Listing, viewings and offers thread 3!

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We filled up our old one, hoping I'm not posting out of turn by starting the next, it's the only thing keeping me from going nuts with the endless cycle of no viewings - viewings - feedback - no offer - no viewings - viewings etc!

Hope this is the thread where we all sell and get our dream houses. I'm working from home and doing 'backseat cleaning' - nagging my poor OH who has the day off to do everything for our second viewing this afternoon from the only couple to have shown serious interest.

We have a viewing - the first in A MONTH.

Oooh well done drspouse fingers crossed!

I'm sure they will either a) not show up or b) not respond to requests for feedback or c) make a horrendously low offer.

Lazy these are surveys by the solicitor not the mortgage ones, have paid that fee up front but can claim it back or transfer it to another property if it falls through. So these are legal surveys on the property not the valuation ( and homebuyers) required by the mortgage

It's totally shit, isn't it? You start this process thinking that you are prepared, accepting that there might be a bit of stress and a couple of setbacks, but coming at it from the perspective that you want to sell and they want to buy so it should all work out in the end.

Then you have every ounce of calmness, trust, patience and faith in human nature ground out of you due to months of faffing about, being lied to, manipulated and generally shat on.

I really have everything crossed for you drspouse. I know it sounds so precious but this has genuinely been one of the most stressful and awful things I have gone through (and I have been through bereavements, job losses etc). Hopefully your buyer will be a decent sort - we're all decent nice people so they do exist!!

Update from us - we got confirmation our offer was accepted today. So I am pleased about that but apprehensive as this is the second time we've got on the merry-go-round and I'm worried about things going wrong again.

Yay Lazy. Fingers crossed x

Good luck Drspouse

Ah Giz crossed wires - you're talking about searches I think?

You could wait until you have your mortgage approval first before ordering the searches, it depends how quickly you need to move forward and how long on average they take to come back in your area?

I'm holding off asking for mine because I want my survey done first to make sure there aren't any issues - and our lender's survey team are very quick (they had the last one booked within 24 hours of us having our offer accepted!). However I'm fairly confident that our mortgage application will be fine (they've already confirmed there's no issues with affordability and the underwriters seem happy with us so far) and the local authority for the area we're buying in, is returning searches quite quickly at the moment so I'm not worried about it holding anything up.

Yeah sorry. It's been a learning curve!

They ( solicitors) stated 4 weeks for searches.

Broker said 10 days approx for valuation ( DIP) already done and on this property ( non standard construction so lots of background talking done) but I am naturally pessimistic!

Sorry our DIP is for this property

Well looks like the valuation fee has gone from our bank account so fx

Giz that seems like a long time - is your area very busy? Our searches took a week (annoyingly, because if they'd taken longer then we could have cancelled them when we pulled out - unfortunately they came back very quickly so we've had to pay for them anyway) and our valuation survey took 72 hours from the time of the visit to the lender being willing to release the result.

Ah just seen there is NS construction involved, which will take longer. Even so 10 days feels like quite a long time; how much talking do they need to do?!

Especially when it has a repairs certificate from their own approved scheme! I think they are either really busy or short staffed around here. Our EPC was done by someone from an office over an hour away because the local one had too much work

There is so little on the market at the moment, so it's either really slow - because people can't find buyers because people are extending or deciding to stay put. Or it is stupidly quick - because people like me who want to move because we really need to, have to find somewhere to live so are very keen with making offers!!

If by some miracle we manage to actually move - and note that I am still not wildly optimistic it's going to work - then I will never move again. They will carry me out of the new place in a fucking box when the time comes!!

Lazy, that's what we said when we bought this place. This is our forever home, they can take us out in a box, never doing this again etc.......Fast forward eight years and we are sold STC.

Oh God Square don't even joke about it! My sister was telling me that she thought it sounded a bit like childbirth (no DC of my own so I wouldn't know!) - in that it is utterly shit whilst you are actually doing it, but the moment it's over it is all worth it and you start to forget about the horror

Drspouse - I hope the viewing went well.

Gizlots - That sounds hopeful.

LazyDailyMailJournos - I'm sorry you're having such a shit time of it with this whole process. I hope things get better for you soon.

