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Colm89
I am very close to going nuclear on my sale and purchase.
For the last few days everyone has said they are ready to exchange. Everyone knew I was selling my house first moving out for 3 weeks then buying the new place. Absolutely everyone knew thr deadlines I could not have been clearer.
The morning of Friday 11th arrives. Everyone has confirmed they are ready to exchange. I have an empty house and all my stuff apart from 3 mattresses are in storage. At 10am my agent calls the last agent who confirms the top of the chain is ready, there was a small issue with a septic tank how've they've agreed a 10k retention and everyone is happy.
Between 10am and about 3 the last solicitor doesn't answer her phone and won't release the contract for exchange. At 4pm they eventually say that no they won't be exchanging today as they want specialist reports on the septic tank and they might need to renegotiate the retention
At this point I have been sat outside a cattery in Essex for quite a few hours waiting for the call to check our cat in.
My buyer has gone bananas. As have I
The starting point at this stage, assuming I don't actually fuck it all off next week, is I want 5k off at a minimum. The estate agent selling me my house has now shit himself and is running around like I've never seen.
I suspect it'll all fall through at this point and in a strange way I don't think I actually care.