Are we being unreasonable?

Give it a rest, pal and stop trying to derail the thread. It's an idiom, not an attempt at Shakespeare.

bobwilson wrote: »

I'm not sure if you're talking to me. Accusing someone of derailing a thread and talking about idioms and shakespeare is quite ironic. All I was saying was estate agents are one of the few demographics who are the true cause of their own reputation; this is partly why the government wants to take action to change the house buying process.

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No, you werent, you were correcting their English. Which sometimes needs to be done and perhaps should be done more often in these forums , but in this case was somewhat OTT and done in a heavy handed way.

IMNSHO of course


Edit: to pile on the irony, if you do some research is seems that "bad rap" is (a) perfectly valid and (b) an older phrase than "bad rep" which may even be derived from it, LOL.

I don't think anyone's being 'unreasonable' as such, more 'naive'.


I say on here time and time again - the only thing that causes stress with buying/selling is deadlines. Often unnecessary ones.


You should never book anything until after you have exchanged. It is just an aimed for date, it is not set in stone. There are loads of things that can still delay it. Everything should be booked or held provisionally, not confirmed.


And just because you've thought all was okay, doesn't mean the rest of the chain did. I remember speaking with my vendor a couple of months in who said something about completing on X date and exchanging by I think the end of the week. I went back to her and said it was literally the first I'd heard of it and I didn't know who'd told her that, and that there was no way in hell we'd be exchanging that week. Our buyers still had loads to do and ended up commissioning a report and survey before that (I seem to remember) and I'm pretty sure it was around when my OH and I were going on holiday (which we'd booked over a year before and had told everyone about from the beginning). It's all a blur now lol. It was about another 4 or so weeks after I think.


It is happening, it will happen, but it might not if you keep pushing too hard. You don't want your vendor throwing their toys out the pram and re-marketing or taking it off for a year before trying again!


It's a very stressful time - try not to add to it. As suggested above, try and have two weeks between the two. If exchange is a few days late (as is often the case), it won't matter.

OP, where are you living now?

Would it help to remember that you aren't obliged to move on completion day? Say you complete on 1 June but can't get annual leave until 14 June, that's fine, you own the property from 1 June but don't actually pack your things and move in until two weeks later. In the meantime you have the keys, can visit, run around naked in it if you like in celebration of owning your first property, but no need to take time off to do anything else.

Downside: you'll draw down your mortgage and start paying from completion day so that'll be two weeks before you move in, but on the other hand you'll pay it off two weeks earlier in 25 years' time...

Upside: plenty of time for a thorough cleaning, repaint or whatever before you start moving furniture in.

I dont understand why being new to the forum is a reason to bear with you.....