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...eating them and shitting them out! 😡😡😡
Just... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep!
Uh huh.
Buying a home is not much better 🙁 The actual number of hours work required by the solicitor as a fraction of the elapsed time it takes is close to absolutely the square root of bugger all.
Interested to know why. We are half heartedly considering a move but a combination of ridiculous prices and very little on the market means we probably won't bother. Anything half decent round here is gone the first week on the market, for crazy money. Talking to a friendly estate agent, if you are not immediately proceedable then it's pointless even trying. Seems like it's taking forever for chains to complete.
Apparently still lots of cash sloshing around in that there London, and more than usual looking to move out to the shires (driven by Covid and WFH) driving prices to infinity and beyond.
Bought mine this time last year and the biggest ball-ache was moving.
From our side - chain is...
First Time Buyers > Us > House We are going to > New Build
...so a nice short chain.
Our FTB made an offer at the beginning of Dec. And basically we've had almost radio silence from them since then, a few simple questions from the solicitor. But nothing major.
We've never even met them as EA did the viewing - and we've been asking EA and solicitor weekly if everything was OK with our buyers as we're surprised by their lack of questions. And with FTB's you normally have parents, mates, mates of mates, every man and their dog chipping in with advice. Even solicitor thought it was odd.
So we're working towards completion for end of March/first week in April and we're hoping to finalise exchange and completion dates this week. Then on Saturday the EA phoned us saying our FTB wants to send a plumber and electrician round and was it too late for a Homebuyers report! (Thankfully EA had the sense to knock them back on that). And could they also come for a 2nd viewing this Friday.
It's as though they've just realised they're buying a house!
We're ruddy fuming as in our minds the time for inspections has passed, and the EA should have been managing this.
New build developers at the top of the chain are putting pressure on for completion so if they decide to move on to the next buyer on their waiting list the whole lot comes down.
I'd have the house back on the market sharpish, first time buyers are extremely skittery usually, they are always looking at other houses and options throughout in many cases, and all the while they're either awaiting a mortgage offer, or running down their offer.
Sellers can be a complete arse as well!
When I sold my lat house, just before any signing / completion, the buyer demanded access to the house to knock out the kitchen. And was supported by the Estate Agents!!
I asked the Estate Agent to put the house back on the market immediately
The family sold a probate house recently.
Vacant possession
Committed buyer with a short chain
What could go wrong
Mass hack of the buyers solicitors conveyancing systems
It's a pain in the ar$e and ours was straightforward. Sold very quickly in August, got messed around by our seller and eventually they pulled out. Got VERY lucky in finding another place at the start of December and finally completed/moved at the end of Feb.
Never. Again.
We are waiting on a completion date, we thought the answer to our suggested date would be to bring it forward please as they had previous buyers fall through, but nothing but radio silence. We are first time buyers, and we had EA at the start asking when mortgage app was in, when we were likely to get a decision, and now he is chasing the sellers... who apparantly are moving into a vacant property.
Viewed a house late October, offer in same day. No dice, sealed bids. Did that, won (overpayed? who knows?) Initially agreed to complete by 1st Dec, no problem, money waiting in bank.
House was from a major developer who had bought it and its semi detached pair a few years back to lop a length off the gardens to provide access to their new estate behind. Two weeks delay before we see a legal pack, and when it shows up the boundaries on the plan haven't changed since the new build.
The new path went in in the spring last year and involves a railway too so all this must have been in planning for literally years, but no, they couldn't have sent some of those drawings off to the land registry before putting it on the market. Plonkers, and a pain not just for me, but they moved their tenant on before selling who could have had the house another six months and it would have been lived in and heated over the winter.
Buying really isn't much fun either. We viewed 16 house, between Christmas and last weekend, offered on 6 and kept getting hugely out bid! Finally had offer accepted yesterday, yeah!
Piece of pee for me.
Went to view a house last March. Offered asking price subject to some extras. Asked for trade in value. When they came back with a lowball offer told them to do one. £15k extra in next call and they ask if they can arrange some viewings. OK with me. 24hrs later 3 offers of over £10k more than they gave me for it (I wasnt bothered) and my house was sold. Never heard a peep from anyone, new owners etc. We dropped the keys for our old house off on the weekend we moved out and received a £500 rebate for its condition a week later.
6mths later, i signed my mortgage paperwork and moved into the new house. Job jobbed.
