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if it makes you feel better, I exchanged at 4.30 pm one day, completed midday the next. Right up to the wire of someone up the chain clusterfucking everyone. Still waiting on the contractually obliged deed of variation bits and bobs from our sellers 3 months down the line, but the move happened and our solicitor was a hardass but allowed it all to happen. I never want to move house again after the whole experience, but yeah - all is not lost.
jackbepablo-
Still waiting on the contractually obliged... I never want to move house again
Ours simply decided not to bother paying off a bunch of the charges on the house (contractually obliged after our completion); when we came to remortgage two years later we found they were still there :)
I like to think that it was the seller who was personally responsible for having to pay everyone's costs from the ensuing legal drama, rather than some anonymous insurance company.
christianSpaceman
Buying a house takes an unnecessary length of time.
31 October offers were accepted.
(Bit of background, we are buying an empty house, the seller of the empty house is buying our flat to rent out)
Tomorrow will be 3 months since this was started and still have no move date.
Initially when we instructed solicitors we asked if 7 Feb was doable, and told yeah no dramas. That's next week and we haven't heard much from them in the last few weeks.
How soon can exchanges and complete happen? (As in, do you get a call from the sols saying "ready when you are, chump" or do they milk more time)