What had happened was years ago, the property was extended, but so the owner did not pay any more tax they never registered the extension as tax is based on the size of the property.
This took a few months, which is not surprising, but it was quicker than I thought it would take as the vendor was pushing it though, as he knew that we had the bank behind us.
Finally everything was in order and a date was set for everyone to sign at the notary, although we was having trouble contacting out solicitor as he had power of attorney to sign all paperwork on our behalf. So at the time it was suggested that we come over to sign. We looked at doing it in a day which could be possible, or over 2 days which we have done before, it was a nightmare to find flights to be able to do it in a day, or two as the vendor was willing to pick us up from the airport, in the end it was not possible., as a lot of the airlines had cut back on there flights.
In the end we was able to make contact with our solicitor, he contacted us and all was arranged for the meeting and the signing at the notary , you thought we would have been excited by this, but we was not, as we had been though this many times and there always something that raises it`s ugly head, and guess what?
We was right, everyone was at the notary for the signing etc, when the notary noticed that the ex-wife of the vendor power of attorney and her NIE number was in her married name etc, but now she was divorced it was not legal for them to sign on her behalf. I got the phone call after the event, which at the time I thought should have been good news, but as I said it was not, I could not believe it, so close, but still not ours, thought came to me that we could have gone all the way out there at a great expense to not have completed, I would have lost it big time.
My legal/ fin adviser stated that her solicitor should have realised this at the time of going though all the paper work, but once again this was missed.
He said that it was not a problem but she would need to get another power of attorney done was would be able to do it quite quickly, and should be able to complete next week. I had my doubts as the way our luck had gone on this it would go on for longer.
But as the saying go`s (you never fail till you stop)