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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:
handsoffmychips · 24/11/2021 18:05

@Santaischeckinglists

Go park your car on your drive. Sit in it and eat fish and chips...
Go and park your arse on their sofa and eat fish and chips!
Threewheeler1 · 24/11/2021 18:08

They win the award for most brazen CF's I've ever read about on MN!
Unreal!

Peaseblossum22 · 24/11/2021 18:09

If you don’t hVe vacant possession then the insurance is invalid and you are in breach of your mortgage terms . Whilst it’s unlikely that you would take legal action if they haven’t gone by now do you know for definite that they have somewhere to go to, will they even go tomorrow?

MrsMoastyToasty · 24/11/2021 18:09

I know it's probably not a police matter but I would be threatening to ring them. Basically being very vocal about it in front of them.

Chronicallymothering · 24/11/2021 18:09

I’d be getting a locksmith in to change the locks to be honest.

Twatarse · 24/11/2021 18:10

@Threewheeler1

They win the award for most brazen CF's I've ever read about on MN! Unreal!
I had to re register to post as I’ve changed my email, but I’ve been posting about them and their twattiness with the sale for most of this year.

Just when we thought it was over!!

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Mummapenguin20 · 24/11/2021 18:10

Id be so mad

Hetty0 · 24/11/2021 18:11

I don’t understand why you’re not knocking on the door and telling them to get out.

As things stand, that house isn’t insured! If there were a fire tonight you would lose everything, and still be liable to repay the mortgage.

Seriously @Twatarse you need to take possession now.

Stillfuming · 24/11/2021 18:12

We were, mortifyingly, late leaving our house.

Our mover cancelled the evening before due to illness (what about the other 4 blokes that were moving us then? Hmm ) but said he’d passed the job onto a friend who had a company.

He lied. A man with a-far too small-van and an old bloke with a limp turned up at 3ish.

We’d hired the first guy as he said there would be 5 movers, DH & I both have disabilities and told him were unable to move ourselves. However, we had no choice but to lift and carry and repeatedly pack this crappy little van for multiple trips. I felt so sorry for the new owners but they, luckily, were in rented for another week. We did at least have everything boxed and packed and the place was spotless.

At 8 pm we were -with me sobbing-still moving our last boxes in and then we still had to hump everything upstairs. We have never physically recovered and I wish nothing but ill will to the man that cancelled us, for a bigger job judging by comments of someone who knew him!

JeanBrash · 24/11/2021 18:12

Are they actually moving out tonight?

What a bunch of CFs!

Hairbrush123 · 24/11/2021 18:12

People who call ketchup “red sauce”.

Foolsrule · 24/11/2021 18:13

You could always turn up with a few cans of paint and start decorating, not being too careful about the stuff that’s left behind?

IgnoranceIsStrength · 24/11/2021 18:14

We had exactly the same and nowhere to stay. Had to get one room cleared so we could sleep and they came back next day. Was horrendous

WineAway · 24/11/2021 18:18

Surely the time you start packing is when you have a final moving date? On the day or before if you can it’s just loading the van?

SmallGreenStripes · 24/11/2021 18:19

When we moved into our current house they left furniture everywhere and the sheds and outbuildings FULL of crap. There was a half drunk cup of tea left on a table next to one of the beds (also left).

We found seventeen unusable bikes in various places round the property. At one stage the seller returned with an ancient wardrobe in his van because it didn’t fit in his new house and dumped it back in our field.

We just sucked it up, our solicitor was so crap we couldn’t bear to string out the transaction. We had a lot of woodwormy furniture bonfires.

Took us a while to clear it all out!

Still hate the seller, it was ten years ago!

House is wonderful though. Grin

Twatarse · 24/11/2021 18:20

@WineAway

Surely the time you start packing is when you have a final moving date? On the day or before if you can it’s just loading the van?
I know right.

We booked a van for tommorow, every thing is packed and dismantled and we’re all on mattresses on the floor tonight.

That’s been the case every time I’ve moved in my life. I don’t understand doing it any other way.

OP posts:
ChesterL · 24/11/2021 18:20

I’m massively invested in this op. Ridiculous behaviour on their behalf.

We had similar - they didn’t leave until after 6pm and left their fridge behind. They turned up at 9pm to ask for the milk out of the fridge! When I asked them what their plans for the fridge were they asked me to store it for them for a few days. I left it outside on the driveway the next day and texted them to tell them this.

Our area has a lot of scrap metal men so it would have been gone within a few hours. They arrived very quickly to collect….

starfishmummy · 24/11/2021 18:20

I'd be there with the biggest meanest looking blokes I could muster and a locksmith.

PinnyPencher3 · 24/11/2021 18:20

How long will you let them stay there this evening?

KittenCatcher · 24/11/2021 18:21

I would ask the police for advice, it's your house, you have the keys and they are trespassing and have probably left it in a shit tip too.

QuicklyNowThen · 24/11/2021 18:22

We had this with our first house absolutely piss taker took 2 extra days to get them. Out even then left loads of crap we got compensation in the end

InFiveMins · 24/11/2021 18:22

It's highly annoying but why don't you just go over there and tell them to get out?!

Also some suggestions on here are laughable - the estate agent, solicitor and the police won't do anything (and nor should they).

It really is as simple as going to your property and telling them to leave.

TheFairyCaravan · 24/11/2021 18:22

We had this when we were kids. My dad turned up with the wagon full of our belongings to find the previous owners still there. They didn’t give 2 fucks that we’d nowhere to go. We’d already spent a week in a hotel because they’d messed about with the completion date and my parents didn’t want to put the others in the chain out. They left the house in a filthy state too.

Me and DH are house hunting. I keep telling him I want a new build or a chain free, vacant house. He doesn’t understand why. It’s because of people like this!

Good luck in your new home @Twatarse

DappledThings · 24/11/2021 18:25

We had this. We were moving from 1 before flat to 3 bed house. They were moving from said 3 bed to a 4 bed and yet had booked a van half tje size of ours. So it had to make multiple trips.

Our movers went in to try and get their stuff out quicker and came back saying none of the drawers had been emptied or anything. We went to the pub, came back about 6.30 and they were gone but her poor mum, who they had brought over from Spain to help was standing on the drive with the last boxes. We offered her a cupof tea in the warm but she was so ashamed of her daughter she didn't want to. Felt sorry for her

00100001 · 24/11/2021 18:26

Why on earth do people leave all/most the packing until the day of the move??? Confused

Surely 95% of it is done a week or so beforehand?? Like the last two days, we're living out of a suitcase. One with clean clothes, one for dirty... All toys, Clothes, kitchen stuff etc is packed...