The nervous wait to exchange....

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Stovepipes said:
Yeah I keep having nightmares of turning up to the property only to be left waiting with the removal company and our stuff in tow. I don't even want to know how much that could end up costing.
The one weird thing I'm considering is paying people to help load up a van and I drive it myself.
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Cost us £800 to have the company come back the next day, as we didn't get keys until 5pm. Not too bad considering the overall cost of moving, but annoying none the less.
 
Ali195 said:
So what’s the reason for the family refusing to vacate the house? Doesn’t make sense.
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Believe it was a marital thing, one wanted to move, stress and all falling apart on the day. It was a long time ago. mad stuff happens with the stress of it all.
 
We were due to exchange on the 4th and move this week. Buyer at the bottom suddenly declares that they are going on holiday for a month, and can't exchange until their return. Our buyer then says they are on a cruise until the 2nd Jan! So currently, plan is to exchange on the 2nd/3rd and complete on the 6th! We wanted to be in before xmas.

What quotes are people getting on removals?
 
Chris344 said:
We were due to exchange on the 4th and move this week. Buyer at the bottom suddenly declares that they are going on holiday for a month, and can't exchange until their return. Our buyer then says they are on a cruise until the 2nd Jan! So currently, plan is to exchange on the 2nd/3rd and complete on the 6th! We wanted to be in before xmas.

What quotes are people getting on removals?
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Around £1500 for a standard 3 bedroom house but my mother's moving from Bexley to the the Fens so I assume that's a more expensive quote than someone would receive that is say only moving 10-20 miles away.
 
Stovepipes said:
The system seems a bit mad to me. I never thought I'd get this involved in buying and selling a house as there's literally no chance of me ever getting a mortgage so I'm just finding all this out now. One thing that could have seriously sped up the process is if before selling we were told create like a detailed buyers pack upfront instead of having conveyancers still making enquiries this late into the process.
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The house buying process in England is completely mental. I don't think you could devise a more fragile and stressful process if you tried, without actually adding dice rolls into it.

Looking at a move next year and I'm inclined to go for the chain-breaking route and just chuck stuff in storage, just to make it all a bit less painful.
 
mid_gen said:
The house buying process in England is completely mental. I don't think you could devise a more fragile and stressful process if you tried, without actually adding dice rolls into it.

Looking at a move next year and I'm inclined to go for the chain-breaking route and just chuck stuff in storage, just to make it all a bit less painful.
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That was my plan too. I put my Mother's house up for sale thinking it'd complete some 3 months later. 6 Months later it finally went through. Rather than wait that whole time she found something she liked and made an offer.

What's really fun right now is my mum will be homeless next week and wouldn't you know it, the seller has at the last minute changed their mind on the completion date and wants it to go through after Christmas. I think given the considerable costs in suddenly putting everything into storage, finding a last minute place for the next month and that's she's now a cash buyer, she needs to rethink if she really wants it.
 
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