I accepted an offer on my house way back in October 2004. (On the 12th at the latest, as far as I can tell from my journals and online correspondance.) He's a cash buyer, I'm told. It'll all go through real quickly.
Why wait? I rushed to get all the surveys done and all the property information sheets etc. filled in, ground rent up to date, water rates information etc etc ready by the end of last year and indeed signed my half of the contract around new year. The buyer was "out of the country" at the time I went down to my solicitor's office (NGA) to verify everything and sign, but I was told he'd be back in a week and the following week hopefully I'd have some idea of a completion date.
Those weeks went and I called NGA who confirmed that the buyer was back in the country but couldn't tell me any more than that. She said she'd get back to me. Okay, I thought. So I waited some more another week.
I called again and had her promise that she'd call again by the end of that week, whether she had some news or not. But she didn't call.
This solicitor works part-time and... Well, she's a solicitor. So I didn't expect anything was seriously out of the ordinary. Every time she failed to call me, I'd wait a couple of days and then call her back. I got sick of this and decided to talk to the estate agent, who said she'd chase it up and call me the next day. She didn't call me the next day, but my solicitor did. Apparently the buyer's solicitors had asked her if the kitchen extension had planning permission.
The plot thickens. I stated quite clearly on the relevant documentation that there were no modifications at the house that required planning permission. Indeed there were no modifications to the house. It stands just as it did in 1890. There is no kitchen extension.
Oh, okay. She did sound a little confused asking me the question, so I really started to realise the problem was not at my end. She sounded pretty positive that she'd be able to get me a completion date now. So I left it with her.
Well. Yesterday after hearing nothing for ages yet again, I called NGA and my solicitor said "funnily enough, I just got a letter through from Farnsworth (the buyer's solicitor) and it says that they're actually selling the property on and that their buyer doesn't have their finances together yet."
What THE F**K? Does this sound like a "cash buyer" to anyone here?? It sounds like a f**king leech to me. Do they even have £32,150?! I am so pissed to have been kept in the dark like this for months only to be told this at this stage.
The whole thing could have and should have been done and dusted by the end of January and I should have been in the US by now. :pissed: :cry:
