We thought we were going to be able to get into our house next week so we were pretty surprised (meaning upset and angry) when we heard from our lawyer that the vendor was not ready to complete on the sale until the end of July. We didn't know what was going on - after all it was the seller's agent that included 'sale to complete by 30 June' in the memorandum of sale. Evil thoughts started cramming my brain - was he playing us along while he got a better offer? That would explain why another agent was still advertising the house. Were we going to lose the property after spending $$$ on searches, legal fees, mortgage fees???? 48 hours later we were put out of our misery. It turns out that the vendor did not think for one minute that we would be ready to complete the purchase by the end of June, he'd done NOTHING about planning to move out of the house so we had taken him totally by surprise. In the end we exchanged contracts (so now we have a binding sale - phew!) with completion not until the end of the July. We're now working on moving in on our wedding anniversary - 4 August. In the meantime HB starts work in Birmingham so he will be staying in a hotel Mon -Thurs to avoid the 2 hour commute. We'll hook up on weekends (reunions are always fun!) and skype durng the week.
Today we popped up to Stratford and picked our carpet and scheduled the carpet fitting = very painless. We always go with local tradesman now where possible, it always so much easier. Turns out the carpet people know the estate agent so they can deal with her directly to get access to measure up, saves us being caught in the middle (one less thing to arrange).
Good news on the Blobby front - test results are back and the chances of Blobby having Down Syndrome are virtually non-existent. Full steam ahead!!!!!!!!!
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