Buyers support thread - stressed? Worried? Stuck in a chain? Gazumped? Well come and join us here

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I can't see if there is already a thread like this so here goes..

We finally upped our offer enough for it to be accepted on our dream house. It's been stressful so far and this is just the beginning. We have had so many let downs: vendor changing mind, vendor getting higher offer etc and we hope this sale goes through smoothly. We've been looking for years. Come and join me if you're buying and equally stressed....

God you must be buying expensive houses. Mine is below £250. EA charges £1300. So with legal fees £5 thou should be enough hopefully.

Congratulations misty! :o

My place is pittance compared to you guys. It's only £155'000 so 4 grand should cover the lot (with cheap survey and solicitors). At least I hope so as due to this being a bit of an unexpected move we can barely manage that at the moment.

Congrats misty. Our exchange is set for mid sept. as the time approaches I'm getting really anxious, terrified and excited! Can't wait until we have a tenant in this house and are settled in the new one. I'm currently trying to eBay/bin/give away all our not needed stuff so I can start packing the stuff we are taking.

How's everyone else getting on?

Hi all can I have some tea and sympathy please? Utterly stressed out.
We accepted an offer on our from first time buyer and had offer accepted on dream house (family selling as their mums house who died) all going ok we were told everything place we paid mort advisor fees, valuation fees and then on thurs last week after pestering my agents for 2 days they admitted that our buyer had now been refused mort :(
Dream house going back on market they won't wait for us to sell - we have another lady interested but she's getting cash for house out of divorce so think that will be a while off.
So stressed got a little 7 month old dd and we should have been moving in oct just in time for me to go back to work in nov- not going to happen now :(
Sorry just needed to get it out there, Im fed up and I hate my agents they are such bloody liars and everytime I speak to them they speak to me like shit

That was massive sorry

Oh wishful you poor thing. Can you change agents? They sound awful. I'm sure something better will come along.

Congratulations to misty! And I'm so sorry wishful.. That sounds like a very stressful situation, especially if it was a dream house you had lined up... Perhaps you'll be lucky and it'll still be on when you're in a position to offer again?
We had our offer turned down (not too suprised really as it was well below what it was on far). We can't afford to offer more as we wouldn't have enough cash left for the refurb if we did, and we can't live in it as it currently stands... It had a massive garden but the property itself was quite small and we would have been quite cramped anyway... Oh well.. The search goes on! There's just so little on the market though... We've been through all the properties in the area already and nothing exciting has come up in the past month! EA's have all indicated things will pick up in September, so keeping fingers crossed...

Oh wishful, what a nightmare. I'm so sorry.

Fingers crossed you sell again soon and an even better house turns up. When are you out of contract with your EA? I'd get rid as soon as possible.

Congratulations misty!

What a nightmare, wishful, you poor thing. Fingers crossed you'll manage to find another buyer before dream house does.

Hairy, we're in the same situation, offer rejected and nothing good coming on to the market. I'm hoping it will pick up once everyone gets back from holiday.

Congrats misty :)

Thanks all- out of contract next week so will be changing over then unless an offer does come in from this cash buyer in meantime. Got another viewing thurs aswell.
Think that's the worse bit trying to get everything ready for a viewing and getting hopes up- got to be done though.

Oh wishful that is awful. Hope it gets better and someone good comes along.

We are still waiting to hear about our offer. Popped into the ea on my way home and he waffled a lot and said 'they have lots of options to weigh up that weren't necessarily on the table when the flat went up for sale'. Which sounds to me like there is a strong possibility that they are going to take it off the market. It is currently housing their son at the moment so thinking that the son has maybe decided he wants to stay there after all. Very annoying.

Like you guys their is so little in our area that we could afford it's really rather depressing.

Hello everyone. Just thought I'd pop back - now the boxes are (mostly!) unpacked and my blood pressure is returning to normal - and say thanks for all the support! Buying a house was a truly stressful experience, but it was worth it. I am really, really enjoying my new place... :) Hope your purchases and moves turn out just as happily for all of you. :)

Hey guys my heart sank reading your post wishful, I hope it all works out for the best, perhaps a even more amazing dream house is just round the corner!
We have exchanged on our sale but still waiting on exchange with our vendor as his lawyers are being eejits about providing a letter of comfort for planning on a porch. I have told lawyer to proceed anyway and forget the letter as we are getting antsy and only 3 weeks to supposed moving date so fingers crossed it exchanges tomorrow .

Oh hello flow! Lovely to hear from you.

I'm so jelous that you're in and settled though!

Good to hear its all worth it in the end flow
Thanks all I'm feeling but better today think i'll start making valuation appointments for when our contract up with haart at the minute so want someone less expensive who tells the truth hopefully I can find one ;)

Hi all, it's now getting close(r) to my completion date and I am rapidly turning into a basket case, so I would like to join you. We are currently in between houses- having sold our property, we are now waiting to get into the new one. Which is causing all kinds of headaches as far as cobbling accommodation for the gap, plus DD has had to start at her new school while I am still working 60 miles away. Urgggh.

But what is really doing my head in is the total lack of communication from my solicitors. We had a long and complicated issue in the run up to completing missives (we are in Scotland) relating to the boundary lines, which finally got sorted after endless teeth/hair pulling. Now all I need is one last bit of paper for the mortgage. Unfortunately that involves DH getting independent legal advice- and a 3 hour round trip for that appointment. Not only that, but I cannot seem to get my sols to get their finger out and process the paperwork- they need to send stuff over to his solicitor so he can get this advice. The bank says they need about 2 weeks to process it and that leaves us with about 2 weeks to arrange this appointment (which sounds like a lot, but it isn't, given he can only go on a Friday). The bank won't let us draw down the funds until this is sorted and I am waking up in the middle of night having a panic attack that it won't get done in time.

I think I need to go on the warpath with my solicitors and start a nagging offensive but it is so tedious and annoying being put in that position and continually fobbed off. Boo.

Erlack I feel your pain. Our solicitor (legal exec actually) never takes our calls, replies to emails etc she drives me mad. If we do get hold of her on the phone she sounds totally pissed off. I emailed her yest and asked for a response or at least acknowledgement of receipt, heard nothing. It's stressful enough without her being scarlet pimpernel in hiding!

Erlack that sounds stressful why can't anything be simple when it comes to movibg house?!

Well that cash buyer has made us an offer :) we're still trying to push it up but low but the dream house is still in our reach

Woo wishful someone was looking over you there. Did you let dream house folks know your offer still stands?

Oh good job wishful :o

Our seller has now decided that he just can't possibly make up his mind between the 3 offers he has had so has asked for us to give 'final bids'. We pointed out that we had already said ours was our one and only offer so he could take it or leave it. Ea says we still have a good chance so I guess it's just over to the other two to see whether they go up. God this is tedious

hearmyroar it may be worth putting it down in writing and really selling yourselves? E.g chain free, xx% deposit, already have Pre-approval, have solicitor lined up, and love the house and its character etc etc? That seemed to be the list of questions that we had to answer wen we last viewed a house that was going to sealed bids.

wishful That's great news, fingers crossed for you it all goes well!

My solicitor is still ignoring me. It really makes me want to scream. We're not quite out of runway yet as far as getting it all dealt with but by next week it really is becoming time critical. I just don't understand why it is so difficult to take 30 seconds to answer an email, even just to say "I'll get back to you as soon as I can."