AIBU to keep ringing everyone every afternoon to get them moving?

[Girlwhowearsglasses]

I am soo fed up. Finally after no less that three attempts to buy the same house and at least one sale of our house fallen through, we have an offer accepted on a brilliant house, and are under offer on our house. (we decided to start this process two years ago)

We've been under offer for 6 weeks now. The buyer still hasn't got his mortgage sorted (I understand why in this case) but is refusing to engage his solicitor properly to do all the 'other' stuff regarding the sale - that could be happening in parallel to his finances. My agent seemst to think this is normal!

As far as I'm concerned, if you really want a house you pay your £200 deposit and get your solicitor officially engaged and on the case! (that's what I've done). My agent seems to think he's waiting in case the mortgage provider specifies which solicitor he has to use..... is this a thing?

I imagine he wants to make sure the mortgage goes through before he pays £200 ... though shouldn’t take that long ? You can do mortgage applications over the phone ... I did mine in branch but It had fully gone through within about 4 days

Yes - lots of mortgage providers specify you must use a conveyancer on their list/panel. This is because that person acts for the mortgage provider as well as the buyer. The house has to be good security for the loan.

You can do it if you want but they'll all hate you because every time they have to listen to you obsessively haranguing them they have to stop doing whatever else they need to do during their working day, find out what's happening with you, tell you etc so you'll be literally wasting their time and if everyone they dealt with did that they wouldn't get anything done. Chill your tits.

Our mortgage company (Barclays) also had a list of solicitors we could use so it’s definitely a thing. But they gave us the list when we submitted our full application, we didn’t have to wait for the offer. So I can see why that might hold things up slightly, but not for weeks!