Is this allowed as a title, too coy for the other Chris I should imagine!
bloody buyers from buyers refusing to budge from completion date of 29th April.
I start work on 2nd may FFS.
I need to get on with life rather than paddling/idling
SCREAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Apparently it is cos its easier to move with an extra day for the bank hols. I’d have thought removal would be more expensive – have yet to check – and if something goes wrong, it takes far longer to sort out.
Also they are in rented, so paid till end of month.
Could thisd bloody take any longer. We made it really clear to buyers we wanted wuick exchange and completion, and it has dragged on and on. we should have had a bidding fight between them and the other and got a bit more money, as we certainly haven’y ended up with a quick sale – after all, we sold end of Jan and it will be 3 months from then.
Of course, we are the only ones moving any distance, who really care about moving time. Bollox, bollox bollox.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
We moved the day before we got married!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
screaming in sympathy with you Helen. End of March would have been better if they needed to do it at the end of a month, huh? Similar thing happened to us except the opposite way around, said we couldn’t complete during a particular week and lo and behold everyone fixed it for that week – grr. In the end it worked out okay – I’m sure yours will too, honest. So frustrating though, isn’t it?
Helen- what a nightmare!!!
Totally understand about living in limbo, waiting the move….
Awful system isn’t it?
argh! hugs!
Sounds shit. I couldn’t stand that. We agree a moving day the day the offer is accepted, and its all binding from that point. So long as no one dies (one of my big worries, as three times we’ve sold to much older people.) We moved in here on Xmas Eve. That was pretty grim
I do wish we had the scottish system. Xmas eve, and day before wedding sound crap too!
The only problem here is the closed bidding “offers over” system. And as your offer is binding, you have to get a survey done before you bid. So you can spend a lot of money on surveys, and end up not getting the house. It also means that you can’t bid on more than one thing at a time, so you can end up missing out on things if the closing date is around the same time. Plus of course the fact that houses can go for anything up to about 40% over the actual asking price, so you end up viewing houses, and possibly even doing surveys, and incuring solicitors fees for offers, for a house where you don’t come near (and couldn’t afford to come near) the final price. But the plus side – none of this pissing about three weeks before your moving date. Shudder
i guess swings and roundabouts, but am in rant mode – in fact turning into my dad!