Thread 2: "Anyone not being picky - and STILL can't find anything?"

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Just spotted the first one is full so have set up thread two so we can keep talking with minimal delay. Hoping that tagging works regardless ...

RightMove addicts, and serial refreshers of other property websites, share your troubles!

Posters from last two pages in the thread and OP:
@PessimisticOptimist
@Eastie77Returns
@RidingMyBike
@beguilingeyes
@DanisEndo
@EmmaH2022
@dubyalass
@BennyBean
@ByeByeMissAmericanPie
@areyouhavingagiraffe
@CheltenhamLady
@doubleraspberry
@YukoandHiro
@TulipsfromAmsterdam
@MummyJ12
@starseeking
@GoinSouth
@MiracleBaby2022

Original thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/property/4346330-Anyone-not-being-picky-and-STILL-cant-find-anything

@EmmaH2022, glad I'm not the only one who only has a draft completion statement. I am normally diligent, but I think I was fed up after my Sale.
My old solicitors, in all honesty I am not sure they will be in touch, they are one of those national ones, don't pick up phone etc etc

[quote areyouhavingagiraffe]@EmmaH2022, glad I'm not the only one who only has a draft completion statement. I am normally diligent, but I think I was fed up after my Sale.
My old solicitors, in all honesty I am not sure they will be in touch, they are one of those national ones, don't pick up phone etc etc[/quote]
Sorry, I might have been unclear

they did send a completion statement

It just didn't have the word "final" in it. I think "completion statement" is fair enough myself! It didn't say "draft" - I never had one of those.

Anyway, the utility company were just being mad IMHO. The others accepted it, council tax accepted it.

I hope your solicitor gets in touch soon!

Oh I see. My completion statement says draft. Although there is a letter stating my Sale is complete

I do think I need to calm down. I was stressing over stupid things in my sale, I was selling leasehold and at one point the landlord sent the incorrect buildings insurance information, and it turned out that they had not been charging us for this. I then strated stressing that we were not insured, but it turns out we were, we just hadn't been charged. I am so scarred over whole process I am just stressing over everything.

Oh and then the fact that the land registry didn't have a floorplan with the deeds. Again stressing like a lunatic. Need to calm down! This could go one for months and I don't want to make myself ill again. Sorry for rant guys

It is so stressful that it does make you act irrationally.

Last week when we should have exchanged on Monday, I absolutely flipped. We finally exchanged at 3 pm on Tuesday.

This morning, in conversation, my DH said 'I was really worried about you last Monday, I genuinely thought you might be having a breakdown ' and he was not too far from the truth. I was ranting and raving, crying and stomping about the house like someone very close to the edge! Alos, I very rarely swear, but my language was choice.

This whole process has honestly very nearly unhinged me. I feel as if I have aged 10 years.

The incompetence/pettiness of everyone concerned has been breathtaking.

@CheltenhamLady, I totally get it! Glad you have exchanged. It makes us so irrational doesn't it? Like a PP has said, the money I have is genuine, and from my Sale and of course there are other ways of me proving that (title deeds in my name, record of sale with land registry). I just need to stop thinking everything is an issue.
Glad everything has worked out for you

How's everyone doing in here?

I'm getting impatient for the influx of spring properties to the market!

A new one popped on today so I'm going to look as it's a style of house I've not seen inside before (Victorian terrace, but with a lower ground floor and spread over three floors). It's a bit out of the area I like but since there nothing else on the market I though I'd ask for a viewing.

Feeling quite wobbly about rising price of everything and wondering if we shouldn't be leaving London to buy a very energy efficient new build with some land so we can start growing some food!

No major influx into the market here. A few places, but nothing suitable and it's still crazy as a result. If I see another 'offers over' house come on at an already overinflated price, I think I might cry.

I had a low day yesterday about properties. After looking for 2 years+ we are more open minded than ever but prices have risen so much, cost of living has risen, DHs business has become more unstable and he's more nervous about spending a lot of money, and we've had a 3rd child... we need a new house more than ever but less likely to get one.

Something came on yesterday that 2 years ago probably would have been affordable and we could have gone for it. Now it's out of our reach. I feel quite down about it.

DH is talking about doing a loft conversion here instead but I'm not sure that's the right thing for us.

