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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.

OP posts:
Whenwillthisbeover · 23/03/2020 19:25

I remember that, are they the ones that then tried to rent the property they had just sold?

BodiesMakeForGoodFertiliser · 23/03/2020 19:26

I NEED that thread😱

TheArchSorcererofContwaraburg · 23/03/2020 19:26

Did they not get the hint that they weren’t meant to be there, that’s why you were acting like you weren’t there

They still kept huffing and tutting. 'So rude!' 'Our house isn't ready yet (they were buying a new build). We have to put all our stuff in storage and live with my parents.' The only words exchanged were when my dad and my OH started changing the lock barrels. 'What are you doing?' 'Changing the locks on my house I bought this morning,' and carried on.

Greenkit · 23/03/2020 20:29

@Whenwillthisbeover

Yes that's the one

EL8888 · 23/03/2020 21:05

@TheArchSorcererofContwaraburg apologies for my shit sentence sequencing but you got what l mean.

You were more polite then l would have been. They were trespassing after all. Loving the sound of the barrel changing

UYScuti · 23/03/2020 21:22

DM did not manage to keep her temper ...grin
do please tell us more :o

ghostyslovesheets · 23/03/2020 21:22

My mum purchased a house from a couple who had got it off plan after ww2 - lived in all their lives - she turned up to move and they where there - stayed there for a week while my mum camped and stored stuff everywhere - eventually his wife and their solicitor forced him to see sense and move - it was sad really he just was so upset about leaving the family home

zombieapocalypseisnigh · 23/03/2020 22:22

I remember the couch couple! Crazy!

Washyourhandsyoufilthyanimal · 23/03/2020 23:36

Can anyone link the couch couple thread?

Also @TheArchSorcererofContwaraburg were they just expecting to stay in the house until their house was ready? Even though you had bought it!? That level of entitlement boggles the mind!! Sounds like you handled it so well!!

DanceItOut · 24/03/2020 17:58

Also really want to read the couch couple thread. I vaguely remember it but don’t think I read the end

Vedaisawesome · 24/03/2020 18:46

@UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername You weren't in Northern Ireland by any chance. I bought a house in Northern Ireland and on completion day I had a very embarrassed estate agent call me to say the Vendors hadn't realised they had to move out that day! They thought I'd pay and they'd move when they were ready! He wanted me to agree to let them stay two weeks!!! I agreed to a week as it was just a buy to let and didn't affect me. But who is that stupid!!!

alliecader · 24/03/2020 18:47

Well our removers cancelled on us this morning, due to move from East Anglia to Scotland. Due to move next week. Out of their control of course and I do understand. So we are stuck. Other firms the same. I think our buyers were renting and are desperate to move in but now it's a lockdown. Our seller in Scotland has half her stuff in one house and half in another and is now stuck too. Can't believe the times we are living in.

Talia99 · 24/03/2020 20:25

I was slightly luckier - the CFery of the seller came out shortly before exchange - I went to the solicitor to sign the forms and she casually mentions ‘and you’ll be keeping all the furniture’. It turns out the vendor had told his solicitor that I had agreed to keep all the furniture in the flat (previously a BTL).

I pointed out that 4 double beds and 4 sofas in a 2 bed, 1 living room flat might be a bit much and that I wanted vacant possession as usual so I could move my own furniture in.

I then had a week of forwarded snide emails of the ‘does the buyer want my client to rip out the carpets’ variety. Luckily I was moving from rented but I actually changed the move in date so it was two days after completion because I was convinced I would either have to call a house clearance company or arrange emergency carpet fitting.

In the event he did dispose of the furniture and the carpets were still there but who on earth assumes someone wants your 10 year old bought to stand up to multiple tenants (so sturdy not attractive) furniture without even asking?

