Moving house is easy

[Vespula]

House for sale Monday morning, very good offer accepted Monday afternoon.

View ton of houses on Tuesday.

Make offer and have it accepted Wednesday.

Piece of piss.

That is all.

[anonymous-user]

Err, you haven't actually moved have you? Wait until contracts are exchanged, even then it can go to tit. You haven't moved until you have the keys to the new place.

[GTO-3R]

What he said, mine has been going through since november and was a simple no chain purchase! Something can pop up that you least expect, but I hope yours goes through without any problems. Congrats

[illmonkey]

We had similar when we moved. Infact, ours wasn't even on the market. We knew our estate agent and he offered someone to see it before he'd even written the details up (she was viewing other places). She offered that afternoon. So technically we sold it before it going up for sale!

We saw 4 or 5 houses, and offered on 1, a bit of haggling and we'd got accepted the same day as the offer.

Then the problems stated! Don't speak too soon

[rah1888]

You've got the easy bit out of the way then!

Now the fun starts.

[Buzz word]

So nothing has been bought or sold. Now the easy part has been done you can potentially look forward to fronting a few grand to have it come crashing down in a month. Good luck though, I hope that doesnt happen. Offers are by far the easiest part.

[IainT]

So, the people who want to buy your new home have buyers for theirs who have buyers for thers, etc..?

The people who own the house you're buying have somewhere to go?

That's before the Surveys and Lawyers get involved, lsoe stuff, spot 'problems', etc.

As others said - you've done the easy bit!

[davidd]

Great news, good luck

[RedLeicester]

rah1888 said:

You've got the easy bit out of the way then!

Now the fun starts.

Quite. Making and accepting offers is a piece of piss.

[Jasandjules]

Vespula said:

House for sale Monday morning, very good offer accepted Monday afternoon.

View ton of houses on Tuesday.

Make offer and have it accepted Wednesday.

Piece of piss.

That is all.

Do you want the good news or the bad news?

[fatboy b]

Vespula said:

House for sale Monday morning, very good offer accepted Monday afternoon.

I'd say it was too cheap then.

[GT03ROB]

Jasandjules said:

Vespula said:

House for sale Monday morning, very good offer accepted Monday afternoon.

View ton of houses on Tuesday.

Make offer and have it accepted Wednesday.

Piece of piss.

That is all.

Do you want the good news or the bad news?

Give him both.....

[davidd]

Hang on the topic is 'Moving house is easy'

The actual move will be simple, I am paying a load of blokes to pack it all, move it and then unpack it again.. We'll just wander about pointing at things

It is all the crap before and after that is a pain

[sleep envy]

I think this thread will come back to bite you firmly in the deeds

[wiffmaster]

Don't think we've ever 'sold' a house less than twice. One was 'sold' four times before it was actually sold. Hope it goes well for you, but don't get too excited until exchange/completion.

[Vespula]

davidd said:

Hang on the topic is 'Moving house is easy'

The actual move will be simple, I am paying a load of blokes to pack it all, move it and then unpack it again.. We'll just wander about pointing at things

It is all the crap before and after that is a pain

'load of blokes'

Load of tts more like, rude, aggressive, unhelpful, wanting tea and expecting a tip.

[davidd]

Vespula said:

'load of blokes'

Load of tts more like, rude, aggressive, unhelpful, wanting tea and expecting a tip.

Funny enough they have just moved my business partner, he said they were alarmingly nice.. We shall see!

[King Herald]

Vespula said:

House for sale Monday morning, very good offer accepted Monday afternoon.

View ton of houses on Tuesday.

Make offer and have it accepted Wednesday.

Piece of piss.

That is all.

No no no no no. Making an offer on a house is easy. The rest can be a fkin' nightmare. As you will undoubtedly find.

As for moving house being easy, well, it depends where you move to.....

[fido]

Vespula said:

House for sale Monday morning, very good offer accepted Monday afternoon.

Ditto, but on a Saturday. I just didn't get round to the buying part.

Hope it goes well. If there isn't a chain i.e. the place you're buying is a probate or sellers are renting, then it can be over in a matter of a few semi-stressful weeks. Then again if it involves sneaky surveys or someone who decides to get their mortgage done through some dodgy foreign bank.
Been there before and got the t-shirts.

[m3jappa]

The above comments are right, it is a nightmare

I have only ever owned one house but have bought 4.....