Is anyone moving now?

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S17Thumper

4,226 posts

185 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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TCruise said:
Completion Time

What do most people suggest as a sensible completion time?

We've been suggested 2pm. Which we think gives us time for the movers to arrive in the morning, remove everything from our place, then drive round the the next house.

Sensible?

Or do packers/movers usually arrive the day before to do all the boxing and packing?
Ours came the day before and took 70% of stuff, including my office chair!

They managed to finish up by 1130 next day, grab some lunch and wait for the keys.

They used 2 wagons as access was a little tight, so they filled one and finished off with the second wagon on completion day

ETA: where about are you?

HRL

3,330 posts

218 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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talksthetorque said:
HRL said:
open viewing day
Didn't think these would be allowed at the moment.
Ah well, you may have had less competition because people didn't waant to attend!
That’s what we thought too but they got around it by booking slots all day instead of a free for all.

However, we were there for two hours in the end and fell in love with the place. Just hoping the damn purchase goes through as there’s a long way to go still.

normalbloke

7,401 posts

218 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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TCruise said:
Completion Time

What do most people suggest as a sensible completion time?

We've been suggested 2pm. Which we think gives us time for the movers to arrive in the morning, remove everything from our place, then drive round the the next house.

Sensible?

Or do packers/movers usually arrive the day before to do all the boxing and packing?
Time? Crikey, I’d have been happy with which quarter of the year it was likely to fall in.....

Greendubber

13,129 posts

202 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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AJB88 said:
Were packing ourselves, but the companies have all said they will be here at 8am, they all charge key waiting after 2pm as well.
Ours allowed us to pay a waiver of about 60 quid meaning we had them after 2pm until whenever we needed them. I think it was about £50 an hour! We had them until about 4.30pm in the end so worthwhile.

AJB88

12,269 posts

170 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Greendubber said:
Ours allowed us to pay a waiver of about 60 quid meaning we had them after 2pm until whenever we needed them. I think it was about £50 an hour! We had them until about 4.30pm in the end so worthwhile.
Yeh we have been offered that between £60-120. One of them has offered it us for Free to get the job.

monkfish1

10,874 posts

223 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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cayman-black said:
I have been watching house sales in Devon this year and every house i have looked at has sold within two weeks, just incredible.
Likewise. For about 4 years. Just gone crazy.

TimmyMallett

2,811 posts

111 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Rutter said:
Exchanged today on the house we offered on at the beginning of November. Completing next week.

TimmyMallett

2,811 posts

111 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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ChevronB19 said:
Exchanged today, thank god. Has taken nigh on 5 months due to an horrifically naive buyer. Feels like a massive weight off my shoulders. Am having a beer now and it’s not 5pm yet!



It's not over till the fatty sings.

I thought ours was going swimmingly until our buyer 'found out' where we had moved to, came round under lockdown and emptied what amounted to a small cardboard box onto our lawn with 6 sheets of tissue paper and some dust sweepings from the kitchen bin screaming at us telling us how we needed to pay him £250 cash, why we didnt clean the freezer out and why we had been trespassing on his property the day of the sale.

Also, why hadn't we left him some Prosecco and a card like he had done to his buyer.




Because you were a c**t through the entire sale. And now youre on my lawn shouting at me to 'Be a f*cking man and come outside'.


Yeah, you're the man. The best man in the world.

Edited by TimmyMallett on Thursday 4th March 15:57

Turn7

23,504 posts

220 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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.......And......

It now transpires our "cash" buyer isnt quite that, they just wont need a mortgage...once their sale completes....

And our Vendor, who was buying an "empty" property now cant complete until theyve moved out.....

Lies, lies and more damned lies.....

Allegedly, maybe, possibly, who bloody knows, exchanging next week if the chain agrees on dates.

Its just such a clusterfk this process, it really is.

cayman-black

12,625 posts

215 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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TimmyMallett said:



It's not over till the fatty sings.

I thought ours was going swimmingly until our buyer 'found out' where we had moved to, came round under lockdown and emptied what amounted to a small cardboard box onto our lawn with 6 sheets of tissue paper and some dust sweepings from the kitchen bin screaming at us telling us how we needed to pay him £250 cash, why we didnt clean the freezer out and why we had been trespassing on his property the day of the sale.

Also, why hadn't we left him some Prosecco and a card like he had done to his buyer.

You would think he had better thing to do ffs!




Because you were a c**t through the entire sale. And now youre on my lawn shouting at me to 'Be a f*cking man and come outside'.


Yeah, you're the man. The best man in the world.

Edited by TimmyMallett on Thursday 4th March 15:57

S17Thumper

4,226 posts

185 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Turn7 said:
.......And......

