It’ll be in hand. If they screw it up they’ll be the ones liable for the damages.
Yeah - that would be the case if we'd exchanged contracts, but did we? Who knows?!
You can’t renegotiate after exchange of contracts so something doesn’t add up here.
In 2009 the done thing in Sheffield seemed to be exchange one day, complete the next.
The 2 days before iirc was the moment of exchange.
They were friends and neighbours, and so we trusted them...
God this is a nightmare...
honestly... PLEASE universe, can I have a break...
The EA was going to speak to the vendor on saturday to see what his plan is (recap; bearing in mind, we're about a week away from exchange, he's a single old man living in a 7 bed house..and he's 'unsure if he wants to sell'...FFS).
Me and the OH are in pieces... really I'm a nervous mess at the moment,... We've prepped our kids for the move, and this guy's behaviour is just soooo odd i really can't predict him AT ALL...
Hpefully the EA will call back today letting us know what's going on.
I HATE this process with a passion...how can someone get 90% of the way through an expensive process, then just back out, is beyond me.
DrP
Huge sympathy from me. Right now I'm convinced the B-ark would also have included estate agents and conveyancing solicitors.
Been waiting two weeks for the seller's solicitor to come up with the missing building control certificates or a decent excuse, and they've emailed my solicitors today to ask for a copy of the searches to confirm that they're missing. Jesus wept.
So apart from the fact that the estate agent requested all this from me a fortnight ago in order to send it to their solicitor, we're right back at square one and other houses are coming on the market and going quickly.
DrP - that is properly shit! Hope you get it sorted quickly and EA can do their job and smooth any issues out.
If the old man is being pushed by family to sell I can sympathise with his attachment to the house. Things get scarier as you get older and you don't make rational decisions. Perhaps the pressure is getting to him - or greedy family.
Our buyers sent an electrician to check our house on Friday, and barring a few minor issues he's passing it off as safe. And we actually met our buyers on Friday night too. They seemed nice enough, and it was good to meet them as it settled some nerves. I'd say they were young and clueless and the timeframe has caught up with them rather than looking for excuses to hammer us on price.
Fingers crossed we'll finally get some dates to work too this week.
OMG...just got off the phone with the EA selling the place (who, as I said, is exacberated with teh seller..)
The greedy c**t is going to get the house revalued as he feels it's underpriced...
Bearing in mind it's been on the market for over 2 years and not budged... sigh...
It's really annoying because, quire frankly, it's a weird house (almost like 2 houses joined together) which suits our blended family... it IS sizeable, but it's odd....! A 'normal' family won't go for it because it's a weird mish mash of living spaces...
It's just frustrating as the EA has tried telling the chap that WE are probaly the best buyers to come along in 2 years, and he's daft rocking the boat now....
But honestly..some people...
FFS
DrP
Nightmare DrP.
Not sure where you go from there. Probably put a hold on everything with solicitor for a start so you don't run up more fees.
Possibly counter-threat that if he doesn't proceed as agreed you lower your offer by X-amount?
Really does sound to me like there's family in the background reading the Daily Mail about how much house prices have risen.
Is it still on at the same price it was on at 2 yrs ago?
Is it still on at the same price it was on at 2 yrs ago?
100k more.
Possibly counter-threat that if he doesn’t proceed as agreed you lower your offer by X-amount?
I don't think this will cut it..he's a proper odd ball, making very irrational decisions. Normal an EA would be keen to case every last penny...even the EA is saying he's daft for letting this fall through...
DrP
Ruddy 'ell - dates have started to be thrown around!! 😱
Perhaps it will happen. 😬
That's properly crap DrP.
Nowt so odd as folk...
Selling and buying is a nightmare. Just moved into our new house and it will take ua a while to get over the stress. One thing though that did help is that we had direct contact with the seller over email. This enables us to understand the EA and solicitors progress and the sellers perspective.
^we had that. Two days before we completed, a few days after we moved from Sheffield to Scotland leaving empty house ready to complete. The buyer’s mum on a ‘last visit’ decided the price should be £9k less than agreed. The people buying we supposedly friends of ours.
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We sat out a stand-off for another week, and with another mortgage payment looming we made an offer of £3k reduction or Foxtrot Oscar.
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It still cost 12 days of stress and £3k from what was agreed.
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Oh, and when they moved in, they decided they had enough money to go on a nice holiday costing…..£3k. gaahhhhhhhhhhh
@matt_outandabout oof! My wife would have had to step in at that point and make me sit in the corner as I'd have lost my shit and told them the price was now £9k higher or they can do one.
As for @DrP I hope it gets sorted out in your favour but I'm surprised more people aren't murdered whilst buying/selling houses.
