Clive Thomas, Managing Partners at Watkins & Gunn solicitors
considers the Top 10 most stressful things about moving
home of moving home…
Moving house is ranked as one of the most stressful things that
you will ever do in your life, right up there with divorce and
bereavement. Inevitably there is bound to be some stress and
tension when you buy or sell a house.
Here are my current top 10 most stressful things about moving
house-
- Saving for a deposit.
- Finding a suitable house…putting up with the full tour of
houses that you realise are unsuitable from
the moment you set foot in them and missing out on the
house that you want!
- Viewings - Pretending it is fine for complete strangers to poke
around your house!
- Waiting for the surveyor's report and/or finding a good
mortgage deal.
- Waiting for an offer on your house …particularly when you then
find that the "interested viewer" doesn't actually
have a house to sell or a job or any means to pay for it at
all!
- Waiting to hear if your own offer is accepted and negotiating
through the estate agent when you just want to buy it now!
- Finding a good solicitor - Quotes can be hard
to unravel and it is difficult to know if you're comparing
like with like. Do you pick the cheapest or the most
experienced?
- Communicating with your solicitor and estate agent in the
stages leading up to exchange and completion and understanding the
technical jargon.
- Waiting to hear that the completion has gone through (usually
in a removal lorry - with your buyers' lorry sitting on your
drive!)
- Packing up to go and unpacking in the new home - 43% would
rather use family and friends to help
In our next article we'll provide a guide to avoiding the
pitfalls and having a stress-free move …
Clive Thomas may be contacted at theNewportOffice of Watkins and
Gunn on 01633 241160