to be frustrated about this house move? (first time buyer)

[Gracie123]

OK, I sort of am. But it's sooooo annoying!!

We exchanged contracts over a week ago and were due to complete today. Our solicitor rang to confirm completion at 10am this morning and told us to go and pick the keys up from the estate agent. DH went, keys weren't there

We were told it would be one hour tops.

Two and a half hours later, still no keys. Estate agent rang them and they guaranteed keys would be there by 2pm. When the keys still hadn't arrived at 3.45pm the estate agent rang again and they said that they were on their way in the van to drop them off (the property is about a 1.5 mile drive from the agent).

5.30pm still no keys, agent tells us that they close at 6pm but that the owners have agreed to have keys to them by then.

6.05pm agents have closed but assure us that the couple have agreed to drop the keys around to our place 'at some point tonight'.

The thing is, we are in a rental and tenancy isn't up yet, so it's not like we had to get in today, but the kids have been so excited and waiting all day and it's now 7pm and I've had to put them to bed.

I'm also concerned that with the snow predicted to get worse we won't be able to get what we need to done before we get snowed in and won't make it to family for christmas

The bit that will probably convince everyone I am unreasonable is that they have an 18 month old and are due another baby in february, so I'm being a bit heartless trying to kick them out.

I just wish they'd said they couldn't move until wednesday or even at 10am 'sorry, we're nowhere near ready, it's going to be a few hours' rather than 'we're on our way' every time we ring!

Glad you are finally in. We were advised to change the locks after moving by solicitors apparently it is standard advice. We only got one set of keys - and knew loads had been handed out over the years and seller told us that.

We were unlucky as the front door - the lock was part of door unit and we had to wait a bit to get a new door but I was round most of day till it was done. Next move well know to plan for that expense as well.

Hope you all enjoy the new house. They should not be back for any thing they have left but a phone call to solicitors to check they stuff is legally yours now might help put your mind at rest.

Bloody hell! Lock change it is.
Just went to drop some stuff off and by the time I'd taken 5 steps to the front door a gang of kids had encircled my car and two of them were in it!!
I screamed, my daughter cried (still in her car seat) they ran off. One of them had the decency to turn around and apologise for 'scaring' me and let me know that 'we wouldn't have hurt your baby, we didn't know it was there!' before scurrying away with his mates.
Nice neighbourhood eh?

Glad to hear you're in, finally.
But the car thing. . .

Can?t believe how annoyed I still am re: light bulbs.

Though found out after a few months that we?d only experienced a minor bit of the seller?s madness/ twatery. We nicknamed them The Odds

They took the door to the front room; really, it was so odd it actually took us a day to realise that the door was gone.

They didn?t tell their Son/ DIL that they?d moved; we had her turn up to drop off the grand kids a week after we?d moved in. They used to mind the GC while DIL worked. They the son/DIL/ GC had been on holiday, had spoken to them the night before.

They still haven?t changed their address for Bank/ Building Society things (we?ve been here over 7 years). I keep sending them back as not known at this address, and have actually called the various places wondering if maybe they were accounts they forgot only to be treated very oddly by banks etc, got the impression they thought I was lying.
(We never had a forwarding address for them they told us to give the post etc to one of the neighbours, only to be told by said neighbour that they knew nothing about this and had no idea what the new address was. . . )

Have in the last year had 2 packages delivered to us for them, have started to wonder if maybe one of them has memory issues and is giving our address because of that?

When we went on holiday after we?d been here about 3 years found out when we got back from the other side neighbour that The Odds had been back in town to visit Son/DIL (guess they told them they?d moved ). She was keeping an eye on the house heard voices from ours and found them in our garden wondering if they should have taken ?their? path .
They had also taken cuttings from the plants, translation: dug up 2 plants, seriously!
Asked her if we still had their curtains.
They made her, house watching neighbours life hell, constantly complaining about the noise her LO made, just normal kid noise was all we ever heard. Bear in mind we?re childless and they had their GC?s 4 days a week. They used to go to her back door and shout at her and LO, threaten to call the police and Social Services etc. She was convinced it was because she was a single mother.
They were so horrible to her that her LO who?s birthday was in the summer had never had an ?at home? birthday party, she was too afraid that they would come around and spoilt it.
Neighbours other side didn?t talk to us for months, found out later they were terrified that we?d be like the Odds, who had invited themselves to every party, bar-b-que etc they had ever had, would just walk in and start to help themselves.
He still shudders slightly if The Odds are mentioned, seriously worry that they have PTSD.

Does mean that anything we do is never as bad
Seriously we could open a Greggs/ Fruit Shoot stand in the back garden and still be great neighbours.

Wow. They were odd!
I love the nick name. I think we are going to use it for our sellers too. Met lovely neighbour today who was so relieved when she realised they'd moved out. She said he made her feel really uncomfortable, and she 'wasn't allowed' to talk to anyone. Seems odd if she was on mat leave and at home with toddler (she told me this when we were viewing) because I know he works as a teacher so would have been out of the house a lot. How could he stop her?
I suspect we'll find out more about them as we get to know the neighbours.
Was wandering if the kids thought it was their car they were about to vandalise/steal etc... They seemed genuinely shocked when I confronted them and I couldnt believe it when one of them apologised!