difference between on/about date and closing?

if you remember,

what was your on/about date, and when did you actually close?

thanks!!

Re: difference between on/about date and closing?

I believe our on/about date was 11/15... we ended up closing on 11/20.

Re: difference between on/about date and closing?

When we signed the contract the on/about date was 6/1. When the sellers signed it they crossed it out and changed it to 7/1.

We actually closed on 8/1.

Re: difference between on/about date and closing?

They have 30 days leeway from that date--so I'm sure your answers here will vary by that amount of time.

We closed about 20 days after the on/about date. The sellers were waiting to close on their new home.

Re: difference between on/about date and closing?

They said approx 60 days...we went to contract May 19 and closed July 17...pretty accurate.

Re: difference between on/about date and closing?

on or about in contract for our old house was 10/31 we closed 10/26 new house on or about was 12/15 and we are closing 1/10 (we knew that it would be later when we signed the contract.)

Re: difference between on/about date and closing?

on or about was 11/1 and we closed 11/24

Re: difference between on/about date and closing?

We had an on or about date of 10/15. We closed 10/6. Our sellers had an on or BEFORE date of 10/15 for the house they were buying so it was a very quick process.

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they said I would close by 1/19 and we closed on 12/30

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We had an on or about of Nov. 15th...Closed Dec. 19th....I was very nervous that we were over the 30 day window but all parties wanted to get the deal done and the delay was our bank's fault (we were told we werent a priority.....ugh!)

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Our closing was a nightmare. Seller verbally agreed to ON or Before 2/28 (we were moving from out of state and needed to have a confirmed date) At the 11th hour they would on do On or About, saying they might need a day or two to get into their new place.

Come 2/28 and she hadn't done squat about her new place - hadn't found a house, hadn't found an apartment, dragged her feet... as we approached 3/28 she still would not set a date. Our lawyer sent a letter saying we were now setting the date as 4/15 or we would start a lawsuit to force the closing.

She flipped out, thinking we could not do that and was told otherwise. She scrambled to find an apt. but could not get in until end of April and we ended up closing on 4/28 - 2 months after the originally agreed upon date.

It was a nightmare I don't wish on anyone. Fortunately, DH was able to stay in MA in our apt. there on a month to month lease so we didn't need to put stuff in storage. I had started my job here the previous Nov. and had 3 months in a corporate apt. but had to move out in Feb. and spent two months living with DH's grandmother in Queens, commuting to Bayport every day.

We found out later from neighbors that she told them she didn't understand why we were making her leave because she thought it would be OK to stay through June when her kids were out of school.

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Ours was 30 days after - stupid bank

Re: difference between on/about date and closing?

On/about date: October 31st

Actual Closing: October 21st