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Friggin house selling arrgghhhh

juliehf, 6 August, 2008 at 11:56 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 1

This house selling business is driving me potty. we accepted a low offer on our place with the estate agents recommendation that we say the sale had to complete quickly (ie within about 7 weeks). well almost three months later and we still haven't exchanged and won't till the end of next week because the buyer is getting money from the key worker scheme thingy, and although she's been approved and the money is available, they insist on a 7 day cooling off period.

she's had two and a half months to frickin cool off!!!!

stupid H and i are separating and this is one of the last things that ties up together (except our son, which is obviously a huge tie) and i just want it gone, so i can know where i am financially.

i feel like i have spent so much bloody money on the phone to the uk chasing this sale and i just want the damn thing over.

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Latest activity by Moomoo, 6 August, 2008 at 18:11
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    We were selling ours to move to rented and the buyer was a cash buyer with nothing to sell - still took 3 months from start to end!

    its such a pain - we (very, very nicely) hassled our solicitors and estate agent (daily) to hurry things along!

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    I understand - when we bought our first house we were ftbs and i worked in conveyancing - 5 months. nothing was wrong, just took 5 months. when we bought this one we did a straight swap - part-ex with no other purchases or sales involved - 3 months, and i'm an estate agent using friendly solicitors... 3 months is actually normal for the conveyancing process. doesn't matter how long yr chain is (longer chain = more possibilities for disaster, but that's really it), about 3 months is standard.

    there are, of course, the 28-day exchanges or less for repos and similar, but it's normally either because you have to have everything in place before you start, or they just say "no, not going to answer your enquiries. take it or leave it." and metaphorically give your conveyancers the finger ?

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