Thanks guys and gals!
Soooo... we did some head scratching and looking for pennies under the sofa..
Have made a final FINAL offer via the EA (who's getting fed up with his vendor) and it's been accepted..
We stipulated exchange within March, so there's 7 days for this arse of a man to change his mind again...
IF we pull this off it'll be such a relief!
DrP
Fingers crossed for you DrP.
Just wait until you move in, the fun can then get even better.
We moved in to our house the week before Christmas, turned the power on, boiler in, etc and then 3 days before Christmas the kitchen roof came down. Seemingly someone had secured a floorboard with long nails, putting one through the condensate pipe, we had a few of these diy dreams to deal with, but made us understand why all viewings were made without power or water working!
Thanks guys and gals!
Soooo… we did some head scratching and looking for pennies under the sofa..
Have made a final FINAL offer via the EA (who’s getting fed up with his vendor) and it’s been accepted..
We stipulated exchange within March, so there’s 7 days for this arse of a man to change his mind again…
IF we pull this off it’ll be such a relief!DrP
I am now invested in this, fingers crossed for you!
We've been in our new house for just over a month and to be honest I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop in some really expensive manner.
Yep - hope it all goes through DrP.
We need a home improvements thread of your mansion when you get it! 🙂
Sounds like it may need a bit more modernising than my 2 bed semi!
🛠🛠
How's it going @DrP !? 😬
We should have exchanged yesterday, but it turns out the top of the chain (buying a new-build), who have been pushing the dates, are waiting for a warranty from the builders!
No sign of it yet and my removals company who I had scheduled for 14th are jumping up and down because I may not be able to sign their documents today.
Such fun! 🤪 😱
Just… aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...again!
Seems our vendors are waiting for a LABC Certificate - any idea how long it takes to get one of these!? If I wasn't so angry I'd sit in a corner and rock! 😱
Soo.... we wanted to exchange this week and try to complete next week (as i'm off for a bit in the easter hols, which would help)...
But nothing yet..
I'm still a little bit anxious as the vendor has clearly shown he's a shite, and MAY or MAY NOT honour his word (again), but the way the solicitors etc are speaking, it looks confident..
We jsut want to exchange ASAP, with an aim to complete early May.. then I can breeeeath!!!
Thankfully, there's not much work actually needing doing on the house/s (it's bascially like 2 houses linked together...weird I know, but it'll work for our blended family!!)... jsut moving 2 households and 4 grumpy kids in together...
Thankfully we'll have (get this...) 3600 sq feet to play with!!!!!!!
(if it all pulls through)
DrP
3600 sq ft! Gorblimey that's a lot of carpet.
And I thought my new house (have exchanged now, complete on wednesday next week) at 1465sqft was big.
I genuinely have TWO shark vacuums... BUt..I DO like to vacuum!!
This is kinda why we pushed so hard for this house...
Each of us have 2 kids, so the space (basically, to get away from the effing kids) will be fab! Very little else like it on the market..
DrP
A friend of mine who has a 6000 sq ft house (sorry! 🙂 ) is supposed to complete next Friday, but is still waiting to exchange. He actually went around to the Seller at the top of the chain to ask him to look him in the eye and say they are definitely completeing next Friday....to which he was assured they were.
He's got a week to pack up the whole of his house including all his large shed full of work stuff(he's a Builder) I don't envy him!
Ours will be a measily 900 sq ft - we're losing 300 sq ft - we hate hoovering though and the idea is to spend less time on the house and more time doing other stuff now our daughter is all grown up and pretty much moved out!
🙂
He’s got a week to pack up the whole of his house including all his large shed full of work stuff(he’s a Builder) I don’t envy him!
Jeeeez - we've been at it for weeks and still aren't there yet. Mainly due to my wifes attachment to old family shit. I'd bin the lot. Why do we need those printed tea towels that used to belong to Aunty Mable!
I have just come off the phone to our vendor though and they have said they'll move out on the 14th as agreed and move in with their parents even if the paper work isn't ready on their new-build.
Is it beer-o-clock yet! 🙂
How pants is this process though!!
I don't even feel excited about it any more...I'm just cautiously aprehensive...
DrP
Me neither! All the thrill has gone out of it!
Yay! Top stuff!
Well our push to exchange by teh end of March has come adn gone...!
FFS...still nothing!
DrP
I was sceptical when people said house moving was the most stressful thing you do (it's 25 years since our last move) - but I've never been so close to battering someone than I've been over the last few months. Seems you have to lose your shit at every turn to get anything moving.
MOVED!!! 😱😱😱
That's it - all done and dusted yesterday!
