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Congrats!
It's so quiet here apart from the sound of birds - @chrisbmx116 you weren't exaggerating!
Yes, I notice that every time I ride through--made by the distance from main streets and the lack of through motor traffic.
Oliver Schick
We did it! Exchanged and completed on the same day yesterday, just had our first night in our new house :)
It went right down to the wire - exchanged about 5pm. Five minutes before we heard from our solicitors that it had gone through we had decided to head up to the storage place, after waiting outside with the removal men since 1pm. Had literally driven down the road when we heard.
Removal guys left at 7pm and were clearly knackered after their 10 hour day.
All this stress caused by the other side's muppet solicitors who posted one of the death certificates we needed by normal post on Friday so it still hadn't got to our solicitors yesterday. Then it turned out they'd cocked up further and it wasn't a certified copy. Fortunately I had predicted their shitness and ordered the death certificate in question from the Register Office on a next day service, thereby saving our purchase.
House is dusty and dirty but we already love it and it has so much potential. It's so quiet here apart from the sound of birds - @chrisbmx116 you weren't exaggerating! I've honestly never heard so many birds anywhere I've lived.
Was too wound up to sleep last night so was ordering wheelie bins and changing my address with people online instead. Turns out geese honk at 3am, who knew...