We provisionally booked ours about 3 weeks before we moved - last Fri (13 Nov) they packed up our house & took all our stuff into storage & we are now in rented until 30 Nov when they will move us into our new house. Good luck hun

That's wonderful househunting, you should be just settled in time for Christmas. Good luck with the packing.

How far in advance should I book removal peole by the way? I am assuming its too early yet

Woohoooooo we exchanged today Been a stressful week or so with an unreasonable vendor trying to further extend the completion date. Moving into our new house at the end of THIS month

Surveyor has been in. The house is not falling down!! They've identified the damp problem we already knew about and suggested we may want to get the flat roof on the extension renewed at some point in the future. Otherwise apart from a few minor points it seems to be sound.

Phew

When we bought our first ever house way back when, we were about to buy curtains for a HUGE bay window when we got a fax from some friend in Bangkok (where we used to live) asking us to come back for the St Andrew's Ball. DH said it's that or the curtains. We went to Bangkok! Finally ended up putting curtains up the day before we moved back overseas!

again

We've budgeted for extra money when we move, so we cna buy a new car and have a sun room built: DH said last night "we could go to NY for a weekend you know, with some of hte dosh..." but he's got his sensible head on again now

I am so excited about NY!!! Going with a friend. She has never been and she has 3 DCs so is really looking forward to the child-free time. She promises me she won't sleep all the time. I have told her to sleep as much as she likes - I will be in Macy's!

Not surprised you are not happy. I would be livid.

yes it could say "This is not buda and Mr buda"! at you going to NY, I'd love to go there.

The fee we paid was to the brokers, so it covered survey etc - I can't believe they didn't know that the mortgage co was going to stop lending, they deal with them ALL THE TIME, hte must have had some inclination surely. Still waiting to hear back from them but I'm NOT happy

Bloody hell MamaG. Surely that is illegal? To take your money if they knew they were not lending? Sods.

We almost had an issue with our bank. We are in the extremely lucky position to be cash buyers. Most of the purchase price of the house is easily available but the rest is invested. DH wanted to borrow the extra against our investment portfolio to be paid back from salary within 9 months. Bank said no. Have a mortgage. We didn't want a mortgage. So DH booked a call with our 'client care' person at the bank who has been dealing with our account for over 10 years. She knows DH well - and his tendency to move banks if they piss him off. Listening to the call was funny. He takes NO prisoners. We got the loan facility!

We filled in all the solicitor stuff last night and I will post it all from London on Thursday on my way to New York. Have been through survey more thoroughly now bat issue is being sorted. Nothing there that we didn't expect for the age of the property. So all seems good.

I did have a slight panic. Solicitor needs notarised copies of our passports and DH got them. I was getting everything together and realised the notarisation was all in Hungarian. Emailed DH demanding he get them done today in English. Impossible apparently - Hungarian notaries will only notarise in Hungarian even if they speak English. Anyway - DH spoke to solicitor and that is ok if we put in a copy of our Hungarian residents cards. Can't quite understand it myself but there you go - after all the Hungarian could say anything really!

I'm very relieved for you buda

We just had a prob with mortgage - the company we were applying to said they aren't lending any more money until Feb next year ... after we've paid £700 fee . Luckily we have managed to get sorted but are now trying to get hte farking FEE back.

grr