The all new buyers/sellers waiting room (continued) thread

[sweetpickle2]

New thread!

Thanks @sweetpickle2 adding a post here too for good exchange vibes.

Move day today! We have had packers in the house yesterday and today so just need to do a bit of a clean and then to wait impatiently for news.

We had a notification yesterday that our mortgage funds have been released so hoping it will be a smooth day for us

Good luck @SJ456 !

We are waiting to hear if all the solicitors have received the wet signature doc in the post today, and if so we can exchange. So might be today if we're lucky, or tomorrow. Feels like I've said that every day for about a month.

@ironneonclasp I totally feel you on this. I'm also waiting for the Level 3 to happen on my house. I don't blame my buyers at all because I had the full structural when I bought this place - but because of that I know how full of scaremongering these reports are, and it's more that I'm worried about how the buyers will react to the scaremongering than that there will be anything massive in the report. I remember the report I had commented on the fact that all the ceilings in this house are lathe and plaster, rather than plasterboard (because it's an older house) and that I might want to consider replacing them. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the ceilings, they are smooth, flat, crack free. To me those kind of things made me angry that I'd wasted my money on a survey for someone to make up such nonsense, but to someone else, they might read that as thinking that's several thousand of messy and damaging work that needs to be done before they dare move in.
I don't think my buyers will drop out - they are in rented and pushing for a pretty punchy schedule to complete, and there's nothing else comparable they could try for instead of this house at the moment, but I do worry about trying to knock me down what on what was already a very fair price - (I went with a low-end asking price because it suited me more to sell fast than hold out for the higher valuations).

I know I won't be comforting you at all @ironneonclasp because these are probably just the same worries you have, but at least we can stress together!

Thanks @Tupster it would be good to hold hands with someone !

@SJ456 wishing you the best of luck!

We now have a fully agreed completion date in mid March but still haven't bloody exchanged! Everything is in place, nothing is outstanding so I don't know why we haven't yet. I'm desperate! We've waited so long!!!!

Checking in, although I've been very quiet in the last thread.

I'm scrambling to get my employment situation sorted, because without it we're going nowhere. We have time, so I'm trying not to excessively stress about it. Heh.

Everything else is carrying on as normal, so we're holding our nerve that we can make it happen.

Good luck everyone.

We accepted an offer on ours 7 weeks ago, 5 weeks since their survey was done.

2.5 weeks since the offer was accepted on what we want to buy - survey is today.

Our solicitor said 2 weeks ago that there were 'some questions from the buyers which I think I can answer'. We paid for searches on the house we are buying about 10 days ago. Heard nothing further yet. Phoned for an update on Monday after and are awaiting a call back.

I feel like our buyers might start suggesting dates soon? At least I hope so! A date would at least feel like we had something to work towards. (No mortgages in the chain. And the chain is our buyer - us - the seller - the sellers purchase which is vacant)

Thank you @sweetpickle2

Morning everyone, good luck @SJ456.

we sent our contracts of last night so hopefully they will receive them latest tomorrow and we can finally confirm a completion date.

Thanks for the new thread @sweetpickle2

Have just given authorisation to exchange, suddenly. Thought it would be tomorrow absolute earliest but wasn't holding my breath.

Now feel...numb. Full of doubts and worry. Not remotely excited or relieved. Just tired and wondering if we are making a mistake.

Am I normal, or mad? Can anyone who has exchanged recently still on the thread who can tell me? It was very different last time as we were FTBs and it was just...different.

@TomatoSoup69 You are normal. I felt ... nothing when we finally exchanged (after many false starts).
No elation. Maybe a little relief that we had finally done it and got rid of a large mortgage.
I was also so, so tired of all the stress, and like you I was worried that I was making the wrong decision and maybe losing something precious? If that makes sense.
I think it takes a while for the reality to sink in. That this is IT. No going back.

Fairly human reaction imho!
Best of luck for today and when you move you'll get the excitement back x

Amazing news @TomatoSoup69! I think what you've described is quite common- it's a real slog to get here, so lots of time to think about whether you've made the right decision. I can't think of many other life changing decisions where once you've decided you have to wait indefinitely at the hands of stuff that us entirely out of your control, it's a lot!

Hopefully once you get the nod you've actually exchanged you'll get a burst of excitement again!

