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Vesalius
@princeperch Also, I'm not intentionally ignoring your plight with the post ^^^^. I've gone through similar
Planned to sell my place at end of 2019. Split buy/sell. Crash at girlfriend's for a few weeks in between.
Sold my place without a hitch, 7 weeks from beginning to end. Sold Nov 2019
Top of the chain was going through a separation and umm'd and ahh'd about whether they wanted to buy or rent somewhere after selling.
They changed their mind at the last minute and everything got held up.
December exchange date became Jan, Feb.
Covid arrived. Everything went on hold. Middle of the chain collapses because a seller is in her 80s and obv doesn't fancy inviting strangers into her house and moving to a new area during a lockdown.
All my stuff still in storage.
Relationship also shaky, so that's less than ideal when a few weeks has become months.
May/June, eventually things start happening again.
All my mortgage offers need refreshing because they're past 6 months.
Then my seller (different one) loses her place and needs to find somewhere else.
My 6 month porting gap expires and I need to chase the bank and beg them to be nice so that it doesn't cost me 4k in early redemption fees.
Then my solicitor neglects to tell me that half my searches have expired. And my bank is one of the few that doesn't accept insurance against that, so have to get that done extremely quickly or the 1 month extension with the bank will expire and then I'm the cunt holding everything up.
But the council are now taking up to 35 days rather than 10 to get things done, because Covid. So I just have to hope for the best and spent the last few weeks doing a lot of chasing everyone up to make sure things happened.
Council came through. Moved in August 2020.
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I moved. I forgot all the shit above fairly quickly. The guy at the top that triggered the initial 2 month lag that ended up becoming a 9 month gap... meh, doesn't even register anymore, was just a thing that happened once.
(The fact that it took so long did at least mean we completed during the stamp duty holiday, so I'm sure the 15k saved there helped. But fuck me it took a long time.)