Well its official - Craig and I are now compleatly homeless. Our house settled yesturday morning (Monday) at 11.30am, there are still nigly things to sort out monies wise.
We ended up settling the road issue with a 50/50 split, not ideal but better then what they were trying to get *grrr*
In brighter news, Lippy has some more photos for us of the construction so as soon as she is able to scan them I will upload them to the flickr site :)
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Friday, May 19, 2006
So why is it things have to go sour?
Things were going so well, you will note the excitement and happyness in my last post and now the frustration and saddness!
Remember how I said "our settlement WILL got through on Friday" well it's Friday, its 30mins after settlement was due to happen and it ain't happanin, in fact the whole entire sale might go compleatly bust and its all crap! :(
Why you ask? Well the purchasers have tried to wriggle out of the deal in regards to payment of a cuncil road scheme, because it wasn't put in the contract, it was just a verbal understanding between all parties, they have been listening to a stupid lawyer wo has said something like "hay you know you don't actually have to pay this, verbal deal or not" and so they have decdided now that they are not going to honour the verbal deal and are trying to make us pay for the $10k+ and its NOT RIGHT! they agreed, we set the price on that agreement and now its going to cost us a fucking fortune because we either have to pay the money or take them to court and end up paying more! We were nice to them, we bloody well gave them the time they needed to get their finances in order, we could have sold the house a dozen times over in the last month but we believed everyone was happy and all was good, we were all dealing wit each other in a nice happy way and then sddenly they do this! Everyone is telling me it's ok, don't worry about, I'm sure things will work out just fine, see we got them to admit they are pulling a dodgy, but did anyone get it in writting again? NO and so we are screwed and maybe things will work out - fine, great, grand but what if it doesn't? I want to sell my bloody house! I don't want to go through all of this again, I want it over and done with, I want to be settled and done.
But that's not all folks - our brocker in NZ is crap and only sent us the happy page 1 of a fax from the mortgage lenders, he forgot somehow to include page 2 that listed 12 conditions that had to be met before the loan will be okayed, many of which they should have had from him already but when I contact them, I discovered they had basicaly nothing, our brocker pissed off on holidas for a week (which I discovered after ringing his mobile and being told NOT to leave a message). So I ran around collecting documents again, signing documents I had never even seen before and getting really cross with incompitant people who are supposed to be there to make my life easier! grrr (can you tell I'm not a happy girl today?)
Well I shall go before I say something I'll regret! :(
Remember how I said "our settlement WILL got through on Friday" well it's Friday, its 30mins after settlement was due to happen and it ain't happanin, in fact the whole entire sale might go compleatly bust and its all crap! :(
Why you ask? Well the purchasers have tried to wriggle out of the deal in regards to payment of a cuncil road scheme, because it wasn't put in the contract, it was just a verbal understanding between all parties, they have been listening to a stupid lawyer wo has said something like "hay you know you don't actually have to pay this, verbal deal or not" and so they have decdided now that they are not going to honour the verbal deal and are trying to make us pay for the $10k+ and its NOT RIGHT! they agreed, we set the price on that agreement and now its going to cost us a fucking fortune because we either have to pay the money or take them to court and end up paying more! We were nice to them, we bloody well gave them the time they needed to get their finances in order, we could have sold the house a dozen times over in the last month but we believed everyone was happy and all was good, we were all dealing wit each other in a nice happy way and then sddenly they do this! Everyone is telling me it's ok, don't worry about, I'm sure things will work out just fine, see we got them to admit they are pulling a dodgy, but did anyone get it in writting again? NO and so we are screwed and maybe things will work out - fine, great, grand but what if it doesn't? I want to sell my bloody house! I don't want to go through all of this again, I want it over and done with, I want to be settled and done.
But that's not all folks - our brocker in NZ is crap and only sent us the happy page 1 of a fax from the mortgage lenders, he forgot somehow to include page 2 that listed 12 conditions that had to be met before the loan will be okayed, many of which they should have had from him already but when I contact them, I discovered they had basicaly nothing, our brocker pissed off on holidas for a week (which I discovered after ringing his mobile and being told NOT to leave a message). So I ran around collecting documents again, signing documents I had never even seen before and getting really cross with incompitant people who are supposed to be there to make my life easier! grrr (can you tell I'm not a happy girl today?)
