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  • Midwifelife
    Midwifelife Posts: 17 Forumite
    Still waiting for our vendors to return 4 basic enquiries!! Our EA chased and they claimed they hadn't received any enquiries which is rubbish because there were originally 5 and they answered one but left the rest! Can't believe they lied.

    Their solicitor is also their nephew so you'd think he would hurry things along. Apparently he told our solicitor he was a 'bit embarrassed' they still hadn't returned paperwork and that they are a 'bit ditzy'. Our solicitor has said she is going to pester their solicitor every day now. We've transferred our money over just so their is nothing left to wait on on our side. So frustrating.
  • Littlebobo1981
    Littlebobo1981 Posts: 194 Forumite
    edited 16 January 2018 at 12:19PM
    Ha FTB that is cheap ..to be honest that isn't what we have paid for it and that was reduced from 309K another house on that street just sold for 350K ..pretty silly but it's all relative as your 3 bed semi costs less than our 2 bed cottage we are selling ..we paid 145995 for it over 10 years ago !

    I bet your house is mahoosive too FTB ..we did look at moving up north but decided against it as we are too settled here now ..Alas one day maybe :)
  • CommitedToChange
    CommitedToChange Posts: 1,325 Forumite
    Spoke to the EA who called me back - apparently everything is ok, mortgage lender is ok with indeminity and they should be going in this week to sign stuff. Though annoyingly their sol doesn't work Tuesdays - so the fact they didn't reply yesterday is very annoying.

    She suggested I get my sol to put forward dates so I will do that now - hopefully we can complete on a day I'm not working so I can collect the keys without using up holiday.

    Feeling a tiny bit hopefully - but I've been here before.

    I'll post my place after the sale goes through/falls through in case my vendor is on here ;) I too like nosing at houses. Over the weekend I had a look at the ones I looked at/got told were off the market when I was looking - interesting to see what they sold for - or didn't.
  • Firsttimebuyers
    Firsttimebuyers Posts: 161 Forumite
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    It is all relative, our house isn't huge to be honest - enough for us, but we could've got a much bigger house for the same (or less) in a not so nice area of the town we're in, but we wanted a nice area too.


    Midwifelife, it doesn't seem like any solicitor rushes, or responds quickly - the wait really is frustrating
  • CommitedToChange
    CommitedToChange Posts: 1,325 Forumite
    Ohhhh my sol is going to propose the 26th for completion (I've checked and I can take the day off work)

    Won't hear until at least tomorrow - I must not get excited, we still haven't actually had the vendors sol confirm that everything is ok!
  • Littlebobo1981
    Littlebobo1981 Posts: 194 Forumite
    Totally agree FTB for us it was all about the location, could have got much cheaper by going a few miles out but just not right for us.

    CTC nice to see some progress for you YAY !
  • Firsttimebuyers
    Firsttimebuyers Posts: 161 Forumite
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    CommitedToChange wrote: »
    Ohhhh my sol is going to propose the 26th for completion (I've checked and I can take the day off work)

    Won't hear until at least tomorrow - I must not get excited, we still haven't actually had the vendors sol confirm that everything is ok!


    Same here - proposing this Friday (19th) for exchange, with 26th for Completion - waiting to hear back from the Vendors sol to confirm they're in agreement
  • CommitedToChange
    CommitedToChange Posts: 1,325 Forumite
    FTB we can be completion buddies :rotfl:

    Just found out that my sol is off tomorrow - are they all part time? So no update until thursday? It's ok, just breath ;)
  • Littlebobo1981
    Littlebobo1981 Posts: 194 Forumite
    I've just chased our sol to tell me when we are getting details of indemnity policy so we can proceed

    If they reply today that would be amazing ..fingers crossed :)

    Feel like i am posting in here way too often LOL
  • Midwifelife
    Midwifelife Posts: 17 Forumite
    Just had a call from our solicitor.

    Our vendors solicitor is going to go round their house on Saturday to get the remaining enquiries answered with a view to exchange Monday and complete next Friday! Trying not to get my hopes up too much.

    Does anyone know what happens regarding mortgage payments? We set ours up for the 1st of every month so say if we completed on the 26th January would we have to make our initial payment then AND then pay again on the 1st February?
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