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cybershot said:
It's this sort of shit as to why I recommend trying your darnest to make contact personally with your buyers/sellers. You can call out solicitors who bullshit that they haven't received something when you can get your solictor to prove they sent it 9 days ago and then forward that comms onto your buyer/seller who can then bash their solictor with an imaginary baseball bat.
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I wouldn't, might s care the vendors off.
If you are a good poker player, you could try issuing an ultimatum; Exchange contracts by end of April or i am out sort of thing.
 
hash tag said:
I wouldn't, might s care the vendors off.
If you are a good poker player, you could try issuing an ultimatum; Exchange contracts by end of April or i am out sort of thing.
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Without being in contact with my buyers/sellers there's no way we'd have exchanged contracts when we did. Everyone was about to lose a lot of money cancelling movers because one solicitor was an absolute shit show blaming everyone else. Once my seller was able to bash them with a huge stick and I and his seller was able to provide proof via our own solictors that everyone had indeed done what they were saying they were still waiting for, did the truth from them start occuring, which was a load of bullshit and poor excuses. Even when we did exchange it wasn't confirmed until just minutes before everyone was about to cancel movers for 3 days later. It took estate agents, and everyone to constantly be nagging this solictor to do their job and literally tell them when something had been sent or that they already had it X days/weeks ago come the week everyone had agreed to move but still not exchanged.

Not saying all solicitors are bad, but it only takes one shite one to cause a lot of grief in a chain.

A lot of grief can be saved by just being upfront and honest, and the problem is with solictors, you either take them at their word, or you double check your sellers/buyers solictors are reporting the same status as yours.
 
Estate agent actually emailed me today (she seems to have finally got the idea that it's my preferred method of communication) and found out a few things:
She's going to chase all parties and push for a completion date.

The sellers have taken up the carpets downstairs, apparently they were in a poor condition due to their dog. I didn't notice this when I viewed but from the pictures they weren't particularly nice carpets anyway. Wondering what will be underneath. Hopefully not bare concrete. Also wondering about the price of a fitted carpet - any ideas for a small living room? Or should I make do with rugs?

They've left a chest of drawers for me and, er...bought me a new toilet brush. Find that simultaneously funny and worrying - what am I going to find in the toilet?!
 
That's good news in as much as you have a better idea where you stand with fixtures n fittings. Interesting that the vendors have moved out, which shows they are committed. Sounds like it's just down to solicitors.
Time to chase. Hard.
 
miss direct said:
Estate agent actually emailed me today (she seems to have finally got the idea that it's my preferred method of communication) and found out a few things:
She's going to chase all parties and push for a completion date.

The sellers have taken up the carpets downstairs, apparently they were in a poor condition due to their dog. I didn't notice this when I viewed but from the pictures they weren't particularly nice carpets anyway. Wondering what will be underneath. Hopefully not bare concrete. Also wondering about the price of a fitted carpet - any ideas for a small living room? Or should I make do with rugs?

They've left a chest of drawers for me and, er...bought me a new toilet brush. Find that simultaneously funny and worrying - what am I going to find in the toilet?!
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Wait until you've seen what it's like, take some pics when you go for a second viewing and stick them on here. Also measure the size of the room, usually priced per square meter I think. You should really do a list of everything you reckon needs improving, then work out costs and what a viable schedule would be. That's probably more for when you can get really stuck in on measuring and seeing how things feel once you move in, but it's worth pencilling in anything more pressing before you move.
 
Not sure how good at DIY I would be. Luckily a good friend here has a brother in law who does houses up, so will hopefully do a good job for me. And a friend of a friend is a painter and decorator (I can stretch to painting walls, but not sure about stripping wallpaper etc.) That's all down the line though, I guess. As long as I have a bed to sleep in and a desk to work at, the other things I can work and live around.
 
Odd they've pulled up the carpet regardless of it's condition! Unless it literally had shit stains all over it and was a pride thing. Any carpet is better than no carpet though as it's not cheap, especially if you are undecided on colour schemes etc.

Getting carpet in once all your shit is in, is a PITA, as carpet installers expect a blank canvas, so no furtniture in the room, and it your job to move it elsewhere. So you may want to be budgeting for new carpet as the first major job, perhaps even before you move all your shit in if it's an option. As you say, depends what is underneath, concrete or floorboards to get splinters in your feet every day.
 
