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After a week of much stress and 7 calls by me to HSBC I was told on the last call about 2:30pm that it still wasn't sorted but that yet another person was looking at it as a priority and they would let me and my solicitor know. I almost despaired: the vendor had a place lined up provided she could exchange *today*, so she could go sign the contract and pick up the keys. 5 minutes later my solicitor calls, and after him getting rather cross at them over the phone earlier in the day they have now faxed him the go ahead. In fact they had probably already faxed him at the point in time where I was on the phone trying to find out what was going on.

We exchange. Completion date is the 23rd, same as it always was. I ring my removal firm and they can still do the packing on the 23rd and the move on the 24th as originally planned. I'm am a) delighted b) completely gobsmacked. It just seems so surreal to have all this stress for a whole week and still end up exactly where we were supposed to be in the first place.

We will shortly be going to the pub, but first I'm going to crack open the tiny bottle of bubbly in the fridge and phone my mum.

And they still haven't called me back.

Comments

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

\o/

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

Yaay! Hooray, and congratulations on defeating the 3vil banking eedjits of doom.

Actually, I quite like the sound of "threevil" :)

[aendr.livejournal.com]

Yippee!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Hoorah! /collapses of the drama

[emperor]

Hurrah!

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Great. It's a *horrible* process, isn't it? And buying and selling at the same time is more than twice as stressful... which is why right now, you'll think you'll never do it again...!

[dunkdunkdunk.livejournal.com]

Brilliant news! I never understand why solicitors/estate agents/everyone involved make it so bloody difficult!

[perdita-fysh.livejournal.com]

huzzah!

It always seems a shame to me that house buying is so so traumatic that even if you buy the nicest house in the world you don't get to look forward to it or believe it will really happen because it all just goes to shit so often. It took me 6 months to believe we really bought this one and to start enjoying it!

Enjoy that champagne!

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Woo yay!

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Yee-ha! Fingers crossed for the rest of the process. :-)