Would anyone like an 'in a chain' support group? (3)

[Spickle]

Assuming all you lovely people in a chain still need a support group? Here it is......

Mother excellent news! Let's hope there's not many issues for the 🙏🏻 Do you just keep ringing? I contacted my solicitors on Monday as I'm waiting for feedback on the 17 enquiries raised on my purchase (they had these back early June ), was told they were with the solicitor on Tuesday but still no update! God I hate this process it's sending me nuts!!!!

Yes my solicitor hates me but if she updated me then I wouldn't keep chasing. I've been emailing mostly then calling when they don't reply. Funnily enough they've started replying fairly quickly.
Our vendor's solicitor took 3 weeks to send draft contracts so I plan to call solicitor on Monday to see if they have had a reply and if not I'll call the ea and get him to chase. I'm so determined to be in early August no matter who I have to hassle. We learned being nice gets you nowhere with our last move!

I think I may have to take a leaf out of your book. I know that my solicitor sent out the contract pack last week so theoretically they should have raised searches and be looking at enquiries. I do not like to keep hassling them as I like to think it will sort itself out but by god they can be soooo slow. My EA is pretty good so I may drop her an email.

Still nothing from the vendor. To piss off and not say anything or do anything when we are all waiting to exchange is fucking so unbelievably selfish. This is his second home, it's empty, and he won't even have to move the furniture out as we've offered to buy it. All it would take would be a simple phonecall to the solicitors to exchange, and then handing the keys back. He's got no personal possessions there..

So we may have to look at renting, or staying put and not selling. Our buyer is a developer and has said he would rent to us.. So we might do this. At least it puts us in a position to either wait for the arsehole, or be chain free if we find something else. Unfortunately, nothing else is on the market that is suitable so it could be a long wait.

Cosh it's hard to fathom other people's reasoning isn't it?! For me I want to/need to move and do everything in my power to push it. Unfortunately when you have selfish arse holes involved it fucks all your plans up 😡

I cannot understand why people choose to move house then are in no hurry. You need time to sort stuff but months? Just why?

Just popping back on to say it is completion on our purchase and moving date for us today. After 11 and a half months of seemingly neverending drama with chains collapsing, we are finally here. Love to m0ther, stripy, camper, Cosh and everyone else who held my hand whilst I struggled was going nuts with stress with this whole process. Keep the faith and I hope you get there soon!

And Spickle! Thanks for all the timely and helpful advice. I could not work in English conveyancing.....

what a pain Cosh, sorry your vendor has gone awol.

Ocelot lots of luck and best wishes for the big move. I am not jealous at all no not one bit!

ocelot great news. Enjoy your new home! (Finally)

We're on the home stretch as buyers are awaiting their report and contract to sign and we should be there too soon depending on how fast our vendor replies.

Solicitor was pushing for is to do and extra search thing as council one showed it's within 5k of shell gas wells etc. Er no I'll not bother paying extra for that and instead use my eyes... there's a petrol station within 5k!

Good luck today Ocelot. It's completion day for me too and I'm sitting around like a spare part while the removals guys pack and load the van.

Hopefully you get to exchange soon mother. It's such a relief to get there and be able to start making actual concrete plans.

Cosh, some vendors are so shit aren't they? We had some in our chain who left everyone hanging for weeks before withdrawing from the sale. They had been selling because of financial problems but granny had died just before they accepted the offer. They kept everyone hanging until their inheritance came through and they could get the bank off their back. Twats.

Great news ocelot. I promise you that this time next week, you'll think it was all worth it!!

beckyb1 our mortgage is with nationwide it took 1 day under 3 weeks from application to offer and that's with added queries as it once flooded(just one room though) so it would have been nearer 2 without this.

Our buyer didn't transfer their deposit.

A whole chain waiting on them and they didn't do it.

They "might" do it tomorrow. Except, they aren't answering their phone now.

FFS. I honestly could cry, I've got a bunch of removal quotes, a home insurance quote, but I can't proceed with anything until exchange. I feel like I'm in limbo, and every sodding cattery is booked, so I'm going to have two stressed out cats on moving day and I don't even have a spare room to shut them in because it's a one-sodding-bedroom flat.

Awkward do you know why they haven't done it? Its tempting just to say fuck it and walk away isn't it?!!

My buyers solicitors are in the process of raising searches and enquiries I'll give them 2 weeks then chase again. It's mind numbing it boring and beyond stressful 😭😖

Is it usual not to find out the results of the valuation conducted by your mortgage company? I was quite interested to hear how much it was valued for but we didn't hear anything and I'm wondering if I meant to ask or if you never find out.

