Owning your own home

Bit of advice? This may be a bad idea, but I was considering dropping a quick letter to the seller by post, just saying 'hi, I know things seem to be going well, but should you ever want to get in touch you can get me on 01234 567890. No worries if not, Sparky'.

The thinking being that if we're ever being held up for whatever reason, we could get the truth straight from the horse's mouth with a text message or phone call.

Bad idea or no?

I'd say go for it, it's not going to hurt is it.

I spoke to the women we were buying our house off a fair bit. Considering there was no chain either end it still took nigh on 4 months from the date we put the offer in.

She often rang and was apologetic over how long it was taking, not that it was her fault at all of course.