I think we've lost our buyers. Can anyone calm me down

[Levantine]

I know I am by far the most needy person on this topic at the moment

We have strung our buyers along tbh. They sent a fax saying they wanted to exchange by Monday and complete by 23rd or all off. I said 31st and we're on. Heard nothing back (via solicitors)

Rang buyer at 5 to say 23rd fine. Left message but said to let me know. Radio silence

I think they're going to pull out.

Feel like crying

I had promised them and promised them that 23rd would be fine despite us not exchanging. I think they have had enough

Why were you stringing them along? were you in a chain and the people above you couldnt complete?

I said we would move into rented by 23rd. We found a house we could buy in that timescale and so wanted to tie in all the exchanges so that we didn't have a gap of a couple of days being homeless

I am a bloody idiot

Maybe they are just sulking.

Couple of days of everything in storage and you in a hotel?

I'd imagine they dont want to pull out if surveys have been done etc? have some wine and wait for monday morning.

tbh i would move into a hotel tomorrow if it got our flat sold

Can you send a fax to explain to them why you were stalling and that you are going to put things in storage etc which is why you can now make the 23rd for them.

Might make them feel less annoyed at you for buggering around with the date.

I moved into a hotel for 3 weeks and you pay out a lot more money removals wise, pretty much double.

They charge you for the team that move you out, then the storage, then again for the new team that moves you in. Mostly a removal team is booked for one move per day hence the double cost.

We actually exchanged for the house we were selling on one day and then exchanged on the house we bought the day after.

We didn't care at that stage if we lost this house because we just wanted to get out of the house we were in.

I would tell your buyers exactly what the situation is. Do they know that you are buying rather than renting. We were completely honest with our vendors, our buyers had the worst solicitor I have ever come across. The vendor was pregnant and was clearly on a deadline to either move or stay, it was awful as there was nothing we could do. Our solicitor was great, was constantly pushing our buyers solicitor.

Good luck

Thanks. I would hope that now I have said we are fine to go with what they want they will be okay but possibly not.

It must hvae been horrible for them as they faxed our solicitor yesterday I think, and she doesn't work on Thursdays so they must think we were really mucking them around

Why wouldn't they just come back and say yes fine though. I am worried they are seeing other flats tomorrow

I presume that they are first time buyers? Wanting to meet the stamp duty deadline (24th)?

If so, then they won't be keen to go elsewhere, but may get stung for stamp duty if things don't move fast.

Buyers are like hen's teeth right now and you've been careless in messing them about - they need to be treated like royalty at all times! At least that's what they think.

I'm also selling and we had one bunch of buyers who really messed us about and then pulled out 10 mins before the deadline (not enough rude words in the dictionary to describe my feelings at the time), but we now have another set who are much more reasonable.

I'm afraid if you are serious about selling, then unless you are in a particularly fab area or property with the likelihood of lots of buyers you need to tread carefully. You're going to have a difficult w/e but get straight on to your solicitors on Monday and GROVEL! Good luck.

Oh I am happy to grovel

We should just leave them alone over the weekend shouldn't we

Just to update - we did exchange after a really horrible weekend. So we are out in a few weeks