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To think my sellers are utter wankers

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TossACoinToYourWitcher · 23/03/2020 14:14

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.

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ProfessorSlocombe · 23/03/2020 16:54

can they claim stupidity compensation alongside damages?!

This isn't the US (mores the pity) so no. Moreover the OP also has a duty to minimise their expenses to the vendor (which is uniquely English).

You can really tell who wrote a lot of English and Welsh contract and tort law. And it ain't the little man (or woman).

ProfessorSlocombe · 23/03/2020 16:55

Do you not have any concept of how house sales work?

Maybe it's different on their planet ?

cstaff · 23/03/2020 16:55

@honey
I like your way of thinking. In current circumstances that would set anybody on a run 😂😂

Soontobe60 · 23/03/2020 17:00

I'd agree with others. Get everyone to help remove their belongings out of the house onto the garden, then while they then pack the van, move your things in. It's shit, but try not to let it get to you.

FanSpamTastic · 23/03/2020 17:01

At least they are there. Our last house purchase I turned up at the estate agent to find there were no keys and no one could get hold of the seller. We had a locksmith booked anyway to change the locks and he had to break into the house! Luckily we weren't moving in straight away.

Seller finally called at 6 pm to say he had broken down and his phone was dead.

Got in to find stuff still in the house which the seller then had the cheek to ask us to hold on to. I told him it would be on the verge and suggested he get round quick to retrieve it.

AlwaysCheddar · 23/03/2020 17:10

Have they gone yet?

airbags · 23/03/2020 17:11

Took my ex 2 weeks to get the previous owners out the house. We turned up and they were there, nothing packed and had made us dinner!!! He had said they could stay for a few days after the completion as he didn't need immediate access but they just didn't shift. That was a really weird night as we stayed in the house with them. The old lady even put us in separate rooms as we weren't married. No word of a lie - completely bizarre.

Thinkingabout1t · 23/03/2020 17:14

Sending sympathy.
My first flat, the seller caused all kinds of problems but I let it pass because I loved the place. I said she could leave a few items to collect later, though when I arrived with my van I found she'd left masses of furniture and boxes -- plus about 6 months worth of grease all over the kitchen. She'd taken the lightbulbs and loo rolls.
She kept putting off collecting her stuff, then returned during a week when I'd told her I would be away. She tricked my flatmate into letting her in, then took not only her own stuff but a lot that she'd agreed to leave as fixtures and fittings.
I returned to find all my books piled neatly on the floor by my flatmate. The seller had even taken the built-in bookcases!

I hope you settle in well and enjoy your new home, OP. One day, like me, you'll laugh about this.

UYScuti · 23/03/2020 17:17

DH is currently having to help them load up their van
that was probably the plan but they are now trespassing on your property, you should get turfing their stuff out of your home and getting your stuff into it.
what a bunch of dicks they are :(

UYScuti · 23/03/2020 17:19

then took not only her own stuff but a lot that she'd agreed to leave as fixtures and fittings
in her batshit mind the flat was still hers, and your stuff also therefor became hers

eurochick · 23/03/2020 17:21

We had this. We end up paying our movers several hundred pounds extra in overtime and to help the idiots move out. It was a six bedroom house with three generations living in it. How they thought they were going to do it themselves with a transit van I have no idea.

VerbenaGirl · 23/03/2020 17:33

Inform you solicitor and they will deal with compensation for this.

UYScuti · 23/03/2020 17:37

to help the idiots move out
the 'idiots' have beaten you in a game of brinkmanship:(,
what utter dicks though:(
but did you help them in a 'helpful' way, or just sling all their stuff onto the pavement in short order?

bananaskinsnomnom · 23/03/2020 17:44

When I moved, my sellers didn’t have the common sense to not let their cats out on that day. It was a freezing winter day, I had everything packed the night before, removers came at 9 and I handed my keys over to estate agent after I had deep cleaned around 1pm. Buyer really grateful that I was gone at a decent time.

