Hi there
We're in a bit of a predicament in that we signed contracts for our house on 27th September in which the contract stated that we would be closing the following week. We therefore gave our months notice to our landlord and agreed to move out the end of this month.
The following week I telephoned to arrange to meet my solicitor to sign the closing contract and she informed me that we wouldn't be signing for another few weeks. I informed her that as she herself had advised us to do, we had given in our notice and were therefore out of a home as and from the end of the month. She said that as the purchasers we are in the weaker position and we have to wait for the seller to move out. Can anyone give me some guidance as to how to move things on?? My solicitor doesn't seem to be applying much force on my behalf so I was thinking of ringing the seller's solicitor myself - What do you think?
I believe that they should have checked with us if it was possible to change the closing date stated in the contract rather than just informing us that they were going to change it???
We're in a bit of a predicament in that we signed contracts for our house on 27th September in which the contract stated that we would be closing the following week. We therefore gave our months notice to our landlord and agreed to move out the end of this month.
The following week I telephoned to arrange to meet my solicitor to sign the closing contract and she informed me that we wouldn't be signing for another few weeks. I informed her that as she herself had advised us to do, we had given in our notice and were therefore out of a home as and from the end of the month. She said that as the purchasers we are in the weaker position and we have to wait for the seller to move out. Can anyone give me some guidance as to how to move things on?? My solicitor doesn't seem to be applying much force on my behalf so I was thinking of ringing the seller's solicitor myself - What do you think?
I believe that they should have checked with us if it was possible to change the closing date stated in the contract rather than just informing us that they were going to change it???