In the background i have a wife with nearly 30yrs conveyancing experience. She did it all for us including pulling the housebuilder on all his paperwork being out of date etc. In the grand scheme of things i could probably have got the extra £10k for my own house with zero effort but in that time i would have had a whole load of stress and would not have been able to agree on the new house so quickly. Within a matter of weeks the same houses were selling for £30k more on same build.
The stories she tells me from both buying and selling perspective would give you all sleepless nights. Trust me you are basically trying to get a chain of people with zero morals to agree to something that most would rather walk over broken glass to agree on. Just remember this when you are slagging off the solicitors about something that is 99% likely out of their hands.
Family member moved last year - chain of 4. They had various hiccups with surveys etc but taking the biscuit was:
- After all the usual minor delays contracts were exchanged and completion date set, 30/9/21
- All going smoothly, removals guys booked and at the door etc
- On the day their buyers solicitor apparently "didn't work Thursdays"
- You can imagine the shitshow this caused up the chain, especially as the stamp duty reverted on the 1/10/21. All houses up the chain out of pocket by thousands. All because someone didn't check their calendar.
Our last move was during the first year of the pandemic. Took 1 year exactly from going on the market to moved.
I've seen this type of thing before with first time buyers starting to get twitchy about 'is this what we want' or 'the best we can get', so when they want second viewings, or sending in tradesmen it's never a great sign, friends had this a couple of years ago, basically FTB'ers dad is doing the once over and you can guess the rest, end result was straight back on the market.
Sold two properties last July, no problems apart from getting stung for guarantees re having a tunnel. Put an offer in in August on a place, over the odds to avoid best and finals, accepted and moved in 13 weeks later. Had to find temparary accommodation for a week but apart from that no problems and the estate agents were really helpful (!)
EDIT: got knocked back on one offer only to get a better house up the hill on the same sttreet with parking. Dodged a bullet there.
This is all filling me with joy. Selling our house, FTB,10% over asking. Just had an offer accepted on the house we'd like after much hassle and disappointment searching. Fingers crossed it's not such a shower. Bristol is nuts for housing at the moment.
It's certainly a lengthy process at the moment.
Accepted an offer and had our offer accepted in June. Since when our buyers have f###ed about how they are going to pay, no shortage of money, just none of it available quickly. Foolishly we were patient, we could have sold it times over in the meantime but we were trying to be fair. At least the local ##@# couple that like to put in seemingly serious offers only to pull out months later didn't try their hand.
Finally exchanged contracts up and down a couple of weeks ago, not smoothly as our esteemed solicitors only discovered that the mortgage redemption certificate had expired when they opened the file that day. My usual solicitors (buying this place and selling my mum's and uncle's houses) were not taking on new work as they were swamped. In hindsight the usual solicitor is bloomin' brilliant.
As my wife likes to be prepared we have had our belongings boxed for months, it will be nice to see our stuff again.
To revisit, the people down the hill (V snotty) who knocked back our offer last August are still there. On Zoopla it says SSTC but Gob knows what's gone on there, glad we weren't involved.
Relatively painless process a bit over a year ago buying a property.
Reasonably helpful seller, easy collection of keys (collected from the restaurant where the guy worked, he wasn't there so we turned up, asked for the flat keys, and the nice lady handed them over...). Decent solicitors acting for us, too.
Yep. In the process now. Mine sold really easily and everything is ready to roll. They had a survey last week and so far haven't been in touch demanding money off *touch wood*.
The one I want to buy has hit some snags with the sellers not being able to produce the building control completion certificate on a house that's ten years old. Last week they claimed to know nothing of some covenants on the land, even though their signatures are on the transfer document.
At this point I've got a very strong gut instinct that something is wrong. Asked for another viewing to grab some measurements and check that all the windows etc open, and apparently the only date they can manage is three weeks from now in the evening, which is another red light. What don't they want me to see?
It pisses me off because I take pointless pride in being completely up-front and honest about the houses I've sold. Someone asks a question, they get an honest answer. Surveyor comes and asks to look at something behind furniture or under carpet, no problem. Paperwork returned same day. And then you get people who act like they're doing you a favour by selling their house to you.
What don’t they want me to see?
...the freshly laid new patio!
Feds will be round as soon as you move in. 🙂
We have toyed with the idea of moving for about a year. We hear more horror stories than good ones. But my desire to get out of Manchester are strong right now and have been for a few years, so watch this space....
