My buyer keeps texting me

[Sophhhhhh]

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!

Just ignore and block.
This needs to be stopped now before she starts bothering you with every little thing.
A couple of questions about how to turn the heating on would be fine, but not constant texts and emails about things like random cat.

I never even met my seller, had no contact details and managed to figure out everything by myself. And I'm a single woman in my 40s. There's no way I am "struggling and alone" - this bullshit narrative has to stop.

😂 busted! I commend your detective skills Inspector Blinki.

I would have blocked him by now.

Block

Just keep in mind that an important letter or parcel may get delivered for you to her house at some point. I wouldn't burn bridges just yet.

Omg tell her to stop harassing you

👏👏👏

Love this!

Not if you've done the obvious & sensible thing & already redirected your mail.

And even if there were random parcels arriving at the old gaff, OP doesn't need to jump through hoops to be allowed to collect them. She has a legal right to her post - & doesn't need to be in daily contact to keep anyone sweet.

I would do this in the first instance.

Block her.
After buying our house the previous owner kept appearing because they had "forgotten" things. Final straw was one Sunday morning he arrived asking for a cheap £1 shop bucket he had left in the shed. We just stopped answering the door to him.

@KettrickenSmiled

I didn't say she needed to be in daily contact but if you block someone then they can ignore you too.

The issue about post is that you don't always know something has been sent to you and the RM redirect is patchy at best.

@Sophhhhhh
Our Dad was contacted after selling their ancient thatched cottage because it had a Ghost!
The Estate agent contacted Dad and said ''Were you aware {Name of Cottage} is haunted?''

Oddly, I HAD heard the identical thing that the new buyer had heard, at a very specific time.
{the sound happened at this time almost always}

It was the strong rapping of male sounding knuckles on the front door.

I went to answer it, {20 seconds tops, if that} thinking it was grandparents from a nearby village calling, but the front door opened to a thick silence {It was dark} and only rain could be heard gurgling down the lane.

No where for anyone to hide.

I asked grandparents why they hadn't waited til I answered door, and they said ''It wasn't us, we'd never call that late , plus we'd use the bell, not rap with knuckles''

A mystery.

The knocking definitely was much more frequent with new owner.

Maybe because she didn't open the door ?!..Very mysterious.

The Estate agent contacted Dad and said ''Were you aware {Name of Cottage} is haunted?''

I hope he laughed long and hard before telling them to piss off!

She's being ridiculous.
She could be getting to know her new neighbours, not texting you.
I think just leave it a while to reply and gradually fade her out with bland short replies
YANBU

Just block FFS. The amount of folks who post questions like this just need to get on with it. It's not rocket science.

Seconded. Just text an 😂 to her each time unless it's a specific question.

The usual head-tilting weirdos are out in force I see.
Just block her, OP.

'Oh that's Reggie, he comes round every morning at 5am and has for the past 10 years. If you don't get up to feed him he shits on your doorstep. Hope you're enjoying your new home!'

I'd reply and say never happened to me. Nothing to do with me now.

Yeah "what cat"

I would just block all avenues now or she will keep on about every silly little thing. If anything urgent arises she can go through the EA

What other questions has she asked you?

I wouldn't block but I would just not answer. Neither would I answer emails. I often just say to myself do I need to respond or deal with 'that' now. I only read things when I want to