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A simple matter really, just notify the Real Estate agent that I'll be moving out in 28 days...

• Call agent, the phone is engaged.
• Half an hour later, call agent, leave voice mail message
• an hour later, get a call from a different agent “didn't you remember that Kirsty is no longer your agent?” (Oops, obviously I didn't). Get the fax number to send in the notification.
• Send the fax, it fails, either I wrote down the wrong number or Colleen gave me it wrong.
• Look up Biggin and Scott's webpage to find the correct fax number. It isn't listed, but they do give the office phone number.
• Call the office, wrong number, seems that the website has incorrect info on it. “We get a lot of calls for them, goodbye!”
• Look up Biggin and Scott in the whitepages, call their number, get the fax number, which is one digit different from what I had. When I tell them that their website is wrong I get, “Oh yes, we know about that.”
• Yay, success, after two hours, four phone calls and two fax transmissions, I think I've let them know!

Jo telephoned to query how long it is likely to take to process our application and we got told the following:

• The landlord wasn't expecting applications so soon as he didn't expect the premises to be repainted so quickly.
• Since we've asked to move in on the 8th of September, which is "a fair delay", the application must be referred to the landlord.
• The landlord is interstate and the application can't be processed until he returns.

Now to me it looks like some of them are mutually exclusive, but I'm no real-estate agent, so I guess we have to wait. Surely if they weren't expecting the premises to be ready until September, the fact that we want to move in then should be acceptable?