Are we nearly there yet?
Are we nearly there yet?
So, the 20th of February, our completion date has come and gone with no news and so, we manage to get some information from our Solicitors on the 24th and it turns out whoever agreed to the completion date hasn’t actually completed any paperwork yet.
I seem to be spending a lot of my time muttering ‘oh for f***s sake‘ to myself lately, and today is no exception. I have no real idea of what is involved in conveyance but by the time you feel good enough to do it for a living, I would have thought starting paperwork before you declare a completion date would be something of a no-brainer really, but apparently not. I know we’re committed but at this very moment in time, I just can’t see any version of events where we will ever actually end up with the keys. It’s all very disheartening given the eight months of calls and emails I’ve been making and for the first time since we started, I sit down, totally despondent with Rachel and discuss backing out.
I know we’d regret it and Rachel is super-frustrated too but if anything, thinks we should re-negotiate the price instead of backing out but we agree to sleep on it.
I’m still none the wiser as to who has dropped the ball here, I just know it isn’t me and so, the following day I get onto our solicitor, partly in need of a sounding board and partly to vent about the lack of communication and progress.
After a pretty terse conversation, I agree to wait.
It takes until Friday the 28th of February before all of the contracts are (allegedly) signed up and money gets transferred to the solicitors but apparently, we still don’t actually own anything, which is all a bit weird and more than a bit worrying
Where has our money gone then?