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i am getting a house, and i very much wish to pay the balance of the cost. i have so far payed the deposit and the stamp duty, and i am eager to pay the rest, but my solicitor says that the tenant in the house has to be moved on, and i have to personally inspect the house after it is vacant to make sure it is empty and undamaged before i pay the rest to secure the title and move in.

the tenant is an old man who is single and i felt sorry for him. he seems to be rather poor and he payed only $200 per week in rent to live there.

one of the stipulations that govern when i can pay the rest of the money for the house is when he can be "moved on".

i am extremely anxious and want to pay for the house in full, and secure it as soon as possible.

i have pessimistic nightmares of my bank having a computer meltdown and my funds being frozen so i can not access them, or the tax office freezing my account because they have questions about my previous tax returns. i know that that is very much unlikely to happen, but i want to draft the bank cheque and have the title signed over to me as quickly as possible.

last week, i rang the real estate agent who is involved and i asked him what progress he was making in finding the old man another abode, and he said that he was very worried, because the old man can only afford a maximum of $230 per week for rent, and there was nothing in their database that was that cheap.

the real estate agent assured me however, that the old man would be out of the house by the 30th of march. i asked the real estate agent where the old man was going to go if they could not find him alternative accommodation, and the real estate agent said "if necessary he will go to a crisis centre".

i did not like that at all, and i was not going to let that happen, so i said that he could stay there until he found a valid place to live.

i wondered how long it would take, and i wondered in my (unfounded) pessimism if my funds would be frozen in the meantime.

i have an email alert system set up for cheap rent in the mountains, and yesterday i got an email from that alert system, and one of the houses was going for $200 per week, so i rang the real estate agent and told him about it, and he said that they had already discovered it, and that they had applied, and it is almost certain that the old man will go to live there. the old man inspected the place and he very much liked it, and the person who owned the place wanted a senior citizen preferably to live there, and all the other applicants are not senior citizens, and the real estate agent said that the old man would probably move there on monday, and i could move in to my house on tuesday.

i was very upset about displacing the old man from being able to live in his own place, and now i am relieved of that worry.

That's very odd. I had to wait 42 days before I could get the keys to my place after paying my deposit and exchanging contracts.

Not only should you do the final inspection before paying the balance to make sure that there's no damage (I trust the old man is getting his bond back? He's getting moved out so fast he'd barely have time to leave the place in a clean condition!), but you should do it to make sure that the inclusions on the contract are there; if the contract says things like the stove, window furnishings and security screens are included, make sure they're physically there in/on the house at the final inspection. otherwise you can legally postpone settlement until the inclusions are re-instated by the seller.