It never rains.....it pours

Not the weather but one thing follows another.

We got a buyer for our house two weeks after putting it on the market in March, great, we got an offer accepted on a bungalow (fairly large garden and greenhouses) only three of us in the chain, great, should be wrapped up by June.:thumb:
Vendor pulls out (she decided not to move) and now not sure whether buyer is serious, after six weeks there's no sign of a valuation by Building Society on our house, he has been given a week to act, if he pulls out we are back where we started in March. Nearly three months wasted.
If he is still buying we will have to go into rented untill we find what we want.
On top of that, our tour of Morocco has been cancelled (not enough bookings!)

I think I will buy a LARGE bar of Cadbury's Bourneville (and Inhouse Advisor a LARGE Galaxy) and eat our way out of depression.

 

My sympathies Strongy. We put our house on the market September 2009 and didn't get to move until April 2010 - 7 months! and I thought it would happen so quickly :DOH: A lot of it was legal stuff, solicitors etc holding things up.

We've now been here a year and it was worth all the hassle.

Hope things happen for you soon.



BTW - chocolate is good for stress

 

Hello my vertically challenged friend .. our holiday was cancelled as you know due to horrendous weather .. and yesterday we were in an accident that wrote one of our cars off (fortunately not Izzy) ... so we have decided that life can be C*R*A*P at the best of times ... thank goodness we have our health ... although we both ate a lot of unhealthy food and drank too much last night ...

Our love to you both always ... xx

 

When I was buying our house, we very nearly missed it. The vendor had specified a deadline, and we missed it by over a week (the deadline was, we were told by our solicitor, very reasonable). Our solicitor had to write to the vendor begging for more time.

The reason for the delay? The required paperwork that I'd given to my building society had randomly gone missing somewhere between me handing it in person to the lady at the desk, and their head office. So I had to start all over again getting references from the boss to prove I worked where I said I did, filling in all sorts of forms, getting more copies of bank statements to show I had the deposit money available etc. I'm just glad I didn't have to give them my passport. If they'd lost that, there's have been no way I could have got a replacement in time to keep the deal on the table.

Holy mackerel Vic. Are you ok? I hope nobody was hurt.

 

My sympathies Strongy, and sorry to hear about the car Victoria.

Our buyer dissapeared on exchange/complete day, leaving me without a job and with a mortgage and a bridging loan to pay. Took a further 6 months to sell the place.

 

And people ask me why I have never moved since 1975.....
Sorry about your problems Strongy. Life stinks some times.

Victoria. what an event for you. So glad you and yours are OK. Cats can be replaced but people are different.

 

What a shame Strongy , but buying and selling houses is never easy. It does all work out in the end though you just have to go through all the hassle first.

When we bought our last house everything seemed to go smoothly until the last minute when the seller wouldn't move out ! He said the house he was moving to wasn't ready and he wasn't going to have any inconvenience
He didn't care about our inconvenience. His Solicitor tried to persuade him that legally he couldn't do that but he wouldn't budge.
We had to move into a hotel and put our furniture and things in storage. What a nightmare. Our Solicitor said all we could do was sue him for our living expenses.
We asked why we should have to sue him - could we not just deduct our living expenses from the price paid for the house and our Solicitor agreed we could do that, so that's the way it happened.
I got the hotel to send his Solicitor a running total for our bill every day so that he couldn't say he didn't know how much it was all costing. After 2 weeks he took fright and moved out.

Our tour of Morocco for October got cancelled too
And I don't like chocolate :gaagh:

 

Thanks for the replies to my moan, it seems the buyer IS intent on buying our house but there have been 'issues!' with his mortgage application which should be sorted and then have a valuation done next week, we will wait and see!
Rented properties are getting harder to find and ones that will take a cat even harder.
Oh well (Fleetwood Mac??:D) things could be worse, he could have pulled out.

Alice was your trip with Archers/Cosmos or another company? They (Archers) offered us a date in August which was no use to us and therefore declined and got a refund, we also got a refund for our non refundable stays in a Travel Lodge too as we had early and late flights.
We have just booked 11 days on the roughly same dates in C'an Picafort in Mallorca (Thompson Gold, no kids:yess no the same but we like the place and you can still get away from the crowds.

Vicky how frightening, I hope you are both OK, I remember you cancelled your holiday, is Madeira still on?

 

strongyloden, you're scaring me now, I'm hoping to move next year..............!!

Val