Everything went through ok last week which was nice. We also received the mortgage offer through the post, and it is at the correct rate of 4.65% which is good, as the rate went up to 4.79% last week!
I’m off on holiday for 2 weeks on friday, but I’ll be back in the last week [...]
Solicitors
All Done
Contract Exchange day
We found out on Monday that the mortgage has finally been approved wtihout a problem. So today I am going to the solicitors to hand over the signed contract and the remaining 7,250. Which will be hard. All that money….
We are happier with the contract now that we know all the restrictions are pretty standard [...]
Contractual restrictions
We received the contract that is due for exchange on 30th June yesterday, and I am very annoyed. Firstly it seems that the solicitors are charging a 100+VAT (why can’t they just say 117.50!) ‘engrossment fee’ for printing out the contracts. Scandalous!
Also Crest have put in the contract that we can’t erect any structures [...]
Visit to the solicitors
Yesterday we went to the solictiors and gave him copies of our ID (and paid him 169 for the Council Searches and Environmental Search), went to the bank and opened a joint account and went to the Crest Nicholson office again to see exactly the kitchen and tile choices that have been made.
We are a [...]
Exchange within 28 days
We found out yesterday that the previous ‘reserver’ who pulled out had already chosen the kitchen units – she chose Bromley oak units and a ‘Black Granite’ worktop. Which the girlfriend is not very happy about at all. We really don’t want black worktops as we will have to buy everything in chrome, which is [...]
June 7th, 2006 | Lewis | 0 comments | Continued
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