My buyer keeps texting me

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I recently sold my house. For various reasons me and my buyer swapped contact details (in hindsight, shouldn't have done this).

I've been in the new house now for just over a week now and I keep getting texts from my buyer (she's a woman on her own in her 50s). The most recent text was last night to tell me that she'd been woken up at 5:30am by a strange cat coming through the cat flap, it had upset her cat, and to ask how often did that cat hang around outside the house.

Would I be unreasonable to text her and ask her to stop contacting me? Block her? Carry on conversations? It's a little awkward as I only moved about a 2 minute drive from my old house so likely to bump in to her!

It's been one week and she's asked a perfectly reasonable question,

No, @Brightstarowl - it's been one week & she keeps texting.
And it's not a perfectly reasonable question! Whatever the 'answer' to it is - what does she expect OP to do about it? Take a cat-herding course on her behalf?

@KettrickenSmiled I only mentioned she was a solo female in her 50s as thought people may ask. I'm a solo female in my 30s (excluding the children )

@KettrickenSmiled Cat herding course 😂

Come on OP. #BeKind. Off you trot to sign yourself up

😂I can guarantee she will be.
What with immediately posting a second comment, & telling PP that their failure to #BeKind is what caused her misanthropy.

Incredibly mean replies on this thread. I mean how very dare people expect any help or advice from anyone who's not close family or friends!🙄

Just send her a text to say sorry you don't know as you didn't experience this and reply to any further texts at your own pace and discretion.

No need at all for all this outrage about asking for something that they think might help. People have the right to ask and you have the right to say no.

In that case OP, just block her on your phone and redirect her emails to spam. She's kinda taking the piss - if it was the odd innocuous "is there a trick to turn on the heating?" question then fair enough (ish) but not the barrage. She had enough faculties to buy the house, she can deal with it now. Fucking cat in the cat door 🤷🏻‍♀️ you're not her landlord.

Who pissed in your cereal. Christ.

It's not about "rights".
I wouldn't dream of hassling my vendor with inane queries for a week after the transaction was complete. They've just moved house too! - they're busy, overwhelmed & knackered.

Or do you think OP keeps a spreadsheet of dawn cat movements which she can consult to get back to her purchaser with? Because that's normal ...

Why don't you tell her it is probably a Christmas spirit getting ready for the festive period

Then sneak back into your own garden and shout Woooooooooooooooooooooweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee through the cat flap at 5.30am tomorrow morning whilst draped in an old net curtain leaving a trail of sultanas

@TinySaltLick Sultanas 😂😂

Well if you won’t be reading any responses, you won’t mind if I say this is the most pathetic load of pious old shit I’ve ever read in my life. You’re in dire need of a grip.

How is “What do I do about a random cat?!” a ‘perfectly reasonable’ question for the previous owner of the house? What does this woman expect the OP to do - hypnotise the cat into not returning? Take it out with a BB gun? Buy back the house so that she can move somewhere with no other cats in a ten-mile radius?

Tell her it's the spawn of Satan cat. If she let's it in it will claw her furniture, piss in her shoes and put hairballs on her butter and she should call animal control/an exorcist for it.

She'll probably get the message

I had this when I sold a place. I had provided a full pack of details about things in the place - where things were stopcocks etc etc. She didn't read it I assume and kept texting. All the other info was in the documents. Eventually I e mailed the estate agent and told him. I believe he called her and asked her if there was anything else she needed and to contact him. I didn't have a cat flap though 😂

It is rather amusing that she chases you up by email if you don't respond to the text, it sounds as if she expects a certain level of service from you🤣
It might be a good idea to have a response prepared if you do bump into her something like a confused look and 'oh my phone is on the blink' nod smile sorry must rush I'll be late for my appointment

I'm in the ignore and block camp. But I blocked an actual neighbour after one annoying message so maybe I'm not the best person to ask!

tell her to not contact you anymore. and then just don't respond any longer. possibly block her number.

her asking about the boiler or where the stop cock is once would be acceptable. but this is too much.

So daily texts then emails if you don't reply to the texts? Firstly why the hell would you give a buyer so many of your personal contact details and secondly why the hell are you suffering this woman? She's your buyer not your new bff! Just ignore it an block her. Block the email as spam too. Then if you do bump in to her and she says anything about the cat you just say sorry I don't know about a cat, bye. Then just carry on walking. Honestly be more assertive.

I'd block her

I'd be tempted to block her, but if not, I would take longer to text back. Or just point out you are also busy and overwhelmed as you have also just moved.

I agree though it's not a reasonable question to ask. As another poster said, how the heating works - reasonable, how often a random cat is outside the house is not. In fact it is a bonkers question to ask

I live alone. I moved into a house where a cat kept breaking in. I mentioned it to the neighbours to find out who owned the cat. I wouldn’t have dreamt of contacting the previous owner!!!

why does it matter if the cat is new??? Unless she was checking it wasn’t OP’s cat returning it it’s old house