Hit me with your house move disaster stories please

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So I'm feeling sorry for myself
Our house move fell through officially (Via email at 00:15!)
It dragged on since June but eventually the developer lost patience as there are legal issues regarding the house we were part exing (separate thread in legal for that)
We sold all our furniture
Have been sitting on deckchairs since the start of September with the house mostly packed up as we had been given a completion date of 4th sept
I even signed up for broadband for a bloody house I don't own due to advice given at the home demo
And to top it off we have been told our house is 'unsellable'
Luckily our new sofa should be ready soon thankfully

Oh no what a shit email to get at that time.

why is house is 'unsellable'

A few thing they weren't happy with regarding maintenance fees and road adoption

Housing association.

Had to move out for essential maintenance. Moved into new flat intended to be temporary, some possessions put in storage. HA made a mistake with the maintenance so temporary became permanent and old flat got a new tenant. Possessions were taken out of storage - and delivered to the old flat and the new tenant took them.

Police weren't interested and nobody accepted any responsibility. This was in the 90s when advice wasn't as easy to get as it is today.

@safariboot omg that's terrible!

Oh I also forgot to mention the huge sink hole which opened up in the road outside in July . Didn't exactly help things

I'm sorry that you've been having such a crappy time.

I've some mildly entertaining dramas to share, if you'd enjoy them?

@itsamazingimsane lol yes please
I've just been told it £427 to cancel the broadband!

Oh that's awful!

Well i've name changed, because it's very identifiable.
I've been helping 80yr old mum move.
She's struggled with priorities... she made me take the slightly grubby bin from the new house back to the old one for a wash, then bring her old bins up to her new house.
The day before the move, she was trying to buy a 'heritage plaque' affair to stick on the old house in memory of my dad (he built the house).
She wouldn't have her mail redirected because she couldn't decide on a name for the new house...

She bought the new house before selling the old house. The conservatory had subsidence so she got a builder in to sort it, and change her fence. He dug a big hole across the path, took down the fence (leaving everything open) then couldn't get concrete or fence posts. They were working to finish everything while the removals men were carrying everything in.

I've never done anything so stressful in my life (and I was a foster carer and school teacher, and have kids with Sen).
I had to put her 3 piece suite on fb marketplace and gumtree because she couldn't believe no one wanted it- it's over 50 years old, and looks it. She wouldn't put it out for collection by the council because 'it'll end up at the tip!'.

I know your situation is awful, and must be very upsetting and hard to bear. But at least you don't live with my mother!

@itsamazingimsane Hahahahaha omg yes that sounds extremely stressful

Someone I know had their buyer pull out 3 days before completion. Not sure how long the chain was, but luckily they were able to get finance and still purchase the new house. Put their old house straight back on the market and the first two buys booked were no shows!
They were exchanging and completing on the same day which is always a risk.

@Twospaniels honestly I so wish we were first time buyers again
Thinking I will maybe sell and move into a caravan or something before buying again
Total nightmare

a house we bought back in the nineties, when we got there for some reason they had got a puppy just before moving, carpet in the kitchen that stunk of dog wee, opened the kitchen cupboards full of food, got to the bedrooms fully fitted wardrobes full of clothes old jigsaws etc, hadnt seen the back garden as she said her husband was asleep in the back dining room when we viewed, opened the back door to a full width patio in about three foot of rubbish including the poor puppy that they had left behind thinking we would probably go oh well we will give him a home, no way had my own dogs honed them up to come and pick him up, in the end we filled seven skips with rubbish they had left behind and had to carpet the whole house right through they were that bad,

@isseywith4vampirecats they left their puppy!
Mind I know someone who left 4 of her cats and moved . Sure it's a fact she'd like no one to know as she tries to come across as a very prim and proper vegetarian animal lover