Gosh it’s been a hectic mess. Settlement was delayed because ANZ bank stuffed up the application, but luckily after lots of going back and forth with our solicitors and theirs, the owners were willing to grant us tenancy before settlement, as they had already moved out. We planned to move on the friday, so John [...]
The time is DRAGGGGGING… I assume settlement will be the 28th (haven’t heard anything yet), and John doesn’t have to go to Melbourne that week now so we’re planning to move Friday the 29th. Booked the truck, bought the fridge, we’re all set. It seems to be taking FOREVER!
Went to the bank yesterday to sign all the papers and give ID, had hassles with JA’s name not being spelt correctly on half of his documents (passport, citizenship paper etc) so will have to take his American Passport in this arvo. Mum and Dad also have to take all their ID in also… But [...]
We had exchange on Tuesday arvo (Thursday now), so we’re locked in! Settlement will now be August 28th or before, we’re hoping for about a week before so we can move the main stuff the weekend of 23/24 August and have a week overlapping in rent to get the carpets cleaned and tidy the place [...]
So we have now been formally approved for our loan, woohoo! Just waiting on the bank/solicitor/mortgage broker to finish dealing with our thousands of forms we had to fill in, then we can exchange contracts hopefully early next week. Settlement should be about 4 weeks after that. I am now officially collecting boxes! =D
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