To wonder what's happening next door?

[MrsCK]

Moving day for the neighbours. They moved out about 11.00am

First lorry arrives about midday and it's just sat there...no unloading or anything.

Could it fall through this late in the day?

Oops, cross post w OP. Good news!

NotAPuffin I was so overwrought on the day I knew I couldn't go anywhere near the new house while the sellers were there. I am not a violent person but I felt so out of control and upset I was afraid I'd embarrass myself in front of my new neighbours.

squishysquirmy that is shocking! Our seller turned out to be a world-class con artist (bailiffs and red ink letters showed up for years afterward) and although I hadn't heard of this kind of scam we were very worried we'd lose our money.

Wow. I'd never realised things could go that wrong on the day!

We spent 2 hours in the pub having a slow and sober lunch with all our possessions in a box van and my car in the car park while waiting for the phone call to say we could get the keys.

My removals team had the lorry loaded by 11am at the old house and made their way to the new place. They got there around 12pm and then had to sit outside while they waited for keys from the estate agent. Problem was, the vendor's solicitor told my solicitor we'd completed but not the selling estate agents (who couldn't release keys until she did), then promptly cleared off for lunch for 2 hours. Finally got keys and in to new house around 3pm, by which time the removals lorry had been on the drive for 3 hours and the guys had unloaded the garden stuff but nowt else! Never again!

For my first flat I got the keys at 4.30pm. I'd been sitting outside from 9am...

There was a right kerfuffle the last time we moved, and it meant that the people leaving were taking their stuff out the back door and piling it in the garden, as we were bringing our stuff in the front.

The situation in the op happened to my parents. All packed up, head off to estate agents…
The first time buyer at the bottom of the chain had thought they'd got everything sorted, but it turned out that the money that should have cleared through that day hadn't.
The bank initially told them it would take two more days.
This meant no one could move. I spent two hours sat with my parents in their car in a local supermarket car park waiting for news.
In the end the bank receiving the money allowed things to go ahead.
Bloody nerve wracking though.

This is exactly why our stuff went into storage for 2 weeks and we moved in with my MIL. We were lucky enough that was possible, and we just didn't want the stress of kids (including babe in arms) and moving vans all on one day (which was lucky, because the people we were buying from were still mucking about at 4pm, despite the place being officially ours at 11)

I knew someone whose spoilt, adult son was living at home when they moved house
He was warned about the move, and asked to help with the packing, but he disappeared off on a night out the day before the moving date. The next morning, he had not reappeared. Van was loaded, keys were exchanged - still no sign of him. As he was an adult, it was assumed that he could look after himself and find his own way to the new house (which was just down the road anyway). The keys were exchanged as planned and the new owners began moving their stuff in.
In the afternoon, he mooched in through the open front door as the movers were unloading furniture into the house and sat down at the kitchen table. The surprised new owners asked him who he was. "Can I have a bacon sandwich" was his reply.

It shouldn't be funny, but it still tickles me to think of the poor buyers shock that the house apparently came with a hungover idiot.

In our mid week move, only a chain of 4 with us first, our seller seemed to have forgotton that she was moving out of a large house and had a tiny van and little help. She was still there at 9pm after having our money since 10am.

We were very lucky that we still had our rented property for another week and due to work our removal van was booked for saturday instead.

I was so tempted to book into a nice hotel and send her solicitor the bill.

It's bad that I read about your hair plopping and knew exactly what it was

First house we bought went through by 10.00 am - no chain us buying them into rented. Only got keys 6.30 pm as DH refused to leave estate agent office till we had them.

Person selling had held up sale for more time but moved out weeks earlier and "forgot" sale was that day. Uncontactable by phone all day. Tried to stick utilities bills for those weeks on us .

There was stuff just left on the drive when we got there and it was filthy. We were moving from rented so had booked van for next day which was a piece of luck.

What sort of hair is plopping good for? I have curls that turn to frizz, have you just given me the answer for my hair after 40yrs of frizz??
( sorry for totally missing point of thread)

A friend of mine is a developer and she bought a house to do up and sell. Turned up on completion day to find the familiy still living in it. Estate agent actually said 'Oh well, we understood you weren't going to live in it, so the owners can stay in as tenants - we thought £XXX per mth was a fair rental'

The tenants/prev owners were livid (not all their fault, they had been told that was agreed), it took weeks and weeks to sort out.

Yes pigflewpast, it's amazing! I do it when I can be bothered and it's great, but I agree with the op you can't go outside with hair in the tshirt turban!

Pigflewpast yes it's great for curls!! Look up the curly girl method. If you're on Facebook there's a group on there too x

waves to fellow Curly Girl

I have nothing else to add to the thread other than that!

Love It!!

Previous owners moved themselves. They had loads of helpers but only a tiny (think small transit) van. So helpers loaded up the van, a few of them drove to new house, fortunately quite close ,to unload. Meanwhile the left behind helpers, instead of getting the next load ready, down tooled ,chilled, and lounged. In the end my moving people 'helped ' them. They still managed to leave a piano,"we'll pop back for that later" and ,it turned out, a helper who had popped round to the shop for a sandwich for her small child ........

Ooh thank you, I'll look that up now.