyer was already using the same solicitor as I was and the solicitors said they had enough staff to easily do those two but adding the 3rd property in the chain would make it harder to keep conflicts out so recommended one of us use a different one.

As we were in constant contact we always knew what was happening and were able to use that as a bit of a stick to hit the solicitors with. When we were told "we are just waiting for your seller to return XYZ" we could say, well I know for a fact that was sent 3 days ago so that's not true. I think in the end they just got things done ASAP to get rid of us as we called them out so often!