Meh. 🙁

A new house came on yesterday where I am, which for the bricks and mortar alone is perfect. Unfortunately the one thing I'm not willing to compromise on is location.

So while the house is in the town I'm looking in, it's the other side (2 miles away) so not walking distance to DC schools or train stations. Plus there is a massive housing development going up over the next few years between the house and schools, so the already bad traffic on that road will become horrific.

Back to RM and Zoopla.

Is it cyclable @Starseeking? I feel a bit crazy asking that as it's something we wouldn't have contemplated (especially as I'm the only person in the family who can ride a bike!) but I know a lot of people do in the city we're in and it's enabled the purchase of bigger houses further out. I did look into the bus routes and prices to school as we were stuck looking within a mile of DD's primary which seriously limited our options.

Having said all of that, the house we've offered on is a 10 min walk from school so clearly that did remain our #1 priority!

It's not crazy at all @RidingMyBike, it's a good shout actually. However my DC2 who is starting school in September has SEN, and finds walking difficult, never mind cycling, so I haven't been able to get her anywhere near a bike yet!

I feel for everyone feeling so down.

Our house still isn't on RM, almost three weeks after we 'launched' it in soft marketing. Lots of viewings, almost no feedback and no offers. Agreed to drop the price slightly (it's the same as it was on for a year ago) and put it online but we wanted the photos redoing as they were pants. New photos done yesterday by a sulky photographer, and the agent promised to send them and the blurb today so it could go on tomorrow - our tenant is only keen on viewings on Fridays and Saturdays. Still nothing. I'm losing patience already - why do agents fight so hard for business and then do nothing? The contract system where they know they're safe for weeks really screws sellers!

Anyway, our house is lovely, everyone we know likes it, yet even in this market it has had no interest and is selling for 0% increase on last year. If that gives anyone hope!

I had a low day about it all yesterday too.

I feel as if the slowness of the vendor is a very bad sign indeed. I also feel I'll be stuck where I am, due to price increases. But it might just be the combination of slow vendor with slow solicitor.

One of mum's friends had her 3 bed garden flat valued last week, I just heard yesterday. She is moving to the North East, from London, to be closer to relatives. The valuation came in about £100k over what she was expecting.

She got another valuation in case it was a rogue EA overshooting the mark. But got the same figure.

It went live on Rightmove yesterday and she has a bunch of appointments set up already. She will be chain free because she's going to rent first. She had actually planned to stay in London for another year or so but this put a rocket up her.

I am honestly pleased to hear of people doing well. I just really want to move!

Double sorry, I didn't see your post before I posted mine.

How long is the tenant there for? Were they in during viewings?

No worries!

No, the tenant and family were out. I worry about people being put off as it's tenants but they are very naice tenants and only living there before moving overseas - basically renting for the same reasons some of us on here are! - so the risk of non-vacant possession is minimal.

Double
I was thinking more that if they are there long term that might be off putting?

Yes, sorry, that's what I was saying about them only being there till they move but didn't explain clearly. They leave in June.

Hopefully you will get more interest when the tenants go @Doubleraspberry. If I'm honest I wouldn't view a "tenanted property" unless the tenants had left due to the lies EA tell to get buyers in.

I hope that's not the case, @Starseeking. That's three months away and the longer it's empty before sale, the bigger financial issues we'll face. People buy tenanted houses all the time I'm told. God knows, I'm so miserable about it to be honest. We'll be in absolutely dire straits if it doesn't sell until then.

Double I think that's okay. I declined to view one where I was told the tenants had another ten months to go but I thought that was a bit odd in terms of what could happen to prices in ten months as well. But three is fine.

I'm worrying now that any tenants at all will stop it selling. But I keep being told that there are NO houses and anything is selling. I am really fed up with the whole business - I don't want some inflated price, I just want to sell my fucking house!

Absolutely people do @Doubleraspberry, I was speaking from the perspective of someone who wants to be in a purchased property yesterday(!), and spoken want to wait for tenants to vacate having been searching for almost a year. I've heard every lie from the EA's so am perhaps on the extreme cynical side. I hope I've not worried you, and that you get a buyer very soon. What feedback have you had from the viewings so far?

*and wouldn't want to wait