Thanks for the thread @sweetpickle2

Good luck to everyone exchanging and hope all the surveys go to plan too and are not too off putting for your buyers.

I have no viewings booked in even, so feel a bit of a fraud to be on this thread really now as moving is feeling even more of a pipe dream.
I have just mowed the lawn, a job I hate, which I thought I was never going to have to do again here as should have moved by now. The only positive news I have is that 2 people want to offer on mine when they have sold apparently. One is very keen and dropped their price by £20k yesterday to hopefully speed up the process. Plus my seller hasn't had another offer yet either. All frustratingly out of my control...

The only good thing of this process is I was having a few doubts and also feeling guilty to move my daughters across the country to be near my parents. Losing our buyers made us all realise we all definitely want to move too, so hopefully this knowledge will stop some Mum guilt down the line if we ever move!

Fingers crossed I will be able to add something soon, in the meantime, I am off to empty my kitchen cupboards of GU ramekins before move day and check for out of date food stuff!!

I hope you all have good news asap x

Thanks for setting up the new thread!! Hoping our second time try goes through after having to pull out on the old one.. our sale has all but gone through now, contracts signed and being held.

Offer accepted at the weekend on our new house so now going through searches and solicitor stuff again, booking another survey. Totally panicking about getting a bigger mortgage but I'm sure it will be worth it in the long run!

Hope you all get good news soon on exchanges etc!

@TomatoSoup69 even though I'm pushing for exchange I absolutely think once it happens I will feel as you describe. We were also FTB last time and after years of renting, owning our own home was such a dream and I was so excited. Not having that emotional attachment to the property you're leaving also made it so much easier. I have no doubt I'll be in tears come completion. This is absolutely the right thing for our family but we're doubling our mortgage and as we bought a new build last time we had the comfort of everything being under warranty and the builders still being on site for snagging. Now if we find issues there's nothing we can do. We had a survey but you never know what you're going to find once you start taking up carpets or using the appliances. It is very daunting.

We've exchanged. Oy.

Good luck, everyone. My sale has gone quiet after the survey, which was two weeks ago, which feels like too long... I don't know if it means other stuff is happening in the background and all is well, or the buyer has been alarmed by something in the report and is reconsidering. The house has been surveyed previously, so I'm hoping there are no surprises this time, but my EA says that different surveyors can come up with very different things.

We exchanged (on our sale) almost three weeks ago for a completion date first week of May and all it’s done is give me time to doubt myself! I completely understand. In fact I keep looking on right move to see if anything comes up, as we put down a deposit for our purchase but haven’t exchanged yet, even though I’ve literally found the house of my dreams. I’m just so indecisive when it comes to my own personal decisions. It’s all overwhelming to be honest and I feel like if you have a while between exchange and completion it makes it all that much worse.

Think I can join this thread. Offer accepted on our house on the 14th February and we also had an offer accepted on a property we are downsizing into.

Paperwork for our sale & purchase is going to solicitors on Friday and survey booked for our purchase 7th March.

Only 3 of us in the chain with our buyer sold and living with family and our onward house also has no chain as the seller is now living with her partner.

Hoping for a mid May completion. It all seems fairly simple but I know that isn't always the case.

Ah @noodles44 I feel that, we should have moved before Xmas, so doing things like spring garden tidy ups feels particularly stingy.
You have interested people though and their sales could be around the corner. Everything crossed for you that the wait is over soon.

It's so tricky with school age DC involved, I have the mum guilt too, the limbo affects them also. Especially when things don't go to plan. I'm glad your DC are onboard though. One of mine is struggling with the idea. Too little to understand but old enough to worry 

Congratulations @TomatoSoup69!

This is EXACTLY how I felt - numb and if anything depressed. It lasted a few days (three I think) - then a very small positive thing happened concerning the new house and suddenly my excitement fired up again.

Congratulations!! If you’re anything like me, when anyone said that to me after we exchanged I just thought “is it?”… but you’ll get there!

Congrats @TomatoSoup69!! Hope you manage to relax/celebrate once it sinks in a bit

Congratulations @TomatoSoup69 !

We have completed and are in the process of moving in! As always some not so welcome surprises like an open fire place that just happens to have been exposed now they have removed their TV! However glad to be in and starting to make the house a home!