General Chat

Morning Jess, Hope everything goes well today. Fingers crossed Linda x

Elaine, for the time being we need to space to provide the respite care- just to gve dad the break every couple of weeks or on as 'as and when basis'. The nursing homes that would have her on a 'i've got to the end of my string today ' from dad basis are non existant Jess x

Positive thoughts....positive thoughts..... Jess if you do lose this one, keep looking for another house. There will be one out there with your name on. If you do have to put mum in a nursing home, can it be temporary ?...until you find that house ? Once inside a nursing home the 'Inmates' can leave. How about respite care, a temporary measure? Don't give up yet. Fingers crossed Elaine x

I know they were veiwing the other one last night - we are working on the theory that Mr Potential Purchaser will go to work for 9am as most men do, so guess they'll have talked and decided last night- if they have to let the estate agent know TODAY - if it was me and the decsion was made, i'd ring first thing. Sweating! jess x

Morning Jess, keeping fingers crossed for you, I really hope you get the news you want to hear, am thinking positively for you! :)

Got everything crossed for you that it all goes in your favour - good luck

Everything crossed Jess, GOOD LUCK XXXXXX

TODAY IS 'THE DAY' PLEASE CROSS EVERYTHING AND KEEP IT CROSSED ! Jess x

Hi Jess, I do hope this works out for you. We have had a couple of house-move nightmares in the past, but not as bad as this I don't think. I will keep everything crossed for you. Liz x

CB just to add insult to injury , we thought we were safe as they are Scots!, well, he is. feels as thought the whole world is wobbling on it axis at this moment in time.

Jess Such a stressful time moving - and terrible when you find the ideal house and it falls through. As many have already said, don't give up hope yet but I'm a great believer in what will be will be and there's usually a reason something doesn't happen. Good luck Debby

Oh Jess! Poor you and Alan! We've had so many problems in the past with 'firm' offers on houses we've sold. I think it's one of the most cut-throat transactions people ever encounter. There's so much at stake, and I think it would be much fairer all round if we had the same system in England and Wales as they have in Scotland, where the contract to buy kicks in in the initial stages. I do wish you success. CB >|< XX

Hi Jess I can sympathise with you. We have a large house and as there are now only two of us, tried to sell it in 2003. Put it on the market and had an offer from the owner of a local indian restaurant in two days. He went on extended holiday to Bangla Desh and we never heard from him again. In Jan last year we had an offer from a local family, but shortly after, the chain collapsed. Within two days we had another offer from a lady who had a local shop. A business was buying hers and we understood everyone wanted a quick sale. We got all packed up and ready to move, having done many trips to charity shops and the tip. Then this business started causing problems. First they wanted a £25,000 reduction in the price of her shop. Which she agreed to. Then they wanted planning permission to make alterations. (The shop is a listed property) They applied for planning permission, but got their application in late, so we had a six week wait. They applied again and got the application wrong. Another 6 weeks. They applied the third time and their application was turned down. They had to make alterations to their plans and re-apply. They then asked for another substatial reduction in the price of her shop. At this point the lady withdrew, and appologised to us. In the meantime we last the property we were planning to buy, it was sol for £10,000 more than we agreed. But then property prices in our town were going down and where we were hoping to buy, we rising. Our 6 bedroom house would sell for about what we could buy a 3 bedroomed one for. At this point we gave up. We still have not finished unpacking. David

Hi Jess, we've had a stressful time a couple of times when moving, losing buyers both times. AND both times it came out okay. Fingers crossed it does for you Gloria xx :-))))

Hi Jess Crossing everything for you. Juliexx

We're only in our second house in 34 years (31 in this one). When we bought it we saw it in the January, it had been on the market for a while and we put in a silly offer, which was accepted, as the guy had moved from Essex to Oxford for his job, the wife and kids were still her and they couldn't buy in Oxford before they'd sold this one. The chain broke twice and the vendors threatened to put it back on the market. When we finally moved in the August there were 14 people in the chain. So hang on in there.

Hi! Jess its me Norah!! its true when one door closes a better one can open or your buyer might still come back so don't give up hope I know as I'm in my 10th house Good luck Norah x

Jess Don't lose heart. This sale still may go through, if it doesn't, it will be for a reason, however upsetting it may be. Hubby and I were house hunting. We fell in love with this little house on an estate. We liked everything about it. We put in an offer (we were first buyers). Suddenly the estate agents called us, the deal was off, the owners couldn't get a mortgage on the property they wanted. I was devastated. cried all night. The next day the agents rang Dave and said about this house which had been on the market for a while, in fact it was chain free. We took a look and 13 years , a wedding and 2 kids later we are still here. We have brilliant neighbours either side, its nearer to town than the other and has a garden, not a small yard like the other house. It turns out we would have encountered problems with the house we lost as it had a flat roof, leading to possible future water damage etc. When one door closes, another opens Elaine x

Hope everything sorts itself out. If she hasn't a buyer what is the point of going to look at another house. If her only buyer is only buying hers to complete the chain. Germaine x

Hope it turns out well for you, Jess. Gwynne