Buying is utterly hideous right now. Particularly the getting a mortgage bit. We’re down to transaction level inspection of my bank account. Stress is so high that I failed the insurance medical for the revised life insurance policy we were advised to take out as a result of the purchase. That basically means the insurance company actually thinks I’m going to die. I’d like everyone in the process to clear off in a b-ark once we complete.
the freshly laid new patio!
Could live with that, the paving is uneven and needs laying properly...
Nationwide were great for me. No payslips or statements needed - presumably they grabbed what they needed from credit reference agencies.
I recommenda good mortgage broker if you're having issues with that end. Ours sorted us a great deal.
We’ve got a great deal on the mortgage, that’s not the issue. It’s the actual underwriting and offer bit on the bank side that takes time right now. Plus, have you seen what a mortgage application does to a credit report? Mine went from “excellent” to “fair” with one search. So if the underwriting fails on this one the chances of getting through the basic checks on a second application are slim indeed.
Plus, have you seen what a mortgage application does to a credit report? Mine went from “excellent” to “fair” with one search. So if the underwriting fails on this one the chances of getting through the basic checks on a second application are slim indeed.
That is just somebody's interpretation of what your credit file means. Banks are a bit more sophisticated in how they analyse your credit file. Yes, lots of applications in quick succession might be a red flag to some lenders but others might take a different view. If you are struggling with mainstream lenders then that is when brokers come into their own as they are often able to talk to underwriters directly.
We were FTB a few years ago for a house for my Mum. It’s a long a complicated story.
We found a place, couple of days of haggling, offer accepted. Mortgage in principle was in place, solicitors ready. This was an empty house, no chain. 5 months later we get the keys.
The seller took ages over every request for documents, etc.
It’s not always the FTB or their solicitor that’s the problem.
Our sale should have been straightforward but it took ages for solicitors to reply to each others' questions, repeatedly asking the same question that had already been answered, going on vacation at key points of the process, without leaving anyone following the brief. I just felt that if I'd done my job in such a leisurely way I'd have been fired long ago.
It's always amazing that we have become so technologically advanced over the last 50 years, but house sales and solicitors/conveyancers still appear to be locked in the old paper and post world, even when everything else has been digitized!
It is all pretty much a self sustaining industry, whenever you ask around for recommendations you always get a few horror stories every time, again, how they take so long to do the simplest things, and still don't take any blame for their errors makes me laugh at times.
We’ve got a great deal on the mortgage, that’s not the issue. It’s the actual underwriting and offer bit on the bank side that takes time right now.
I think that's the point people are trying to make - Nationwide is by far the quickest and easiest lender at the moment with mortgages going from DIP -> valuation -> formal offer in less than a week.
We actually withdrew from a nationwide application as their processing time was spiralling, they took a load of products off the market and bunged up their interest rates across the board.
Our broker seems to think that everyone is swamped with applications right now with the average processing time being around 45 days.
We’ve gone down the porting and add a product route as that way we escape an early repayment fee. We also thought it might be easier. Seems not.
it is quite incredible how frustrating selling (and buying) a house in England is. it seems everyone that you deal with is ****ing useless and less than even partially interested in their job or customers. i’ve sold 3 properties in the uk and each time the estate agent was a bit shit.
USA sitcoms and family guy seem to lampoon realtors, but the do a much better job and work harder than estate agents in england.
and i’m always surprised that someone who put in the effort to become a lawyer spends time conveyancing. that said, i know nothing about working as a lawyer.
We've just transferred a huge sum of money to the solictor's account to close on a purchase. But we're still not 100% sure when the closing will be. How can that be? In what other sphere would this be acceptable?
Always makes me laugh on Location**3 when they phone the estate agent at the end and then shout "congratulations, you just bought a house!". Did you buggery - the story has only just begun.
I think at the very least there should be a 2k non-refundable* deposit held by solicitor to show commitment.
This would weed out the tyre-kickers who mess you about for weeks then pull out after decide they don't like the wallpaper.
(*unless a vendor has blatantly lied about the state of their property or a genuine issue arrises).
I think at the very least there should be a 2k non-refundable* deposit held by solicitor to show commitment.
This 100%. Or just use the Scottish system.
Jeesh... for us, BUYING a house is hell..
Me and the OH are VERY near exchange on a 6+ figure house... and teh effing greedy seller feels it's worth another 45k... Just got off the phone with his EA..
