one of the things that people get exercised about especially when they're buying a house
but indeed when they're selling is the closing days people get very fixated on the closing days
and they some people seem to think that buying a house is like buying a two liter of milk or
something in other words you can decide to rock up to super value in any field and buy a two liter a
week you can do that no problem but when it comes to the purchase or property sales and purchases
and closing dates it's a different situation the closing date is the closing date until it
changes or moves and it can change and move quite easily so you really must accept that
stressful it's a stressful time buying or selling property and i think i made a video about that
just to make that point that it is a stressful time and the best thing you can do at the outset
is accept that it's a stressful time and not be unhinged or discommoded too much
if something goes wrong or if there's a delay or a hold up or whatever because there are so
many moving parts there's a solicitor acting for both sides there's the planning issues there's
certificates of compliance there's structural survey they're probably going to be a bank their
requirements will have to be fulfilled so it's going to be life assurance home insurance so
there's a lot of moving parts there's a lot of pieces of a puzzle pieces of a jigsaw which must
fall into place before the whole transaction can be consummated and completed and so on so closing
date is a closing date that's fine but often very very often closing dates change and move and with
the best will in the world you really must accept one that buying or selling property is a stressful
activity it's a stressful time and you really need to be prepared for that and two closing dates are
to a great extent aspirational in other words they can be written into the contract and so on but
things change circumstances change difficulties can arise and you really need to accept
and not get too discommoded not be too put out of sorts if you're closing date or if the transaction
doesn't complete on the day that you expect it i know you're going to have a difficulty in terms of
organizing moving vans and moving trucks and various other arrangements that you have to make
but you really do have to understand that property transaction has a lot of things a lot of moving
parts as i say which must fall into place for the completion of the transaction and for that reason
closing date will be written into the contract but it's not cast in stone it can change
and to put it in context if you want to get legal about a closing date or a sale not completing
on the closing date it's open to you as either vendor or purchaser to serve a 28-day notice
that kind of puts it in context because if you think about it if a sale is put back for example
by five days a week ten days and you're not happy with it and you want to take action the action you
have to take is actually to serve a 28 day notice so now you've gone from a seven day delay or five
day delay or two week delay to perhaps at least a 28 day delay so the law is not going to come
to your rescue to any great extent there in other words you really do need to roll with the punches
and just accept that it's a stressful time and the closing dates can move hope you find this
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