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Jul. 12th, 2006 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynAs some of you may be aware, pierot and I are currently buying a flat together. It's a nice flat. It's in London, on Lower Road in Rotherhithe, not so very far from where we're staying now. It's got two bedrooms, and a garden.
Here are some pictures of it...
We put an offer in on this flat with the understanding that we could not complete until mid August at the very earliest. They accepted our offer. We've got the mortgage. We've got the deposit. We've finally got all the paperwork sorted. We were just waiting (as far as I was aware) for the tenants who are currently resident in the property to move out. We said (about a month ago) that August 30th was our preferred completion date as it saved us from paying both rent and mortgage, and they didn't object, so we just pootled along happily.
And then today, at 5.30 pm, I got a phone call from my solicitor. He'd just had a phone call from the sellers solicitors, demanding that he either confirm tomorrow by 12 noon that we'd be able to exchange contracts immediately and complete by August 11th, or they were pulling out of the sale.
Their sodding tenants aren't even moving until August 9th. God knows when they are planning on tidying the place up, or moving the furniture out. And I'm pretty damn fed up with the threats to re-market the property every sodding time they talk to us. They've been doing this since May when we started this process, and it's never 'the sellers have this concern'. It's ALWAYS 'the sellers want you to do this, or they are pulling out', and half the time it's been them nagging me about something which is entirely beyond my control.
Honestly, if it wouldn't cost us more in terms of lawyers fees, and a lot more in terms of time and hassle to find somewhere new in time, I'd be telling them where they could stick their house sale right now, and leaving them to try and find anyone who's going to be able to give them £200,000 in less than a month's time.
Bloody stupid sellers.
Grrrr...
pierot and I are currently buying a flat together. It's a nice flat. It's in London, on Lower Road in Rotherhithe, not so very far from where we're staying now. It's got two bedrooms, and a garden.Here are some pictures of it...
We put an offer in on this flat with the understanding that we could not complete until mid August at the very earliest. They accepted our offer. We've got the mortgage. We've got the deposit. We've finally got all the paperwork sorted. We were just waiting (as far as I was aware) for the tenants who are currently resident in the property to move out. We said (about a month ago) that August 30th was our preferred completion date as it saved us from paying both rent and mortgage, and they didn't object, so we just pootled along happily.
And then today, at 5.30 pm, I got a phone call from my solicitor. He'd just had a phone call from the sellers solicitors, demanding that he either confirm tomorrow by 12 noon that we'd be able to exchange contracts immediately and complete by August 11th, or they were pulling out of the sale.
Their sodding tenants aren't even moving until August 9th. God knows when they are planning on tidying the place up, or moving the furniture out. And I'm pretty damn fed up with the threats to re-market the property every sodding time they talk to us. They've been doing this since May when we started this process, and it's never 'the sellers have this concern'. It's ALWAYS 'the sellers want you to do this, or they are pulling out', and half the time it's been them nagging me about something which is entirely beyond my control.
Honestly, if it wouldn't cost us more in terms of lawyers fees, and a lot more in terms of time and hassle to find somewhere new in time, I'd be telling them where they could stick their house sale right now, and leaving them to try and find anyone who's going to be able to give them £200,000 in less than a month's time.
Bloody stupid sellers.
Grrrr...
