When we received the offer on our house our buyer said that he needed to move by the end of July as his buyer was moving to the UK and the deadline was for visa reasons. Fine, we said, and proposed a completion date of Wednesday 25th July. (Tip: pick a mid-week date for completion so if you overrun you don't have weekends in the way). Later we discovered that the road we're moving to would have limited access from 26th July due to the Olympics so any delays might mean our removals van wouldn't be able to park on the road outside the house. We moved the proposed date to 18th July.
Days passed and various correspondence was sent and finally, on Tuesday 10th July we had an appointment with our solicitor for 9.30am to go and sign our sale and purchase contracts. We duly signed the contracts but that didn't mean that they we had now 'exchanged'. There were, apparently, some queries remaining on our purchaser's search. Our solicitor promised to make some calls and chase the other solicitor up. Straight after the meeting I had to zip off to PP for the rest of the day. I heard nothing from Ian so assumed that there was no further news.
'Any news?' I asked on my return home. 'Well,' replied Ian 'the solicitor rang and told us that our purchaser's purchaser hasn't had his mortgage offer yet.' Aaaaaargh. I am convinced my stomach dropped about three inches at that point.
Eight days to go. So near and yet so, so far.
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