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Simultaneous exchange and completion

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Gyptian · 17/09/2021 17:16

Chain of 6. Supposed to exchange today but a solicitor in the middle went awol. So we’re now doing a simultaneous exchange and completion on Monday 😩😩😩

Please reassure me that I’m not going to be packing my house into a removal van and then moving everything back in if it collapses.

So annoyed. 😡😡

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Retrievemysanity · 17/09/2021 17:28

Eek! Good luck. We did an exchange and complete on the same day with our house this month but we weren’t in a chain as had already bought a house we were moving to so more risky for our buyers than us. It’s not ideal if you’re in a big chain. Do you have removals insurance?

Flowers500 · 17/09/2021 18:21

We did it a few months back, was all fine!

Subbaxeo · 17/09/2021 18:26

It’s horrible-we did it. The solicitor seemed very relaxed about it but I was terrified it would all collapse. We were hoping to exchange beforehand, but it never happened. But everything went ahead. The likelihood is that if something untoward had happened you would have known about it today. Very best wishes for Monday, OP.

Gyptian · 17/09/2021 20:46

Thanks. Hopefully it will all work out. It’s just the lack of certainty that is giving me the jitters! It was so much easier when we bought our first house, we had a nice 2 week gap and could move at our leisure due to being first time buyers!

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Frazzled2207 · 17/09/2021 20:59

Urgh. I did this and it was fine but it def does not help the stress levels.
Hope it all goes ok on Monday. And that the awol person has been found. Idiot.

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