@kerrymucklowe2020 we exchanged emails and I agree with you, don't do it. Our buyers have our email address. I do prefer all communication to be through solicitor and EA.
Exchange on our sale didn't happen yesterday. I will check with our solicitor to see what the holdup was to see if we can exchange today. I had a glass of wine last night and a piriton (reacted to something as rash on my arm) and I slept very well last night. Drug induced sleep but I really needed the rest.
Our bank are sticking to their word that offer to be done in 14 working days so it is looking very likely that we shall have gap between our current house and our purchase. How long the gap is will depend on the number of days ours solicitor needs to draw down on the mortgage and when our bank receive the signed offer from us.
@littlecontis Congratulations! Hopefully we aren’t too far behind you with exchange on our sale.
@JustFrustrated and @ntoheragain4 hope all goes through smoothly for you tomorrow.
@Jujuball I’m sorry you didn’t get the one you wanted. You never know though; our purchase was like this. We lost out to someone else but 6 weeks later it came back on. As for moving out to break the chian and not lose your buyer, it is looking like a lot of this is happening for many people. We also agreed to exchange and complete on our sale sooner than we wanted as our buyers’ rental contract ends soon and also something about secondary school places but having checked this, it looks like this wasn’t as urgent as they made it out to be; deadline is November. Our solicitor wanted to challenge this as she too is local and going through these applications for her DC but we just want to be done with this. At the latest we would have completed maybe a week later than the date they are insisting on.
@Lemonylemony @graduatedbob our buyers got the EICR completed on our house. They then pursued us to have a whole bunch of C3 ratings completed. I think I would only get your vendors to rectify C1 and maybe C2 but then maybe you will want to get this work done yourself to ensure it is done properly anyway like what @Lemonylemony is doing. The house we are buying we know has old electrics and we shall get them checked out when we complete as it needs modernising throughout.
@jelly79 fingers crossed the survey comes through sooner.
@Baxdream our short chain (our buyer/us/empty house) formed on the 14th July when the offer on our purchase was accepted so we are 10 weeks into it. Completion has been agreed for 8th Oct so about 12 weeks. It will be 14 weeks for our buyers from when we accepted their offer on our house.