Simultaneous exchange and completion

[Gyptian]

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. 😡😡

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?

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

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.

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!

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.