Please God no...

I have just had a call from my solicitor - the vendor of the house i am buying is threatening to pull out of the sale because of the length of time it is taking for it to go through. As far as i am concerned i have been doing everything transparently, updating the estate agents on my every move and as far as i am aware, making sure that everything is at hand.
After agreeing the sale, my solicitor was on the job instantly, beginning with searches despite the bank holiday falling that week. I have been calling them everday, seeing if there is anything i can do to help, and calling the estate agents if ever there has been anything to communicate to the vendor. (I do not have the vendor's phone number). I have been instrumental in getting both solicitors to work more effectively together as the drafting of a form has become apparent and the responsibility of it ambiguous.
Because the current owner bought the land in order to slice some of the land off the back in order to build a studio, she has had to register it and split it using TP1 forms. This has encurred extra work at a time when time is of essence.

It's time to cross fingers everyone.

Housey housey!

Well, it's taken a long time to get this far but i think we are nearing the end of our journey now.
The survey is complete, i have gone through it and listed all of the work that needs doing to the place and i have got quotes in from builder specialists and roofers. I have got back to the estate agents and asked them to speak with the vendor about the price but the vendor has decided that she is not moving, despite agreeing on the price 'subject to survey'.
So, we were left having to make the decision as to whether we go with it and accept the extra couple of grands work that needs doing or whether we pull out of the sale.
To be honest, after paying out for a survey, valuation and also getting my mortgage in place, i was reluctant to pull out just over a couple of grand. More to the point, when you start running with an idea, everything snowballs. Buying this house is no longer my only concern because since i made that decsion, other decisions have been made to run with it. My flatmate is to move out of our current rental situation and in with her boyfriend, my boyfriend will be selling his house to come and live with me... Everything is changing and not least so the fact that i have warned work that i will more than likely be handing in my notice this summer, so they are preparing for that also.
If we folded now and didn't buy, i would have alot to sort out.
However, everything is still pliable at the moment and seems to be waiting a little on the sale.
So we have gone with it, and accepted. It's all steam ahead!
Even more exciting, after making this decision despite hearing that the vendor wouldn't move on price despite the extra work that the survey has thrown up, the new budget has resulted in me not having to pay stamp duty on my property. How cool is that. It just goes to show that if you trust, the universe provides somewhere, somehow. Yay!

Another IT Anomaly

I had to write to 10mega today

Dear 10MEGA,


I am writing to you today as I recently bought one of your 512MB Mini Drives that I chose specifically because of its compatibility with Win 98 and the availability or a Win 98 driver. I have to say that I was disappointed when I opened the packaging, as the drive was not shipped with its drivers. In order to get the drivers required, I was instructed to go to your website.

In order to download the software that I needed from your website, I had to go through a number of steps. One of these steps was to find 'My Product ID' to help identify what product I was getting the drivers for.
Bearing in mind I was trying to download the Win 98 driver so that I could use this product with a Win 98 machine, 10Mega's suggestion was to plug the flash drive into a Win XP or 2000 machine, and search for it's prod ID in Device Manager.

I don't think this is good enough.

Surely, if this product is stated as Win 98 compatible, I shouldn't have to:

a) Go online to download the drivers for its use.
b) Have to have a Win 2000 or Win XP machine in order to find out what the product ID of the drive is in order to go online and download the drivers so that it will work with Win 98.

Where is the logic in that?
Why isn't there a direct link to the software with the drive?

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Regards,

Good House News

The surveyor has done his duty, the builders quotes are coming in on the back of it, just need to negotiate final price now.
Yippee...I am really looking forward to moving. I've had enough of the South ad look forward to Moor walks and fresh air.