To think my sellers are utter wankers

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We are supposed to be moving today. In a chain of four. We exchanged a few weeks ago and completed at lunchtime. Handed our keys over to the buyer of our house and our removers drove to the new property whilst we headed into town to wait for our sellers to drop off the keys.

Got a call from the removers. The fecking sellers have only just started moving out. They are doing it themselves with one van and apparently waited until they got their keys before beginning to load the van up. Muppets.

So now our removers are complaining about potential overtime and suggesting if there is too much of a delay they will need to go home and come back tomorrow, leaving us with the possibility of trying to find a hotel during a flipping pandemic.

They have caused no end of problems since we started this process, including causing a three month delay.

AIBU in thinking that they are utter wankers. DH is currently having to help them load up their van.

That's fairly easy. Tell them they have half an hour to be out or you will seek financial compensation, then do it. They signed a contract with a time on it.

This happened to us. Turned up fully loaded lorry and the seller hadn’t started to pack. We went to the pub and forgot about it for a few hours. Prioritise getting the beds together and you’ll laugh about it in a few weeks

Just start unloading your stuff.

Ring your conveyancer NOW.

Agree on the contracting conveyancer. Total cheeky fuckers.

Phone your solicitor. Your sellers will usually end up paying for any additional costs you incur due to their idiocy.

Make them pay for any delay

Solicitors are currently working on it.

Any other time I would be quite relaxed but with the virus we can't go anywhere, especially as my son is asthmatic so we've been social distancing as much as possible.

You won't have to find a hotel. The house belongs to you. Get one room clear enough of their stuff that you can dump some of your bedding in there and sleep on it.

If you can be bothered, you could start moving their things into the garden now, so as to make room for your own stuff to go into the house. Or sit back while they do it, and recover additional costs from them later.

Go postal on them and start the delay compensation! They ARE complete wankers!

I agree, get your movers to help dh to move all their shit out into the garden and move yours in.

This happened to friends of mine too: five bedroom house, still full when they arrived. They were able to call on a few pals and by 5 had all their stuff out on the front garden and the pavement. It took them two days to take it all away. I have no idea why people think it’s okay to do this sort of thing. Good luck, but be clear that you WILL be sleeping there tonight, regardless.

We had this happen. We just started moving our stuff in and changing the locks. They huffed but starting getting out faster.

No rain forecast,take the keys as it's your house and ditch their stuff

This would be stressful enough at the best of times but an utter nightmare now!

You poor thing.

Did you have a locksmith booked for today or tomorrow?

Definitely just move your stuff on, you can’t wait.

*In not on!

Tell you DH not to help them load the van, they can do that themselves. Get him to focus on emptying out their stuff into the garden as other posters have said.

I sympathise. Exactly the same thing happened to us when we moved to our current house.

Previously owner didn't even start moving out until after lunch. Wanted a nice relaxed morning apparently. We were desperate to get in and get unpacked as we get to pick the kids up from nursery at 5.30pm and would need to have all the big furniture in by then.

Twat.

Bloody hell, what pillocks.

So sorry for you OP, moving's stressful enough without people behaving like dickheads.

I'm another one in favour of throwing out all that stuff that's in your house, dumping it on the pavement and leaving them to sort it.

I know so many people this happened to. Including me, and my sister. It really is awful.

Our sellers said to us "oh, are you moving in today?" when we turned up with our 3 children... we were like "yeessss" !

Sorry, OP this is the worst and you have my utmost sympathy. This has happened to us twice. Hope you don't have to wait too long Do you have wine for later?

First time DH had to literally move sellers stuff out himself, load it onto his van drive them to their daughters house. They were literally sat watching tv when we got there and wailing that they didn't want to leave. I kid you not - the woman kept walking past the house and looking in for months afterwards. She even knocked on the door once to ask if she could use the loo

2nd time, poor woman was doing it all by herself. She had 3 adult children who all lived locally and not one of them had turned up to help. Me and 3 kids in school uniform had to sit on the front wall for 3 hours while we waited. Thank goodness it was summer. We let her leave some of her stuff in the garage and she came back for the rest the next day. DH ended up helping her too.

Just move their stuff out of the house into the garden. You are supposed to be out by about lunchtime/early afternoon, I would always give someone a bit of leeway on that if they had already started packing and an issue had cropped up but not if they simply hadn't bothered before that point! Good luck in your new home OP

Yabu to move house during this pandemic. Do you not watch the news?
It's not life as normal. You're putting everyone at risk.

Book how would you have handled the cancellation of such a huge transaction today? What a load of nonsense.