He's mortgage free, buying a MUCH smaller property and will ahve over a million quid in the bank, and he wants another 45k...
FFS!!!
Honestly, some people deserve 2 tonnes of manure dumped on tehir drive...
I told him to do one..
DrP
^we had that. Two days before we completed, a few days after we moved from Sheffield to Scotland leaving empty house ready to complete. The buyer's mum on a 'last visit' decided the price should be £9k less than agreed. The people buying we supposedly friends of ours.
.
We sat out a stand-off for another week, and with another mortgage payment looming we made an offer of £3k reduction or Foxtrot Oscar.
.
It still cost 12 days of stress and £3k from what was agreed.
.
Oh, and when they moved in, they decided they had enough money to go on a nice holiday costing.....£3k. gaahhhhhhhhhhh
Supposed to be closing Monday, but no word from solicitors. This is the biggest transaction we will ever make in our lives but the solicitors just treat it casually, like it's no big thing if we buy now or at some other time - they couldn't care less. Obviously there is no interest in repeat business - we dont buy and sell that many houses so our satisfaction doesn't matter at all.
I think solicitors REALLY add to the stress!
I stand by the bottom that MY job is to make complicated processes easy for Joe public to understand... a solicitor sounds to make easy processes COMPLICATED!
Honestly... when I got my confirmation of divorce I genuinely had to triple read it...
Jade it said "YOU ARE NOW DIVORCED" I wouldn't have complained.
Same with the house move...
I think they just don't care.. like you say.. you need them. Once. Every 20 years. Why try hard?
DrP
Supposed to be closing Monday, but no word from solicitors.
It'll be in hand. If they screw it up they'll be the ones liable for the damages. Try not to worry too much about it.
Also, if in doubt go to their office and ask...
Two days before we completed, a few days after we moved from Sheffield to Scotland leaving empty house ready to complete.
You can't renegotiate after exchange of contracts so something doesn't add up here.
You can’t renegotiate after exchange of contracts so something doesn’t add up here.
You can try but unless both parties agree you're stuck with the original binding contract and the other party can sue the pants off you if you break it. In that situation I'd have been onto the solicitors pronto threatening all sorts. We did that with our new build, after waiting four months from the original expected completion date they gave us 2 weeks notice to move in (which was in the contract), 3 days before we still had no drive, it's a corner plot so the drive is 50m long shared with next door. They wanted us to move in whilst the drive looked like something from the Somme. Needless to say our great solicitor got it sorted and on the day of completion we had a drive although it was another six months before they put the top layer of tarmac on.
It’ll be in hand. If they screw it up they’ll be the ones liable for the damages.
Yeah - that would be the case if we'd exchanged contracts, but did we? Who knows?!
You can’t renegotiate after exchange of contracts so something doesn’t add up here.
In 2009 the done thing in Sheffield seemed to be exchange one day, complete the next.
The 2 days before iirc was the moment of exchange.
They were friends and neighbours, and so we trusted them...
God this is a nightmare...
honestly... PLEASE universe, can I have a break...
The EA was going to speak to the vendor on saturday to see what his plan is (recap; bearing in mind, we're about a week away from exchange, he's a single old man living in a 7 bed house..and he's 'unsure if he wants to sell'...FFS).
Me and the OH are in pieces... really I'm a nervous mess at the moment,... We've prepped our kids for the move, and this guy's behaviour is just soooo odd i really can't predict him AT ALL...
Hpefully the EA will call back today letting us know what's going on.
I HATE this process with a passion...how can someone get 90% of the way through an expensive process, then just back out, is beyond me.
DrP
Huge sympathy from me. Right now I'm convinced the B-ark would also have included estate agents and conveyancing solicitors.
Been waiting two weeks for the seller's solicitor to come up with the missing building control certificates or a decent excuse, and they've emailed my solicitors today to ask for a copy of the searches to confirm that they're missing. Jesus wept.
So apart from the fact that the estate agent requested all this from me a fortnight ago in order to send it to their solicitor, we're right back at square one and other houses are coming on the market and going quickly.
DrP - that is properly shit! Hope you get it sorted quickly and EA can do their job and smooth any issues out.
If the old man is being pushed by family to sell I can sympathise with his attachment to the house. Things get scarier as you get older and you don't make rational decisions. Perhaps the pressure is getting to him - or greedy family.
