The all-new buyers/sellers waiting room (continued x5) thread!

[BirthdayRainbow]

Hi I took the liberty of starting a new thread as I couldn't answer on the last one.

@kirinm I am glad you've decided I pull out. I wanted to suggest it but didn't want to stress you out. I hope the next house you view is the one and it all goes smoothly.

@ingkir I have just read all the search results. My son has helped with a couple of questions, I've left a message for my friend to help with something else and I am waiting for the solicitor to ring me back as they've attached someone else's details to the end of the paperwork 🙄. I'm distinctly unimpressed as of course potentially someone has mine and the whole stream could be wrong. Looking at what the emails say it is likely it is a one off but I needed to tell them. The receptionist was going to put me through to the solicitors secretary until I said why I was ringing. Already over the time of when she said she'd be back.

I still have a few things outstanding but I won't exchange until I have answers so I'll wait it out.

Thanks for your comments, and I've no intention of taking carpets up, other things she has sent on the enquiries are bugging me to, she either wants the house or she doesn't. I know what she's up to and she can eff off.

She’s very cheeky making her problem the whole chain’s problem. She shouldn’t have paid a non refundable deposit or started using their boxes until Exchange.

Good for you insisting on exchange next week anyway.

@birthdayrainbow sounds like your heart isn't in it, hope you can find somewhere else suitable soon 🤞🤞

@loobyloo68 your buyers sound crackers, anyone fitting a new carpet should take the old one up anyway? Honestly buying and selling houses is very eye opening to some people's weird behaviour and mind games!

Our vendor came back late yesterday afternoon suggesting we complete AFTER Christmas. Cannot make this shit up. He knows our mortgage expires on the 15th December and our buyers are now super twitchy too. This is a short chain (buyers-us-vendor), no probate, offer accepted at the start of May so the way this has dragged on is nuts.

Even our vendors EA has said that he is ridiculous and obviously just wants the last word on everything. He has said he will come back with a more reasonable date this afternoon, yet again he has left it until Friday afternoon, dragged everything on for another week for no bloody reason at all. I hope our buyers agree to whatever date he suggests (they have been shielded from his crackpot behaviour and so won't necessarily realise that it will drag out exchange date even longer as he will take a week to mull over before coming back with a 'no').

Good luck to everyone else with viewings/surveys/mortgage approvals/exchanges etc in the pipeline. May you have reasonable sellers/buyers/solicitors!!

@Cheeseandcrackers40 just when we think your vendor can't get any more batshit. CHRISTMAS?!?!? and you're ready now. Madness.

I would highly suggest viewing the house again before you complete because he honestly seems like the type that would strip the house of everything and leave fish behind your radiators.

@Cheeseandcrackers40 why is your vendor such a shit? Doesn't he want to sell? Seems so odd that people behave like this.

There is absolutely nothing coming on the market for us at the moment. In fact there's being no new houses for weeks. 😬

No idea. I have asked the EA they have said no he isn't being forced to sell, all his own choice (but did use live in the house with ex gf and SCs who now all live on the other side of the road, not sure if some emotional attachments but even that doesn't explain all of his behaviour) . I actually think he's a bit of a power hungry narcissist who enjoys toying with people.

He has now suggest 21st Nov which isn't particularly convenient for us but we can make it work so have said yes and now waiting for our buyers to agree 😬😬. I really want to exchange soon as I suspect he will fuck us around on dates on that too...

Oh heck. You're the only one so far to say that to me. My solicitor has emailed me this morning with all the questions she is asking so I will wait for the answers. I'm also looking into insurance. I did look at new houses last night. I'm really stuck as I love the house but if it isn't meant to be I'll accept it.

I love the house @Cheeseandcrackers40 and the area. I found viewing really stressful as on line things looked great then in real life they were terrible, except for this one.

Our vendors solicitor seems to be actively working against achieving the sale.
We discovered that no one knows where the sewerage is going - not connected to mains water and vendor hasn't been billed for 10 years.

The vendors solicitor keeps telling them it isn't their problem and basically threatened to pull.out if we don't exchange within the week.

Any buyers solicitor would require this issue to be rectified before exchange so I don't really know what the issue is. It needs to be dealt with if they want to sell.

It's caused a standstill. Drain survey is ,£400 ,which vendor has refused to pay half for. Also refused to take out indemnity insurance and pay for boiler service, all.of which we have agreed to pay for upon completion.

His emails are so rude, really unhelpful and often holding everything up by refusing to to agree to anything.

We made our offer in May. I'm so sick of this. Baby is two weeks old and husband and I have spent most of his paternity on the phone trying to sort it out.

Oh no I'm so sorry to hear this - last thing you need with new baby and all. My vendor is also a total A-hole, but shit solicitor will also not be helping your situation. As you say anyone would demand this is sorted before exchange, stand your grand.

Sending solidarity.

Thanks @Cheeseandcrackers40 ..
It's seems to be a two steps forward two steps back situation 🙃

The vendor agrees to something the EA suggest then her solicitor talks her out of it... allnthe while prolonging what should be a very straightforward transaction.

