MOL on the move

[sako243]

Hopefully it is on track for October/November cheers

Wow - makes me appreciate of the fact that my current place from offer to completion was 3 weeks . Damn good convenyacing solictor on my side.

 

[My Old Landy]

Wow - makes me appreciate of the fact that my current place from offer to completion was 3 weeks . Damn good convenyacing solictor on my side.

Wow, that is quick. They are quoting up to 20 weeks for completion because of the current situation. However, the people buying my place can get everything sorted in 6 weeks and if I am complicit and move out, I will be homeless for a few weeks!

 

[sako243]

Wow, that is quick.

Cash purchase, I was on 3 months notice at my previous job and new place is only 2 miles from my parents so could have moved in there. Sellers were moving in with their daughter, in the short term, to help because of her health. I was in the lucky position through some family scrabbling around I didn't need to sell my old place immediately because we could cover it and get repaid later.

Highly recommend Bull & Co in Andover if you don't already have one. Unfortunately my cousin's fiance Ali I don't think works there full-time anymore (she was the one who did the convenyancing).

 

[8ob]

Wow, that is quick. They are quoting up to 20 weeks for completion because of the current situation. However, the people buying my place can get everything sorted in 6 weeks and if I am complicit and move out, I will be homeless for a few weeks!

I dont understand how or why these things drag out for so long nowadays, I have looked at and bought houses in the same week before now. Solicitor used to send the clerk over to the council offices to do a manual search the same day contracts were drawn,it was exchange and complete on the same day.

Bob

 

[My Old Landy]

I dont understand how or why these things drag out for so long nowadays, I have looked at and bought houses in the same week before now. Solicitor used to send the clerk over to the council offices to do a manual search the same day contracts were drawn,it was exchange and complete on the same day.

Bob

I wish I knew! I do know why the property I want to buy is causing problems as it has a legal issue. I think that is why I am being pressed to agree to moving out before I am ready. The 20 weeks though was being quoted before I had found anywhere!

 

[My Old Landy]

I have had a quote on moving and it is very reasonable. They will also put the lot into storage from the truck if that is how it turns out. Apparently they put things into a box before putting into the truck these days.
Sounds good to me. The storage costs would be quite high if it drags on but for a couple of months I think it will be fine.

 

[Morrisman]

I have had a quote on moving and it is very reasonable. They will also put the lot into storage from the truck if that is how it turns out. Apparently they put things into a box before putting into the truck these days.
Sounds good to me. The storage costs would be quite high if it drags on but for a couple of months I think it will be fine.

When I moved house last year we used the same company that had moved us in, 16 years previous. And their price was exactly the same.
However, they added a clause that anything that lasted past 2pm was billed at £20 per man per hour.

We were all packed up and ready to roll by 11am, so we were laughing.

Then I got a phone call from my solicitor telling me I needed to front up £7800 as part of the purchase transaction.

I had been informed about this 2 months previous, when I filled in all the mortgage stuff, but a message from them to come in and orchestrate it, a few days before moving day, might have been a bit more professional!

I wired the money by phone, and we left our house to the people who had bought it, and then waited over two hours while my solicitors moved with their usual glacial pace to complete the purchase. At one stage dog, daughter and me were sat in our car, in Tesco car park, essentially homeless...... So they cost me an extra £180 in removal fees, but the time we finally got everything moved.

Bleddy solicitors.

 

[My Old Landy]

When I moved house last year we used the same compa that had moved us in, 16 years previous. And their price was exactly the same.
However, they added a clause that anything that lasted past 2pm was billed at £20 per man per hour.

We were all packed up and ready to roll by 11am, so we were laughing.

Then I got a phone call from my solicitor telling me I needed to front up £7800 as part of the purchase transaction.

I had been info about this 2 months previous, when I filled in all the mortgage stuff, but a message from them to come in and orchestrate it, a few days before moving day might have been a bit more professional!

I wired the money by phone, and we left our house to the people who had bought it, and then waited over two hours while my solicitors moved with their usual glacial pace to complete the purchase. At one stage dog, daughter and me were sat in our car, in Tesco car park, essentially homeless...... So they cost me an extra £180 in removal fees, but the time we finally got everything moved.

Bleddy solicitors.

That is something I will need to enquire about! Thanks for the heads up

 

[Cobbler]

When we moved, 20 years ago, the person we were buying off said “we will have no problems, our guy is a professional coveyencer” guess what, this so say professional man had gone for a liquid lunch & a game of golf. No-one could get hold of him until 5 o’clock, it didn’t matter to us as were intending to move in next day as we were in M in Laws house, but the seller was pulling his hair out.

 

[My Old Landy]

When we moved, 20 years ago, the person we were buying off said “we will have no problems, our guy is a professional coveyencer” guess what, this so say professional man had gone for a liquid lunch & a game of golf. No-one could get hold of him until 5 o’clock, it didn’t matter to us as were intending to move in next day as we were in M in Laws house, but the seller was pulling his hair out.

There are so many things to go wrong, no wonder it is one of the most stressful things to do!!

 

[My Old Landy]

By the way, they won't take the argon bottle but they will take the welder on the removal truck

 

[My Old Landy]

Slight bit of good news, things have progressed a tad today

 

[Bobupndown]

Moved last year into our new build bungalow. Moved all our selves with a Luton body hired van over 2 days. 2 teenaged sons helped with the donkey work but it was bloody tiring, not sure I'd want to do it every day for a living

 

[My Old Landy]

Moved last year into our new build bungalow. Moved all our selves with a Luton body hired van over 2 days. 2 teenaged sons helped with the donkey work but it was bloody tiring, not sure I'd want to do it every day for a living

We moved ourselves last time but it is not an option this time. I am letting them do most of the work

 

[Bobupndown]

Hoping not to have to move ever again, future proofed by having a bungalow, my wife was struggling with hip and knee pain in our last house so no stairs was a must.

 

[My Old Landy]

The workshop clearance continues. I am struggling to find a good trailer for around £1500. The rest of the house is packed apart from the day to day stuff. I think another 3 to 4 weeks to finish off the workshop

 

[selectedgrub]

All the best for a smooth transition

 

[DanZac]

Hoping not to have to move ever again, future proofed by having a bungalow, my wife was struggling with hip and knee pain in our last house so no stairs was a must.

Mrs DanZac, who's quite minimalist, hated packing and moving so much that she decreed that the only way we'll ever move again, is if we win the lottery and can just leave everything here and start again.

Which suits me fine, as not only do I quite like it here, but I've collected up about a million times more treasure than I had when we moved here and even I can't face shifting that lot!

 

[My Old Landy]

I have been asked to show the exemption certificate for the conservatory that was built before I purchased my property I fortunately still have the original purchase details and survey that states it was existing. As they are exempt under 50 cubic metres as standard, why do they want a cert? It just causes delays

 

[badabec]

One flat I sold the purchaser's solicitor had a thing about FENSA certificates, the windows were fitted pre-FENSA so no need. They still kept on about it though. Next flat I sold, I was expecting the FENSA saga, not a word. Instead wanted a copy of the landlord's permission to build the garden shed. It was built nearly 60 years ago. That was quietly dropped.
We share a septic tank with our neighbour, I'm the guardian of the poop. New neighbours, their solicitors wanted all the records for emptying the cess pit since I had moved in, over 40 years ago. When the solicitor finally got it through his thick head that septic tanks and cess pits are different, that problem was quietly dropped.