Day went smoothly too, all completed by lunchtime with no hitches.
And removals men - OMG - best money I've ever spent. Can't believe how much stuff we have went it comes to shifting it.
All in at the other end by 5pm - in the pub up the road by 6pm! 🙂
Such a relief.
Nice one!
Get this. ... so our seller fleeced us for more money.... fine..i can deal with that..
Waiting to exchange.. and... or buyer's solicitor has dropped them! Concern over money laundering 😆😬🙄
Ffs....
So now they're desparately trying to pick up the process with a new solicitor.....
I
Hate
This!
DrP
You must REALLY love this house!!
Not sure I'd have your patience.
If he's as dodgy as you think and you ever get in you might find wads of cash hidden under the floorboards! 🙂
So now they’re desparately trying to pick up the process with a new solicitor…..
I would 100% be demanding a price reduction at this point.
No.. the people buying OUR house are the dodgy ones 😃😃😃
And also, yes..we really DO love this house...
We're both divorced, both with 2 kids...
It's a really 'stranger house we're buying, but suits our blended family really well...
Plus..double garage... Big driveway... schweet!
Let's see if it all comes through!
DrP
(I freely acknowledge, I must have been a TERRIBLE person in another life for all the shite I've had to put up with in this one 😄😂😭😭 i think I've shared most of my sagas on here, abs that's just scratching the publically acceptable surface! My oh says i should write a book!)
No.. the people buying OUR house are the dodgy ones 😃😃😃
Ruddy Nora!!! 🙂
Nice one @the-muffin-man.
Do you now live somewhere other than Drury Lane?
DrP - do your buyers have daaags? Well dodgy!
My parents decided to move six miles down the road during Covid, while my mother had cancer (which she has now recovered from). I had to travel over from Scotland to Ireland to help with the physical move because my 40 something year old brother who STILL LIVES WITH THEM couldn't get any time off the job my dad got him 25 years ago.
I arrived minimal prep for the move no boxes to put stuff in etc. That hurdle cleared dropped keys off for the sold house headed to the new house to find that the folk they were buying from hadn't moved out. I moved them out on the day into the back garden, with the pathetic previous owner sitting in his car crying on the driveway. Turns out they had defaulted on the mortgage/or not been able to remortgage.
My father, always willing to accommodate was saying things like "sure you can stay a while" while I was tipping them out.
Myself and the wife? We have only ever viewed one house, bought it, and shall be leaving in a box or dribbling to a care home. Buy carefully and buy once. It is a rather wonderful house.
We're currently trying to move, so buying and selling at the same time. We found a house we like and made an offer and accepted an offer on ours the same day. After a couple of sleepless nights before it all got confirmed I started to convince myself we wouldn't get it, so started to list all the things that didn't quite tick the boxes. So convincingly that when we got the news that the vendors had accepted our offer there was almost an Andy and Lou "don't like it" moment.
Hasn't changed my opinion of estate agents either. Would it kill them to call the solicitors once a week and get an update?
Yes!
But .. you ready for the effing saga that is my life 😁😁🤣🤣🙄
My OH's buyer got dropped by TWO solicitors right at the 11th hour - concerns over money laundering!
We were so worried our weird seller would get freaked out by this 'rocking of the boat' that he'd pull out and relist (he already demonstrated his oddness), so basically we've sourced a bridging loan so we can still buy the big house, and sell the OH's house ASAP, but not at the same time as completion....
Hence, we're now paying for:
New mortgage
Her current mortgage
Loans
2 loads of council tax etc...
But... you can't say we haven't tried hard to get this house for us and our families!
Exchanged last month, and compete on 31st May! Whoop whoop!
Now..anyone wanna buy a 3 bed house in Central Brighton?!
DrP
I've bought and sold in the UK, and bought in the US. In the US, at least in my state, generally you are looking at 6-8 weeks from offer to completion, unless by mutual agreement.
The whole system is massively quicker.
What's the catch? 7%. 7% is the standard Realtor (estate agent) commission, split between the sellers and the buyer's agent. Plus the usual costs for stuff like mortgages/surveys etc.
But it is a lot quicker.
But… you can’t say we haven’t tried hard to get this house for us and our families!
Exchanged last month, and compete on 31st May! Whoop whoop!
Sounds expensive, but congrats! I can’t imagine you’d have much difficulty shifting the 3 bed in Brighton, although I guess the main problem is getting rid of it quickly enough so that the assorted financial commitments don’t get too offensively expensive.
indeed...
in all honesty, there were so few houses available for our 'blended' family of 6 that we opted to move heaven and earth for this one!!
DrP