Thing is, we really want the house. It's the perfect location in a village with a primary school, church and fabulous dog walks. We've been waiting for something in budget in that particular village for two years so pulling out really isnt an option. There's nothing else on thr market.
We just have to grin and bear it and hope it all goes through.

Fudging frustrating though!

@Cheeseandcrackers40 - Hope your buyers agree to the November date. keeping things crossed for you.

So - we now have two offers on the table. Have decided to go with couple 2. Their offer was the highest - it's the exact amount that we were hoping for. They're also in a better situation. Both couples are FTBs, but couple 2 have already shown their deposit funds to the EA, whereas couple 1 was being a bit shy over the past few days when EA asked them about their deposit. Turns out they need to borrow money from a family member for the deposit (fair enough - many people do need help!), but the family member still needs to confirm exactly how much money they can gift.

For us, three viewings booked in tomorrow; one of which is a second viewing for a house we liked a few weeks back, but we weren't in a position to put an offer in at that time 😊

Yes same for us, it's the only house ticking our boxes which put us at the vendors mercy unfortunately. So yes, I 100% understand how you feel and it's shit x

@EagerHouseMover sounds really exciting!

I'm new to thread, my house went live on the market yesterday. How soon after going live did everyone hear about viewings? I just want an idea of what to expect.

That's exciting @EagerHouseMover have you accepted the offer?? Good luck with your viewings 😊

Hi @CinnamonBuns67 we had viewings within 2 or 3 days
It went live on the Monday and think first one was the Wednesday then we had alot over the weekend, started to trickle after that

However today we had an offer! An absolute lovely family who really love the house! We're over the moon they are so excited! And to be honest the house is great I am sure they will be really happy here so we are so pleased they are so happy and we are all hoping for a nice easy ride.

I called the EA that's selling the house I want. Radio silence. I know it was a Friday afternoon but come on! If they don't answer/get back to me tomorrow morning I'll be seriously reconsidering that house 🙃 but I won't really because I really want it...

Not much to report with us. Ironically our vendors agent is being much more proactive in finding us alternative properties than our actual agent. I have lost all faith with our agent. I am still mulling over contacting the under offer person directly who is buying our house as a 2 person chain is so appealing. I know it's unorthodox but at least they would have the option.

I'd do it. I cold called on the house I'm buying having previously officially viewed. Without doing that I wouldn't have seen it again and be buying it now.

Nice to see things are progressing.

I finally got an update from the estate agents and I am in a chain of two, I really need to complete by November 15 if I want the 1st of December moving to prevent overlap between rent and a mortgage as I can't afford both, and I think a 1st of January completion would be chaos.

Can I join? We are just starting the journey. We've seen a new build development with a house style that has the exact layout we want: four double rooms and an office space upstairs, open plan kitchen, living, diner with separate lounge and also utility room, parking for three cars.

We have had two valuations and will be looking to go on the market ASAP. We are going through the developer's assisted move scheme where they appoint agent (we had a choice of who they sent for valuations) and manage the chain with a view that we can only reserve our preferred plot when we have a serious offer. The valuations have come on as expected and the management company have instructed two agents. Not sure how much extra traffic this will drive our way, however I'm assuming this was to discourage complacency for an agent to let us linger on the market.

Timing seems to be more critical when looking at a new build. There will be an expectation that we exchange ASAP with 'our' new home aiming for completion of 28th Feb, but has a hard stop of end of May, the last date where the house has to be ready.

We have decide to price attractively (10k below the top price suggested by our valuations) and push as many viewers through as possible to try and secure an early offer. We will then potentially have buyers pressuring us to be out before our house is ready, and may need to look at moving into short term rental. Best case scenario we will sell our house to FTB so the chain is as short as possible.

Has anyone had experience of using an assisted move service?

Also, what do you wish you'd done prior to listing your house in terms of small jobs, staging, prepping for photos? We have done a snagging list this week of little fixes like paint touch ups, replacing some poorly fitted skirting, along with cutting our hedge and tidying the garden (difficult to make it look better as it's been raining for a million years).

I just do small jobs @TheCatCameBack112 like decluttering and making the house & garden look tidy - nothing that costs much money.

I touched up the paintwork in kitchen diner and living room. Decluttered every room for pics but that was it. To be honest we didn't need to do loads as kitchen and bathrooms are all new but there are things that are not perfect like the blind in our room has broken 🫠but like he'll I'm replacing it it's at an angle but works...

@MotherOfRatios that sounds like a difficult situation. Do you literally mean a 1st Jan completion date? Because it's a bank holiday so wouldn't be possible. One thing to remember is that rent is usually in advance and mortgage in arrears so they might not overlap.

My rent isn't in advance, when I pay on the 1st of November that is covering Novembers rent. (I have a very dodgy landlord)

I'm hoping I can move in on the 1st of December as January wouldn't be ideal as you say