Owning your own home

Get in touch with the vendor and ask if you can come for another quick viewing since you need to measure for curtains or something. When you are there you can have a friendly chat about moving things along. I find that remembering that the other party is a real human, not a solicitor or estate agent, helps to motivate.

This.

I was doing exactly the same thing with mine. Face to face chats went much better.