Yeah I thought it was strange too. It looked ok when I went but maybe they'd put a rug over a big stain. Or they're using it for the dogs kennel or something in new place.

I have no living room stuff apart from a TV which can go upstairs in the mean time.

Might go for a a neutral sandy sort of carpet which is what's in my current room. Looks fine and seems to go with any colour scheme.
 
Dark carpets are good if you're thinking of getting a dog :) (did you say you were thinking of getting a dog?). Dark carpets are also good if you have a garden, too, and dark carpets are good if there's anyone like me around (not that there will be anyone like me around).
 
two sheds said:
Dark carpets are good if you're thinking of getting a dog :) (did you say you were thinking of getting a dog?). Dark carpets are also good if you have a garden, too, and dark carpets are good if there's anyone like me around (not that there will be anyone like me around).
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Do you shed hair as well?


Depends what colour the dog is as to what colour carpet you get. My dark coloured dog shows up on the cream living room carpet and the cream coloured dog shows up on the dark green dining room carpet.
 
WouldBe said:
Do you shed hair as well?


Depends what colour the dog is as to what colour carpet you get. My dark coloured dog shows up on the cream living room carpet and the cream coloured dog shows up on the dark green dining room carpet.
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I do as it happens :) And Cosmo's fur builds up in little drifts around the place.

Not keen on the cockapoo type fads at the moment but when I've said to people "lovely looking dog, what is he/she?" it's often been a cockapoo, and I understand they don't shed hair.

I've always avoided light coloured carpets on principle because a couple of months in my house and they wouldn't be light coloured any more :(
 
two sheds said:
I've always avoided light coloured carpets on principle because a couple of months in my house and they wouldn't be light coloured any more :(
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I've got an old Victorian terrace and dark coloured carpets just suck the light out of the rooms. So I just put up with mucky carpets as I've not managed to train the dogs to wipe their paws when they come in. I go for a cheap carpet so it's cheap to change when it gets ruined. :)
 
I have white ceilings which I hope compensate for the dark carpets :)

I've actually got wooden floors in four rooms which are even easier.
 
I'm not having a dark carpet. Its already a smallish living room. Suddenly thought maybe the carpet was full of fleas or maybe the dog kept weeing on it when they were packing.

Who knows..doesn't matter really anyway.
 
miss direct said:
Yeah I thought it was strange too. It looked ok when I went but maybe they'd put a rug over a big stain. Or they're using it for the dogs kennel or something in new place.

I have no living room stuff apart from a TV which can go upstairs in the mean time.

Might go for a a neutral sandy sort of carpet which is what's in my current room. Looks fine and seems to go with any colour scheme.
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Hessian/jute/sisal.
 
cybershot said:
Odd they've pulled up the carpet regardless of it's condition! Unless it literally had shit stains all over it and was a pride thing. Any carpet is better than no carpet though as it's not cheap, especially if you are undecided on colour schemes etc.

Getting carpet in once all your shit is in, is a PITA, as carpet installers expect a blank canvas, so no furtniture in the room, and it your job to move it elsewhere. So you may want to be budgeting for new carpet as the first major job, perhaps even before you move all your shit in if it's an option. As you say, depends what is underneath, concrete or floorboards to get splinters in your feet every day.
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My theory is that the carpets were OK and the skinflints took them with them. if so, they will have taken all the curtains, white goods and maybe the lightbulbs too.
 
I prefer no carpets & rugs where necessary. In my flat I have good quality laminate that runs through every room bar the bathroom. Flat on one floor.

In my house I have inherited carpets in the lounge , 3 bedrooms & stairs. Plan is to take up everywhere bar the lounge & likely paint white. The lounge is concrete floor otherwise that would be getting done too. Carpet in there is a beige jute affair which I can see was once decent.

Glad there is end in sight. How many weeks since offer accepted now?
 
9 weeks, 2 days.

Its only the living room carpet they took up. The bedrooms and stairs carpets are still there, apparently. And they did have a big dog. Tried to cover the smell up for viewing but there's no fooling me 😆
 
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