Hi,
So we are a chain of 5 and for the past couple of weeks we've had a lot of "we're ready to exchange!...Oh..hold on, no we're not - xy and z needs doing. We're ready to exchange! Hold on.....", conversations and it's honestly been sending me insane!
We are waiting for someones mortgage amendments to come back (not an extention - just an error on the form...apparently) which should be in by tomorrow or Thursday, but even if it is, we still have this radio silence from one of the solicitors who still won't confirm that her client is good to exchange, although the client herself believes she is.
We can't exchange without that confirmation, so right now the completion date is only agreed and is not official, although we all have removals companies booked in.
Nobody seems to know what to do. I can't contact the solicitor directly. Our EA has been trying for almost a fortnight to get hold of them, as have our solicitor, but she just won't get back to anyone....so how the hell do we actually exchange and officially agree a completion date?!
It's an absolute sham. It's looking likely we'll lose next weeks date and this will drag on for another god knows how many weeks 
Any words of comfort? Is this a typical house buying/selling story?...