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Three hours after completion still in my house

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Twatarse · 24/11/2021 17:21

As the title.

Completed at 2pm.

No keys. Agents frantically calling vendors. They are still packing the van. Agent and solicitor tell them in no uncertain terms that they do not own the property anymore and are now breaking the law.

An hour and a half passes and they drop the keys off with the agent.

Phew, we think, they are all gone. So we pick up the keys and drive to the property - they are still there and the house is still full. I mean full - could still see paintings on the wall in the lounge, hallway and kitchen filled with boxes, appliances.

Get a sob story of how they have been at work all day (completion date hardly comes as a fucking surprise, maybe take the day off as we did?)

I tell them that they no longer own the properly, me and my husband do, and that actually, we could legally walk in and lock the doors, “you couldn’t” came the reply - I don’t know what planet some people live on.

Called the agent who was like, What?! Solicitor aghast too. Our solicitor have contacted thieves saying that yep, we’ll just lock them out if we chose to and charge them to remove their properly.

I didn’t go in and lock the doors, I’m not that much of a prick even though it’s now my property and they are trespassing. My 15 month old was knackered in the back of the car.

Back at home now, thankfully only 5 mins down the road and thank god in a rented house so no massive deal tonight although removals booked for 9am.

I’m so pissed off. We’ve had a really awful few months, I’ve got a close relative in hospital, Ive been fighting for a diagnosis for them, I’ve been ill myself.

Why are people such dicks?

OP posts:
Hormonehelp · 25/11/2021 04:34

I feel like my parents were these people. I’m just glad I wasn’t around to witness it.

They moved out in the evening after completing midday - because they “hadn’t finished packing”. I think honestly some people don’t realise the sheer volume of belongings they have and the need to pack prior to the day.

I feel for you! I was annoyed and I wasn’t even there to witness it.

Twatarse · 25/11/2021 06:16

Guess who has been here since 5am cleaning? Dh got in at midnight.

God, i’m knackered but I do not want my furniture and the children’s things moving in on top of dirt.

So that should give you an idea of what we are dealing with.

Got in laws helping out from 8am.

It was too late last night to postpone our movers until friday.

OP posts:
EuromamaAussiekids · 25/11/2021 06:17

I'm sorry I just don't get the drama of this thread. They were late leaving the property but the op is not homeless or anything similar and simply has to clean the house or get a cleaner in. It's not the end of the world.

Oftenithinkaboutit · 25/11/2021 06:19

I just can’t get my head around how you and your dh didn’t do anything other than drive around and then drive home.

I can guarantee I would have been in. I’m a single parent. I would have caused hell fire, and the upshot would be they’d be out, and my children and I would have been in, within 2 hours of completion.

Furloughedpissedoff · 25/11/2021 06:33

Have you checked the attic yet?

Twatarse · 25/11/2021 06:36

@Furloughedpissedoff

Have you checked the attic yet?
thankfully empty.
OP posts:
tomwombsgans · 25/11/2021 06:39

@YouWouldNotBelieve

How much energy have you got to get so angry over this? Get yourself a cuppa and have a relax, you've been working yourself up. Yes they're tresspassing but as you've said you only live down the road it's not that bad, it's not like you've travelled far and it'll be straightforward enough to sort out a charge via solicitors if need be for removal cost re-arrangements.
Found another cheeky fucker.

Relax, it's only a bit of trespassing! Grin

Darkpheonix · 25/11/2021 06:45

@EuromamaAussiekids

I'm sorry I just don't get the drama of this thread. They were late leaving the property but the op is not homeless or anything similar and simply has to clean the house or get a cleaner in. It's not the end of the world.
So you have no clue about the risks, legal position and the fact that these people simply do not own the house anymore.

How often do you buy something, pay for it and then let the previous owner use for as long as they need?

tomwombsgans · 25/11/2021 06:47

The people suggesting they'd be fine with this situation are naive or just trying to be cool. No one wants to be inconvenienced.

Hope478 · 25/11/2021 06:51

@EuromamaAussiekids

I'm sorry I just don't get the drama of this thread. They were late leaving the property but the op is not homeless or anything similar and simply has to clean the house or get a cleaner in. It's not the end of the world.
Are you the seller? What a ridiculous comment.
NiceTwin · 25/11/2021 06:51

@ThumbWitchesAbroad oh yes, it wasn't my finest hour, crying to the EA about the removal company. The company who had delivered me 60 moving boxes yet claimed to never have recieved my booking and not insignificant deposit Hmm

I kept everybody I needed to updated.

I had to battle with the removal company to return my deposit. Once I did get it, I left such a searing, but honest, review that they disabled reviews Grin

Hope today goes better for you OP.

NashvilleQueen · 25/11/2021 07:01

OP only just reading this but I am absolutely furious on your behalf. People are absolute arseholes sometimes.

I hope today is a good day in your new home but I would still send the photos to your solicitor with a note of the time they left just to see if there's any potential repercussions for them.

Groovee · 25/11/2021 07:04

This happened to my very chilled mild mannered friend. She surprised us all by charging in there and helping the woman pack. The woman was so surprised that she did everything directed. She was then firing the boxes out the door and told her to get the van there.

In Scotland this would never happen so it stuns me the Audacity of sellers who don't seem to think they actually need to move house.

