I apologise in advance as this may be a bit long winded. Ok so me and dh put an offer in on a house back in November and we still haven’t got a completion date which is leaving me riddled with anxiety. Now I know that may sound dramatic but there’s a reason for this. Me and dh have lived next door to nfh (neighbours from hell) for the last 5 years and in general the street in which we currently live is horrible. We have had to put up with them partying until all hours, dogs barking constantly, kids slamming footballs off our wall, windows, cars, the smell of weed coming through the walls making our house stink etc. We spoke to them about the weed several times and politely asked if they could smoke it in their garden instead. They ignored us so we eventually reported them. Their response was to slash all the tyres on both mine and dh cars!
We are both in our late 40’s with dc and are only now in a position to buy a house so when our offer was accepted on a small nice modest house that was in our budget we were thrilled. We had hoped to have moved well before now and that we wouldn’t have to endure another torturous summer here but it wasn’t meant to be, and the reason, issues with the land registry due to the seller going through a divorce! I’m honestly gutted.
In the eight months since we put our offer in, property prices have risen again in our area and there are practically no houses in our budget and the ones that are need lots of work doing on them which we can’t afford. AIBU to be pi**ed off and to think that the seller/sellers solicitor/estate agent should’ve disclosed these issues sooner. Also, we still don’t know fully what the issue/hold up is. All we know is it’s something to do with his divorce. The seller’s solicitor told our solicitor that they aren’t at liberty to disclose what the issue is. I mean WTF.