No - they said they were going to do it when the agent called them this morning, & they haven't answered the phone since.
If they'd called and gave a reason, I'd be disappointed but try to think, "it is what it is". As it is I'm oscillating between crying & being furious.
The pattern of ignoring calls for days at a time makes me think they are going to pull out. I've asked the agent to challenge them about it previously but they say they still want to buy.
If it was just me I'd have told them to take a hike, but there's several people above me who would also suffer, & I don't want to spend more time house hunting because I want a dog

well thats us no longer in a chain again...vendors of the house we were buying have pulled out and no longer moving. FFS...another waste of time. and hopefully not money (desperately hoping i get my mortgage and survey money back - they wouldnt even let the surveyor get access). Why the flipping heck put your house on the market, accept and offer then decide not to move, surely they could of considered that first. Grrr. Theres no where else I even want to view at the moment and school application deadline will soon be on us so im feeling pretty grumpy today.

We exchanged today!

There was the traditional last-minute ridiculousness (when our solicitor hadn't called for authority to exchange by 1pm we called her and she said "ooooooooh, that's right, it was today wasn't it. I'll call you back" WTAF?)

Still, she managed it and called back at 5pm to confirm. Now it's time to declutter (we're moving into somewhere a bit smaller) and wait for our vendors' house to be built so we can all move.

Just to conclude my journey on this thread,

6 weeks after he made his offer our time-wasting twat 'buyer' pulled out. Via fucking text message
I'd spoken to him in the morning and he was instructing his solicitor and everything was fine, 2 hours later he thought a text saying they were actually buying another house would be suitable. Needless to say we had a very heated argument by phone where he said it was my fault we'd lost money for jumping the gun and spending money when i shouldnt. (on surveys and fees not as if it was carpets and cushions)
We've decided to stay put now, this was the 2nd buyer to piss us about and we're just too stressed with it all,

All the best to you all !

Buyer has announced they're on holiday from next Wednesday to the 4th August- the day we were all aiming to move! Yesterday they said they'd be going for one week but it seems to suddenly be extended to 2.5 weeks. I think it's probably an issue with paying rent and mortgage (which they'll be doing for one month) and maybe the date is some kind of cut off. I'd be more sympathetic if that was the reason. The lies are making me so cross I feel like telling them to stick it. They asked to measure up end of July so how were they planning to do that if they're away. They'd specified the dates they were away so totally caught in the lie.

Now looks like we'll be moving on the 7th. If vendor can. Fed up. Means I'll move on Monday then back to work Tuesday for the rest of the week. Vendor was bending over backwards to stick with previous week and yesterday buyer was supposedly fine. Did they just forget the holiday was 2.5 weeks not 1? I hate it and then so much. They're ftb with no commitments and no plan to even move in on moving day as they'll do it gradually. Great but I have 3 dc and a job and school holidays which means a logistical nightmare already without the mind games!

xander huge congratulations to be over this nightmare!!

Badger I feel your pain, my bastard buyers waited 4.5 months to discover they couldn't afford the mortgage after all and pulled out. I will be taking it off the market too if it doesn't go through this time. After separating from h last summer I was in a good place mentally but this process has driven me to distraction 😭

mother WTF is wrong with people?!! You question their commitment to moving don't you?! Surely it's simple, you want to move so you do everything to achieve this or at least communicate your intentions. Sadly I've learnt that when buying and selling it means you have to deal with all manner of selfish dicks. When the system will be charged I don't know but cannot believe it's 2017 and we still have this nightmare system

I quite like the weekends though as I switch off knowing the solicitors are closed!

I can't believe how dickish your buyers have been mother. And how much the system enables people to behave appallingly.

Sorry to hear about your bellend buyers too badger. I can't imagine how gutted you must feel.

I had a mini-completion day nightmare. After everything going smoothly and picking up the keys to my new house at 1pm, unloading everything by 3.30pm, my buyer text me at 4pm when I was just about to sit down and enjoy my new house to ask when I was dropping off the keys to the old place as the EAs didn't have have a clue what was going on. I'd dropped them off at 1pm! Cue several unanswered calls to the estate agent to try and work out what the fuck had happened to my keys and having visions of getting sued for failing to complete.

Finally after a stressful half hour I got through to the agents who told me that my buyer hadn't called at all and that they knew exactly where the keys were. Still not sure whether it was the buyer or the EAs being muppets.

Still silence from our buyer...