Though we were busy, we had to find a way to get the option to the Seller before the prospective Buyer changed his mind. We persisted in following up on the lawyer who had the documents couriered by her clerk. It was not the end of the matter. After the foreign owner in the US had sent back the forms, we had to track down the Federal Express people in Singapore and get the documents. The delivery to us was scheduled from 9 am - 5 p.m. If we received the documents near 5 p.m., the law firm would have closed and that would mean another day had gone and the possibility of the Buyer changing his mind was always there.
Buyers do have many choices of condos without views.
We volunteered to collect the documents from the Federal Express office in Singapore. We received the documents by noon time and rushed to the Seller's lawyer. There is still the business of ensuring that the Buyer's lawyer would send the option cheque to the Seller's lawyer since we would not be given the cheque by the former as there was no the delivery clerk. We went to collect the cheque and brought it to the Seller's lawyer. This took another day.