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OMG! Why did we ever decide to move?

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OrmRenewed · 09/08/2010 12:49

We have already exchanged contracts with our buyers because they were threatening to pull out. And we were hoping that we'd be able to persuade vendors to move on the same day. Problems with outstanding mortgages on the property. Problems with valuable goldfish in their pond. But we had resolved those we thought. But vendor rang me this morning in a bit of a state. Apparently they fucking useless sol has yet to return a single document about the property they are buying! They had heard nothing since their offer was accepted

So..... even though the land registry entry was proved to be a clerical error, even though we have agreed not to poison/cook/sell her precious fish before they can get them professionally moved, and even though they know our position.... they aren't going to move out on the 23rd.

I felt sorry for her. She was in a bit of a state and her mum is ill (she's 70 herself so god knows how old her mum is). I didn't make any promises but made sympathetic noises. She thought they might be able to do it on 27th.... maybe.

So we will have to move stuff in to storage and stay with my parents. Not end of the world stuff but honestly, AIBU to think their sol is crap and that most of these issues should/could have been sorted weeks ago?

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OrmRenewed · 09/08/2010 19:05

Oh yes! And we have to spend an entire week with my parents. DH was delighted when he realised the implications

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hippipotamiHasLost92lbs · 09/08/2010 19:19

Well Orm, at least you have a date Will the Koi move out on the 31st too?

After a faithful promise by our converyancer's colleague (ours had a day off) on Friday that we would exchange today, yet nothing has happened. I am fed up of the constant elation when I hear we are going to be exchanging and then the horrid deflation when 5 o'clock passes and yet nothing has happened.

It now looks like we may not move until the 3rd Sept. The school I work at are on an inset day that day and not being there is not an option. Add to that the fact that day is ds's first ever day at secondary school and 7 year old dd is still on school hols and all in all it will be chaos. So I either let dh deal with it all day day or we move it back even further. Which is ridiculous.

Sob.

hippipotamiHasLost92lbs · 09/08/2010 19:20

day

lalalonglegs · 09/08/2010 19:44

But why did your solicitor advise you to exchange on your house when he had heard nothing from the solcitors futher up the chain? Solicitors love to point fingers at each other but, unless you demanded s/he exchange with completion on 23rd, s/he's been just as sloppy as the other one.

bobblehat · 09/08/2010 20:00

You have my sympathies. We bought the house we were renting earlier in the year. We'd already sold ours, the vendors lived elsewhere, we were actually living in the house. It still took us 7 months from having the offer accepted to completing.

Just look forward to drinking wine in your new house

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OrmRenewed · 09/08/2010 20:05

lalalonglegs - because our buyers were making threatening noises. They wanted to exchange today but we put them off until 23rd. Didn't want to lose the sale.

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Katisha · 09/08/2010 20:10

So why DO these solicitors take so long, and refuse to use email and the phone and so on? Why? Can any solicitor enlighten us?

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OrmRenewed · 09/08/2010 20:12

Yes hippo, the koi will move out on 31st too

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OrmRenewed · 09/08/2010 20:13

And yes I did demand it because I didn't want to mess our buyers about any longer. It wasn't fair - they had good reasons to want to be in before end of Aug.

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hippipotamiHasLost92lbs · 09/08/2010 20:15

Woohoo

I am so so so though!

hippipotamiHasLost92lbs · 09/08/2010 20:15

Not at koi karp though - but at the fact you are moving, you have dates and everything...

All I have are empty promises...

lalalonglegs · 09/08/2010 22:02

But you must have known you were risking ending up with no home by doing that. I don't think you can say it's all the other solicitor's fault. I know it must be frustrating but it's a risk you run if you don't go for simultaneous exchange. I'd be grateful that it's just a week living with your parents - you could have found yourself with no house to move to at all .

mumblechum · 09/08/2010 22:03

I knew this would be your OP Orm

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OrmRenewed · 10/08/2010 08:12

Oh of course we took a risk lala. But there was no good reason for them not to exchange on 9th which was our original date - until the sol suddenly unearthed some issues that he has known about for ages And now that we compromised on 23rd, all of a sudden new problems arose - he hasn't sent our vendors a single document about their purchase. Now tell me that isn't odd? My point is that if he had got his act together earlier all of these things could have been sorted.

