“Stressful at times with long spells of waiting, totally worth it in the end.”

How I did it: We paid a lot of money to lots of people and got ourselves into a huge amount of debt (it’s called a mortgage). Now we own the house!

It took a lot of persistence with solicitors. Without constantly prompting them and giving them deadlines we wouldn’t have got it done quite as quickly.

We also called in a lot of favours with friends when it came to moving things. We also made sure we had a bit of money left over to splash around in an emergency, should the unexpected happen.

Lessons & tips: Solicitors will always slow you down. Don’t go with one who is miles away just because they’re a bit cheaper. It’ll be expensive anyway because of all the hidden charges. It’d be more useful to have a solicitor nearby so you have someone to go in and shout at. 😉

Try to get in touch with the people who currently own the house. That way the solicitors can’t obscure details. You can find out exactly what’s been done from both ends.

Try not to get too stressed, and don’t take your frustration out on the wrong people. For the most part they will be doing their best to get it over with.

Resources: Use the telephone! Make lots of calls to your solicitor, the estate agent, and get in touch with the people you’re buying the house from if you can.

It took me 9 weeks.

It made me Happy and tired

Everything has been set for at least a week now. I’ve booked Monday off work so I can be there to move the heavy furniture into the new house. Lizz has booked Tuesday off to sort out most of the rest of the little stuff.

I’ve had to re-organise the work patterns of 4 people to pull this off.

Everything hinged on us having a van on Monday. This was assured by Dave as it’s his brother-in-law who was going to be helping out. Today, that’s 3 days before the move, he’s decided he’s not going to do that any more.

His reasoning is to do with pay. If he did this as a favour to us then he would be a bit out of pocket. That’s what a favour is.

To me it’s just fucking downright rude. He agreed to do it, he said ok. You can’t just pull out of something like that at short notice. If he didn’t want to do it then that’s fine. We would have happily organised a van, or whatever in the time we’ve been resting assured that it’s all sorted.

Unreliable people cause nothing but fucking trouble, and it pisses me off.

I don’t want to sound like I’m being ungrateful, I was very appreciative of his help. It just makes it all the worse when it goes completely tits up.

I’m so fucking angry right now. My weekend will now be spent chasing up another van, and someone to drive it so that I can still move into the house as planned.

Thanks a fucking bunch. Twat.

We’ll be getting the keys one week from today. It’s about time!

I’ve still got to call the gas/electricity, water, council tax, mobile phone company, bank, credit card, etc. etc. etc. to update the address. That’ll be fun.

I’ve got the day off work next week so I’ll be able to get all the big things moved in. I don’t think we’ll get it all done in the first couple of days, but certainly by the end of the following weekend. 🙂

Neeeearly there!

Just to go and prove how annoying it can be to organise moving house we’ve had to change the moving date again. It’s now been changed to Monday the 22nd. Apparently the people we’re buying from could not make it on the Friday before, so it’s been delayed again.

Hopefully this is the last hiccup though. Now we should just have to sit back, let everyone know what’s happening, and then move everything we own!

Piece of cake.