Bought house but they’re still in it now!

I had worse than this when I bought my current house. The estate agent told me the Seller needed to stay in MY HOUSE another week. He even went into detail about the Seller’s childcare arrangements etc., and their move to Kent. I said I didn’t care and didn’t want to know about their family situation and I would be proceeding as planned, as was my legal right. The estate agent even tried to talk to me about how I could get a mortgage holiday and rent somewhere to convenience the seller!!! My resounding no was taken badly and I was framed as being difficult. Extraordinary.

I was having none of it, and neither should you. Go and move into your house. The former Seller is now trespassing.

Sadly this. Time is not of the essence unless a valid notice to complete has been served. The time in the contract is the time monies should have arrived by not the time for completion.

This and mother of pufflings have it nailed. Go round, tell them options, take photos (it’s your house if they argue!!) and explain if the house isn’t available you will be booking at a hotel because they haven’t left you with any options, they are using your house, and charging them for all costs.

Your solicitor should have been on this before close of business! We had similar piss taking sellers, ironically they’d already had the keys for their new place for 2 weeks. Our solicitor phoned, tore them a strip and told them it would cost them £1k for every 15 additional minutes they occupied OUR house! They phoned with the keys almost immediately (god knows what they were doing) but I would have quite liked to have earnt a few k out of it, as it was already 5pm and pitch black by the time we could start unloaded and we’d just spent all our savings on the house!

What do you think the police would do?

9 yrs ago today we moved into this house. The woman who lived here before us couldn't get the keys to her house so wouldn't give us the keys to our house till she had them. We sat outside for hours waiting for her to leave. She had no furniture in the house as all her stuff was in storage if I remember correctly she just wouldn't hand over the keys till she knew she had a house to move into. She had already changed the moving in date 3 times by this point and when we eventually got in we realised she had hidden holes in the walls with pictures and the bathroom had a massive leak that caused issues with the neighbour as they thought we were like her and didn't care that out bathroom was flooding her house. Thankfully we got it fixed and have a great relationship with our neighbours but 9 yrs on we still get post for her and most of it is legal letters for bills she hasn't paid we think as we just pop out back in the post saying not at this address anymore.

Although it's not your problem it has become your problem. Maybe you could get a hotel for the night. Go to the small claims court for the additional expenses if they won't pay up

Hope you’re sorted now. Congratulations!

This! Absolute cheek of them. They won't move out of YOUR home.

Hope you got it sorted OP. This happened to me and not only were they not out but they'd locked up all the doors and refused to speak to anyone. We'd moved hundreds of miles and had very angry delivery men desperate to offload the stuff and threatening to leave it in the driveway so they could start their long return journey. We got the keys about 6 hours late with no apology but instead a smirk and 'hope you weren't waiting long?'. The delivery men broke half our stuff hoying it in the door. 😫

THIS HAPPENED TO ME.

In the end there's fuck all you can do really, I could have phoned the police, but with kids in their family and mine, I simply booked a hotel, paid a massive charge for the removal company to keep the stuff and said I was coming in the morning , hook or by crook, you best be there with the keys to hand over.

They did , but I was about 2 grand out of pocket , mostly to the removal men who took the piss to keep my stuff in the van overnight. I got nowhere with lawyers or the seller, I went to legal ombudsman and property one for the estate agent, who did dick all to help, in the last minute MY OWN solicitor offered to pay me compensation , I think they didn't want their name dragged into mud.

Never complete on a Friday

Yes - and really if people still have stuff in the house, I'd rather let them carry it out than kick them out in a fit of righteous indignation, and then carry it out to them myself!

Happened to us, though not quite so drastically. Ended up with my moving people carrying their stuff out of the house before taking my stuff in. They ended up leaving a piano ( came back for it) and one of their helpers, plus small child, whose keys they had taken by mistake.

Hope you get it sorted OP, and don’t worry, it will get sorted, and turn into a great story that you will shock people with for years.

Happened to us. At 5pm I had a dozen friends round and just started putting our stuff in. They got their skates on then.

I’m guessing you moved in eventually Op. Speak to your solicitor first thing on Monday.

This happened to us when we moved in July, the seller had either misjudged the size of the van they needed or were too tight to pay for a bigger one!
We finally got in gone midnight after watching them carry single items out of the house for an hour! I was so cross!
Get yourself in, pop that champers and eat a takeaway pizza on the floor. Buying a house is a slog, you've earned it!! X

It's Friday night we've entered the twilight zone 🙄

Hmmmm

They could have moved within the same zone?

or...they're good at starting threads that get people foaming!?'?!?!

Hope you are in now…. and they are out!

shocking behaviour

And your point is?

If you can’t afford (or do not want to pay for) professional movers then you need to be even better prepared and start sooner so you can meet the completion deadline.

Moving back further in decision making, when you choose to move, the cost of doing needs to be factored into your budget.

Some people seem to fail to grasp that post completion it is no longer your property and you are trespassing.

Thankfully I only experienced this once in 7 house moves and fortunately only by a few hours - but it was bloody frustrating.

No I do things properly, but I also.have a bit of patience and understanding if other people aren't prefect.. I dont stamp.my feet and huff and puff and look for every opportunity to have a go as if Im auditioning for a part in Eastenders. There's far too much of thst bollocks these days.

It was a long time ago, I was young and didn't know what to do.

I can’t believe this. Keen to know what time they actually left

Let me guess you are ones of these that is half packed in a house that does not. belong to you any more, having a cup of tea in their garden while the new owners are trying to get in the house that they now own.

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