Sellers/Buyers Roll Call No 6

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OMG just had phone call from solicitor to ask for my approval to exchange today and confirm completion on 31st October . 16 nights to go..................................

Congratulations @Blobby10, fab news!

@BeauticianNotMagician81 any news today? Fingers crossed for you that it works out.

@Blobby10 congratulations. So pleased for you. I bet you can't wait.

No news here. I've sent an email to the EA today stating that if we don't exchange and complete by mid next week then we are pulling out. DH and I sat and got a plan together for extending this house if it all falls through. We will also put a new kitchen in here. Apparently the EA is out trying to sort it today. I'm kind of over it. I don't think it will happen. I just want to know by the end of the day so I can start unpacking and doing some decorating here instead, so we are all ready for Christmas.

*@BeauticianNotMagician81 * keeping my fingers crossed for you that you get some answers today. Sounds like you've been dealt a whole load of rubbish in this process .

@BeauticianNotMagician81 - just popping back onto the thread to send you my best wishes. You'll remember the absolute horror I had (divorced couple and court case) and you were always so encouraging. Sending house moving magic dust to you and your lovely family.

@BeauticianNotMagician81 so sorry that you're still being royally fucked around. I can feel the despondency in your post. Fingers crossed it gives them the kick up the arse they need, but frustrating all the same that it has had to play out this way. Sounds sensible to make alternative plans too.

@Blobby10 great news! We're hoping to complete the same day.

Update from us is that all enquiries have been answered for our sale now so it's just the purchase that's got to be sorted. Our solicitor received the replies today for the purchase enquiries (of which she sent 31 ) so she's going to get on them asap. Our buyer and ourselves had our surveys done yesterday too so fx neither flags up anything untoward! Other than that our contracts are all signed and with the solicitor so really I think it's just the purchase enquiries that are outstanding oh and we have to sign and send the mortgage contract but we haven't been sent it yet ..

I'm so so pregnant now (37w 2d) and just want to be in before baby arrives he is not allowed to come early! My 2yo DS is getting very annoyed with how much I need to rest ha poor guy. Still working too (I wfh for myself) so it's bloody knackering but soooo soon I will take a soak in the roll top bath in our bathroom and all will be right with the world...

@BeauticianNotMagician81 so sorry to hear of all the drama. Can you unpack just the stuff you need for now and Christmas? Maybe put all boxes in just one room so house feels less like a storage unit? Not sure how practical that would be. The good news is kids are resilient and home is where family is, they are more forgiving than we are as parents of ourselves I think.

@AlmaMartyr congrats on progress!

Not much has happened here - received memo of sale for our purchase last week. This week I decided to chase our named solicitor as had not heard anything from them. Good thing I did because it turns out the estate agent had put the wrong branch and wrong named contact on the bloody thing! Our actual named contact was sat around waiting to recieve a memo of sale but of course it had been sent to this other person who then ignored it because she was like "why am I receiving this" and too busy to bat it back to EA! Took a few phone calls to sort out and in the end the agent didn't even apologise. So that's another week wasted and still no corrected memo in sight. Positive side is we now have second viewing booked for weekend with the garage keys! Very excited to see the house again and confirm we're not totally insane to want it.

For those newly selling, I agree with above, leave the buyers alone! Ideally get the EA to do viewings when you're out or if you absolutely have to do them yourself, welcome them in and let them wander around by themselves and just be there to answer questions. Also depersonalising and decluttering is really useful if you haven't already, so photos of people, trinkets, personal items like toiletries and hairbrushes all hidden away. All surfaces cleared to unreasonable levels even if you just shove stuff in a drawer temporarily and get it out when they've gone. It really does help.

@Blobby10 congrats and everything crossed!

OK lovely ladies (and gents!) I need reassurance - I have seen my new house once - it felt so 'right' I offered and was accepted and at this stage (have exchanged today) I obviously can't pull out. I'm certain that I'm doing the right thing buying it - am I crazy not to insist on seeing it again?

The lady moving out is 75 and she's going into a retirement flat which she doesn't want to do. I feel that looking round the house again may a) rub her nose in it a bit and b) distress her as she's very set in her routine and I can only view around 6pm when she's settled in for the evening and doesn't want to answer the door - actually she did state no viewings after 4pm or weekends which is why I never went back before offering and exchanging .