As for us, well after 6 weeks of waiting on processes with the housing agent that own the other half of the house, we finally went onto the market 'properly' (I.E, on Rightmove etc) on Tuesday. We had a call within an hour of it going live to say a woman wanted to see it and sounded really keen (wanted to see it that day, but had to wait until weds at 5pm when EA available). Spent the entirety of Weds trying to keep the house clean (utter nightmare with a near 3 year old and mobile 9 month old) and then went to visit my Mum whilst the viewing was due to take place, only for EA to notify afterwards that she never turned up. Apparently she e-mailed the next day to say she was really sorry and had turned up 30 mins late (EA had obviously gone by then) but had decided since that she didn't like the area so didn't want to re-book another viewing. Had another viewing yesterday at 5.30pm (again, I purposefully left the house) but haven't had any feedback from the EA about how that went. EA said on weds though that they had had quite a few enquiries about it (apparently shared ownership is in demand in the South East as it's so tough for first time buyers around here) so I'm relatively hopeful still (still plenty of time for my spirit to be crushed though by the soul-destroying nature of this process). We're going to look at some places tomorrow. A bit torn as to whether to stay in our current town or move to a neighbouring town, but I may make a separate thread about that as it's a bit long-winded.

Kit Kat that all sounds positive. Good luck with the hunt.

drspouse any news?

Good luck kitkat - you may be one of those lucky people who finds a reliable buyer, gets an offer accepted by a reliable seller and everything goes through with the minimum of hassle. Obviously if this happens then I reserve the right to wish plagues and pestilence upon you

Viewing isn't until tomorrow! Sorry!

Hi everyone, Lazy you made me laugh with your fucking carry me out in a box -- I shouldn’t laugh, but it sums it up really doesn’t it. How are you feeling today? Sorry to also say this but I’m very glad someone else is in the same boat as me and that I'm not a total outlier, this whole process - the stress is unbelievable. I’m happy for you that your offer has been accepted but also totally understand the cautious approach you’re taking. No celebrations yet! It does sound like there are a lot of dickheads about, dicking us about.

Ann - totally love your DH response to the EA, let them sit on that, idiots.

Gizlot I don’t know to be honest but Lazy seems to be on top of that for you. Best of luck.

Good luck KitKat - fingers crossed for you, someone somewhere may have a good smooth run on this.

So, we’ve had a bit of a week. We decided to drop the price fucking again, no worries, we’re not in the red yet and the market is currently a fickle bastard so we have to chase it down. Fine for now but a bit sickening – but what can you do. EA went back to bastard buyers and they came back with a 5% lower than our new price offer. We sat on it for a few days, then made the EA shit themselves by throwing out the idea of renting the house for the next 6 years (we seriously are considering it – even though it would be a ball ache). So EA went into overdrive. Then buyer came back with “rock solid assurances” that they were in it 100% this time. “love the house, love it so much, chain free, want to be in within 4 weeks etc etc etc”. So, we accepted the offer but on the condition that the house stays on the market until the survey is booked in and complete as we do not trust them. EA is spitting about it slightly but the buyer has accepted the terms, they know they fucked up (I hope!). So we are again officially under offer, but I have zero faith in these people so I am 100% not in any way celebrating. They now have a fire under their asses to get themselves organised, so that’s the only thing in our favour here. To be honest, if it does work out I will be massively relieved as I am awake every night from 3 am and have been for months, I could do with a good nights sleep, I also think I look a bit haggard from all the stress. DH is stressed about the cellar flooding again and with us living in a different country it is not so easy to monitor it.

So, round two.

Fx party

Party I really feel for you, it's so shitty isn't it?

I look back fondly - and with increasing disbelief - at the start of this process, when I thought it would be fun to house hunt! Yes really! I thought the hardest part would be finding a buyer and that once we had that nailed, everything else would be juuuust fiiiine

Have just posted in Credit Crunch. It's a very rich people's problems post, I'm afraid. But DH is stressed about money and I'm trying to do my bit.

I get it. It's difficult not to feel like you're moaning about nothing but it's a hugely stressful and expensive transaction - this is literally our life savings we're spending. I know it's a first world problem, there are people worse off, count your blessings etc. But all the same it doesn't mean that you don't have the right to worry or feel anxious.