In a chain support thread Sept 2017

[Gizlotsmum]

Hope it's ok to start another one! So we have a week of waiting for surveys etc...

Oh my goodness Munki what a nightmare. so glad that you managed to sort it out and got in in the end. I hope you are enjoying your new home

Dragon for you too. I think you are doing the right thing, although it would have been polite for your buyers to offer some sort of recompense. I hope this allows a little breathing room for you if nothing else.

pulling definitely let them see you throw all your toys if they don't get a spurt on.

I am about a millimetre from chucking it all in too. I am more and more asking myself why we want to move. I know the answers to this but they sound very shallow. I have friends and family asking why we want to move anyway, it's a nice house in a good area and we have good friends here and I'm starting to think it's just not worth it. There is simply no market. Our 2nd choice viewer had her offer accepted on the do-er up-er and the other viewers are failing to give feedback despite being very positive whilst actually viewing. I'm basically feeling really low. It's a nice house in a nice area but it's not special or unique in any way. It's cheap as chips for a (ha ha) quick sale and yet there is still no-one who wants it

And what really pisses me off is that the EA insists we'll sell it soon but this belief appears to have absolutely no basis in reality and yet he is the expert - arghhhhhh

We have no viewings booked this week and frankly if we could afford it I'd try to auction it just to get rid. And even if we did get an offer I know that would only be the start of the stress and anxious waiting that you are all going through (thank goodness for Jaz with a positive story to partially mitigate this!)

It's half term next week and I haven't booked any time off work or any playdates for DS because I don't know if there will be a viewing that we can't turn down.

Well. Heard from my solicitor twice today! Things are hopefully moving in the right direction. Should be able to exchange Friday (Pls keep your fingers crossed)

Awww Yoga it's so frustrating when EAs spout all this stuff about 'great property' and 'quick sale' without any actual basis for their enthusiasm!! Why are you moving? Are your reasons worth taking a hit on where you are now?

I had a little cry about moving out of our house yesterday silly hormonal cow We do love it, it's just not big enough for us in the long run, so it's going to be very sad leaving it behind...
Our vendors have suggested next Friday as a completion date We've asked for the following Monday (30th) because Friday costs 10% more for removals!! We've had two quotes, for full packing and removal, both £1300. Based in West Yorkshire, does that seem steep or is it just me?!

Good news pulling - don't stop bugging them!!!

Believe me I won't. It will be too tight to complete Friday, but we can at least exchange and complete 27th. I need an endex. My children are desperately in need of moving!

Our removal quote for a 2 bed, not packing and moving 20 miles was just under £900 so that might be about right ( we’re east anglia)

Yoga- sometimes you don't need any reasons to validate you move. It's enough to know that you want to. This whole process is so convoluted and unpredictable, keep positive and keep going. Something good (whatever that is) will come out of it.

Ness I'm familiar with that neck of the woods. How many bedrooms are you moving from? We've got 2 beds to move from and have had quotes from £650 to £1,200. It depends how many moving porters they'll need on the day and the quantity/weight of what you've got.

Great news pulling FX that the queries are straightforward and easily resolved. Spickle's right though that some queries can take longer than others to sort out - make sure your EA is in the loop because they can contact your vendors directly and get them involved with supplying answers quickly. We ended up doing this for our buyer and it took me exactly 15 minutes to sort out a query that his solicitor had been playing email ping pong on for over 3 weeks Not a criticism of conveyancers because I think the job sounds like a nightmare but I wish the communication was better, because a lot of the time we can and have been able to help!

Yoga Is a move absolutely necessary right now or can you hang fire and try again in the early Spring?

Perhaps can you marshal your EA into ringing around the chain to galvanise people? I feel for you - the frustration of feeling like you are having to drag everyone by the scruff of the neck!

Still no news here. The top of the chain has one query outstanding but we are hoping for an update in the next day or so. Hoping that we can exchange in time for us to be able to complete on the 30th - I know it sounds daft but I now have a bit of a mental hang-up about being in the new house before the end of the month! We've been at this for 17 weeks now and I have had enough...

Another day, another day of no exchange. If we don't exchange tomorrow then it'll be all off as I'm not moving all our stuff in to storage on Thursday for it all to fall through.

I've never been so upset or dispirited by this whole thing. Apparently the top of the chain 'aren't ready'

Thank you all - I'm sorry for being miserable, it will pass I'm sure.

Nessa I'm like you, I hated having to move from my last house. I adored it but was just too small for us all. So the move to our current house was a purely head move, no heart involved. It was to get more space and was to be for 5 years. We've been here 6 years now and I still don't like it. There's nothing wrong with it, it's a perfectly nice house, it's just not the house I want (now I sound like a spoilt child!)

I can't help with moving costs I'm afraid although they don't sound bad to me for a full packing move. EA told us it would be about £2k for a house our size in this area.

