Complications

So, the house doesn't exist any more, so that is the final requirement for subdivision. The surveyors sent in their documents to Landgate on Thursday 15 April 2010. Someone in Landgate had advised me to write them a letter saying why my documents should get processed before others. I sent that on Tuesday 20 April and a couple of hours later Max S from Landgate rang and said they'd do it the next morning so they could send it to the Planning Commission in their midday batch. They did it! Finally, a government department that can get its act together. So now I have to wait for ages for the Planning Commission.

All the while that 6 May deadline is looming. I have sort of accepted the fact that it won't all be finished by then because after the Planning Commission has done its stuff, a settlement agent has to deposit forms with Landgate again asking to transfer the titles - my name on one new lot and my mother's on the other. Apparently, that could take forever! We have prepared the papers and have sent them to the US where my mother is at the moment and she has to post them back - snail mail(!) because we have to present original documents.

At the same time as this is happening I have to write a letter to the back that holds the title of the properties (the one where I have my current mortgage) and ask for them to allow the settlement agent (not the surveyors who they gave permission to subdivide) to apply to Landgate for the transfer of names. Then and only then will the new bank give me a new mortgage.

I had always wondered why people take so long to build a new house when they subdivide. Now I know.....

Must write the letter to the bank.