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Nov 2017
8:12am, 11 Nov 2017
20,462 posts
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Red Squirrel
Wow Meglet. That was an exercise and n seamless selling. In a chain too. Mine was on before yours and continues to be on.
I dream one day of being free to look for a new home.
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Nov 2017
8:19am, 12 Nov 2017
18,662 posts
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Meglet
I know, I feel bad for you because yours is dragging on and I know how much you need to sell.
For a relatively easy move it was still pretty stressful, especially the last week or two before exchange, then the leadup to moving day. I've been sleeping really badly and unsurprisingly I've now come down with a cold. It would certainly be easier if I wasn't single, though Teen 2 has helped and has got her own room pretty sorted.
However I love my house and the location, so pleased with it. 
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Nov 2017
10:24am, 12 Nov 2017
23,693 posts
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Derby Tup
It is incredibly stressful, but in my experience a lot of that is caused by solicitors. Ours seems to have a pathological need to ask questions (without our knowledge or consent)
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Nov 2017
8:13pm, 12 Nov 2017
20,464 posts
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Red Squirrel
I've had a cold for 4 weeks and a cough like a donkey. Unsurprising too.
It's definitely tough organising moving as a singlet. DIY, paying for repairs & maintenance, ringing the solicitors and agents from work, cleaning everything on my own. Going back to the flat to keep it looking good and checking on it. It's on the opposite side of town from where I'm staying. Pain in the arse my life at the moment.
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Nov 2017
8:13pm, 12 Nov 2017
20,465 posts
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Red Squirrel
What sort of questions, Tup?
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Nov 2017
8:20pm, 12 Nov 2017
23,706 posts
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Derby Tup
The house is 150 + years old and is three terraced cottages (well two, plus a smaller third one) knocked into one. Because there's a plot of land on a separate title deed it's a complicated deal
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Nov 2017
8:30pm, 12 Nov 2017
37,138 posts
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Velociraptor
We had that sort of experience last time we sold, DT. Our buyer's solicitor asked all sorts of strange questions - by post, even though they were only a few doors away from our solicitor. And I was furious when I saw that our solicitor had taken upon herself to niggle over precisely which three trees our sellers were taking with them when they moved, when my attitude was, "Uproot the whole sodding garden if you like, I'll probably want to redesign it anyway. And please take the fish pond and the decking."
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Nov 2017
8:43pm, 12 Nov 2017
24,358 posts
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halfpint
A neighbour had a huge delay in selling her partners house whilst solicitors haggled over a parking space that didn't exist, never did and what's more the buyer had not given a shit about.
My friend who was struggling to sell has finally sold and has a moving date. A colleagues parents have finally sold after 2.5 years!!! Meanwhile my parents bought a house within days of starting looking and sold there own without it going on the market. They move at the beginning of December. It's a funny old business this house selling malarkey.
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Nov 2017
8:43pm, 12 Nov 2017
24,359 posts
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halfpint
their not there.
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Nov 2017
8:51pm, 12 Nov 2017
23,707 posts
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Derby Tup
It's the way the solicitor takes it upon himself to ask the "other side" questions without telling us. It's just a parlour game to him
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