Well I shall go before I say something I'll regret! :(
Saturday, May 13, 2006
And we're off...sort of
SO! We have now signed our contract with Earthsong for our appartment, had it witnessed by a JP and first thing Monday morning it goes into an express post envelope to New Zealand. We have approval in principle for our loan, settlement for the sale of our hurstbridge house WILL be going through this Friday (19th May) and all we need to do now is get a cheque for NZ$60,000 for our deposit. Yay! things are actually really really happening. Craig will be able to give notice soon and start working for himself again (which is really really great), and within about 2 months from now we will be compleatly ready to leave at the drop of a hat (our appartment will be ready in 7 months).
Monday, May 01, 2006
Quick update
Craig and I had fun on Saturday, we went down to the park armed with red wool, a tap measure, tent pegs and house plans and created a scale version of our apartment (sorry I forgot to take the camera so no pics). It was a really fun experiement and really helped to give us a true idea of the size of our apartment which was fantastic. We now have a better idea of how much space we really have to play with, some further realisitc storage ideas and wonderful 3D visuals of how to play with the spaces - so again our excitment is mounting and Decemeber seems a lifetime away (but it's May now so I can start saying it's only 7 months away!)
There has been a short delay with true finality (not including settlement) on our Hurstbridge house, the people have had to delay things until the 5th as they haven't recieved unconditional approval for their loan yet. Which really sucks for us because if they pull out now then we get didly! *grrr*
We had our forms all ready to send off to Earthsong and then realised that they had to be witnessed by a JP - oops, we were going to do it yesturday but forgot and now Craig is in Perth for the week (stupid work) so it will have to be delayed until next week *sigh* oh well if we get delayed any further we will be able to pay the full 20% in one go (providing our house settles on the 19th May as planed).
We have all the necissary paperwork to hand over to our NZ brocker, why he couldn't give us the paperwork to fill in and arrange at the start is beyond me, would have made the entire thing go much faster but instead the banks have looked at Earthsong, while we twidled our thumbs, they like it, now the brocker sends us the paper work (not specific to one bank thier own companies standard forms for all the banks use) and so while we gather the required info the banks twidle their thumbs *sigh*
What other news??? I've taken a casual job at Pumpkin Patch, probably not the smartest thing to do as it is taxing my energy more then I thought it would but I needed something to do that was useful, and I'm enjoying it so far.
Ok this is getting far to grumpy a post for my liking - you'll have to forgive me but Craig left at 6am and it's now 7.30am and he's gone most likely for the week and I'm sad :(
There has been a short delay with true finality (not including settlement) on our Hurstbridge house, the people have had to delay things until the 5th as they haven't recieved unconditional approval for their loan yet. Which really sucks for us because if they pull out now then we get didly! *grrr*
We had our forms all ready to send off to Earthsong and then realised that they had to be witnessed by a JP - oops, we were going to do it yesturday but forgot and now Craig is in Perth for the week (stupid work) so it will have to be delayed until next week *sigh* oh well if we get delayed any further we will be able to pay the full 20% in one go (providing our house settles on the 19th May as planed).
We have all the necissary paperwork to hand over to our NZ brocker, why he couldn't give us the paperwork to fill in and arrange at the start is beyond me, would have made the entire thing go much faster but instead the banks have looked at Earthsong, while we twidled our thumbs, they like it, now the brocker sends us the paper work (not specific to one bank thier own companies standard forms for all the banks use) and so while we gather the required info the banks twidle their thumbs *sigh*
What other news??? I've taken a casual job at Pumpkin Patch, probably not the smartest thing to do as it is taxing my energy more then I thought it would but I needed something to do that was useful, and I'm enjoying it so far.
Ok this is getting far to grumpy a post for my liking - you'll have to forgive me but Craig left at 6am and it's now 7.30am and he's gone most likely for the week and I'm sad :(
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