I'm torn between wanting to see it again and NOT wanting to see it in case my memory is proved to be dodgy and I don't get the same 'right' feeling! Please tell me I'm not crazy!!

@MrBobLobLaw I do hope your baby listens to you!! Hope you have booked a packing service and aren't doing it yourself!!!

@Preggosaurus9 I can't believe the ineptitude of some EA and solicitors!! When you consider what we pay them to do the job and they make a monumental cock up like that! Have to admit that the EA I used to sell my house were very good with the aftersales stuff - it was just my buyers buyers solicitor that made us all so !!!!! Hope you can get everything back on track!

@Blobby10 thank you. I wouldn't bother to go and view again now unless there is something specific you need to check or measure up for. You might get stressed out if it's not super clean or empty. When you complete and have your lovely house you won't care.

@sandybayley that's so kind. You may have made me a little emotional reading that. I hope it happens but I'm not too sad. We've had a shitty year and like you said too "it's just a house". I just want to know either way.

@MrBobLobLaw thank you. I am totally over it all, you are right. I just want to move on and start having fun with the children, instead of everything being about the house. It's all my head has been full of since last August.
Get your contract sent off. Enquiries shouldn't take long. Fingers crossed that you are in very, very soon.

@Preggosaurus9 I believe after speaking to the Estate agent of the house we are purchasing today that our seller won't wait 8-10 weeks either. They need to be abroad so the house will just be rented out as they wanted out before Brexit.

I sent an email to my estate agent today and have heard nothing at all today. So now I'm frustrated at the rudeness as well.

Sorry phone died and then had to do toddler pickup/wrangling.

@MrBobLobLaw congrats! I'm 36+2 so right behind you. Everything crossed baby stays put.. was your DS on time/late?

@Blobby10 eek that's tough! I would say don't worry about seller's feelings, yes it's sad but it's also a transaction, you're not responsible for the backstory. Personally I would definitely do second viewing. It should confirm everything you thought when you first viewed and help you sleep a bit more at night!

@BeauticianNotMagician81 what a nightmare. Fingers crossed you hear something soon.

@Blobby10 I don't think that's crazy, probably just nerves that it's all happening now. I think I'd just wait though if it was me, but if you feel you should then go for it, maybe under the guise of measuring something up.

@Preggosaurus9 hope you love it just as much 2nd time round. Our purchase has a garage but we were so excited looking around the house that we forgot to ask if we could look inside!

@BeauticianNotMagician81My heart breaks for you, dh and your kids. I feel like we've been on this shit journey together since the last thread and I am so annoyed we're both still here. You dont deserve this after your last transaction fell through too. I'm glad you sound at peace with the outcome though if it really is inevitable.

@Blobby10 Congratulations! Could you see what the estate agent says about another viewing? They can try to gauge if the vendor is receptive to the idea?

@MrBobLobLaw hoping baby stays put! Fingers crossed things are speedy for you now.

I have been on edge for the last 2 weeks. We are hopeful to exchange tomorrow and complete on Friday - mortgage funds have been requested but need my lender to confirm they will be available on Friday (!!). Also need the vendors solicitor to give two undertakings that they will settle the service charge accounts (they say they have, but havent provided proof or the undertaking). EA is doing everything they can to push it through so I am just waiting for the good phone call tomorrow.

It's been a very long 6 months and I dont want to believe that I am almost there!

@Tillypea thank you.

@Violetroselily I am keeping everything crossed for you. Sending positive exchange vibes for tomorrow.

So EA called. He's 85% sure the FTB will not go ahead tomorrow. He has said that he is confident about getting our buyer a new buyer ASAP and that he can get everything through in 4 weeks. I just don't think that's likely. It might take the buyer a while to sell again and then what if we wait and something goes wrong again. I just don't think I have the headspace for it any longer. We are unsure what to do. Would we be silly to just call it a day now? That's if our vendor doesn't sell/rent in the meantime. If we wait 4 weeks that takes this whole process since our first sale to 31 weeks and I just can't help thinking 4 weeks is very ambitious.

@BeauticianNotMagician81 so sorry for you, you sound so exhausted by it all. I hope you manage to get some peace

@Preggosaurus9 gah! So annoying. Hope you enjoy second viewing! House we're buying has a garage and I am so excited to have one. I keep thinking 'oh no, where I am going to put such and such' and then remembering! We don't have a garage atm and are easily pleased!

