Spring house selling/buying support thread

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After quite a lengthy time on the market I finally have an offer on my house and have had an offer accepted on a house I want to buy. I’m feeling a bit uncertain it will happen with the current financial situation and wondered if anyone else in a similar position wanted a thread for a bit of moral support?!

We’ve instructed solicitors, filled out our TA6 and TA10 forms, applied for a mortgage and have some documents to send them… I then find the next bit the hardest bit about buying and selling when you have all those uncertain weeks with searches/surveys etc and it could all fall apart at any minute!

Oh no, what a nightmare @2longinthetooth. Hopefully you can regroup once you’ve had some breathing space in rented. Good luck.

We are still shooting for an exchange date on 13th Nov. Buyer is just waiting for final mortgage offer and searches to come back. All other paperwork is done and ready. We have started to pack, as we will be the only ones actually moving on completion day … keeping everything crossed.

@2longinthetooth Really sorry it didn’t work out for you. Hope rental brings some comfort and calm while you regroup. Maybe the enforced change of plan will actually work to your benefit although it might not seem like that right now.

@Mum5neti think you might be right. market is on the way down and with the cash from the sale we will be able to save more from the interest. Im not too down in the mouth about it. I had an uneasy feeling from offer. Plus was on pins about getting in before xmas. This way that stress has been relieved and as they say everything happens for a reason. We've lost about 2k but better than a 20k problem.

@2longinthetooth oh that is rubbish but better to know that take on a whole heap of problems! Do you know where you’re moving to when you complete?

@Dazzlingbungalow fingers crossed it all goes to to plan and you complete then!

We complete in a couple of days - the house is pretty packed and living in it all is stressful! The kids have had so much screen time! I’m also having nightmares every night about it not going through/finance issues/mortgage cancelled due to us removing a sink in the new house and so it’s not worth the valuation anymore (in my dream we haven’t moved in so not sure how we’re removing sinks!)

I have obviously completely lost the plot!

@BraOffPjsOnaaww I had to laugh, the stress is real. Its a real rollercoster. Hope your sink is there when you move in. It will complete and you can start planning for xmas.
We have booked an airbnb for nov so it now gives us a month to get a rental for 6 months. I thought our sale was a headache but now we have had to pull out of 2 purchases. We will carry on looking, surely 3rd time lucky.

@2longinthetooth The worst one was last week when we had OFSTED and I had a full on night terror! I dreamt DH had woken me up to tell me there was a leak in our current house or our new house then I could literally see water coming down the walls above our bed! In the morning before I went to work I actually stood on the bed and felt the wall and ceiling to make sure!
i will have a new home it might just be in hospital at this rate!

At least you’ve got a plan - hopefully you can find a lovely rental and the pressure will be off with house hunting so you can find the right one.
We pulled out right before exchange in July as there was a massive rat infestation in the roof and then our buyers tried to get us to reduce. Then luckily we saw a house before it came on the market and it was perfect for us (needs some work though) so I’m now (almost) glad as I’m getting the dream house. I haven’t felt like this about any other house - they were all a bit meh it’s ok but I didn’t love them.

Hopefully that’ll be the case for you too.

I had the funniest stress dream just before we completed. My partner of 25 years announced he'd decided to go live in our new house with his girlfriend and her two very young children (he's 69 and most definitely doesn't have a girlfriend, with or without children). I was to stay in our old house. Weirdly, I was very happy with his plan 😅

@BraOffPjsOnomg that is awful, see stress can make you mental. Im onto my tit of a teen telling him daily, this isn't our home anymore to stop leaving half filled drinks lying about. Ive already had to replace 1 carpet ffs. Then he accidentally knocked the wall moving furniture 🙄. Go to your room, stay on Xbox and dont move 😂 Just get me out of here fgs. Dh is so laid back, he thinks we have yrs to move so hes pissing me off and 2 barmy dogs added to the mix. Everyone is making mess 🤯.
I get why this is messing with your head, my anxiety is on overdrive thinking, will the airbnb be safe, what if someone tries to break in, will storage be safe, will someone try and scam me for the house money in the bank. Honestly it drives you mental. Dh just goes to work as normal not a care in the world.

No fear of going into hospital, I work there and they wont have a bed for you. Guess you,ll have to stay home feeling the walls or take up a hobby as a French mime artist.

Christ a rat infestation omg I couldnt, I freaked when we had 1 in the garage because dh was leaving bird feed everywhere. So as they say everything happens for a reason. You will be in your new home soon, planning jobs for the future, wont be long.

@KrankyKumquat😂😂😂😂😂, its funny what you dream. I dreamt once dh told me he was a cross dresser and going off with this woman. Honestly I actually cried the next day. Dh husband took the piss and laughed about it for days. Dh is 6ft tall, rugged with a belly 😂.

@KrankyKumquatforgot to add, hope your settling into the house nicely and the ptsd is easing.