Then I went to get mine.
“They need another hour” ok fair enough I went for lunch.
90 minutes later, “they still aren’t quite ready” ok - I went to Starbucks and killed another hour
“Ok they’ve just rung and they are waiting for their cats to come back because they’ve gone out”
They didn’t think to bloody lock the cats in a room on moving day?! Or get someone to cat sit?! They had family near by....
5:30pm - “cats still aren’t back, they’ve gone out to look for them.....we shut at 6 so we’ve told them to hurry up” All money had been transferred long ago, so the property was mine but I didn’t have the key!
6pm, the estate agent thankfully is as fed up as me so comes with me to the house (estate agents now closed) and the sellers are casually sat in the living room watching a film on a tablet. No care in the world. Still several boxes stacked in the hallway. Turns out they were also moving themselves out so were waiting for the van to be back for the next trip. Estate agent says they need to leave, the house isn’t theirs anymore and time is long up. They casually state “oh yeah but one cat is still out, and the other just dived back out the cat flap - they always come back by 7 for dinner”
Thankfully at that point one cat came back in and they grabbed it, estate agent locked the cat flap and told them to cage it. They were so reluctant. He was quite forceful in my favour thankfully, said they would need to leave and wait outside. Their van arrived, they loaded up and waited outside in their van thankfully until the other cat reappeared through the cat flap and I had to get their attention. It was 8pm.

UYScuti · 23/03/2020 17:48

how did you keep your temper banana?
I'm heading out the door baseball bat in hand just from reading your post!

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TossACoinToYourWitcher · 23/03/2020 18:06

@Bookoffacts ODFOD we exchanged weeks ago and if we had pulled out we would have had to pay our buyers £25K.

They collected the last of their stuff at 5pm. We ended up moving in whilst they were moving out. Solicitors are looking into possible claims for us.

Now I just need to locate the gin.

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UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 23/03/2020 18:16

We move in four days before Christmas. The vendors' estate agent old me at 5:30 that they'd be out when they were good and ready, what did I expect, they had a whole house full of stuff to move? He was surprised that we wanted access to the house that day. He then hung up on our solicitor when she rang him. I'm still angry with that gobshite.

They came back on Christmas Eve, asking if they could clear out the stuff they had left in the shed. I said no, out removals guys had put our shed stuff in on top and I didn't fancy rooting through it all on that particular day.

Cacaca · 23/03/2020 18:40

When we bought our first house (as first time buyers) our completion time was 13:00. After picking up the keys and getting to the house it was 13:30 and the sellers were still moving stuff out so we just kept driving past. Drive back at 14:00 and no sign of them so parked in driveway and went into our house. Still some items left that we weren’t expecting but they never came back. The stuff that was left was actually quite handy - including a shed full of garden tools and the garden furniture! We don’t know if they had planned coming back but since we were in the house decided against.

bananaskinsnomnom · 23/03/2020 18:41

@UYScuti I have no idea how I kept my temper! They were just those kind of people who are way to relaxed about everything and just like to faf ! And no common sense clearly.

madcatladyforever · 23/03/2020 18:53

YANBU twats

BodiesMakeForGoodFertiliser · 23/03/2020 18:57

Congrats on new house!
Yes, they are CF.

@Bookoffacts I am loud and angry about people in UK nkt taking this seriously but even I can see that some things must go on. Obviously if anyone agreed today to move etc it's a completely different cattle of fish, bit this is ok

Hadenoughofitall441 · 23/03/2020 19:04

We had one of them when we moved 11 years ago, the stupid bitch that lived here before had the audacity to leave all of her unwanted stuff in the house, there was stuff in every room, and the garage was full so we couldn’t put anything in there, we tried for ages to get hold of her to arrange a time but no we came back from shopping a week later and the son and grandson had taken a garage key with them and came when no one was home, we caught them half way through. They didn’t even apologise.

blancheduboiss · 23/03/2020 19:07

This happened to my DM when she moved house 2 years ago. We turned up, van in tow, to see the muppets still packing things up and dithering around aimlessly. Bikes were stood against the living room walls, there was crap all in the garden etc. Unlike some others on this thread, DM did not manage to keep her temper ...

Greenkit · 23/03/2020 19:09

Anyone remember the CF who tried to stay in the house, they were all sat on the sofa, and didn't understand why they had to move

BodiesMakeForGoodFertiliser · 23/03/2020 19:14

Anyone remember the CF who tried to stay in the house, they were all sat on the sofa, and didn't understand why they had to move

What😂

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