@blobby10 I wouldn't go back personally, I think it's easy to give yourself the wobbles on a second viewing.

@Violetroselily I really hope you get that good news phonecall tomorrow! It's so nerve-wracking.

@mrbobloblaw hope baby stays put for now. I was heavily pregnant last time we moved, it does add an extra layer of stress. Roll top bath sounds amazing

I've had removal quotes now, our surveyor is booked for end of October and our buyer's surveyor is coming on Friday. Sounds like everything is going well, our solicitor said all was progressing and we've officially applied for mortgage now. Phew!

@BeauticianNotMagician81 sorry, cross posted. Nightmare! This FTB sounds very nervous, shame it's causing so much grief for everyone else! I guess 4 weeks might be doable? Good luck, what a decision to have to make!

Thank you for good wishes, one viewer cancelled, and I opened the door to one as I took the bin out, (they were early) so unfortunately he was welcomed by a small scream. The sun came out in time which was nice.
So I suppose I just hope there’s some feedback today.

@BeauticianNotMagician81will you lose out waiting 4 weeks? (Apart from tearing your hair out with stress that is?) Can your upward chain support that? Round us properties do sell in 4 weeks quite often.

@MrBobLobLaw I was also heavily pregnant last time we moved, get all the help you can!

Struggling to find something that ticks all the boxes to buy, am still gutted about the house we didn’t buy & cant ever see something with that much potential coming up again.

It's not the FTB being funny it's her dad. We will hopefully know either way today. I don't see how it's doable in 4 weeks as for one our buyers need to sell their house again first

Fingers crossed for some closure today either way @BeauticianNotMagician81. Got such second hand anger for you though, bet you just wanna shake the FTBs dad, how do people not appreciate the knock on effect these things have? And surely he is potentially sabotaging the whole sale for his daughter in the process? Apologies, I'm sure you've had this whole convo in your head already!!

Thank you for all the well wishes everyone! We're not getting professional packers but our friends and family have all said they'll come to help so we're vouching on their help. We've only got a one bed flat currently so not that much stuff and we're just moving up the road really.

Got some positive news from our solicitor yesterday that the sale enquiries are all answered so it's just the purchase to finish up, and she received the replies to her 31 enquiries yesterday so she's going to get going on them asap. I'm starting to think that it might actually just happen 

@BeauticianNotMagician81 so sorry you are having such a hard time. I can totally empathise as we are too.
I update occasionally as we accepted offer in Feb and sadly our buyer passed away soon after. We held on in the hope partner could buy but after 6 months nothing has been sorted. We are now doing viewings again and I hate it. Boxes which were packed are now in storage costing a fortune but house looked awful with them in for viewings.
Good luck to all. It's more stressful than weddings and divorce in my opinion 😓

Hi all, hoping very much I can join the madness on here? Agreed an offer on my current house last month and sale progressing well... Agreed a price for new purchase on Monday of this week. Pushing like a mad woman to get it all through for Christmas? Am I insane? What timeframe are most of you working to?

@TulipsfromAmsterdam so sorry you are going through it too. I hope you sell soon.

We have decided to pull out and get a remortgage with more lending. We can get most of the work done on our current house before Christmas. We heard pretty much nothing from the bottom of chain yesterday. The father of FTB has banned the EA from calling her so we can only get hold of information via the solicitor and she never answers email or the phone. I'm not playing that game for another 8-10 weeks I just want to get on with my life and stop paying ridiculous mortgage interest rates.

Good luck to you all. I hope you are very happy in your new homes. I will check in from time to time. Thank you for supporting me on our journey, you have all been amazing. I have loved this thread and haven't really posted on anything else on mn for ages.

@BeauticianNotMagician81 so sorry it has all fallen through, but happy for you that you've made a decision - I hope you manage to get all the work done and have your house all beautiful ready for Christmas. Goodness knows what the father of the FTB is playing at.

@Little11 hi! We had offers agreed last week and I admit we're hoping for before Christmas but I don't think it's terribly likely because it's only 10 weeks! I would rather move after Christmas than 3 days before as well. Congrats on having an offer accepted though!

@MrBobLobLaw fingers crossed everything goes through for you soon!

@TulipsfromAmsterdam that's so sad and so stressful! Hope you find a buyer soon.