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Had the buyer knock on the door last night to tell us that they'd signed the contracts and that they think its our conveyancer holding things up and yeah I think they're right.
The nervous wait to exchange....
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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.
Prestwich in Manchester not really rough imo
So what’s the reason for the family refusing to vacate the house? Doesn’t make sense.
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.
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Fingers crossed but looks like the first exchange is happening today.
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Good luck hope it all pans out OK.
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Well we've exchanged so I have now technically made my elderly mother homeless just before Christmas. I gotta get the second part done now.
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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?
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.
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.
I lost out on two houses I made offers WAY over asking for because we were in a chain. The sellers both times just didn't want the risk
We finally exchanged and then moved on the 29th November, after a year of hell, I think I mentioned a few things about it in this post a while back.
Im sorry that your buyers are being like that, it's such a stressful time and you just want it over with.
Whatever you do, don't move yourself, or if you do, get the right size van. I got 5 mates to help me move with a Luton and tail lift, and somehow grossely underestimated how much stuff we had. Ended up with a fully loaded, top to bottom, front to back Luton and almost half a house worth of stuff. Had to call a man with a van to help and still did another 4-5 trips in his. Luckily the house was 1 min round the corner.
We had ran out of money by the time we got to moving due to having to pull of out of a previous house due to huge issues with it. But quotes we were getting were around £1000-£1500 in Hastings.
I wish you all the best with your move and hope it goes as best as it can without further delays.
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I forgot to post a picture of our new house. We've been busy cleaning as the previous owners left it in a right mess, the also took nearly all the curtains and poles. I personally left my house nice and clean and didn't bother taking the curtains or poles.
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Very nice houseI forgot to post a picture of our new house. We've been busy cleaning as the previous owners left it in a right mess, the also took nearly all the curtains and poles. I personally left my house nice and clean and didn't bother taking the curtains or poles.
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It's a nightmare isn't it. There's no way we will ever moving ourselves, we have a 3.5 year old. We will be paying for the full service.
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Seems like we're no longer going to be able to buy our council house: after Labour moved the discount goalposts (meaning our £85k discount is being reduced to just £16k) and the Infected Blood Compensation Authority have just announced that they've only paid 10 victims so far (6 of whom are disputing the amount), despite three years of Tory promises to make it a priority...
I'm not overly disappointed - ours is a 1960's prefab concrete, flat-roofed monstrosity in the midst of the worst housing estate on the south coast (in terms of crime), but the old discount would have meant paying £115k for a house that I could easily let out for £1800 a month, without a mortgage (I doubt any regular/sane mortgage firm would consider lending against it, but there's plenty in the street that have managed).
The plan was to hold onto it for at least 5-7 years, then either sell at full value, more than doubling our money, or continue letting it bring in a rental income.
Instead, we'll put Plan B into action and start looking at properties/land off the island suitable for converting/building a 5 bed, wheelchair adapted bungalow. We've a pretty reasonable budget of £450k (south coast premium permitting), with a chunk more coming whenever the compensation scheme eventually gets it's finger out to assess our claim.
I'm not overly disappointed - ours is a 1960's prefab concrete, flat-roofed monstrosity in the midst of the worst housing estate on the south coast (in terms of crime), but the old discount would have meant paying £115k for a house that I could easily let out for £1800 a month, without a mortgage (I doubt any regular/sane mortgage firm would consider lending against it, but there's plenty in the street that have managed).
The plan was to hold onto it for at least 5-7 years, then either sell at full value, more than doubling our money, or continue letting it bring in a rental income.
Instead, we'll put Plan B into action and start looking at properties/land off the island suitable for converting/building a 5 bed, wheelchair adapted bungalow. We've a pretty reasonable budget of £450k (south coast premium permitting), with a chunk more coming whenever the compensation scheme eventually gets it's finger out to assess our claim.
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Well we're out Tuesday with nowhere to go now. Sellers properly screwed us over by changing the completion dates and now they still haven't exchanged so I'm not entirely sure what to do now, literally told the movers roughly where the furniture is going cause it's probably going into storage if I can't rent a place.