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The nice lady in the Developers' site office rang me back eventually. She sounded sympathetic, but these things aren't her decision to make so she recommended that we get our lawyers to talk to their lawyers. They will want to complete on Friday as there's a month-end between then and next week.

Our lawyers briefed that we don't want to do so. There's still a risk that the buyer's name won't come off his last mortgage by Friday morning. We don't want to be in the position of having a half-filled removal lorry, being liable for the stonking amount movers cost and getting a phone call to say things can't go ahead. We don't want the stress of dealing with all the address change, utility company meter readings, post office forwarding arrangments and so on and so forth on the same day as dealing with the stresses of "will we exchange or not" and actually moving. The good news is that we won't be passed back to the idiot lawyer now he's returned from his holiday.

So now we're waiting again. If the developers come back to us saying "Complete on Friday or it's all off", our response will be "Fine - put your house back on the market and find another buyer". We write off something in the order of a grand immediately, but we'll sell to the boys anyway when they're sorted and save about 400 a month while we find ourselves something we really want.

Date: 2006-04-26 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misthawk.livejournal.com
Everything crossed for you!!! x

Date: 2006-04-26 08:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nortysarah.livejournal.com
Bloody hell. Moving really shouldn't be this hard! *big hugs*

Date: 2006-04-27 08:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] november-girl.livejournal.com
Are you doing a simultaneous exchange and completion then? Usually you exchange contracts a week or so in advance to avoid the half-your-life-on-a-lorry-but-still-no-wiser situation.

Date: 2006-04-27 08:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pauln.livejournal.com
The developers want us to exchange/complete on the same day. We have no intention of doing so and will quite merrily walk away if they insist.

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