Owning your own home

Movers due any minute. Slightly freaking out now.

Enjoy being homeless for a few hours.

My mate moved a fortnight ago and the lawyers 'lost' the money. They didn't get the keys to the new place until after 5:30pm. Was apparently a bit nail biting for a while.

Lawyers have already told us they have our mortgage advance. Just waiting for our buyer to send theirs.

My solicitor kept stressing that I should have a backup plan for the night of completion "just in case".

100% this. Completing on a Friday is madness, we went right down to the line and of course everything is closed Saturday.

exactly the same happened to us. I spent 2 hours sat outside the estate agents waiting for the money to be found so they can release the keys. My wife, desparate for the toilet walking round the park with our 6 month old. Fun!

Blimey - really?

The people buying my last place were sat in the estate agents from around 8am. Didn't complete until nearly 2pm.

Luckily our buyer is not planning to move in until tomorrow or the weekend anyway. And our vendor has already moved out, so we won't be on the streets.

There's something about cardboard boxes isn't there? Its like the ultimate camouflage.

This is known.

Have you never played Metal Gear Solid?

In reality mine went really smoothly. Place I was moving into was vacant and the people buying mine weren't moving in until the Monday so I had keys for the new place before I left the old place.

Suspect part of the warning was moving with a one month old isn't a situation where you want to end up with nowhere to live.

I was hoping to sweet talk the seller into letting us in once they had moved in a couple of days ago but I think they were not happy about us paying under asking

Live feed update: Our solicitor has our buyers money now. Movers are on to their second Luton and are about 80% packed.

Good luck!

All complete, but the vendors EA is an hour away :(

Still, if that's the worst thing to happen today I'll be happy.

Sooooon

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congrats! very real now..

Thanks, it's ours now, but still no bastard keys. Need to unload my car, run back for my wife/cats, come back, unload then go pick up my daughter in the next 100 minutes.

My neighbour has agreed a sale with a buyer, I guess I'll be able to find out for certain if banks will lend on our building without an ESW1.

We're taking the risk, we have the house we were buying back under offer, second mortgage applied for but on a 90% deal. We've had to change solicitor annoyingly as our current one isn't on the panel for either of our options for 90% LTV.

Listing the flat with a new estate agent after new year.

I'm up to my eyeballs in delays. One domino has knocked over another and so on. Move date pushing Feb now.

Plaster fell off old lath and plaster ceiling, reason unknown but age a lot to do with it.

Builder removed the lath and plaster ceiling, revealing a very small leak from roof above. While at it the plaster on the walls came off too (70% almost fell off, very little needed tools to remove). So what was a new ceiling job has turned into board and plaster everything with new skirting boards, move the sockets about etc.

Got roofer to come and look at the roof above. They came this lunchtime and fixed it. Only now it is raining it is leaking more than before.

2 steps forward, 3 steps back at the moment.

We couldn't get our Nest back working again after Monday's outage.

They are sending us a new Heat Link at some point within the next nine days, and have said on the phone (but not yet in writing) that they will cover the cost of installation.

But we haven't got anyone to install it and I'm not sure we'll be able to by Christmas. It's fucking freezing without it and we've got 2 electric radiators on most of the time.

It's ridiculous that we've got a boiler that's only a year old and in perfect working condition that we can't actually use to heat the house because of some piece of shit electrical device that's wired to it.

i installed mine myself its pretty easy. lots of help on you tube

that’s a DIY job if you can wire a terminal block and not electrocute yourself.

You may also be able to bypass the controller completely using the boiler settings on the faceplate.

what a ball ache though I agree.

We just did ours ourselves. 10 min job max, especially as all the wiring etc is all there and presumably correct and just needs reconnected.