I cant believe what our buyer did on completion day

SpnBaby1967 · 2021-06-26 13:51:40

Our solicitor advised us at 10.30am that our buyers had paid us, and we had sent our money onward to our sellers. We were waiting for confirmation to get the keys still though. Our buyer, I'll call him R, called my husband at 10.30am asking if he can come get the keys. We said so, we were still loading the van and waiting for our onward purchase to be available. Anyway, we filled the van, about 3/4 of the house was in and we took an early lunch. Me, dh and 2 friends. Then at 11.30 DH goes "R is here" I was a bit annoyed as we had told him no, but what can we do. (R is a rich, entitled, white, old man it seems). So we let R in, we're still sat on fold out chairs eating. R asks if he can have a look at the kitchen. Okay, we nod. We get back to our sarnies and hear an almighty crash. DH goes in and find R ripping the kitchen apart. We knew he was fitting a whole new kitchen, didnt expect him to start before we had even left. Anyway, we go out the front and chat with our neighbours when at 12pm along comes R's electrician and plumber. R then turned off the water without telling us so I had to use my neighbours loo (first day of my period too so really awkward). We are shocked that we havent even given him the keys and he has his whole building team in! Next turns up his wife, granddaughter and 2 great grandchildren and in the go. We still have stuff in the house! About an hour later I go to or fridge for a can to drink, and realise it's not on. R had switched off the electric. I told him to switch it on, we still had food in it & the freezer because our plan was at the last minute, decant into a cool bag and ship appliance to new house, switch on and then we can reload shortly thereafter knowing it wont have lost much temp before we can switch it on. So here we are evicted, our belongings getting covered in dust and grime as his "team" starts to gut the kitchen. Next thing I see DH run in the house telling R to stop. I then find out T had ripped the hallway up & was proceeding to rip up the floorboards apparently to feed pipes and cable through. But we still had beds in the bedroom. We told him we needed to make 2 trips & until we got our keys we couldn't vacate! So R puts the flooring back together. 3.30pm we get the call and collect our keys and rush off with our first load feeling very pressured now as more workmen start to arrive. We empty our van & 2 SUV cars at break neck speed and I drive back to the house to fill my car with the remaining smaller bits. I arrive to find R parked his work van on our driveway and the street where we needed to park the big luton van had his wife's car moved into it. So I abandon my car and go find R and tell him he needs to move the vehicles WE'RE STILL BLOODY MOVING OUT! What did he think we would do, hump the last of our furniture up the street? By the time I get back the kitchen is just a shell. My dining table (disassembled) is coated in a thick layer of dust. Our dishwasher was being used as a table for all their plans and tools. Meanwhile, my asthma goes through the roof from all the thick dust. We grab the last of our stuff, dodging workmen and go. No chance to say goodbye to the first house we bought, the house we bought our babies home to, our home. I feel cheated of an experience, are we wrong? Surely until such time as we hand R the keys he shouldn't be in the house and WTF did he book a team of workmen in for completion day!! He ignored DH telling him no, he couldn't come at 11.30 (unless we had our keys by then of course).

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