Our buyers sent an electrician to check our house on Friday, and barring a few minor issues he's passing it off as safe. And we actually met our buyers on Friday night too. They seemed nice enough, and it was good to meet them as it settled some nerves. I'd say they were young and clueless and the timeframe has caught up with them rather than looking for excuses to hammer us on price.
Fingers crossed we'll finally get some dates to work too this week.
OMG...just got off the phone with the EA selling the place (who, as I said, is exacberated with teh seller..)
The greedy c**t is going to get the house revalued as he feels it's underpriced...
Bearing in mind it's been on the market for over 2 years and not budged... sigh...
It's really annoying because, quire frankly, it's a weird house (almost like 2 houses joined together) which suits our blended family... it IS sizeable, but it's odd....! A 'normal' family won't go for it because it's a weird mish mash of living spaces...
It's just frustrating as the EA has tried telling the chap that WE are probaly the best buyers to come along in 2 years, and he's daft rocking the boat now....
But honestly..some people...
FFS
DrP
Nightmare DrP.
Not sure where you go from there. Probably put a hold on everything with solicitor for a start so you don't run up more fees.
Possibly counter-threat that if he doesn't proceed as agreed you lower your offer by X-amount?
Really does sound to me like there's family in the background reading the Daily Mail about how much house prices have risen.
Is it still on at the same price it was on at 2 yrs ago?
Is it still on at the same price it was on at 2 yrs ago?
100k more.
Possibly counter-threat that if he doesn’t proceed as agreed you lower your offer by X-amount?
I don't think this will cut it..he's a proper odd ball, making very irrational decisions. Normal an EA would be keen to case every last penny...even the EA is saying he's daft for letting this fall through...
DrP
Ruddy 'ell - dates have started to be thrown around!! 😱
Perhaps it will happen. 😬
That's properly crap DrP.
Nowt so odd as folk...
Selling and buying is a nightmare. Just moved into our new house and it will take ua a while to get over the stress. One thing though that did help is that we had direct contact with the seller over email. This enables us to understand the EA and solicitors progress and the sellers perspective.
^we had that. Two days before we completed, a few days after we moved from Sheffield to Scotland leaving empty house ready to complete. The buyer’s mum on a ‘last visit’ decided the price should be £9k less than agreed. The people buying we supposedly friends of ours.
.
We sat out a stand-off for another week, and with another mortgage payment looming we made an offer of £3k reduction or Foxtrot Oscar.
.
It still cost 12 days of stress and £3k from what was agreed.
.
Oh, and when they moved in, they decided they had enough money to go on a nice holiday costing…..£3k. gaahhhhhhhhhhh
@matt_outandabout oof! My wife would have had to step in at that point and make me sit in the corner as I'd have lost my shit and told them the price was now £9k higher or they can do one.
As for @DrP I hope it gets sorted out in your favour but I'm surprised more people aren't murdered whilst buying/selling houses.
Thanks guys and gals!
Soooo... we did some head scratching and looking for pennies under the sofa..
Have made a final FINAL offer via the EA (who's getting fed up with his vendor) and it's been accepted..
We stipulated exchange within March, so there's 7 days for this arse of a man to change his mind again...
IF we pull this off it'll be such a relief!
DrP
Fingers crossed for you DrP.
Just wait until you move in, the fun can then get even better.
We moved in to our house the week before Christmas, turned the power on, boiler in, etc and then 3 days before Christmas the kitchen roof came down. Seemingly someone had secured a floorboard with long nails, putting one through the condensate pipe, we had a few of these diy dreams to deal with, but made us understand why all viewings were made without power or water working!
Thanks guys and gals!
Soooo… we did some head scratching and looking for pennies under the sofa..
Have made a final FINAL offer via the EA (who’s getting fed up with his vendor) and it’s been accepted..
We stipulated exchange within March, so there’s 7 days for this arse of a man to change his mind again…
IF we pull this off it’ll be such a relief!DrP
I am now invested in this, fingers crossed for you!
We've been in our new house for just over a month and to be honest I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop in some really expensive manner.
Yep - hope it all goes through DrP.
We need a home improvements thread of your mansion when you get it! 🙂
Sounds like it may need a bit more modernising than my 2 bed semi!
🛠🛠
How's it going @DrP !? 😬
We should have exchanged yesterday, but it turns out the top of the chain (buying a new-build), who have been pushing the dates, are waiting for a warranty from the builders!
No sign of it yet and my removals company who I had scheduled for 14th are jumping up and down because I may not be able to sign their documents today.