It now transpires our "cash" buyer isnt quite that, they just wont need a mortgage...once their sale completes....

And our Vendor, who was buying an "empty" property now cant complete until theyve moved out.....

Lies, lies and more damned lies.....

Allegedly, maybe, possibly, who bloody knows, exchanging next week if the chain agrees on dates.

Its just such a clusterfk this process, it really is.
One of the bidders on our place who was a cash buyer got weeded out when we asked for some type of proof...

Must have been a different type of ‘cash’ hehe

MaxFromage

1,861 posts

130 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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We've just put our house on the market in South West Birmingham Decent 3 bed semi. It's nothing special but well looked after with nice decor. Rightmove went live on Tuesday evening. 10 viewings booked within 5 working hours on Wednesday we're now up to 18 bookings over today and Saturday. 3rd viewer offered £2.5K over asking 10 minutes after viewing. Cash buyer.

Genuinely shocked at the interest and offers so far.

bennno

11,514 posts

268 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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MaxFromage said:
We've just put our house on the market in South West Birmingham Decent 3 bed semi. It's nothing special but well looked after with nice decor. Rightmove went live on Tuesday evening. 10 viewings booked within 5 working hours on Wednesday we're now up to 18 bookings over today and Saturday. 3rd viewer offered £2.5K over asking 10 minutes after viewing. Cash buyer.

Genuinely shocked at the interest and offers so far.
If the 3rd buyer is serious / genuine why would you put yourself at risk of Covid by having a load of bored property tourists poke about your house.

LetsTryAgain

2,904 posts

72 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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S17Thumper said:
One of the bidders on our place who was a cash buyer got weeded out when we asked for some type of proof...

Must have been a different type of ‘cash’ hehe
If someone asked me for proof I’d walk as well.
Unfortunately, the presumption of guilt is pretty much universal now in this country.

HRL

3,330 posts

218 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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LetsTryAgain said:
S17Thumper said:
One of the bidders on our place who was a cash buyer got weeded out when we asked for some type of proof...

Must have been a different type of ‘cash’ hehe
If someone asked me for proof I’d walk as well.
Unfortunately, the presumption of guilt is pretty much universal now in this country.
We had to provide proof when we made an offer on Monday. Seems to be a thing lately.

Evoluzione

10,345 posts

242 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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S17Thumper said:
One of the bidders on our place who was a cash buyer got weeded out when we asked for some type of proof...

Must have been a different type of ‘cash’ hehe
Dead right. I've said it a few times in this thread, their word is simply not enough.

LetsTryAgain

2,904 posts

72 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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HRL said:
We had to provide proof when we made an offer on Monday. Seems to be a thing lately.
As I said, pretty much universal.
Just look at Mr Evoluzione above.

Evoluzione

10,345 posts

242 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Well after 3 months of arsing around and telling us they would lend us the 60% (we have had 3 contracts delivered from them) the second bank, Barclays finally refused to lend on the basis of some ancient right of access on the land and valued the property at zero.
We started off as novices so placed our trust in professionals who have just completely messed it up, 10 months on we are utterly sick of it all, but have a lot of useless knowledge on what to and what not to do to buy a property like this. If anyone had advised us correctly at the start we would have gone down a different route and been in by now.
The broker didn't know that banks don't lend on houses with over a certain amount of land with them as they are classed as businesses so that was bank No.1 gone.
The solicitor should have kept his mouth shut about the ancient access right (The Lord of the Manor (if he exists) has a right to hunt in the house and on the garden) then bank 2 would have lent.

So now we've handed it all over to a broker who specialises in these types of property (which is what we should have done in the first place). He doesn't even know if it's viable yet or how much it will cost, but does know it'll take months and not weeks to sort out. So the only good news lately is Rishis stamp duty holiday extension.
Our sellers seller, the onward chain has pulled out, house back on market.
My house is sold, we're still living in it and paying their mortgage.
Neither of us have had a holiday in a year and could really do with a break, but that is impossible too.
Totally and utterly depressed about it and everything else right now.

C Lee Farquar

4,066 posts

215 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Evoluzione said:
The solicitor should have kept his mouth shut about the ancient access right (The Lord of the Manor (if he exists) has a right to hunt in the house and on the garden) then bank 2 would have lent.
IIRC your solicitor also acts for your lender. They have a duty to report anything untoward.

Otherwise all lenders would need to instruct another solicitor to double check everything, and double the legal costs.

Turn7

23,504 posts

220 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Feel your pain Evo, I really do...

I said to the MrsT7 yesterday, if it wasnt for c19 we would have just booked a prem and gone down the coast for a week, just for some headspace and a change of scenery,,,,,,

This whole process just consumes you, its unreal its never been modified.