@2longinthetooth
Yes thank you...we're very, very happy here. I'm still vowing we'll never move again so I don't think I've got over the experience yet but I am finding I don't feel the need to bore everyone I meet with tales, so that's probably a good sign! Openreach did, however, puncture a water pipe in our living room when doing our Internet installation so I've got a new story to share whenever I get chance 😂

The house has some, shall we say, 'hidden issues' (shower doesn't work, ensuite loo somehow manages to both leak and overflow, there's obviously a wasp nest somewhere in the floor upstairs, we had an evening of flying ants in the living room, and the central heating is quirky) but it's ours and we'll sort it all in time and probably well before Openreach's insurance pays out....

We are in! cream crackered to reply individually but still checking in as I feel we have been on this journey together!

Congrats @Sadteacher and good to hear you’re settling in @KrankyKumquat .

another fucking curveball here as our solicitors have emailed to say they are ceasing to trade in 5 days so we are being transferred over to a new company 🫠🫠 hoping this doesn’t impact our early november completion timeline, current solicitors not answering their phones and their office has been closed all day, sob

Oh my goodness that’s stressful. Do they have any of your money? Can you call the new firm to T them up?

@LemonSorbetCone luckily they don’t have any of our money, I am concerned though that they won’t be able to just pick up where the current solictor is leaving off, and this might cause delays.

Have sent a few emails this evening as offices were closed, and will be ringing everyone tomorrow. We have had some real bad luck in this process, and this is the cherry on the cake really :(

@Sadteacher yay! Congratulations! Hope you have a glass of something lovely now!

@KrankyKumquat wow - glad you’re still so upbeat! Hopefully, that is all the issues discovered now!

@HouseMoveRound2 oh no! Try to stay calm and hopefully they’ll be efficient and able to reassure you tomorrow 🤞

Bloody hell, I have 5mins off here and there are so many developments.
@KrankyKumquatoh its always the same when you move in, our boiler broke within a month of living here, found tree roots going very near the foundations of the dining room, leaks in the utility, kitchen was rotten. Open reach are bloody useless and not what you needed but as you settle these jobs get done. So pleased you are loving it.

@SadteacherYey your finally in, so pleased for you. Get your feet up for a bit and decompress, you did it!

@HouseMoveRound2oh christ what is happening with your conveyancing, do you think this is why your boundary issue has stalled. What a worry, I know you will get on the blower tomorrow to get some answers. Like you say the new solicitor will have to get up to speed with your case but from thereon hopefully it will sail through. So stressful for you.

Ive been out stalking the area for a new house and found 1, we saw it online but didnt pay much attention because we were already conveyancing. Its more expensive but needs no work from what I can see. I will get a viewing on it. 3rd time lucky hopefully 🤞

@2longinthetooth no, this is an entirely separate issue. Had literally just resolved the boundary issue after having to battle a couple of huge corporations to get them to cooperate with us. It was the corporations that were the issue at that point. Clearly the conveyancing gods want to smite me with the endless onslaught of things going wrong.

good news re a possible onwards property for you, fingers crossed it ticks the right boxes….

@HouseMoveRound2 honestly conveyancing is like an obstacle course. Whilst strapped to a bouncy hopper. Lets hope you can sort it.

We are in!
exhausted and stuff everywhere (as well as some extra jobs and a damaged carpet, which was hidden by a rug on viewings!) but we have so much more space and it will be lovely once we’re sorted!
DS1 (AUDHD) coped much better than expected and was helping the removal guys bring stuff in (after lots of meltdowns the last couple of weeks about moving). Still says he wants to go back but he’s ok.
DH (definitely undiagnosed Autistic) has struggled alot with the chaos and just not knowing where everything is and having so much stuff in boxes everywhere.
DS2 and I loving life!

Congrats @BraOffPjsOn so pleased for you.
You got a sink? 😂

I have!! 😂
The mortgage company haven’t come to check yet but I’m sure that’s tonight’s nightmare!

@BraOffPjsOn😂 sleep with 1 eye open then . Bet ur relieved to be in. Now the hard work starts but you can relax and do it at your pace. Enjoy!

Ah congrats @BraOffPjsOn hope you are basking in the sweet joy of being done with conveyancing!

how did you get on with sorting a viewing for the potential property @2longinthetooth ?

had an absolutely awful day here today trying to sort out next steps after our legal firm ceased trading. But thankfully we are still on track for completing mid November. The universe is really testing my resilience with this house purchase.

@HouseMoveRound2 yay! So glad to hear it’s all on track! I guess they must be prioritising buyers and sellers who were almost at the end as they know they’ll have a lot of stress if not. I hope it’s all simpler from here for you! Not long to go!
I am happy to be done with conveyancing - she had to have one last hiccup didn’t she though - she called and said we’d completed and could collect the keys, so we went to the estate agent and they said they’d heard nothing from her so couldn’t release the keys. Surely the conveyancers have a tick list they go through?

@2longinthetooth It’ll be at DH’s pace unfortunately as he can’t relax and is super stressed with all the mess. So today we’ll sort through boxes and put stuff in the loft which will clear a lot I think.

Last nights, dream was that I broke a glass door, in this current house, in January and they got CCTV footage of me doing it…
Might have to lobotomise me at some point!
hoping I get an undisturbed nights sleep soon!