Page 4 | AIBU to think this is cheeky? (Property related)

opinionatedfreak · 2021-01-17T22:18:10+00:00

We are due to complete on the sale of a family home tomorrow. The person died so the house is empty. I’ve just gone round to read the meters and discovered a pile of garden furniture in the back garden. I’m assuming it belongs to the buyers. AIBU to think it is cheeky to do this without asking? YANBU = they are cheeky YABU = what’s the problem the house will be theirs tomorrow.

Original poster

opinionatedfreak · 17/01/2021 23:51

@AFP10 & @waterproofed.

Not in England but Scotland.

Property doesn’t transfer until tomorrow:

It’s still our house.

Yes, they probably are excited but being excited doesn’t give you carte Blanche to do what you like...

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FrackOffMrBubbles · 17/01/2021 23:54

I guess technically it's cheeky because it's not their house yet but honestly, if the sale was going through tomorrow I'd just forget about it.

Hont1986 · 17/01/2021 23:57

I wonder how much you're adding to your solicitor fees by asking them to get in touch with the other side about this. Might be able to charge you for an extra half-hour. Silly.

HazyJuly · 17/01/2021 23:58

It is quite hard to get removals at the moment. Stay duty window and that little thing called cv19.

Maybe they had a mate who could drop off the garden furniture this weekend? Maybe the removers said they didn't have enough time to fit it all in tomorrow? Maybe they bought it on eBay and dont currently have a garden to put it in?

Who Knows?
But honestly could any aspect of a house sale be more trivial?

PyongyangKipperbang · 17/01/2021 23:58

Id be inclined to inform their solicitors that you are sorry for delaying the process but you are arranging removal of fly tipped "junk" in the garden so you may be there when they arrive tomorrow......

HazyJuly · 17/01/2021 23:58

@Hont1986

I wonder how much you're adding to your solicitor fees by asking them to get in touch with the other side about this. Might be able to charge you for an extra half-hour. Silly.

I thought that .

FrackOffMrBubbles · 17/01/2021 23:59

Just surprised how many people on here think it's ok

It's not that I think it's okay necessarily. It's not something I'd do.

But I just don't really see why it matter so much? If there is nothing to suggest the sale won't go ahead as planned tomorrow, is it really that big of a deal? In less than 24hrs it'll be a non issue. I'd honestly just let it go, I don't understand the level of anger about it tbh.

FrackOffMrBubbles · 17/01/2021 23:59

I wonder how much you're adding to your solicitor fees by asking them to get in touch with the other side about this. Might be able to charge you for an extra half-hour

Conveyancing fees don't tend to work that way. It's not pay per email/contact etc...

HazyJuly · 17/01/2021 23:59

@PyongyangKipperbang

Id be inclined to inform their solicitors that you are sorry for delaying the process but you are arranging removal of fly tipped "junk" in the garden so you may be there when they arrive tomorrow......

Why?

Just to be shitty?

Are there really no nice decent people left any more?

FrackOffMrBubbles · 18/01/2021 00:01

@PyongyangKipperbang

Id be inclined to inform their solicitors that you are sorry for delaying the process but you are arranging removal of fly tipped "junk" in the garden so you may be there when they arrive tomorrow......

Why? Just to prove a point? It's less than 24hrs until the house will be sold. Why would you bother potentially jeopardising it for this?

BenoneBeauty · 18/01/2021 00:03

FFS Op, it's one day. Seriously, get over it.

WeeM · 18/01/2021 00:05

@opinionatedfreak also in Scotland OP and this would rip my knitting-it’s the not asking that would bug me. Our removal van was sat outside our new house full of our stuff for at least an hour waiting for the money to change hands...you don’t just rock up and start moving stuff in before that happens.

Ihatemyseleffordoingthis · 18/01/2021 00:08

It's cheeky and insensitive

If this had been my childhood home, or my parents/grandparents and I was going back for the last time I would not want to see someone else already taking up occupancy.

Pumpkintopf · 18/01/2021 00:09

Id be inclined to inform their solicitors that you are sorry for delaying the process but you are arranging removal of fly tipped "junk" in the garden so you may be there when they arrive tomorrow......*
Why?

Just to be shitty?

Are there really no nice decent people left any more?*

Except the buyers weren't being 'nice' or 'decent' when they dropped their furniture off without asking were they?

Esspee · 18/01/2021 00:10

It wouldn’t bother me in the slightest, in fact I would look on it as indicating everything would go smoothly with the sale.

Original poster

opinionatedfreak · 18/01/2021 00:16

@Pumpkintopf & @weeM & @Ihatemyseleffordoingthis

And others I have missed.

Thank You. I’m pleased to discover not everyone is so laissez faire to think this was ok.

It did hinder my final farewell trip. The house has been part of my life for 30years and I didn’t want my last memories to be angst over someone else’s garden furniture.

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Lass67 · 18/01/2021 00:17

I do empathise with the buyers although I wouldn’t have done this without checking. Completion day is so long and stressful and if you aren’t using a removals company it’s back breaking work. I can understand if they wanted to do a little bit in advance.

Obviously you have a strong emotional connection to the house and I’m sorry for your loss.

sararh · 18/01/2021 00:26

it's cheeky but jeez op, pick your battles.

Viviennemary · 18/01/2021 00:26

Can't see the problem really. I doubt they thought you'd be round checking the day before the sale goes through.

Iknowwhatudidlastsummer · 18/01/2021 00:28

@PyongyangKipperbang

Id be inclined to inform their solicitors that you are sorry for delaying the process but you are arranging removal of fly tipped "junk" in the garden so you may be there when they arrive tomorrow......

Excellent suggestions. It's astonishing the lack of basic manners and the sense of entitlement of some people.

HauntedPencil · 18/01/2021 00:28

Not a big deal

Dopo · 18/01/2021 00:30

@PyongyangKipperbang

Id be inclined to inform their solicitors that you are sorry for delaying the process but you are arranging removal of fly tipped "junk" in the garden so you may be there when they arrive tomorrow......

Why? To be an utter tit? They transfer tomorrow for God's sake. Drink the fizz op, by this time tomorrow it'll be over.

PyongyangKipperbang · 18/01/2021 00:31

Why?

Because I have had a bad few weeks and would like to stick one back on someone who is taking the piss.

Would I actually do it? Debatable. Would I want to? HELL yes!

MimiDaisy11 · 18/01/2021 00:32

Personally, I would have checked but it wouldn't bother me to discover this. It's just a day. Moving is stressful. Maybe they've had delays at getting a response from the solicitors. Or maybe it's a present for them that someone else dropped off as a surprise for when they move in tomorrow. I think the suggestions of taking it to the tip etc are just mean and far out of proportion for what they did. They probably thought you weren't going to return to the house since it's not occupied and saw no harm in it.

Dopo · 18/01/2021 00:33

Iknowwhatudidlastsummer

PyongyangKipperbang

Id be inclined to inform their solicitors that you are sorry for delaying the process but you are arranging removal of fly tipped "junk" in the garden so you may be there when they arrive tomorrow......

Excellent suggestions. It's astonishing the lack of basic manners and the sense of entitlement of some people.

This is such stupid advice.

Hey op, scupper your house sale, cost yourself thousands to prove a point about some patio furniture that made absolutely no impact on your life whatsoever....just so you can be right... that'll teach 'em.

Or.....drink the fizz, live your life without this madness.