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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

House rant

The joy, excitement, nervousness of a big move has literally been sucked from us and turned to frustration, stress and anxiety.
We had made the decision to move interstate, found a home to buy and made an offer at the beginning of May. We had some issues with our bank lender. Taking days to get back to our voice messages or emails but we thought we had it does and then e flew down to Bunbury and checked it out. Whilst it wasn't a dream home with all the bells and whistles, it is a larger home with more useable space.
I then get an email saying she needed something from our credit card provider...
This should have been requested weeks ago. Done. I think it is all sorted again. I get an email saying we should get the paperwork soon and to give her a call to sign them. Yay!
We speak to the real estate agents about the few things that need to be fixed up or replaced and they will get it done. Awesome.

Settlement was meant to be yesterday, 4th June. All last week I was chasing up the bank to our "missing" documents that were actually never sent. Our lender was painfully hard to get in contact with and our decision to buy was regretted.
David and I didn't know where we were headed as a family and just wanted out. We looked at trying to get out of the deal and we were hopeful.
It then came crashing down...
Whilst we weren't kept in the loop, our finance was actually approved in writing but a request for extension on settlement was denied by the owners, when we were told it was approved... More lies...

Cut to today. We think we have it sorted by receiving our documents yesterday and the bank admitting fault for delaying paperwork when we find out, despite being told otherwise, that the house has not being brought up to scratch. This was only told to us when I was trying to arrange someone to view the house prior to settlement... Ergh...

If it isn't one thing, it's another...