The nervous wait to exchange....

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Skillmister said:
How do you get under offer if no one will accept viewings unless you are under offer? Catch-22 and a ridiculous perspective to take imo.
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Dont understand that sorry.

We did not accept any viewings from people who were not in a position to proceed.............same as, they had to have an offer accepted on theirs or were first time buyers or cash buyers! A few wanted to view ours but had not even had an offer on their house! We stopped those as a waste of our time.
 
Skillmister said:
You wouldn't have an issue with that process if there was a major issue in 2 years time that needed a paper trail ;) And before people comment that it doesn't happen, it does!
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Oh i definitely understand the benefits of having them done, it's just the lack of speed on anything that the solicitors have to deal with. It seems to take a week or so to get a document from the vendors solicitors to our solicitors.

"We sent it last week"
"We haven't received anything yet"

Someones telling porkies.
 
Well we finally agreed a sale price; the buyers want to buy our fridge, so we offered a fair price for it, and now they want to come round to - in their words - "investigate and examine" it.

It feels like they're just wanting to come in and examine the house again, any excuse to try dropping the price again..
 
koolpc said:
Dont understand that sorry.

We did not accept any viewings from people who were not in a position to proceed.............same as, they had to have an offer accepted on theirs or were first time buyers or cash buyers! A few wanted to view ours but had not even had an offer on their house! We stopped those as a waste of our time.
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If everyone refused to let people view unless they were under offer, no one would be able to actually view houses and get under offer. Not sure how to make it any clearer :p
 
tsinc80697 said:
Oh i definitely understand the benefits of having them done, it's just the lack of speed on anything that the solicitors have to deal with. It seems to take a week or so to get a document from the vendors solicitors to our solicitors.

"We sent it last week"
"We haven't received anything yet"

Someones telling porkies.
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It's easily done.

Solicitor A sends a letter on the Friday - let's say they are the buyers and its raising a query. Solicitor B receives it on the Monday (if they're lucky). They review it on the Tuesday. Need to get the response from the clients, give them a call but they're in work so send them an email.* They don't get the email till after close of business. Solicitor B receives response from the client on the Wednesday. Dictates a response to Solicitor A. Secretary types it up and posts it on the Thursday. Solicitor A receives it on the Friday (again, if they're lucky). By which time both solicitors have been chased by the client and both, depending which day they called, have responded to say the other is to blame. Not to mention the 3 calls from the estate agents during that time who will have said all kinds of bs to the clients making matters worse :p Times that by 30 active files and away you go!

*That's if they even use email, lots don't in which case you can add another couple of days of snail mail on to that timescale :D

I send 90% of my correspondence by email which obviously cuts time down a lot but the point still stands and the timescales are still the same if not worse when you factor in busy days (brb 6 completions this Friday, how much else do you think I'm gonna get done in between calls from people sat on the driveway of their new home asking "where the keys at?" !) and complicated things (preparing a statement of truth for people who lost the deeds to their unregistered house in a fire). All in a day's work.

It's not all:
1) is the house still standing ;
2) have you got money to buy it;
If yes, sign on the dotted line!
 
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After weeks of delays then we are hopefully going to exchange tomorrow. Not counting my chickens yet as we have so many problems so far will be so happy to exchange.

Moving day will be next Wednesday though so lots to sort if we do :eek:
 
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Skillmister said:
If everyone refused to let people view unless they were under offer, no one would be able to actually view houses and get under offer. Not sure how to make it any clearer :p
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Not everyone has to follow the crowds!

As you work in a solicitors office i can understand how you can have difficulty with words! lol :p
 
Hmm, not sure. Both the estate agents that my other half and I sold our houses through in 2014 specifically asked if it was OK to share that information. We both said to assume no but to ask us each time.
 
So the never ending cluster**** of a boring saga that should have been a really easy move continues.

The mortgage broker has gotten us the wrong mortgage.
 
I'm really very unhappy with every professional in this process.

Ok I'm in another country, but my wife has been in the UK for most of it, and quite frankly in a sale with no chain other than ourselves it feels like we've just paid for crap service at every stage.
 
It's fun though, you're what, 8 weeks since offer acceptance? Your sellers are probably hounding their solicitor blaming them for not being completed yet when it's actually because you haven't got a mortgage yet :p

I'm currently trying to agree completion dates for a 9 house chain, one end need it before end of November, the other can't complete until 2017. Let the blame train commence :D
 
Yes, we couldnt get a mortgage because the buyers dicked around for so long with their offer, so we didn't know how much deposit we'd have.

We've had a few DiP.
 
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Biggest issue i have found with buying and selling over the last 30 years was the solicitors! Complete muppets they have been. On both sides!
 
Well after initially dipping our feet into getting a house in August, we found one got an offer accepted for then things to fall through pretty much because the other people are in a chain and their new house fell through. Being first time buyers me and my gf aren't fussed and said were willing to wait it out for them to find another house.

News came they have and now it looks like its a go again as their new find has no chain.

So now we are starting our process again even though we still have no idea what we are doing :)

Has anyone got any advice on all the insurances that are needed, i.e. life, house contents etc?

We basically want cover where if the worst happens (death) the house is squared away for whoever survives :) We were told about income insurance too incase one of us fell ill however that is not really required due to current careers.

I know its probably not a straight forward question but are there any rough estimates all the extra insurance will cost?
 
When we bought our first house, nearly 30 years ago, we took out insurance against illness etc. I think one has to. Better be safe than sorry.
 
Just exchanged on a new build that me and my partner are buying.
We were hoping to move in end of Jan as it was due Jan/Feb.

Just been told it'll be ready for December 16th. Urgh.
 
So the documents to transfer the deeds into our name arrived on Friday for our perusal and signatures.

And the Solicitor had managed to get every single detail wrong, other than my name. They spelt my wifes name incorrectly, and got our NI/DOB wrong.

These people are supposedly professionals :confused:?
 
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