We were prepared to rent for a month or so but because we thought all was well we didn't arrange it.

I think he's an arse. Sorry. If the only was to move house is to be incredibly stubborn and refuse to compromise with anyone, it's amazing that anyone ever goes anywhere.

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OrmRenewed · 10/08/2010 08:13

I also think there was risk in losing our buyer.

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Northernlurker · 10/08/2010 08:26

We moved in 7 weeks but that was with me (on maternity leave) ringing the solicitors frequently and ringing the agents and taking stuff straight back in by hand and with the estate agent having a truly marvellous woman on the case whose job was to close the deal She really came in to her own when our vendors suddenly declared they had a 2 week holiday booked shortly and so could we put off the move for a month! She persuaded them to shift before their holiday. All the best with the move Orm - this too shall pass....

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OrmRenewed · 10/08/2010 09:49

I keep saying that to myself NL. It is my mantra. Along with 'pass the wine bottle'

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llareggub · 10/08/2010 10:05

I we sold our last house the buyer's solicitor wasted several weeks sending me pointless letters asking for details of the listed trees in our garden. After countless exchanges of emails where I confirmed that we in fact did not have any trees (also confirmed by the buyer) I had to email him photographic proof to get him to move on.

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OrmRenewed · 10/08/2010 10:24

Ah well trees not an issue for us. Just the bloody fish

And the next chapter of my tale of woe..... the removals company can move us out on 23rd, and store stuff.... but they can't move us in on the 31st. In fact they can't move us in until 6th. Ashamed to say I actually cried on the phone

Spoke to DH and we've agreed it isn't the end of the world. Will store the essential in their garage as they offered and 'camp' for a week.

Oh goody

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azazello · 10/08/2010 10:38

I'm a solicitor (not a conveyancer though ). Most solicitors do use email and phone rather than write letters. It sounds like there are two problems here:

Your vendor's solicitor is 180 and can't get his head round new fangled technology and they went to him because they've known him for 100 years and that was more important than whether or not he could get things done and
Conveyancers seem to have millions of files on at any time because they have to have a huge turnover of work to make any money. This means that many of them actively like writing letters because you dictate the letter and it becomes Someone Else's Problem until you get in an answer which you have to deal with. It is poor service for the client but the only way many small high street solicitors firms can operate.

Hope you manage to sort everything out. I sold my house earlier this years (4 months from offer to exchange - no chain at all ) and the process is horrible in every way.

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OrmRenewed · 10/08/2010 10:44

Aha! Thanks azazello. That all rings true. Our conveyancer seems very nice but maybe 'nice' doesn't cut the mustard To start with things were very slow and she seemed to wait for me to call her before doing anything. She's going great guns now the process was barrelling along like a car down a hill, but the vendor's solicitor has now got involved and panicked a bit it seems.

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SingingTunelessly · 10/08/2010 11:19

Orm, can you not get a different removal company? It's four years since I last moved and you've brought the full horror back to mind! I must have buried it deep to forget the trauma.

Good Luck!

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OrmRenewed · 10/08/2010 12:18

Sadly we paid a deposit for the initial removal as the days were getting booked up.

In some ways it will be quite good - we'll have all day on 6th - none of this rushing to get it all done after 1.

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IHeartKingThistle · 10/08/2010 21:19

It's just so hard to deal with when your entire life is in other people's hands (and they couldn't care less!). I'm going to have to start my new job miles away with a move still to do - bet I'm going to make a great first impression and be really on the ball, right?

Great you got a date OP. It just isn't fair we have to go through this crap because crap people don't care enough - maybe there should be a system where they get paid less the longer the transaction drags on?!

unavailable · 10/08/2010 22:06

Fab idea kingthistle! At this rate the solicitors would owe us money.

We are now having to provide information to buyers solicitors that we originally provided them with several weeks ago because the person who was dealing with it is on holiday, and the new person doesnt seem to to know what went on before.

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