I think we want to move now Lazy because DP and DS have fallen in love with the house we want to buy and where the vendor is waiting for us and being so patient and accepting. It's logically a bit unsound but it's unique, gives us more space and if we lose it we won't find anything like it again. I'm rather more "meh" about it than DP and DS though. I would prefer to move a bit further out of the home counties and get more space for our money. We are also on SVR mortgage now (as our new mortgage is with a different provider) which is costing us about £350 extra per month and I'm unwilling to carry on with this indefinitely. The final driver for soon is that we have to apply for secondary schools next Autumn so wanted to be in situ by then. Frankly, if we lose this house then DP won't want to move anyway and we'll take a new fixed rate and hunker down. Do some stuff to this house instead and then move when DS is older. It wouldn't be the end of the world

Thank you muss I just sometimes feel silly stamping my feet and demanding to move with no real, tangible reason.

Fingers crossed you can complete by the end of the month Lazy Things at least seem to have moved on from last week when you thought you might have to break your chain.

pulling - crikey, it's like buses - nothing for a week and then two emails in one day. Hopefully this is the start of the end of the process for you.

I will stop moping now - I blame having a stinking cold and the coffee machine breaking down this morning

oh Dragon for you. Any reason for lack of exchange today? I thought your buyer was desperate? Fingers, toes and limbs crossed it happens tomorrow.

Thanks Yoga. I'm firmly on the wine tonight.

There's a guy at the top of the chain (my sellers seller) that isn't ready to exchange. My sol seems to think they haven't even picked up the file for a while - everybody else is ready but this one.

I'm not willing to risk moving us in to my mothers house and storage for it to all fall through so tomorrow is the last day we can exchange without us being at a massive risk of being homeless. I won't put us in that situation so it will all be off as if my buyer doesn't complete by Friday then he has to pull out.

The lack of control is the worst, I don't know whether to carry on packing, or not. I can't face the thought of having to unpack it all if/when it does all fall through.

Dragon poor you I really hope that something happens for you tomorrow.

Yoga IKWYM about wanting to be in the new house. It's so frustrating. I so hope that someone comes through for you soon

We're in Leeds Lazy, 3 bed, 1 reception, kitchen, loft & shed. Moving about 15mins down the road! We've got Pickfords coming to quote on Thurs too, interested to see if a bigger company comes out cheaper, but I guess £1300 isn't all that steep then... yeesh! Sounds like we might have the same moving day lined up - fingers crossed eh??

Yoga it sounds like a move is the right thing all round then And your vendors have been great, which is refreshing given some of the horror stories going on! I just hope your EA can pull something out of the bag for you! And no coffee is entirely good reason to have a grump day

Dragon I thought you and your buyer had decided to break the chain and exchange this week regardless? Or is the top so close that it might all happen this week together?

I think you'll find Pickfords will be a LOT more expensive than the local firms Nessalina. Id hazard a guess of 2k upwards. Personally I think you should be looking to pay under 1k for pack & move, baring in mind your location. Im in very expensive Surrey & only looking to pay £650, (including packing materials) would be about 1k with packing. We are leaving a fair bit of stuff though, so a normal move would be £200 ish more id imagine. Don't be afraid to barter. Its not as if the market is buoyant so there are deals to be had!

Ooh I hadn't thought about haggling! Worth a go, eh?

Yes there is a huge variety in the quotes. However we have a lot of books - really quite a lot! So our issue is not so much quantity but weight. All of the firms are terrified of falling foul of VOSA - because if they see, stop and weigh their vehicles and they are over, then they impound them right by the side of the road. They can't move again until they have sent another vehicle to split the load and everything is back within its max load limit. As we are moving out of county and this involves a motorway trundle (which apparently is a favourite for VOSA as all they have to do is look out for the vans and lorries than are moving mega slowly), we're having to split our stuff between two lorries.

Top tip; check that your quote includes dismantling and reassembly of beds!

Wow, I never knew it was that complicated! Ours does include dis/re assembly and also taking down shelves off the wall - they may as well have called it their 'lazy bugger' package

Hope everyone gets some progress today!

@Dragon teally hope you exchange today. How sickening that someone else has so much power.

I know this because I have had 3 firms very carefully and insistently telling me why it was necessary. I never knew I'd end up knowing so much about removal lorry loads - I am now pub quiz ready

Oooh yes good luck Dragon I really hope things come off for you today

Bloody exhausted after a night with a pal.

Vendors are signing contracts today, in preparation to exchange this week. I'm going to tell my solicitor to get the indemnities in place in preparation and I'm going to be cheeky and ask for exchange and completion on Friday. It won't happen because vendors solicitor will have a heart attack 😂 but I can ask.

Is anyone else looking at the number of posts on the thread and thinking "Please let me have completed and moved before we get to 1,000"?

Frankly exchanged will do Lazy 😂