I can't find another thread like this, and I thought we could do with a sister thread to the trying to sell.
Thought I'd kick off with my rage!
Currently exchanged on the house that I have sold and living in husbands work accomodation so my situation is not dire, but still.
We offered on a property in August. It is a vacant property, and we said that we would like to exchange contracts 18th October with a view to complete no later than 1st November. We got the house at 95.8% of the market price.
So far we have not received the fixtures and fittings list, even though the vendor completed them the week before last. I have been back several times to measure up for lino in the bathrooms/curtains/take pictures of holes in the wall (for my decorator - there are lots). Went back this weekend just gone to check a couple of things (I always forget something) and the vendor has taken all of the bathroom fittings (toilet roll holder, etc), all of the curtain poles, all of the blinds. Now I am beginning to get a bit worried she is going to pull up all the carpets as well (not budgeted for them). I know I am going to have to wait until I get the F&F list but I am feeling slightly nervous at the potential cost of replacing things like carpets now (the whole house - 5 bed is carpetted). Aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhh.
My old man is going away for business just as we are due to complete as well, so it is going to have to be me to deal with it all. Really looking forward to this move.......NOT!!!!
Never EVER doing this again.
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financialwizard · 17/09/2012 09:03
Hi.thanks for the replies.i have done just as you all said and told them that is our best offer.i am starting to look again...
Weed i hope you get your place.if you relly like it and you can afford maybe it is worth going up a bi more? And i thought this was a buyers market! 
Greeneggs thank you.i know the ea want the sale.i wonder how motivated they are to move.btw if you want to minimise outlay go for a survey before searches.may even be worth asking a local builder to look at the place.i have a friend who did this and got a good idea of condition of property and cost of any potential work before even making an offer.
Squitch I feel your pain, only we are at exchange stage and are waiting on the financial agreement between vendor and stbxwife before we can proceed. I sincerely hope that they come to an agreement soon because although we are in work accomodation and can sit tight it is still not ideal.
LondonSuperTrooper thanks, we are still holding on at the moment. Hopefully we will find out soon but I hope that they don't want to re negotiate on price because if they do they are going to have to wait until after my husband returns from his work trip in December (goes this weekend). If they don't re negotiate we can complete without him.
nancerama Sorry to hear you didn't exchange yesterday. Hopefully things will get sorted today for you.
To everyone selling as well, keep your chin up. It will happen eventually 
We've exchanged! 8 days to go until move day. I've had a civilised cup of tea and a chat with our vendor today - she's lovely and we've exchanged numbers in case we need to discuss any last minute things.
Suddenly I'm not very stressed. 
Congratulations to all those with progress and fingers crossed for those still waiting! We are in the waiting camp at the moment. My solicitor is awesome - everything gets done the first day it can be done and everything gets emailed over as soon as it comes in. Just waiting for their solicitors to come back about some enquiries and then we are ready to exchange. Just in the process of picking out flooring hopefully to be installed before we move in, which builders think is possible (if only they would ever get the quote back to me!). I think we are going to be in by the middle of November with new flooring and doors where they should be! Good thing as we've invited about 20 or so people over for Thanksgiving I don't love the house, but am so looking forward to getting settled in and maybe I will love it once I've got my hands on it.
nancerama 
wendybird77 I have been picking out flooring and curtains and all the other stuff we need (have a large spreadsheet - it is amazing how much the little things add up to). I am also trying to get the flooring and painting done before we move in (end of November/Beginning of Dec) but I am not holding my breath at the moment as we are still waiting for the matrimonial home rights issue to resolve. We are just debating how long to give the vendor before considering pulling out. Probably January. The offer runs out in March and whilst we aren't in a major hurry it would be taking the piss if it carried on that long. The vendor sold us the house on the basis we could do a quick sale and now we are wating on him.
nancerama- Congratulations!!!
weed - can understand why you are miffed but hey the offer was accepted
wendy I'm assuming that you cannot do the flooring until you complete the sale?
We went to view our house to be last night with my parents.... I still love it and now I'm really excited about moving in. We've still got a long way to go though. Estate agent seems to think that we can exchange in 4-6 weeks as the vendors & us are chain free!! I think that puts us right in the middle of Christmas? Not sure whether that would be a good move.
I'm FED UP with this shit.
Nothing has happened, we're not in a process or anything. I'm just fed up with looking (six months, in ever less ambitious areas as we discover we can't afford them), and having EVERYTHING half-decent turn out to have problems with it the cumulatively (because it's never just one bloody problem) put us off.
Last house we bought, I might add, was covered in nicotine and cat piss and had a flooded cellar, and the survey was as thick as a telephone directory, so I wouldn't say I'm particularly princessy about house-buying.
The latest house we like has shitloads of artex everywhere which could cost a bloody fortune to remove if it has absestos in it, which we won't know until we can knock chunks of wall out to get it tested, AND it has some old extensions which I'm not confident there'll be PP & BR for because the vendors were pretty vague about when they were built, AND they are waiting for something to come up in a hens-teeth like catchment area, and they've already turned down houses in it, so they could be sitting in the bloody thing forever and I WANT A CHRISTMAS TREE!
DP won't talk to me about it any more, he thinks I need to stop worrying. 
But he's also understandably fed up with his ridiculous commute and occasionally gets really antsy about it and suddenly wants to do something random like move into another rented flat instead, but that just puts the whole buying thing even further into the future.
I am in a tizz wazz. Help.
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Thanks AlexanderS. You're right, I know. I'm not even sure whether I really like the house any more. It's not perfect, but we could live with its downsides for the sake of moving on with our lives. That's maybe why the thought of a long, hassle-filled buying process is upsetting me so much - because the prize on offer is supposed to be "an easier life". It's not a dream house or anything, it's just better than what we've got.
I've not really liked any of the 25-odd houses we've seen TBH.
I am House-zilla.
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