Forgottenwhatsleepis · 24/03/2020 21:43

@airbags I hope you told them that no, its YOUR home and you'd be sleeping where you damned well wanted! Cheeky beggars, just because they were old, it doesn't give them a right to tell you you're not sleeping in the same room in your OWN home!
@TossACoinToYourWitcher glad everything was sorted in the end 💐

airbags · 24/03/2020 21:49

@Forgottenwhatsleepis - we ran up and down the corridor a few times to confuse them which room I was in!!!! Ex didn't want to upset them!

Forgottenwhatsleepis · 24/03/2020 21:56

@airbags 😂😂😂😂

Rachel709 · 24/03/2020 22:40

It's probably to late now. But once you have exchanged the house is yours and you can demand they leave. Everything in the house is yours.

permana · 25/03/2020 07:55

Presumably all the sellers that moved out late didn't do any cleaning either, that's so gross!

Wheresthetimegone · 25/03/2020 11:19

Are you for real BOOK ?

Andromeida59 · 25/03/2020 12:10

We had a similar issue. We were due to complete at 10am. Had a call at 10.30 to say all done. I contacted the sellers who came up with numerous reasons why they hadn't left. Thankfully, we weren't moving until a few days later but it took them hours to leave. We were finally in the house for 7.45pm.
We were trying to usher them out and the male owner noticed that part of the wall was scratched so was about to go in to the seller to repaint it. We reassured them it was fine.
The female owner then asked if she could pop by regularly to see the house?!?
Thankfully they've never been back.

Merryoldgoat · 25/03/2020 13:13

I had this with my idiot vendors.

It was sold as ‘chain free’ but wasn’t.

When we arrived the twit’s removal guys hadn’t even arrived.

They kept delaying until I marched over and said ‘this is no longer your house. If your removers aren’t here in 30 minutes I’ll instruct my guys to put all of your belongings in my front garden and charge you for it’.

It all started moving along more quickly after that. They were vile. The house was so dirty that I genuinely cried for days fairly sure I’d made a mistake.

HermanHermit · 25/03/2020 13:19

In my first flat, the vendors left a massive sofa bed. I was very happy with it until I realised how massively uncomfortable it was but that it could not be removed without wither sawing up the metal frame or removing built in hallway cupboards... (the girl that bought from me actually wanted it so it was handed down as an heirloom to her)

safariboot · 25/03/2020 13:19

A lot of vitriol here, but do you know if the sellers planned on an incompetent move? They could well have booked professionals only to have them cancel at the last moment leaving the sellers scrambling to sort something out.

MachineBee · 25/03/2020 14:00

I’m glad you are in now OP and hope you enjoy your new home.

I’m used to delays moving in - which I cannot understand as none of my buyers have ever been delayed moving in to houses I’ve sold.

But last house was a horror story with the vendors not moving out on the Friday - it took them until the Sunday afternoon and then finally they took us around the house and told us everything that was wrong with it, that it was an icebox and we’d never get it warm. My poor DH was utterly floored by the comments but all it needed was a new boiler and it was properly cosy after that.

A previous house move left me waiting to move in until 5pm. Sat in my car I was screamed at by the vendor’s mother-in-law saying I was stressing everyone out and that I should just leave. Her son spotted it, apologised profusely and firmly led her away suggesting she took a break. My removers were helping them move their stuff out. I was hardly being unhelpful. Grin

madcatladyforever · 25/03/2020 14:18

I bought and sold just recently, I gave all the keys to the estate agent as I was moving 200 miles away and couldn't keep going back due to the new job.
The estate agents lost the keys and were screeching at me to courier some new ones down there, i said I don't have any I gave them all to you.
He then wanted £200 for a locksmith to come and let the new owners in, he was shouting at me down the phone - this guy owned the estate agent. I said not my problem and put the phone down.
In disbelief he'd tried to bully me into paying for this. He emailed the bill to me and I sent it back saying not my problem, he threatened me with the small claims court, I didn't reply and he doesn't have my new address. That was the last I heard from them.
I rang my old next door neighbour and she said it had been a right to do with the removal van outside blocking the road, people pacing up and down and eventually a locksmith turning up.
But I don't see why I should pay when they have lost both sets of keys?