Such fun! 🤪 😱
Just… aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...again!
Seems our vendors are waiting for a LABC Certificate - any idea how long it takes to get one of these!? If I wasn't so angry I'd sit in a corner and rock! 😱
Soo.... we wanted to exchange this week and try to complete next week (as i'm off for a bit in the easter hols, which would help)...
But nothing yet..
I'm still a little bit anxious as the vendor has clearly shown he's a shite, and MAY or MAY NOT honour his word (again), but the way the solicitors etc are speaking, it looks confident..
We jsut want to exchange ASAP, with an aim to complete early May.. then I can breeeeath!!!
Thankfully, there's not much work actually needing doing on the house/s (it's bascially like 2 houses linked together...weird I know, but it'll work for our blended family!!)... jsut moving 2 households and 4 grumpy kids in together...
Thankfully we'll have (get this...) 3600 sq feet to play with!!!!!!!
(if it all pulls through)
DrP
3600 sq ft! Gorblimey that's a lot of carpet.
And I thought my new house (have exchanged now, complete on wednesday next week) at 1465sqft was big.
I genuinely have TWO shark vacuums... BUt..I DO like to vacuum!!
This is kinda why we pushed so hard for this house...
Each of us have 2 kids, so the space (basically, to get away from the effing kids) will be fab! Very little else like it on the market..
DrP
A friend of mine who has a 6000 sq ft house (sorry! 🙂 ) is supposed to complete next Friday, but is still waiting to exchange. He actually went around to the Seller at the top of the chain to ask him to look him in the eye and say they are definitely completeing next Friday....to which he was assured they were.
He's got a week to pack up the whole of his house including all his large shed full of work stuff(he's a Builder) I don't envy him!
Ours will be a measily 900 sq ft - we're losing 300 sq ft - we hate hoovering though and the idea is to spend less time on the house and more time doing other stuff now our daughter is all grown up and pretty much moved out!
🙂
He’s got a week to pack up the whole of his house including all his large shed full of work stuff(he’s a Builder) I don’t envy him!
Jeeeez - we've been at it for weeks and still aren't there yet. Mainly due to my wifes attachment to old family shit. I'd bin the lot. Why do we need those printed tea towels that used to belong to Aunty Mable!
I have just come off the phone to our vendor though and they have said they'll move out on the 14th as agreed and move in with their parents even if the paper work isn't ready on their new-build.
Is it beer-o-clock yet! 🙂
How pants is this process though!!
I don't even feel excited about it any more...I'm just cautiously aprehensive...
DrP
Me neither! All the thrill has gone out of it!
Yay! Top stuff!
Well our push to exchange by teh end of March has come adn gone...!
FFS...still nothing!
DrP
I was sceptical when people said house moving was the most stressful thing you do (it's 25 years since our last move) - but I've never been so close to battering someone than I've been over the last few months. Seems you have to lose your shit at every turn to get anything moving.
MOVED!!! 😱😱😱
That's it - all done and dusted yesterday!
Day went smoothly too, all completed by lunchtime with no hitches.
And removals men - OMG - best money I've ever spent. Can't believe how much stuff we have went it comes to shifting it.
All in at the other end by 5pm - in the pub up the road by 6pm! 🙂
Such a relief.
Nice one!
Get this. ... so our seller fleeced us for more money.... fine..i can deal with that..
Waiting to exchange.. and... or buyer's solicitor has dropped them! Concern over money laundering 😆😬🙄
Ffs....
So now they're desparately trying to pick up the process with a new solicitor.....
I
Hate
This!
DrP
You must REALLY love this house!!
Not sure I'd have your patience.
If he's as dodgy as you think and you ever get in you might find wads of cash hidden under the floorboards! 🙂
So now they’re desparately trying to pick up the process with a new solicitor…..
I would 100% be demanding a price reduction at this point.
No.. the people buying OUR house are the dodgy ones 😃😃😃
And also, yes..we really DO love this house...
We're both divorced, both with 2 kids...
It's a really 'stranger house we're buying, but suits our blended family really well...
Plus..double garage... Big driveway... schweet!
Let's see if it all comes through!
DrP
(I freely acknowledge, I must have been a TERRIBLE person in another life for all the shite I've had to put up with in this one 😄😂😭😭 i think I've shared most of my sagas on here, abs that's just scratching the publically acceptable surface! My oh says i should write a book!)