Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Pissed off letter
My name is Sarah Jacobs. I am attempting to purchase a property at 4918 West Washington Street in Belleville, Illinois. I am writing this letter to you because I wanted everyone involved in this transaction to be aware of my frustration. My scheduled closing date was April second at ten in the morning. I was informed at four in the afternoon on April first that this closing had to be cancelled or postponed to a later date because a quit claim deed had not been properly obtained for our property. I was understandably upset that our date had changed and I was finding out less than 24 hours before our scheduled closing. I made phone calls and had my real estate agent get involved and speak with the selling agent. There were multiple people involved in this transaction, so I will be sending this to all parties. So after this issue had been “resolved”, a new closing date was scheduled for April 3 at 1:30 in the afternoon. So after believing that these issues were taken care of I re-rented a Uhaul, loaded the entire contents of my current residence and was ready to unload in a home when I found out LESS than one hour before our scheduled closing that we again could not close because there was yet another glitch. After several hours of phone calls back and forth I was told that this closing would not happen April 3. Because I have a written contract with Settlement date included stating on page 1 of the addendum, paragraph 2, section a: “It is agreed that the time is of the essence with respect to all dates specified in the Agreement. This means that all deadlines are intended to be strict and absolute.” This legal statement makes me believe that it is acceptable to expect to be in our new home on the day of closing and that our closing date and time is final. I have had address’s changed so I will be expecting mail delivery to new property, I have scheduled utility companies to come and read meters, cable company to set up service, movers to assist in heavy lifting, not to mention renting a uhaul for ONE day that will now turn out to be several days which I do not have a reservation for and truck will need to be turned in before 5 pm on April 4. I will now have to unload all personal belongings into a storage unit as we have given notice to our current landlord believing we would have a property at this time. I am being put into an extremely inconvenient situation and I had hoped that professionals such as yourselves would understand my predicament and assist in a satisfactory and timely matter to correct any delays you have created. I understand that things sometimes fall through the cracks but I had a signed contract in hand February second. This is sufficient time to prepare all documents needed to close and had there been an issue, I should have been informed in a timely manner. Less than 24 hours and less than one hour to closing is an inappropriate time. I will be contacting anyone necessary to convey the amount of frustration and resistance I have encountered over the last several days. This has been a very unscrupulous process and I will no longer have a good experience to pass along to other people who are interested in purchasing a home that deals with Fisher and Shapiro. I still, as of current, do not have a time and date for closing.
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