Real Estate

I'm hoping someone here is knowledgeable enough to be able to help me solve a potentially life-fucking scenario.

I'll preface by saying I live in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

I recently sold my house, and the deal goes through November 30th. I also just noticed my license (and all other form of photo id) just expired. I talked to my lawyer, and they told me I MUST have a valid piece in order for it to go through, and if I don't, the buyers could sue me. I'm going into my dmv tomorrow to get a new one issued, but it typically takes 2-3 weeks for it to actually arrive by mail.

Are there any other options for ID? Is there a way to expedite the new id?

I'm seriously breaking down right now, and I need to know my life isn't about to be ruined. Any advice would be immensely appreciated.

I'm about to be stepping into the real estate market so just curious, if you can jump on a Time Machine and talk to yourself before you bought (or rented) a home, what would you have told yourself? What would you have done differently? What should you have looked out for?

I'm not that deep in the market but at face value... my current takeaway from what I'm seeing is "Everything always sucks more than it'd seem at first glance, you won't get away with everything you hoped for, and that's ok."