MrsMargaretBeaufort · 25/11/2021 07:11

Ah OP, Once we was that family that hadn't moved out Blush

The removal van didn't turn up the day before completion to move out stuff. I had two children under five. All day they were saying they were on their way but eventually cancelled. We were so stressed and had to sleep on mattresses on the floor.

Fil had told us that evening he had sorted a hire van and not to worry.

He turn up at lunch time then day ( day of completion - after numerous frantic calls) in a transit van to move a three bedroomed house. By this point I was in tears. It took ages as our new house was 15 miles away.

The new home owners were all stood round the gate saying they were about to phone the police and it resulted in a huge ridiculous argument delaying the move even further. In the end I left with the kids and left it to fil and dh to it.

It was a really horrible stressful situation.

ApolloandDaphne · 25/11/2021 07:13

@Groovee I don't k it why you think it wouldn't happen in Scotland. It happened to me in Scotland!

We turned up with our van and the woman still had loads to move out and clear up. However it transpired the couple had split up and her ex was a real bastard. He was supposed to take their 3 very small children and she was dealing with packing up and moving out, however he didn't turn up. The poor woman was frazzled and the neighbours were pitching in the help. She was also trying to clean the house as she went. We told her not to bother cleaning and we let her leave a lot of stuff in the garden to collect the next day.

I actually got to know her following the move and she was so embarrassed about what had happened. I know most people who do this are CF but i don't think she was.

Beefcurtains79 · 25/11/2021 07:16

EuromamaAussiekids

I'm sorry I just don't get the drama of this thread. They were late leaving the property but the op is not homeless or anything similar and simply has to clean the house or get a cleaner in. It's not the end of the world.

I know right? OP should stop moaning and let everyone walk all over her and her family.
Remember to be cool and kind OP, even if it is to your whole families and insurances detriment.

Workinghardeveryday · 25/11/2021 07:24

We had this too years ago, turned up at 10am after letting them stay a whole 24 hours after completion.

They were still packing!! It was January and freezing. We had to sit in the van until 5pm. When we got in the house was full of crap, filthy. Ashtrays full of cigarettes. Even the grass had dog poo all over it.

LonelySock · 25/11/2021 07:25

@Twatarse

Guess who has been here since 5am cleaning? Dh got in at midnight.

God, i’m knackered but I do not want my furniture and the children’s things moving in on top of dirt.

So that should give you an idea of what we are dealing with.

Got in laws helping out from 8am.

It was too late last night to postpone our movers until friday.

Good luck today with it all!
EuromamaAussiekids · 25/11/2021 07:26

It's over and done with. Move on with your life. This will be in the dm soon Hmm

narkyspirit · 25/11/2021 08:08

sounds like my father (gone now) the final house move was a nightmare , dad decided not to have removal company so instructed my brother and I we where moving them so take time off work.. Dad booked himself a 7.5 tonne truck, blinding thinks brother and I, sling the whole lot in the truck and off we go. No, the gaffer (dad) decides we are moving one room at time and potters off to the shed to sort that out as hadn't bothered until moving day. brother and I packed up the house into the truck and went.. he was furious when we came back and set about the shed, meanwhile poor old mum was cleaning with Sisters assistance and was hugely grateful to us for getting on with it. dad said thanks a few weeks later.

00100001 · 25/11/2021 08:27

@EuromamaAussiekids

I'm sorry I just don't get the drama of this thread. They were late leaving the property but the op is not homeless or anything similar and simply has to clean the house or get a cleaner in. It's not the end of the world.
So...I'll just pop round your house for 24hrs or so, and live in it.

You won't mind, will you? After all, you're not homeless... (Oh and btw I left mess, you'll need to pay for a cleaner...)

thanks, bye!!!

Motnight · 25/11/2021 08:31

Good luck today, Op.

LookItsMeAgain · 25/11/2021 08:41

I'd phone for a skip today and get the first available one and chuck everything of theirs into it.

You own the house, you own what they left in the house and you can do with it what you want, so I'd put it in a skip. I'd also get the solicitor so that the costs associated with it are paid for by them as they weren't out by the time the keys were handed over.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 25/11/2021 09:07

@EuromamaAussiekids

I'm sorry I just don't get the drama of this thread. They were late leaving the property but the op is not homeless or anything similar and simply has to clean the house or get a cleaner in. It's not the end of the world.
Gosh yes, no biggie. They've just entered into the biggest financial transaction of their lives to date, committed to borrowing a huge sum on mortgage which they would still be liable for if the house had burned down overnight and the buildings insurance was invalid, and they have work, ill relatives and small children to cope with alongside all the stresses and strains of packing up one house, cleaning it, getting their deposit back, moving all their worldly goods into a new place, settling the children, cleaning the new house, unpacking and all the million and one other things involved in moving. Why on earth would anybody be worried and upset about not being able to get into the new house at the agreed time and finding it filthy? Hmm
ChicCroissant · 25/11/2021 09:21

I also thought one wasn't allowed to leave houses with no lightbulbs at all, but I could be wrong about that.

I only noticed that there were no lightbulbs in our new house when I tried to turn the lights on the day we moved in! Why would you take the lightbulbs FFS?! Had to dash to the local shop to get some Grin

I'd have been beyond furious if someone was still in the house though! It's the biggest purchase you'll ever make and if you've completed then they've got your money and not stuck to their part of the deal - vacant possession. I would be understanding if something had gone wrong like the people who had removal firms cancel (that must have been a nightmare Flowers ) but you know in advance you've got to pack up and go.